Our beloved Captain recorded a hat trick last night. This was his first hat trick since 13-Dec-13 (way back in the Dark Ages), but it was enough to propel him past Jean Béliveau and into sole possession of the #39 spot in the all-time goal-scoring list. Next up for Captain Chaos is Gilbert Perreault (no relation to Mathieu), who scored 512 goals in 1191 games played.
Perreault played his entire professional career of 17 seasons in Buffalo for the Sabres. Selected first overall in the 1970 draft, by luck of the roulette wheel, his career would span from the 1970-71 season through the first twenty games of the 1986-87 career, at which point he retired. His number 11 was also retired by the Sabres, and Perreault is therefore the only player ever to wear that number for that team. Ovi is another hat trick of goals away from catching him, and is en fuego! right now, storming his way up the list. With 29 games remaining in the season (next on Saturday night in Dallas), he's on a good pace for scoring 50 this year yet again.
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 - Alex Ovechkin - 509 G, 811 GP
40 - Jean Béliveau - 507 G, 1125 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
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Meanwhile, between the pipes, Braden Holtby has won another game for the Caps. This brings his total for the season to a league-leading 35.
Holtby's net saw three Wild pucks in the 3-4 victory, the last one with a Wild Man suspiciously hanging onto his right leg pad while he tried to slide to the left... but the review did not go our way, although an earlier one granting Ovi his hat trick did. Holts stopped 33 of 36 shots faced; the Caps lead the league with 40 wins in 53 games played (a 40-9-4 record), and all is right with the world.
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