The 2023-24 season was a slow one for Alex Ovechkin : 31 goals and 34 assists in 79 regular-season games. But more importantly, the doubts had started to creep in within the hockey community. Maybe the Capitals captain will run out of gas before he reaches the 895 mark. The NHL world doesn’t need any introduction to that magic figure. But they all wanted to see how things unraveled.

But TJ Oshie had no doubt about the outcome. There was only one way things were going to turn out. After all, it’s Alex Ovechkin, the man of the Washington Capitals. The guy with whom Oshie shared the forward line. And as clockwork, the iconic moment came. But do you know what the American winger didn’t anticipate? That the Russian would end up making him a part of that iconic history-making moment.

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