[OOT] November 26 with five games.

[Tsawwassen]

Final scores and recaps
https://scores.nbcsports.com/nhl/sco...p?day=20181126
http://sportsstats.cbc.ca/news/NHL-R...ate=11-26-2018
http://sportsstats.cbc.ca/news/NHL-Preview-Roundups.aspx?date=11-26-2018



Three games of interest




4 at 1

The game was on Sportsnet and will be replayed on SN at 11:00 AM.
The neat thing about the pregame was Barry Trotz came in to the Capitals dressing to get his SC ring and gave his former team a speech. The Capitals are hot as they won their 6th straight game along with Tom Wilson who had 3 points and has scored a goal in each of his past 4 games.
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7 at 5

The BJs win a crazy game in Motown. Columbus had a 3-0 lead after the 1st period and were up 5-1 before the Red Wings came back to make it 5-4. The BJs bent, but didn't break as they hung on for the win. Bernier took over at the start of the 2nd period from Howard, both goalies let in 3 goals each. Frans Nielson gave the most obvious and boring quote in the loss. "We gotta show up every night for 60 minutes if we want to win in this league."
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2 at 4

The Rangers are playing well at at MSG, have only lost once in 9 games. It was 1-1 after one period and the Rangers finally broke the tie in the 3rd period. Chabot nailed Namestnikov with a centre ice check late in reg time, go to the 1:22 mark of the video. https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/games/2056423/

[Tsawwassen]

Originally Posted by CroFlames

Ovechkin ties the great Jarmoe in goals today with his 625th. Also ties Sakic for 15th all time.

Likely finishes the season ahead of Andreychuk’s 640.

Originally Posted by Samonadreau

It's crazy to think but he has a shot at passing Gretzky at 894.

Originally Posted by mrdonkey

A shot, sure, but think of it this way.

He's got 270 to go to beat Gretzky. Let's be generous and say he keeps up his current pace and scores ~60 goals this year to bring that total down to around 230. If he plays until...

35 years old (the end of his current contract), he would need to average 115 goals per season over the remaining two seasons. Clearly not happening.
36 years old... 77 goals per season. Again, probably not.
37 years old... 58 goals per season. So basically assuming he is immune to aging or having any kind of poor/injured/lockout-shortened season.
38 years old... 46 goals per season.
39 years old... 39 goals per season.
FORTY YEARS OLD... 33 goals per season.

Is he really going to average 30+ goals per season over the next seven years in even this scenario? The way Ovi plays I just can't see him having a Gordie Howe/Jaromir Jagr type of career that stretches into his 40s. And if he does and he's still scoring between 40 and 60 goals a year doing it then he deserves whatever accolades he's due, because that would be unheard of in the history of the sport.

Possible, but highly unlikely, I'd reckon.

Originally Posted by agulati

He has a shot for sure, but it will be difficult. He is already 33 and needs 250+ goals. He needs to average 50 goals till the age of 38 to stand a chance. It would be truly impressive and awesome to see him cross that threshold though.

Originally Posted by Monahammer

Without lockouts he would be 100ish Goals closer. Factor in the time period and ovie is probably the greatest goal scorer of all time. It will be interesting to see if laine keep up his pace or if he goes colder like stamkos

Originally Posted by Samonadreau

Obviously a long shot but he is 33 and hasnt slowed down.

You also realize he has NEVER scored less then 30 goals in a season...... at all..... never. Let that sink in. so its not unfathomable to think he could go:

Age 33: 55G
34: 48G
35: 36G
36: 32G
37: 28G
38: 26G
39: 24G
40: 21G
41: 18G

Done.

That is 270 more Goals. Like I said its a long shot but until he slows down its gonna be fun to watch.

Mike Gartner kept up a 32 goal or more pace until he was almost 38 years old. He retired a year after that with 708 career goals. His final season and the 1995 lockout shortned season were the only times he did not score at least 30 goals in the NHL.

[hwy19man]

Ovechkin ties the great Jarmoe in goals today with his 625th. Also ties Sakic for 15th all time.
Likely finishes the season ahead of Andreychuk’s 640.

He could pass Shanahan who is at 656