Alex Ovechkin NHL objectives document chase: Goalies on Capitals timetable

Washington Capitals celebrity Alex Ovechkin explained Friday evening he really did not intend to get on the ice in an empty-net scenario when he required another objective to damage Wayne Gretzky’s document in your home.

“He wants to break the record with a goaltender in the crease,” instructor Spencer Carbery informed press reporters after the 5-3 win in which Ovechkin racked up two times to link Gretzky (894 ).

No goalkeeper intends to be the one that quits the document objective, yet it appears like a person will. So that could it be?

Ovechkin has 6 video games and 4 challengers entrusted to obtain objectiveNo 895 prior to completion of the period. He deals with the New York Islanders and Columbus Blue Jackets two times, plus the Carolina Hurricanes and Pittsburgh Penguins.

The Islanders are up following on Sunday (12:30 p.m. ET, TNT, truTV). Semyon Varlamov has actually surrendered 8 objectives, consisting of ones on which Ovechkin passed Mario Lemieux for 10th location, Phil Esposito for 6th and Jaromir Jagr for 3rd. But Varlamov is hurt.

How Ovechkin has actually made out versus goalkeepers he might encounter down the stretch:

Dates: April 6 and 15

Ilya Sorokin: No objectives in 3 video games on 4 shots.

Marcus Hogberg: Two objectives in 3 video games on 14 shots.

Date: April 10

Frederik Andersen: Nine objectives in 12 video games on 48 shots.

Pyotr Kochetkov: Four objectives in 5 video games on 19 shots.

Dates: April 12-13

Elvis Merzlikins: Four objectives in 7 video games on 24 shots.

Daniil Tarasov: Three objectives in 3 video games on 9 shots.

Date: April 17

Tristan Jarry: Two objectives in 11 video games on 30 shots.

Alex Nedeljkovic: Two objectives in 4 video games on 12 shots.

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