"Wow, that is a crazy stat!" - 894 goals in 1487 games for Wayne Gretzky and 895 goals in 1487 games for Alex Ovechkin

On 4/6/2025, ESPN released an X post on their official account, which mentioned an unreal moment between Alex Ovechkin and Wayne Gretzky . That unreal moment was - Wayne Gretzky scored 894 career NHL goals after 1487 NHL games, and on Sunday, Alex Ovechkin scored 895 career NHL goals after 1487 NHL games! Do you see the unreal similarity there? Both the NHL legends have 1487 NHL games as a connecting link! How could this have happened? This is unbelievable! One X user wrote, “Congratulations! Wow, that is a crazy stat! 🏒🥅💯💪” Another X user called it fate and wrote, “written in the stars long before ... amazing.”

Alex Ovechkin broke Wayne Gretzky's record in the same amount of games 🤯 pic.twitter.com/FlXfzEdsok

— ESPN (@espn) April 6, 2025

Alex Ovechkin and Wayne Gretzky share unthinkable similarities - Alex Ovechkin breaks Wayne Gretzky’s record with the same amount of NHL games


Alex Ovechkin and Wayne Gretzky were both in their 30s when they set the highest NHL career goals record! Alex Ovechkin is 39 years old. And Wayne Gretzky was 33 years old! This is not all. Another similarity creeps in. Alex Ovechkin tallies 0.60 goals per game! And, yes, the unthinkable moment’s here, too. Wayne Gretzky also tallied 0.60 goals per game!



X users react to the jaw-dropping parallels between 39 YO Alex Ovechkin and 64 YO Wayne Gretzky

no he didn't. gretzky played in 1,487 games, but hit the 894 goal threshold in his 1,479th game.

— nobody (@nobodyhky) April 6, 2025

On watching Alex Ovechkin score his 895th goal after 1487 games and also hearing about Wayne Gretzky’s record of 894 goals after 1487 games, X users couldn’t contain their overwhelming reactions!


One X user wrote, “Uncanny! Both great talents”


Another X user penned, “That’s wild wow”


A third X user wrote, “That’s insane-matching Gretzky’s pace is legendary. Ovi’s cementing his place in history.”


A fourth X user penned, “Gretzky did it in 1479 games”, technically trying to correct the X post. It was Wayne Gretzky’s 1479th game when he achieved his 894th career NHL goal. But does that make any sense now? Wayne Gretzky’s overall games played are 1487, and the total goals scored throughout his career span - 894. Another X user pointed out this argument, “Ok, well if you take out all the games Ovi didn’t score in, then it’s less. See how stupid that argument is?” and a third X user wrote, “Wayne did it in 1,479. His final 8 games he went scoreless”.



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