With the 895th goal of his career, Alex Ovechkin has passed Wayne Gretzky in all-time goals. Ovechkin beat many goalies in many different ways with an unlimited bag of tricks, but his greatest trick was the one they all knew was coming but couldn’t stop. Fitting that goal No. 895 came that exact way: from Ovechkin’s spot.
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Ovechkin’s place atop the goal leaderboard is due in large part to the territorial dominance he had over goalies for two decades from that one specific area of the ice, the Ovechkin Spot, often referred to as “Ovechkin’s Office”: the top of the left faceoff circle, just above the center hash marks. From
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