Washington Capitals: Top 25 goals of all-time

#24 Alex Ovechkin 767

What makes this Alex Ovechkin goal and milestone special was the player he passed. No it wasn’t Wayne Gretzky. Hopefully that will someday come. But he passed Jaromir Jagr, a guy that either ruined or saved the Caps.

The Caps traded for Jagr with the Pittsburgh Penguins back in the early 2000s. It didn’t work I’ll spare you the details. But when it didn’t work the Caps executed a perfect tank to draft Alex Ovechkin.

On March 15, 2022 against the New York Islanders at Capital One Arena, Ovechkin passed Jagr for third all time in goals scored in NHL history. It was a beauty right off the face off.

“It’s pretty cool. (To) pass all those names, legends, it’s history. It’s going to be forever, and I hope someday somebody is going to break my record. We will see,” Ovechkin told Tom Gulitti of NHL.com.

Could it be Jagr? The 50 year old may not be playing in the NHL but he isn’t quite done with playing hockey in the Czech.

If anybody can pass Ovechkin someday after the great eight hangs it up, I don’t think it’s Jagr though. I think it could be Connor McDavid or Auston Matthews but the key is they have to keep tearing it up in their 30s and we’re still a ways from that.