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Merrith

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Check out this story from Fox Sports

Ovechkin records 1st hat trick of the season in Capitals' 5-2 win at Vegas | FOX Sports

Alex Ovechkin recorded his first hat trick of the season, scoring three goals Sunday night for the Washington Capitals in their 5-2 victory over the Vegas Golden Knights
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Caps broadcast was thinking Samsonov waived off D man to play the pass on the 2 on 1 for his 2nd goal. You'd think a former teammate and countryman would know better than to just tell his D man to let Alex Fucking Ovechkin walk in and just snipe it far post easy as can be.
 
Merrith

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These goalie interference calls are complete bullshit.
 
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Penance

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Merrith said:
Can I blame you for the injury now?
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Was not my intent. Kind of a bullshit scenario. Nobody deserves that. However the silver lining is to see if you guys can hang without that power piece. We're kind of going through the same without Point right now. The PP is abysmal but the 5 on 5 and D has been looking up.

Frustrated World Cup GIF
 
Merrith

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Was not my intent. Kind of a bullshit scenario. Nobody deserves that. However the silver lining is to see if you guys can hang without that power piece. We're kind of going through the same without Point right now. The PP is abysmal but the 5 on 5 and D has been looking up.

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Hopefully we can. Other lines have been going pretty well along with top one, and more scoring from the blueline so far this season not just Carlson. It'll probably be a morale hit, though. Whole team rides a little higher with the record chase and him being so hot.
 
Urlithani

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The Jets beat the Stanley Cup chumps 6-3.

We're already planing the Stanley Cup Parade.
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It was rigged actually. PoMo said he'd love to see the Jets win the cup during the celebration last year.

That's why Scheifele was left wide open to make the lead 4-2 on his hat trick. PoMo knew if the Panthers swept the series his beloved Winnipeg would have gone into a crisis.

As a native Floridian I 100% believe this because of the amount of cocaine in the air, that I inadvertently inhaled all throughout my childhood. Jets-Sabres final. Jets in 7.
 
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Penance

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That Ovi injury is just absolutely tragic. Oh well he'll still get the record all the same.
 
elcaro1101

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If you leave out the WHA points for Gretzky, pre WHA-NHL merger, then Ovechkin really broke Gretzky's NHL record in goals 2 seasons ago.

It isn't tallied that way, but is the facts.

Myself, I would be fine if Gretzky kept the record. Never been much of an Ovechkin fan.
 
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elcaro1101

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Irony is if he somehow maintained pace he was on for another ~45 games, he had an outside shot to break the record in less games.
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IMO would have been an impossible pace for him. He is just slower and less formidable with age, has definitely lost more than a step from his prime.
 
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elcaro1101 said:
IMO would have been an impossible pace for him. He is just slower and less formidable with age, has definitely lost more than a step from his prime.
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In theory agree, obviously not the same player, but going back to last year, he has 38 goals over his last 54 regular season games. The shot is still there, the key has been Strome becoming a true top 6 center and them finding chemistry. His career pace has hovered around 0.6 goals/game for pretty much his entire career, too. Just going back last 3 seasons and start of this one, he's at a 0.56 since start of '21-'22. Unlikely, yeah. Impossible? Nah. The fact he's even in the ballpark to do it in a similar number of games given the eras played in is ludicrous.

www.hockey-reference.com

NHL & WHA Career Leaders and Records for Adjusted Goals | Hockey-Reference.com

1. Alex Ovechkin (1020), 2. Gordie Howe (925), 3. Jaromír Jágr (841), 4. Wayne Gretzky (758), 5. Teemu Selänne (741), 6. Brett Hull (738), 7. Jarome Iginla (706), 8. Sidney Crosby (683), 9. Brendan Shanahan (672), 10. Phil Esposito (671)
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If you go by era adjusted, Ovechkin has been the goat of goal scoring already, and it wasn't even Wayne he was chasing for that.
 
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elcaro1101 said:
If you leave out the WHA points for Gretzky, pre WHA-NHL merger, then Ovechkin really broke Gretzky's NHL record in goals 2 seasons ago.

It isn't tallied that way, but is the facts.

Myself, I would be fine if Gretzky kept the record. Never been much of an Ovechkin fan.
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You forgot he lost 1-2 seasons from lockouts? And that was during the prime of his years.

He should have broken the records1-2 years earlier!
 
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