Updated October 21. Alex Ovechkin has 930 regular-season goals, the NHL record, and this is his final season. This page follows every goal he scores in it, and the one Wayne Gretzky record still within reach: 1,016 goals counting the playoffs. Ovechkin has 930 in the regular season and 77 in the playoffs, 1,007 in all, so goal No. 1,017 is 10 away.
How many goals does Ovechkin have?
930 in the regular season, the most in NHL history, in 1,582 games. He has 77 more in 161 playoff games, so his total is 1,007. This season he has one goal in nine games. His 900th came on November 5, 2025, at home against St. Louis, and his 930th on October 11, 2026, against Seattle.
Every goal this season
| Goal | Date | Game | Career goal | How |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 11 | Seattle at Washington | 930 | Even strength, first period, from Ilya Protas and Aliaksei Protas, for a 2-1 lead |
He has 13 shots in nine games and is playing 14:12 a night, three and a quarter minutes less than last season’s 17:26.
The last three seasons against the rest of his career
For his first 18 seasons Ovechkin scored at a pace of 50 goals every 82 games. Over the last three it was 38.8, and this season he is on pace for about 9. The finishing has not gone: he converted 14.2% of his shots over the last three seasons, better than the 12.9% before them. What has gone is the volume.
| Seasons | Goals per 82 | Shots a game | Shooting % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005-06 to 2014-15 | 51.2 | 5.04 | 12.4% |
| 2015-16 to 2022-23 | 48.5 | 4.30 | 13.7% |
| 2023-24 to 2025-26 | 38.8 | 3.33 | 14.2% |
| 2026-27 so far | 9.1 | 1.44 | 7.7% |
| Career | 48.2 | 4.50 | 13.1% |
He took 4.72 shots a game before 2023-24, 3.33 over the last three seasons and 1.44 so far this one, and his ice time fell from 20:50 a night to 18:09, then 14:12. The power play shows it most. He scored 18 power-play goals per 82 games through 2022-23, 11.6 over the last three seasons and five in all of last season.
Ovechkin’s goals by season
Twenty of his 21 full seasons had 30 goals or more, 14 had 40 or more and nine had 50 or more. The best was 65 in 2007-08, still the third-most in a season since 1995-96, as our story on the most goals in a season shows. His full stats and game log are on his player page.
| Season | Games | Goals | PP goals | Shooting % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005-06 | 81 | 52 | 21 | 12.2% |
| 2006-07 | 82 | 46 | 16 | 11.7% |
| 2007-08 | 82 | 65 | 22 | 14.6% |
| 2008-09 | 79 | 56 | 19 | 10.6% |
| 2009-10 | 72 | 50 | 13 | 13.6% |
| 2010-11 | 79 | 32 | 7 | 8.7% |
| 2011-12 | 78 | 38 | 13 | 12.5% |
| 2012-13 | 48 | 32 | 16 | 14.5% |
| 2013-14 | 78 | 51 | 24 | 13.2% |
| 2014-15 | 81 | 53 | 25 | 13.4% |
| 2015-16 | 79 | 50 | 19 | 12.6% |
| 2016-17 | 82 | 33 | 17 | 10.5% |
| 2017-18 | 82 | 49 | 17 | 13.8% |
| 2018-19 | 81 | 51 | 18 | 15.1% |
| 2019-20 | 68 | 48 | 13 | 15.4% |
| 2020-21 | 45 | 24 | 9 | 13.2% |
| 2021-22 | 77 | 50 | 16 | 15.0% |
| 2022-23 | 73 | 42 | 14 | 14.3% |
| 2023-24 | 79 | 31 | 13 | 11.4% |
| 2024-25 | 65 | 44 | 14 | 18.6% |
| 2025-26 | 82 | 32 | 5 | 13.1% |
| 2026-27 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 7.7% |
Ovechkin vs. Gretzky
Ovechkin tied Gretzky’s 894 regular-season goals with two against Chicago on April 4, 2025, and passed him two nights later against the Islanders. Gretzky still leads counting the playoffs, 1,016 to 1,007, because he scored 122 playoff goals in 208 games to Ovechkin’s 77 in 161. Their scoring rates in the regular season are almost the same, and Ovechkin has far more of his goals on the power play.
| Ovechkin | Gretzky | |
|---|---|---|
| Regular-season games | 1,582 | 1,487 |
| Regular-season goals | 930 | 894 |
| Goals per game | 0.59 | 0.60 |
| Power-play goals | 331 | 204 |
| Game-winning goals | 141 | 91 |
| Playoff games | 161 | 208 |
| Playoff goals | 77 | 122 |
| Goals in all | 1,007 | 1,016 |
Milestones
| Goal | Date | Opponent | What it meant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 894 | April 4, 2025 | Chicago, at home | Tied Gretzky’s regular-season record |
| 895 | April 6, 2025 | NY Islanders, on the road | The record, alone |
| 900 | November 5, 2025 | St. Louis, at home | First player to 900 |
| 930 | October 11, 2026 | Seattle, at home | First goal of his final season |
| 950 | Still to come | 20 away | |
| 1,017 in all | Still to come | Passes Gretzky’s 1,016 counting the playoffs, 10 away |
The chase for 1,017
Washington has 75 games left. At last season’s rate, 32 goals in 82 games, Ovechkin needs about 26 games for 10 more, which would make it Washington’s 35th game, at home to Columbus on December 26. At the 0.52 goals a game of his last two seasons, it takes about 20, Washington’s 29th game, on December 10 in Seattle. At this season’s one goal in nine games he would finish the regular season on about 938, one short of Gretzky’s 1,016 in all.
Playoff goals count toward the combined total too, but Washington has to get there first. Our story on his farewell season has the long view, and the rest of the league’s scorers are on the goals leaderboard.
His final season
Ovechkin said on October 5 that this will be his last season. He turned 41 on September 17 and is playing on a one-year contract with a $4.25 million cap hit, 4.1% of the cap, which runs out at the end of the season. Every club’s contracts are on our cap space page.
Next up
Washington plays Buffalo at home on October 24 (the preview), then Philadelphia at home on October 28.
How we count
Goals are regular-season goals from our box scores, checked against his official career total. A shootout goal does not count, as in the league’s own scoring. Gretzky’s combined total is his 894 regular-season and 122 playoff goals. This page is updated after every Ovechkin goal, and the season line above updates on its own after every game.
