Overview
- The team staged the tribute before facing the Jets to recognize Alex Ovechkin’s 900-goal milestone and his 1,500th game with Washington.
- Ovechkin remains the only NHL player to reach 900 career goals and is one of just eight to log 1,500 or more games with a single franchise.
- Fans received oversized Ovechkin head cutouts on sticks as part of the celebration of signature moments from his career.
- Ovechkin called the moment “pretty special” and said he would celebrate with teammates and family attending the event.
- Carbery placed Ovechkin and Wayne Gretzky in “rare, rare company,” pointing to Ovechkin’s missed 76 games over 21 seasons compared with Connor McDavid’s 71 in 10 and Auston Matthews’s 76 in nine.