The NHL has updated the expected date for Ovechkin's scoring record

The National Hockey League (NHL) has changed the expected date when Russian forward and captain of the Washington Capitals hockey club Alexander Ovechkin will break Canadian Wayne Gretzky's record for goals in regular matches from April 15 to April 3. This was reported on February 26 on on the NHL portal.

So, the 39-year-old Russian makes an average of 0.71 goals per match. While maintaining his performance, Ovechkin will break Gretzky's record during the game with the Carolina Hurricanes hockey club, which will take place on April 3.

Ovechkin has 883 goals in his NHL career, while Gretzky has 894. Thus, the Washington leader needs to score 12 more goals before the historical record is updated.

Earlier in the day, it was reported that the Russian forward scored a goal in the NHL regular season match against the Calgary Flames, thereby reducing the gap from the Canadian href="https://iz.ru/1845235/2025-02-26/oveckin-sokratil-otstavanie-ot-gretcki-do-11-saib-v-matce-s-kalgari-fleimz">up to 11 heads. At the same time, Ovechkin's goal in the 45th minute did not help Washington to win.

Prior to that, on January 28, the NHL website reported that a game during which Ovechkin could break Gretzky's sniper record would take place href="https://iz.ru/1830235/2025-01-29/nkhl-nazvala-novuiu-datu-kogda-ovechkin-mozhet-pobit-rekord-grettcki-po-golam"> April 15th. At that time, his score of goals scored per game was 0.65.