MOSCOW Oct 26 Washington Capitals captain Alexander Ovechkin finished sixth ranked among the best European-born players in the National Hockey League (NHL) by The Hockey Writers.National Hockey League (NHL)October 28, 2022 • Start at 03:30Match has not started
DallasUSA — In second place is Finn Teemu Selanne, in third is Slovak Stan Mikita. Eighth in the ranking was the three-time Stanley Cup winner in the “Detroit” Sergei Fedorov. Rounding out the top ten was Pittsburgh forward Evgeni Malkin, who also won the main trophy in the NHL three times. Ovechkin, 37, is a graduate of Dynamo Moscow, with which he won the Gagarin Cup in 2013. The forward became a three-time world champion as part of the Russian national team. In 2018, he won the Stanley Cup with Washington. Ovechkin is the third-best scorer in NHL history with 783 goals. He is 18 goals behind second-placed Gordie Howe. Wayne Gretzky is in the lead (894).
