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Good.

We got goal number 889 from Alex Ovechkin last night.

I actually have a sign on the wall where I mark each goal and then scratch it out and mark it in.

So I heard, I was listening to the radio broadcast live stream and I heard it.

He tied the game up against Winnipeg late, about three minutes left in the game.

And I had the pleasure. I was right

there in the right spot in the house, so I could immediately write it down. But I made an analogy

with Sid Rosenberg, great radio hosts on WABC. I do segment with them every week, that

Gretzky was Ruth and Ovechkin is Aaron and that Gretzky had these monster years,

whereas Ovechkin has just, you know, it's been 40, 50 goals a year for a very long time.

But actually, on the goal scoring front, I didn't realize there's a shot that Ovechkin could basically

tie the record in the same amount of games as Gretzky.

So Gretzky had those seasons on it with 90 goals or whatever,

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