Photo: Patrick Smith
Fifty goals for Alex Ovechkin.
With a simple wrist shot from the slot, Alex Ovechkin has tied Peter Bondra for the franchise lead in goals, hit the 50-goal mark for the 6th time, and given his Capitals a two-goal lead.
MVP.
It was low key for an Ovi goal. Evgeny Kuznetsov merely gained the zone and served the puck to Alex, who did the use-the-defense-as-a-screen thing. Simple and deadly.
Ovechkin and Peter Bondra have now each scored 472 goals for the Washington Capitals.
Ovi's pretty gr8 pic.twitter.com/eGAfd1vJLs
— Ian Oland (@ianoland) March 31, 2015
Mike Bossy, Wayne Gretzky, Marcel Dionne, Guy Lafleur, and Mario Lemieux are the only other players to hit 50 goals six times. And they all played in eras with significantly more goal-scoring.
Basically, Ovi is the best.
Ovechkin's milestone puck pic.twitter.com/fKfSAx82Yt
— Ian Oland (@ianoland) March 31, 2015
When everybody in the arena acknowledges you for being so sick))))))))) pic.twitter.com/VSLGfGALRx
— Ian Oland (@ianoland) April 1, 2015
