{"id":24930,"date":"2018-03-12T20:28:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T00:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=24930"},"modified":"2018-03-12T21:00:17","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T01:00:17","slug":"another-milestone-for-alex-ovechkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/03\/12\/another-milestone-for-alex-ovechkin\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Milestone For Washington Capitals Alex Ovechkin (600 Career Goals)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When critics said the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/capitals\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington Capitals<\/a>\u00a0captain, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/o\/ovechal01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alex Ovechkin<\/a>&#8216;s career was winding down, he answered with adding even more achievements to his already impressive list. Tonight&#8217;s goal against\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/\/nhl-teams\/jets\/\" target=\"_self\">Winnipeg\u00a0Jets<\/a>\u00a0marks his 600th NHL career goal for the Capitals. It was his second goal of the game.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">4TH PLAYER EVER TO 600 GOALS IN UNDER 1,000 GAMES! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/600VI?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#600VI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zC15pXkORd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/zC15pXkORd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Washington Capitals (@Capitals) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Capitals\/status\/973353558157484033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 13, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>Another Milestone For Washington Capitals Alex Ovechkin<\/h1>\n<p>And with his 600 career goal, and with no intentions of stopping it has the potential to put him next to legends such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/sakicjo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Sakic<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hullbo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bobby Hull<\/a>. Although not likely to make the dizzying heights\u00a0of Hall of Famers like Gordie\u00a0Howe and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/gretzwa01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wayne Gretzky<\/a>. Like them, he is the ultimate hockey super-star of his era.<\/p>\n<p>This milestone also comes shortly after celebrating his 40th goal this season, which will make it the ninth season of his career to achieve and surpass that number.<\/p>\n<p>Although not surpassing\u00a0his 2007-08 career high, the 32-year-old is still producing numbers that some can only dream of. With 42 goals and 32 assists totalling 74 points, this season, making\u00a0him once again top in the league for goals. And first on the Capitals roster for goals and points since his first rookie season in 2005.<\/p>\n<h2>Whats Next For The All-Star Captain<\/h2>\n<p>When the Russian hit the ice, it&#8217;s obvious\u00a0he gets the respect he deserves. Often he uses this to his advantage and draws out the defence to create space for others.\u00a0 With all of Ovechkin&#8217;s achievements, however, he has yet to win the Stanley Cup with the Capitals. They know how to win games, being top of the Metropolitan\u00a0Division for again this season. But they always present the same problem during the playoffs, the pressure gets to them and they have never made it past the second round. This can partly be due to the fact that Ovi has felt individual pressure to carry the Caps in the past. This season they have a team full of top players to back him up, hopefully, this will be his year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When critics said the Washington Capitals\u00a0captain, Alex Ovechkin&#8216;s career was winding down, he answered with adding even more achievements to his already impressive list. Tonight&#8217;s goal against\u00a0the Winnipeg\u00a0Jets\u00a0marks his 600th NHL career goal for the Capitals. It was his second goal of the game. 4TH PLAYER EVER TO 600 GOALS IN UNDER 1,000 GAMES! #600VI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2344,"featured_media":17405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,2,34],"tags":[588,955,75],"class_list":["post-24930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-capitals","category-featured","category-news","tag-alexander-ovechkin","tag-nhl-news","tag-washington-capitals"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}