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!
Ovi’s First Five-Spot – December 29, 2007
In his first two seasons and change, Alex Ovechkin put the NHL on notice that he was capable of not only scoring at will but doing so multiple times in a game (and set other people up for goals, as well). He put up a combined 198 points in his first two seasons in the NHL, and had added another 43 points through the first 38 games of the 2007-08 season.
For Game 39 of that campaign, Ovechkin and the Caps headed north to Ottawa to face the Senators. What followed was what would become something of a hallmark of those early Bruce Boudreau-coached days: high octane offense, minimal defense, and a wild final score. Eventually 14 goals would be scored in the battle of the two nations’ capitals, with the good guys emerging victorious, 8-6.
In such a high-offense game, you’d expect Ovechkin to be right smack in the middle of it all…and boy howdy, was he ever. Ovechkin potted four goals – including his 30th of the season, before the close of 2007 – and added an assist for his first-career five-point night.
After the game, Coach Boudreau marveled at his young phenom, saying, “when he’s going like that and making moves on great defensemen and the puck seemed to stay with him all night, I mean, it’s been a young time in my tenure here, but the guy sort of amazes me.”