NHL Star Breaks Records: A New Era of Hockey Excellence

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00:00But just from a hockey standpoint, it's good for the game.

00:03People, and it is unbelievable

00:06that he's not backing into this thing, right?

00:09I remember a couple of years ago,

00:10I thought, yeah, he's going to get the record,

00:13but you know, he's going to have to hang around to do it.

00:15It'll be like, you know, sort of thought like that.

00:18Like, yeah, it'll be at the backend of his career

00:20and he'll bury a couple of goals and he'll get the record.

00:23That's not the case.

00:25Like this dude, what, he's got 41 goals now.

00:28So like he's scoring, he's playing at a top level on,

00:33you know, arguably the best team.

00:34I don't, I'm not saying they're the best team,

00:35but they're one of the best teams statistically

00:37in the National Hockey League.

00:40So he's not backing into it

00:41by any stretch of the imagination.

00:43And you are witnessing history.

00:45So you take out all this other stuff and the noise

00:48and stuff, you are witnessing history here.

00:50And well, I guess we can get into it later.

00:51Will anybody be able to break his record now after the fact?

00:55You never say never, right?

00:58The thing with Gretzky is though,

00:59Gretzky had the goals and the assists.

01:02That's the difference with Gretzky.

01:04Ovechkin just has the goals.

01:05He doesn't have the assists as well,

01:07but Gretzky was in attendance.