{"id":323182,"date":"2025-11-30T23:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T23:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/323182\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T23:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T23:51:09","slug":"alex-ovechkin-scores-909th-career-goal-with-empty-netter-against-islanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/323182\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Ovechkin scores 909th career goal with empty-netter against Islanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/alex-ovechkin-909-goal.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"   fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s safe to say Alex Ovechkin is back to being Alex Ovechkin after a slow start to the season, where he scored just three goals in his first 15 games.<\/p>\n<p>Ovechkin has 9 goals in his last 11 outings and found the back of the net again Sunday against the New York Islanders.<\/p>\n<p>The Capitals captain scored an empty-net goal with 31 seconds remaining in the game, skating through an Adam Pelech poke-check for his 909th career goal. The tally put the Caps up 4-1, which turned out to be the final score.<\/p>\n<p>The empty-netter was Ovechkin\u2019s third this season and the 68th of his career, 12 more than second-place Wayne Gretzky, who had 56 during his career.<\/p>\n<p>Ovechkin now has 12 goals overall this season, second only to Tom Wilson on the Capitals. Wilson <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2025\/11\/30\/tom-wilson-two-goals-islanders-top-five-nhl-over-100-points-pace\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">scored twice against the Islanders<\/a> and leads the Capitals with 15.<\/p>\n<p>Ovi\u2019s now on pace for 38 goals in his age-40 season \u2014 his last under contract with the Capitals.<\/p>\n<p>Ovechkin\u2019s goal against the Islanders also marked his 10th goal in 14 games during the month of November. Per NHL PR, Ovi is just the third player age 40 or older in NHL history to record 10 or more goals in a calendar month, joining Gordie Howe (11 in Feb. 1969) and Johnny Bucyk (10 in Jan. 1976).<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s see what The Great 8 has for an encore in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s safe to say Alex Ovechkin is back to being Alex Ovechkin after a slow start to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-323182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323182","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=323182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}