Russian striker Washington Capitals Alexander Ovechkin approached the top 100 hockey players in the number of matches in the National Hockey League (NHL). Ovechkin held the 1231st match in the NHL and repeated the achievement of the Finnish striker Ollie Yokinen. Now hockey players share the 102nd place in the ranking.

Ovechkin approached the top 100 hockey players by the number of matches in the NHL

Russian striker Washington Capitals Alexander Ovechkin approached the top 100 hockey players in the number of matches in the National Hockey League (NHL). Statistics are available on the league website.

Ovechkin held the 1231st match in the NHL and repeated the achievement of the Finnish striker Ollie Yokinen. Now hockey players share 102nd place in the ranking.

On January 3, Washington Capitals in a home match lost in the overtime of New Jersey Devils. The meeting ended with a score of 3: 4 in favor of the guests. Ovechkin was not noted with productive actions.

On January 1, Ovechkin set an NHL record for the most part goals. In the match against Detroit Red Wings, he for the 275th time struck the opponent’s gates. Ovechkin broke the record of Dave Andreichuk, who had 274 goals on a numerical advantage.