Alex Ovechkin may not have scored in the Washington Capitals\u2019 3-1 opening night loss to the Boston Bruins on Wednesday but he\u2019s still on the doorstep of history and potentially another new ride too.<\/p>\n
The Great Eight, who entered the 2025-26 NHL season with 897 career goals, was reminded ahead of the game that Wayne Gretzky\u00a0promised to buy him a new car if he became the first player in league history to score 900.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think [Gretzky] told you he was going to buy you a car if you got to 900. I know you\u2019re a car guy, what are you thinking?\u201d TNT Sports rinkside reporter Tarik El-Bashir asked him pre-game.<\/p>\n
\u201cHonestly, I don\u2019t remember that,\u201d Ovechkin said through a smile. \u201cI\u2019m too old for this stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gretzky, too, pleaded ignorance after hearing El-Bashir dig up his seven-month-old offer to the Capitals captain during TNT\u2019s pre-game coverage on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was news to me,\u201d he said through a chuckle. \u201cIt\u2019s one thing he broke my record, now he wants to break my bank?\u201d<\/p>\n
Gretzky made his generous offer during the on-ice ceremony honoring Ovechkin for breaking his all-time NHL goals record at UBS Arena on April 6.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou get to 900 I might buy you a car,\u201d Gretzky said then.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will try,\u201d Ovechkin replied.<\/p>\n
The 40-year-old, indeed, is known for his eclectic car collection. He once owned seven of them back in 2013<\/a> and was gifted a new Jetour SUV in July<\/a> for breaking Gretzky\u2019s record while participating in \u201cMatch of the Year\u201d back in his native Russia.<\/p>\n Ovechkin\u2019s next opportunity to add to his already historic goal total will be Saturday as the team travels back to the site of his record-breaking moment to face the New York Islanders at UBS Arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Ovechkin may not have scored in the Washington Capitals\u2019 3-1 opening night loss to the Boston Bruins…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-212080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}