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Alex Ovechkin scored two goals in Saturday’s 6-3 win over the Philadelphia Flyers. He now needs just one more goal to tie Marcel Dionne for fifth place on the All-Time List for NHL goals with 731 goals.
Ovechkin scored his first goal, #729, on a power play at 3:38 into the first period. It was his 23rd goal of the season.
He was assisted by John Carlson and Evgeny Kuznetsov. This goal put the Caps up 1-0, a lead that lasted until the very end of the first period.
Alex Ovechkin opens the scoring with 23rd goal of the season on the power play. Ovechkin is three goals shy of passing Marcel Dionne (731) for the fifth-most goals in NHL history.
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Ovechkin’s goal gave him tallies in all six of the Capitals games against the Flyers this season.
Ovechkin has scored a goal in all six of his games against Philadelphia this season. Ovechkin’s six-game goal streak against the Flyers is tied for the longest goal streak he has recorded against a single opponent in his career (Tampa Bay: 6 games, 11/10/08 – 3/27/09).
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Ovechkin’s goal was also his first against Alex Lyon, increasing his grand total of goaltenders he has scored on to 147.
Ovechkin’s goal was his first career goal scored on goaltender Alex Lyon, the 147th different goaltender Ovechkin has scored on in his career. There have been 6,502 skaters in NHL history who have scored 147 or fewer goals in their career.
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Ovechkin scored his second goal of the game, career goal #730, on a power play at 6:15 into the second period. This goal was his 24th goal of the season.
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The goal put the Caps up 3-2. As was the case with his first goal, he was assisted by John Carlson and Evgeny Kuznetsov.
Alex Ovechkin scores his second goal of the game to give the Capitals a 3-2 lead. Ovechkin is two goals shy of passing Marcel Dionne (731) for the fifth-most goals in NHL history.
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He now needs just one more goal to tie Marcel Dionne for fifth place on the All Time list with 731 goals
The next target on the career goal scoring list after that would be Brett Hull who has scored 741 career goals.
The current tally for Ovechkin goals is 730 goals, 457 even strength goals, and 269 power play goals, which is five behind Dave Andreychuk, who holds the NHL record with 274 career power play goals.
He needs just one more power play point to reach the 500 power play point milestone.
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