We don’t know whether this will be Alex Ovechkin’s final season as a Washington Capital or not, but there’s never a bad time to reflect back on two decades of being treated to this amazing talent. So each game day throughout the 2025-26 season, we’re going to be picking an Ovechkin moment to remember against that day’s opponent as we look back at an incredible career.
Goal #200 – February 5, 2009
By Alex Ovechkin’s fourth NHL season, there were still a few teams he hadn’t yet scored on – and one of those was the Los Angeles Kings. That drought would end in early February of the 2008-09 season when the Kings visited Washington.
Surrounded by Young Guns teammates – Alexander Semin, Nicklas Backstrom, and Mike Green – and trailing the Kings by two late in the third, Ovechkin (as he so often does) ended up with the puck on his stick all alone in front of Kings’ netminder Jonathan Quick. And Ovechkin (as he so often does) fired said puck to find the back of the net:
That goal was his 37th of the season and #200 on his career, in career game #296 – the fifth-fastest to 200 in NHL history, and an early indicator that he was already working on a different level. It would be the first of eight times he scored on Quick, the first of 13 (so far…) against the Kings.