{"id":21306,"date":"2023-03-22T00:44:32","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T00:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/22\/alex-ovechkin-breaks-wayne-gretzky-record-with-latest-milestone\/"},"modified":"2023-03-22T00:44:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T00:44:32","slug":"alex-ovechkin-breaks-wayne-gretzky-record-with-latest-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/22\/alex-ovechkin-breaks-wayne-gretzky-record-with-latest-milestone\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Ovechkin breaks Wayne Gretzky record with latest milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nhl\/teams\/washington_capitals\/106\" class=\"yard_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Capitals<\/a> megastar Alex Ovechkin is still chasing down Wayne Gretzky&#8217;s all-time goals-scored record, but on Tuesday night, he did manage to break a different record set by The Great One. <\/p>\n<p>Ovechkin&#8217;s goal in the first period of the Capitals&#8217; game against the Columbus Blue Jackets was his 40th goal of the season, giving him 13 career 40-goal seasons for his entire career&#8230;and counting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That is the most 40-goal seasons for any player in league history, besting the mark that was previously set by Gretzky with 12 40-goal seasons.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t\t\t(function(d, s, id) {\n\t\t\t\tvar js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t\t\t\tif (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n\t\t\t\tjs = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n\t\t\t\tjs.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.5&appId=125075807517358\";\n\t\t\t\tfjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t\t\t}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n\t\t<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nhl\/articles\/alex_ovechkin_breaks_wayne_gretzky_record_with_latest_milestone\/s1_13132_38607656\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Capitals megastar Alex Ovechkin is still chasing down Wayne Gretzky&#8217;s all-time goals-scored record, but on Tuesday night, he did manage to break a different record set by The Great One. Ovechkin&#8217;s goal in the first period of the Capitals&#8217; game against the Columbus Blue Jackets was his 40th goal of the season, giving him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}