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Washington Capitals Stars Of The Week: 1/12 – 1/19

CJ Witt|
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 16: Alex Ovechkin #8 of the Washington Capitals celebrates after scoring his third goal of the game for a hat trick against the New Jersey Devils in the third period at Capital One Arena on January 16, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Patrick McDermott/NHLI via Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 16: Alex Ovechkin #8 of the Washington Capitals celebrates after scoring his third goal of the game for a hat trick against the New Jersey Devils in the third period at Capital One Arena on January 16, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Patrick McDermott/NHLI via Getty Images)
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UNIONDALE, NEW YORK – JANUARY 18: Alex Ovechkin #8 of the Washington Capitals celebrates his empty net goal against the New York Islanders which tied him with Steve Yzerman on the NHL all time goal scoring list at NYCB Live’s Nassau Coliseum on January 18, 2020 in Uniondale, New York. The Capitals defeated the Islanders 6-4. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
UNIONDALE, NEW YORK – JANUARY 18: Alex Ovechkin #8 of the Washington Capitals celebrates his empty net goal against the New York Islanders which tied him with Steve Yzerman on the NHL all time goal scoring list at NYCB Live’s Nassau Coliseum on January 18, 2020 in Uniondale, New York. The Capitals defeated the Islanders 6-4. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)

Alex Ovechkin

Lets not bury the lead. This is obvious and we won’t waste your time and put the obvious one last. Alex Ovechkin continues to climb in the record books. This time he’s passed Mario Lemieux and tied Steve Yzerman with 692 career goals. Ovechkin is just eight away from an outstanding, usually unspeakable 700 career goals. There have been a lot of hockey players to play in the NHL, only seven guys have recorded over 700 goals, it’s about to be eight.

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This week the captain had eight goals in three games. I’m not going to try to find a word to describe that because there really isn’t one. He only had 12 shots this week by the way and he scored on eight of them, how about that?

He blew away the field in individual scoring chances as well, he had 19 of those, the next best was Tom Wilson with 9.

On top of his outstanding stats he also had good advanced stats. His Corsi% was a very good 62.82%. With number eight on the ice the Capitals got 44 shot attempts for and only 26 against. The scoring chances also went Washington’s way with the captain on the ice, they got 25 chances for and 12 against. The Caps had 11 high danger attempts and four against when Ovechkin was on the ice.

Just sit back and enjoy folks. We’re watching one of the best to ever play. We’re watching the best goalscorer ever if you’re asking me. His talents were on full display this past week. If there ever is a no doubter in stars of the week, Ovechkin was it.

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