
MOSCOW, Oct 7 Two-time Stanley Cup winner Jaromir Jagr said that the captain «Washington Capitals» Alexander Ovechkin is capable of breaking the record of Canadian Wayne Gretzky for the number of goals scored in the National Hockey League (NHL). Ovechkin, with 780 goals, is third in the list of the best scorers in NHL history, second only to Gordie Howe (801) and Gretzky ( 894). Jagr, 50 (766), is number four on this list. and wants to be the best,” Jagr quotes the official website of the NHL. Ovechkin is 37 years old, he is a graduate of the Moscow Dynamo, in which he won the Gagarin Cup in 2013. In 2018, he won the Stanley Cup with the Washington Capitals.

