Alex Ovechkin has scored on 183 different goaltenders throughout his 20 year career on his way to 895 career goals and still counting. Here are the 28 who never allowed a goal by Ovechkin, something not many goalies who have played in the NHL can boast about.
Goalies who never allowed an Ovechkin goal
With the huge list of goalies Ovechkin has defeated, Budweiser Canada honored those rare few individuals who faced Ovechkin shots and stopped each one. They delivered commemorative "Kings of Zero" cans to those said goalies featuring the alcoholic free beverage Budweiser Zero.
The label on each can says, "The greatest goal scorer of all time couldn' score on you" and inlcudes jersey numbers that match each goalie that received it. The can even includes the number of shots the goalie saved and a goalie mask logo surrounded by text that says "nothing got past you."
Curtis Joseph was one of only three Vezina Trophy finalists on the list of 28 goaltenders. He played in just 5:57 of a game against the Caps and Ovechkin and had to make nine saves including on two shots from Ovechkin. He would post a video and so would others who received special cans.
At least five other goalies also posted video responses including Manny Legace and some videos were collected by the NHL Alumni Association. Only four goalies on the 28 on the list stopped more Ovechkin shots than the 14 by Legace.
Ovechkin's first game against Legace came in 2007 when he was goaltender on the St. Louis Blues and they met two more times a few years later when Legace was on the Carolina Hurricanes.
Joseph, Legace, and Mike Condon are no longer playing but 11 of the goalies listed below are still active and on an NHL roster. So they're not quite done facing Ovechkin yet.
Without futher ado here's the list with the names, games played, and shots saved from Ovechkin:
Michal Neuvirth 9 games played, 25 saves
Vitek Vanecek 5 games played, 19 saves
Mike Condon 7 games played, 18 saves
Mathieu Garon 7 games played, 16 saves
Manny Legace 3 games played, 14 saves
Kevin Lankinen 3 games played, 14 saves
Joey Daccord 4 games played, 14 saves
Joel Blomqvist 3 games played, 11 saves
Manny Fernandez 2 games played, 10 saves
Rob Zepp 2 games played, 10 saves
Akira Schmid 4 games played, 8 saves
Joel Hofer 2 games played, 8 saves
Garret Sparks 1 game played, 6 saves
Erik Ersberg 1 game played, 5 saves
Jocelyn Thibault 1 game played, 5 saves
Jeff Zatkoff 2 games played, 4 saves
Anthony Solarz 1 game played, 4 saves
Lukas Dostal 1 game played, 3 saves
Jean-Francois Berube 1 game played, 3 saves
Arvid Soderblom 1 game played, 2 saves
Curtis Joseph 1 game played, 2 saves
David Aebischer 1 game played, 2 saves
Braden Holtby 1 game played, 2 saves
Collin Delia 1 game played, 2 saves
Trent Miner 1 game played, 1 save
Jakub Dobes 1 game played, 1 save