{"id":517929,"date":"2026-03-23T05:08:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T05:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/517929\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T05:08:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T05:08:25","slug":"alex-ovechkin-becomes-2nd-nhl-player-with-1000-career-goals-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/517929\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Ovechkin becomes 2nd NHL player with 1,000 career goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Capitals superstar Alex Ovechkin became just \u2060the second player in NHL history with 1,000 career goals, including regular season and playoffs, with a power-play goal on Sunday \u200bto join Wayne Gretzky.<\/p>\n<p>Ovechkin, 40, \u200ceclipsed Gretzky \u200cfor the most regular-season \u200bgoals in league history on April 6, 2025, with goal No. 895.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, \u2060Ovechkin reached the milestone mark in the \u2060third period against the visiting Colorado Avalanche, ripping a slap \u200bshot past goaltender \u2060Mackenzie Blackwood to tie the game at two apiece\u00a0with 5:43 \u2060left in \u200bregulation. Colorado rebounded to win 3-2 \u200bin overtime.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian legend has \u200b26 \u200cgoals and 27 assists in 70 games this season, his 21st in the NHL \u2014\u00a0all with the \u200cCapitals, who made him the No. 1 overall pick in 2004. For his career, Ovechkin has 1,676 points (923 goals, 753 \u200bassists) \u200bin 1,562 regular-season games. In the \u200bpostseason, he has 147 points (77 \u2060goals, 70 assists) in 161 games.<\/p>\n<p>Among the numerous awards he has accumulated over his brilliant career, Ovechkin is a \u200bthree-time Hart Memorial Trophy winner as league MVP, a 12-time All-Star and a Stanley Cup champion with Washington in the 2017-18 season.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington Capitals superstar Alex Ovechkin became just \u2060the second player in NHL history with 1,000 career goals, including&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5116],"tags":[426,193,192,144,5277,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-517929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-avalanche","8":"tag-alex-ovechkin","9":"tag-avalanche","10":"tag-colorado","11":"tag-colorado-avalanche","12":"tag-coloradoavalanche","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116276763317787637","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}