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He’s no stranger to cracking 50 goals. Ovechkin has reached the mark in a season seven times. He sits third all-time in career 50-goal seasons behind Mike Bossy and Wayne Gretzky, who both had nine. That doesn’t include Ovechkin’s 49 goals last season and 32 in the 48-game lockout-shortened 2012-13 season. That’s a goals-per-game rate of 0.66, well above his career rate of 0.61. In other words – he should have had no trouble reaching 50 that season either.
Ovechkin is in a class of his own by today’s standards. Since entering the NHL in 2005, his 656 goals are 212 more than Sidney Crosby’s distant second-place total of 444. But so many of today’s top goal scorers haven’t been in the league that long, so it’s not a fair comparison, right? Wrong. It’s not just scoring. After being held under 30 assists five straight seasons from 2011-12 to 2015-16, he tallied 36 and 38 in his previous two. This year? Thirty-seven and counting.
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