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Originally Posted by T-Dog
I wouldn’t count on it being such sure thing that he reaches Gretzky’s record. Time has a way of catching up quickly at his age. Brett Hull is a similar type of player- in the 02/03 season he had 37 goals. In 03/04 he had 25. After the lock out year he played 5 games and got 0 goals and 1 assist, so retired because he couldn’t play at the level he expected.
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Brett Hull also used the lockout to train in weight gains. He figured he'd use the training camp to get into shape, like the good 'ol days, and after a few regular season games realized, he just didn't care about doing what it takes to compete at a high level.
Alexander Ovechkin has reason to keep going and keep competing at a high level so you can't really compare Hull in his later years (aged 38 to 41) to Ovechkin (36)right now.