After grabbing five goals in his first nine games to start the 2024-25 NHL season, Alex Ovechkin doubled that tally with a 10-goal explosion in his next nine games as the Washington Capitals continued a hot start before a broken leg landed the veteran on the shelf for a time.
With that really hot run, the Great Eight's chase of Wayne Gretzky's hallowed record of 894 goals — the top of the mountain among all-time career goal scorers — continues to be within reach this season if things go his way.
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Here the ten goals Ovi scored for the Capitals during November 2024.
Career Goal No. 859, No. 860
In the first two games of the month, Ovi grabbed the fourth goal in a 5-0 first-period drubbing of the Columbus Blue Jackets (with assists from Dylan Strome and Aliaksei Protas) en route to a 7-2 win. On the next night, Ovechkin leveled the score at 1-1 with a power play goal (assisted by John Carlson and Strome), but the Caps fell 4-2 to the Carolina Hurricanes.
Career Goal No. 861
Ovechkin notched a goal in his fifth straight game scoring a third-period game-winner in a 3-2 victory over the Nashville Predaoters (assisted by Strome and Martin Fehervary).
Career Goal No. 862, No. 863
The Blues took an 8-1 smackdown in St. Louis with Ovechkin scoring first in the second period to make it 2-1 (assists from Protas and Strome) and the first in the third on the power play (Strome and Tom Wilson).
Career Goal No. 864, No. 865, No. 866
Ovi grabbed assists but no goals in back-to-back games, but got back into the swing of things in Vegas with his first hat trick of the season against the Golden Knights scoring a goal in all three periods first on the power play to open the scoring (Carlson and Strome), then in the second to make it 4-2 (Matt Roy assist) and finally an empty netter (Protas and Fehervary).
Career Goal No. 867, No. 868
Ovechkin sustained a broken leg in his first-ever game in Utah, but first stung the Hockey Club for a pair of goals, in the first period (assisted by Pierre-Luc Dubois) before scoring on the power play in the second (Carlson and Strome) to give him 15 on the season.