MOSCOW, Oct 28 Washington Capitals captain Alexander Ovechkin equals Canadian Phil Esposito in National Hockey League (NHL) regular season games played. National Hockey League (NHL) October 28, 2022 • Starts at 03:30 Ended
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WashingtonUSAWashington lost 0-2 to Dallas on Thursday. For Ovechkin, this game was the 1282nd in the NHL. The Russian came in 73rd place in this indicator, equaling the top scorer of the USSR Super Series — Canada (1972), two-time Stanley Cup winner and member of the Hockey Hall of Fame Esposito. The two-time Olympic champion in the Canadian team Patrick Marleau leads in the number of NHL matches played ( 1779), who retired in May 2022. In second place is Gordie Howe (1767), in third is Mark Messier (1756). Ovechkin is 37 years old, he is a graduate of Dynamo Moscow, in 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 Howe. Wayne Gretzky is in the lead (894).
