Ovechkin's On The Doorstep Of Hockey History

The Sports Junkies

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Sports, Comedy

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🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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From 04/03 Hour 2: The Sports Junkies break down Alex Ovechkin's historic career.

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0:00.0	Just a quick reminder, tomorrow night, altcast on Monumental 2, we will be covering Caps, Blackhawks.
0:08.7	You could witness history.
0:10.2	Ovi's a hat trick away from breaking Wayne Gretzky's all-time goal record.
0:14.8	He's very capable of scoring three goals in a game.
0:17.8	It could happen tomorrow night.
0:18.9	It could happen over the weekend.
0:20.3	It could happen back at Capitol 1 Arena when they returned to play the Carolina Hurricanes.
0:25.5	It'd be epic if he did it with a hat trick.
0:29.3	But sometimes the greatest players come up big like that.
0:32.9	Remember when Cal Ripkin was breaking the streak, he was hitting home runs in the big moments.
0:39.7	Right. Yeah. It's going to be interesting to see over the weekend when he does it, if he does it.
0:45.2	Yep. So we wanted to get in this. It would be pretty cool. It would be cool if you had an opportunity to see it live, but it would be really awesome next Thursday if he's already tied it or if he has an opportunity to tie it next
0:55.7	Thursday at home because the place will go nuts. It would be best at home. I mean, it would be
1:00.1	awesome if he did it at Capital One Reel. They're going to go nuts. They'll have some sort of crazy.
1:05.5	If he does it on the road, they'll have some crazy celebration plan. I get it, but it's not like
1:08.9	it would be here.
1:15.5	So we wanted to get into this article that's on ESPN.com where assistants and other players are trying to explain why OV is so good,
1:23.2	specifically from his office, from where he scored more goals than anywhere else
1:29.8	during his NHL career.
1:31.9	You mean the one-trick pony?
1:33.2	Yeah.
1:35.1	That still rankles me that Panger went with that phrasing.
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