[10-Feb-2016] #OviWatch #HoltBEASTWatch and some notes on Nashville....

Last night in Nashville, Alex Ovechkin scored his 31st goal of the season, a power play goal into an empty Nashville net. They still count... 

With goal #31, Ovi now has 506 goals. When he gets his 507th, he ties Jean Béliveau.



33 - Brian Trottier - 524 G, 1279 GP
34 - Pat Verbeek - 522 G, 1424 GP
35 - Dale Hawerchuk - 518 G, 1188 GP
36 - Pierre Turgeon - 515 G, 1294 GP
37 - Jeremy Roenick - 513 G, 1363 GP
38 - Gilbert Perreault - 512 G, 1191 GP
39 - Jean Béliveau - 507 G, 1125 GP
40 - Alex Ovechkin - 506 G, 810 GP
41 - Peter Bondra - 503 G, 1081 GP
42 - Joe Mullen - 502 G, 1062 GP
43 - Lanny McDonald - 500 G, 1111 GP
44 - Glenn Anderson - 498 G, 1129 GP

Also last night, Braden Holtby won his league-leading 34th game of the season.

Chasing Marty Brodeur's record of 48 wins in a season, The HoltBEAST has 30 games left in which to win 16 games, a rate of just over .500 - and quite achievable. He won't get every start, but he'll get most of them.

As for Nashville, the Caps welcomed back Marcus Johansson after the forward missed four games to injury. MoJo responded to that welcome back by scoring a goal and assisting on two others. Welcome back, MoJo!

As if that were not enough, Evgeny Kuznetsov recorded his 100th career point (another primary assist) on Justin Williams' goal. Kuzya leads the league in primary assists this season with 32.

Justin Williams notched his 17th goal of the season last night, pulling even with Nicklas Backstrom, and there are a whole lot of Caps who have more than 10 goals with 30 games remaining:

• 31 - Alex Ovechkin
• 17 - Justin Williams & Nicklas Backstrom
• 16 - TJ Oshie
• 15 - Evgeny Kuznetsov
• 14 - Jason Chimera & Marcus Johansson
• 10 - Andre Burakovsky

On the other side, we have Brooks Laich, who has played in all 51 games so far, and has one goal - one lowly goal - to show for it. Of players playing in more than a handful of games, only Taylor Chorney has fewer goals in his 43 games - and he's a defenseman, not a forward. I feel bad for Brooksy; he's been on the schneid so to speak for so long he's probably forgotten what it feels like to score a goal. Hopefully, he'll get another one soon.