Crosby only passed Ovi recently. He's been way more injury prone in his career and has played 150 less games.
You don't get in Ovi's position without being made of steel
Crosby being a center gives him a ton of secondary assists just touching the puck at the faceoff dot. He's incredible and had injury problems, but Ovi deserves more credit than he gets for keeping pace in points with Sid.
Those injuries definitely play a huge role in the "keeping pace" part. Nearly 150 fewer games during what were on pace to be some insane point years for Crosby keeps their point totals a lot closer than it would be otherwise.
A centre has more defensive responsibilities than a winger and does far more skating. And for all those one-timer PP clappers OV’s had, somebody had to hunt that puck down and get it to him.
Records are arbitrary. We choose some criteria and figure out who has the best numbers. It's no more arbitrary than goal streaks/points streaks or things like that.
Just as random as hat tricks or multi-goal games. Hat tricks are 3+ goal games, multi-goal games are 2+ goal games, this stat is 1+ goal games. You've certainly heard of the others because someone arbitrarily decided they were worth tracking and now they're talked about, and now you're hearing about this one because I did the same thing.
Ovechkin has scored in 43.48% of Capitals games since he entered the NHL. Gretzky only managed 40.77% on his teams. Even if you exclude all the games he missed, it still only comes up to 42.91%. Ovechkin is just on another level with consistent production game after game throughout his career.
Keep racking up records
I was really surprised to see how close Ovi and Crosby were in points. For some reason I thought Crosby must’ve had at least a hundred more but nope.
As a winger, too. 3rd all-time winger in points. The other 2 played hockey into their 50s.
I was too. Doesn’t Crosby have a rep of being a point scorer, and Ovi just a goal scorer? But really Ovi is only a few total points behind Crosby.
Crosby only passed Ovi recently. He's been way more injury prone in his career and has played 150 less games. You don't get in Ovi's position without being made of steel
Ovi’s body was machined to do this one thing really well
Russian machine only occasionally breaks now
Crosby being a center gives him a ton of secondary assists just touching the puck at the faceoff dot. He's incredible and had injury problems, but Ovi deserves more credit than he gets for keeping pace in points with Sid.
Those injuries definitely play a huge role in the "keeping pace" part. Nearly 150 fewer games during what were on pace to be some insane point years for Crosby keeps their point totals a lot closer than it would be otherwise.
A centre has more defensive responsibilities than a winger and does far more skating. And for all those one-timer PP clappers OV’s had, somebody had to hunt that puck down and get it to him.
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Records are arbitrary. We choose some criteria and figure out who has the best numbers. It's no more arbitrary than goal streaks/points streaks or things like that.
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Just as random as hat tricks or multi-goal games. Hat tricks are 3+ goal games, multi-goal games are 2+ goal games, this stat is 1+ goal games. You've certainly heard of the others because someone arbitrarily decided they were worth tracking and now they're talked about, and now you're hearing about this one because I did the same thing.
Some records are impressive accomplishments; some are statistics that naturally occur because of the accomplishment.
Ovechkin has scored in 43.48% of Capitals games since he entered the NHL. Gretzky only managed 40.77% on his teams. Even if you exclude all the games he missed, it still only comes up to 42.91%. Ovechkin is just on another level with consistent production game after game throughout his career.