Washington Capitals: Predicting the Top Five Goal Scorers for 2021-2022
By David Atlas
#1 Alex Ovechkin
It should come as no surprise that the greatest goal scorer of all-time will once again lead his team in goals. Alex Ovechkin will not set any career-highs but he is a lock to score 40 goals in 2021-2022.
The Great Eight needs to average just 33 goals a year over the next five seasons to catch Wayne Gretzky‘s all-time record of 894 career goals. Ovechkin will score 45-48 goals this season, but if the Russian Machine scores 55 or even 60, nobody should be surprised. He’s that good.
Alex Ovechkin, who at this point in his career appears to be seemingly-ageless, is a threat to score at all times. Ovi will continue to see the most power-play time on the team and see one of the more offensive heavy deployments on the team.
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A season ago, Ovi saw a career-high 77.9 percent of his zone starts in the offensive zone. When you put a player like Ovechkin, who is widely accepted as having the most dangerous slapshot in the NHL, in the offensive-zone as much as Laviolette did a season ago, he is bound to score a lot of goals.