Best of Capitals on WJFK/WTEM: Ovechkin chasing down Gretzky
The Sports Junkies
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🗓️ 2 March 2025
⏱️ 101 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | He's got 13 to go, boys and girls. Right now at this pace, he would do it at home Friday, April 4th, against the Blackhawks. |
| 0:13.0 | Mark it down, because that is just the seventh to last game of the year. |
| 0:19.5 | So even if he doesn't continue at this ridiculous pace, this goal-scoring pace, |
| 0:25.8 | there is now becoming an increasing possibility that he will break Gretzky's record in this |
| 0:34.0 | 20-23, 2024- 2024, 2025 regular season. |
| 0:38.9 | Unbelievable from Alex Ovechkin yesterday. |
| 0:42.5 | It looked like the building was absolutely electric. |
| 0:46.4 | Is the caps beat Edmonton 7 to 3? |
| 0:49.1 | They've scored 15 goals in the two games since the Four Nation tournament ended 8 to 3 on Friday night against Pittsburgh, or was it Saturday, and then 7 to 3 yesterday against Edmonton outscoring their two opponents in the two games back from the break, 15 to 6. |
| 1:12.1 | Good morning. |
| 1:13.3 | The Indy Combine starts this week. |
| 1:15.5 | I'm expecting a newsy week in the NFL. |
| 1:20.1 | Ben Standing will join us at noon. |
| 1:22.1 | Joe Beninati will join us at 1235. |
| 1:26.7 | When Ovechkin does this, I mean, this is going to be in terms of record |
| 1:31.8 | breakers for any D.C. pro sports team athlete in the four major sports. This is going to be in |
| 1:41.1 | modern sports, the most significant record broken by anybody that's ever |
| 1:47.6 | played for any of the four professional sports teams in town. This is going to be a break |
| 1:53.5 | in to ESPN the moment he breaks the record. This is not Hank Aaron passing Babe Ruth in 1974. This isn't O.J. Simpson |
| 2:05.8 | becoming the first running back to go over 2,000 yards, but it's close. This is the great ones |
| 2:14.6 | mark that nobody thought would be run down. And especially this year, |
| 2:21.2 | I mean, the best projections at the beginning of this year for Alex Ovechkin were at some point, |
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