Alex Ovechkin became the first player in NHL history to score 900 goals against the St. Louis Blues on November 6.<\/p>\n
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\u2019s latest accomplishment. <\/p>\n
Gretzky gave his perspective of the historic moment while serving as an analyst for TNT\u2019s coverage of the Toronto Maple Leafs-Boston Bruins game on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was spectacular, right?\u201d Gretzky asked the panel as he watched the clip. \u201c900 goals, that\u2019s pretty hard to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
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<\/a>. <\/p>\n During Ovechkin\u2019s 895th goal celebration, Gretzky told the Capitals captain on the ice at UBS Arena, \u201cIt\u2019s the best thing to ever happen for hockey. Keep going. Get to 900. You get to 900, I might buy your car.\u201d<\/p>\n Gretzky laughed at the trip down memory lane.<\/p>\n \u201cThe owner said he couldn\u2019t buy him a car, so I was trying to pump him up to get there quickly,\u201d Gretzky quipped. \u201cI got vetoed.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWell, I like that you didn\u2019t say a new car,\u201d McHugh countered.<\/p>\n \u201cIf he keeps going, he could get to 1,000,\u201d Gretzky said, turning serious. \u201cI mean, the sky\u2019s the limit for him, right? He\u2019s one of the greatest players in the game. He\u2019s probably the greatest goal scorer ever. And to get 900 goals, that\u2019s hard to do.\u201d<\/p>\n As the panel began to move on from the topic, Gretzky brought up one other aspect of the 900th goal that he enjoyed. \u201cI loved the fact the goalie tried to steal the puck,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Indeed, Jordan Binnington stuffed the goal puck down his pants, attempting to try and steal the milestone marker<\/a> \u2014 though the Blues goaltender, after massive criticism online, said he had every intention of giving it back<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s his retirement plan,\u201d Paul Bissonnette said.<\/p>\n \u201cSome people had a problem with it,\u201d added Anson Carter. \u201cI didn\u2019t have a problem with it at all.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou know what? At the end of the day, he knew he was going to give it back,\u201d Gretzky, a former player for the Blues, said. \u201cBut 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\u2019s what makes our game great. You\u2019ve got to have some characters in the game. You\u2019ve got to have some pizzazz, right?\u201d<\/p>\n 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. \u201cI mean, if you scored on me, I might have steal that puck,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cYeah, I don\u2019t know. I never thought of it. Maybe some of the guys did steal them. I didn\u2019t know,\u201d Gretzky said. \u201cI\u2019m sure sticks were taken and gloves were taken.\u201d<\/p>\n Gretkzy then told a story about how he once used his old game-used gear in a trade.<\/p>\n \u201cI had this scalper in Toronto and I had to get two ice seats for a Game 7 game,\u201d Gretzky said. \u201cAnd I said to the kid, go out there and ask him how much it\u2019ll cost me. He came back in, he said, \u2018a pair of game-used gloves and two game-used hockey sticks.\u2019 I said, \u2018done.\u2019 And I got four tickets out of it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Ovechkin became the first player in NHL history to score 900 goals against the St. Louis Blues…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-290122","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\/290122","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=290122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}