Ice hockey: past Gretzky: Owetschkin sole NHL record shooter

Ice hockey superstar Alexander Owetschkin wrote history with his 895th NHL goal and is now the sole record scorer of the league in front of Canada’s legend Wayne Gretzky. The 39-year-old Russian scored the 1-2 connection hit in the second third in the second third in the game of his Washington Capitals at the New York Islanders. Owetschkin dropped her stomach on the ice, slipped a few meters and was then hugged violently by his teammates.

With 895 goals, Owetschkin in the North American professional league NHL shot one more than the 64 -year -old Gretzky. Already in the previous game against the Chicago Blackhawks on Friday, Owetschkin had equalized with two goals in front of Gretzky’s eyes with two goals for unreachable record of “The Great One” of 894 hits.

Also criticism of Owetschkin about sympathy for Putin

The native Moscow Owetschkin is one of the most prominent athletes in Russia. However, the two -time family man is particularly criticized abroad, since he never distanced himself from Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and never sentenced the war of aggression to Ukraine. Because of his openly showed sympathy for the Kremlin chief, Owetschkin in Moscow is considered “our husband in America”.

Owetschkin was born in 1985 as the son of two athletes – the father played football, the mother basketball – and showed his great talent early on the ice. In 2004 the club from Washington chose him first in the draft, a year later he made his debut as a professional of the capital.

In 2018 he won the Stanley Cup with the team from the capital. With the Russian selection currently excluded by international competitions, he became world champion three times, but missed an Olympic medal.