{"id":328788,"date":"2025-12-03T22:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T22:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/328788\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T22:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T22:07:09","slug":"alex-ovechkin-becomes-seventh-player-in-nhl-history-to-record-800-points-on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/328788\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Ovechkin becomes seventh player in NHL history to record 800 points on the road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"2500\" height=\"1667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/file-solo-1-alex-ovechkin-ceremony-900-goals-1500-games-112625-katiea.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Alex Ovechkin clapping\" decoding=\"async\"   fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ud83d\udcf8: Katie Adler\/RMNB\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Alex Ovechkin made more NHL history in the Washington Capitals\u2019 3-1 victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Ovechkin recorded secondary assists on the team\u2019s first two goals of the night, giving him 800 road points in his career.<\/p>\n<p>According to Capitals PR, Ovechkin is only the seventh player in NHL history to record 800 points in away games.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">With two assists tonight, Alex Ovechkin (463g-337a\u2013800p in 760 GP) became the seventh player in NHL history with 800 career road points <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NHLStats?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#NHLStats<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Capitals PR (@CapitalsPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CapitalsPR\/status\/1996093098439393668?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 3, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ovechkin joins five Hockey Hall of Famers and another who will be there once he ends his career.<\/p>\n<p>Most road points in NHL history<br \/>\nAs of December 3, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Rank<br \/>\nPlayer<br \/>\nPoints<br \/>\nGoals<br \/>\nAssists<br \/>\nGames<\/p>\n<p>1<br \/>\nWayne Gretzky<br \/>\n1,298<br \/>\n402<br \/>\n896<br \/>\n742<\/p>\n<p>2<br \/>\nMark Messier<br \/>\n880<br \/>\n311<br \/>\n569<br \/>\n875<\/p>\n<p>3<br \/>\nJaromir Jagr<br \/>\n860<br \/>\n355<br \/>\n505<br \/>\n856<\/p>\n<p>4<br \/>\nSteve Yzerman<br \/>\n857<br \/>\n362<br \/>\n495<br \/>\n749<\/p>\n<p>5<br \/>\nRon Francis<br \/>\n820<br \/>\n251<br \/>\n569<br \/>\n861<\/p>\n<p>6<br \/>\nMarcel Dionne<br \/>\n811<br \/>\n346<br \/>\n465<br \/>\n668<\/p>\n<p>7<br \/>\nAlex Ovechkin<br \/>\n800<br \/>\n463<br \/>\n337<br \/>\n760<\/p>\n<p>8<br \/>\nMario Lemieux<br \/>\n784<br \/>\n315<br \/>\n469<br \/>\n443<\/p>\n<p>9<br \/>\nGordie Howe<br \/>\n778<br \/>\n352<br \/>\n426<br \/>\n883<\/p>\n<p>10<br \/>\nSidney Crosby<br \/>\n775<br \/>\n300<br \/>\n475<br \/>\n690<\/p>\n<p>Ovechkin reached the mark after two great plays. His first assist of the night came after sending a centering pass on the power play to Tom Wilson for a redirect. Darcy Kuemper made the initial stop, but Ryan Leonard retrieved the rebound and brilliantly sent the puck back to Wilson, who tipped the puck home. The goal gave the Capitals a 1-0 lead at 14:50 of the first period.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Ovechkin road point 799<\/p>\n<p>Ovechkin\u2019s second assist on the night came during a two-on-one break with Connor McMichael. After sending the puck to McJesus, the Capitals centerman dished to Anthony Beauvillier, who was hustling and crashing the net. Beauvillier redirected the puck home to give the Capitals a 2-1 lead 1:18 into the third period. It would stand as the game-winning goal.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Ovechkin road point 800<\/p>\n<p>Ovechkin now has 1,650 points (909g, 741a) in 1,518 career games \u2014 the 10th most in NHL history.<\/p>\n<p>Stats <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statmuse.com\/nhl\/ask\/nhl-most-road-points-career\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">per Stat Muse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udcf8: Katie Adler\/RMNB Alex Ovechkin made more NHL history in the Washington Capitals\u2019 3-1 victory over the Los&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-328788","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\/328788","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=328788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}