EMERGENCY POD: 700 for Ovechkin
Told It Here!: 25 Iconic Years of Washington Capitals Hockey with Joe Beninati and Craig Laughlin
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🗓️ 22 February 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Alex Ovechkin Saturday afternoon became only the 8th player in history to score 700 goals. Rob, J.J., and Brian discuss the historic achievement by Ovi, but then also look at the 3-2 loss in New Jersey.
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| 0:00.0 | When a milestone like 700 goals gets reached, it is time for an emergency podcast. |
| 0:09.7 | Unfortunately, the 700th goal for Alex Hovechkin somewhat gets lost and yet another lost by the |
| 0:15.7 | capitals. J.J. Regan, what was your first thought when Nick Jensen played it behind the boards? |
| 0:21.4 | And he goes down in history now. |
| 0:23.7 | And then Cousie plays it out to Ovi, who just wires in goal number 700. |
| 0:28.1 | You try to appreciate what that moment is and what that means. |
| 0:31.4 | We may never see 700 goals again in our lifetime. |
| 0:35.5 | And that's not hyperbole. |
| 0:36.7 | That is how hard it is to get that accomplishment. Only eight players have done it in the history of the game. So I know there's a context to this. It happened in a loss, which is unfortunate, but that moment, but you have to appreciate that moment itself. That is one of the biggest goals in the history of the NHL. Brian McNally, we were joking in the newsroom because we were trying to come up with, well, what does this mean in context of other sports? |
| 0:59.6 | Like what would be the number that someone achieved in another sport? |
| 1:04.2 | And I was like, I don't know, what has a list of eight guys? |
| 1:07.0 | You have to go to such select company that that forget the other sports like what like what |
| 1:12.5 | jay's saying what he just did is incredibly historic no i mean baseball would be like 600 home runs right |
| 1:21.1 | you're talking willie may's plus maybe 550 home runs whatever it is um you know know, touchdown passes, 45 touchdown passes, 50 touchdown passes in a season, |
| 1:32.0 | something like that. |
| 1:33.1 | NBA, 30,000 points probably, something like, I mean, it's, it's, as elite, there's, |
| 1:40.3 | when we talk about, we throw around generational talents, right? |
| 1:43.4 | Like it's kind of just a you know |
| 1:45.7 | there's there's one every couple of years but like as jj said this is stuff that won't you're not |
| 1:50.2 | going to see again like i don't know if stephen stamcoast can get here he might but like you know |
| 1:55.3 | there's a lot of great young talent in the league that it's hard to imagine them getting here getting to this level they |
| 2:02.1 | might do it they might stay healthy but the level of durability to get here the age at which he did |
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