Wayne Gretzky calls Alex Ovechkin’s 900th goal ‘spectacular’: ‘If he keeps going, he could get to 1,000. The sky’s the limit.’

Alex Ovechkin became the first player in NHL history to score 900 goals against the St. Louis Blues on November 6.

The NHL legend he passed to capture the goals record along with his biggest cheerleader during the chase, Wayne Gretzky, was blown away by Ovechkin’s latest accomplishment.

Gretzky gave his perspective of the historic moment while serving as an analyst for TNT’s coverage of the Toronto Maple Leafs-Boston Bruins game on Tuesday night.

“That was spectacular, right?” Gretzky asked the panel as he watched the clip. “900 goals, that’s pretty hard to do.”

Liam McHugh and the other analysts then had some fun with The Great One, reminding him, with video evidence, that he had promised Ovechkin a car if he reached 900.

During Ovechkin’s 895th goal celebration, Gretzky told the Capitals captain on the ice at UBS Arena, “It’s the best thing to ever happen for hockey. Keep going. Get to 900. You get to 900, I might buy your car.”

Gretzky laughed at the trip down memory lane.

“The owner said he couldn’t buy him a car, so I was trying to pump him up to get there quickly,” Gretzky quipped. “I got vetoed.”

“Well, I like that you didn’t say a new car,” McHugh countered.

“If he keeps going, he could get to 1,000,” Gretzky said, turning serious. “I mean, the sky’s the limit for him, right? He’s one of the greatest players in the game. He’s probably the greatest goal scorer ever. And to get 900 goals, that’s hard to do.”

As the panel began to move on from the topic, Gretzky brought up one other aspect of the 900th goal that he enjoyed. “I loved the fact the goalie tried to steal the puck,” he said.

Indeed, Jordan Binnington stuffed the goal puck down his pants, attempting to try and steal the milestone marker — though the Blues goaltender, after massive criticism online, said he had every intention of giving it back.

“That’s his retirement plan,” Paul Bissonnette said.

“Some people had a problem with it,” added Anson Carter. “I didn’t have a problem with it at all.”

“You know what? At the end of the day, he knew he was going to give it back,” Gretzky, a former player for the Blues, said. “But I thought it was really cute the way he tried to steal it and hide it and kind of play coy. But you know what? Good for him. That’s what makes our game great. You’ve got to have some characters in the game. You’ve got to have some pizzazz, right?”

That left Henrik Lundqvist wondering if Gretzky had ever experienced anything like that before in his career, considering how historic of a player he was in NHL history. “I mean, if you scored on me, I might have steal that puck,” he said.

“Yeah, I don’t know. I never thought of it. Maybe some of the guys did steal them. I didn’t know,” Gretzky said. “I’m sure sticks were taken and gloves were taken.”

Gretkzy then told a story about how he once used his old game-used gear in a trade.

“I had this scalper in Toronto and I had to get two ice seats for a Game 7 game,” Gretzky said. “And I said to the kid, go out there and ask him how much it’ll cost me. He came back in, he said, ‘a pair of game-used gloves and two game-used hockey sticks.’ I said, ‘done.’ And I got four tickets out of it.”