Who’s the next player to join Alex Ovechkin in the NHL’s 700-goal club?
The short answer is, probably nobody. There’s a reason Ovechkin is set to become just the eighth player in NHL history to score 700 goals. It’s hard to do. Very, very hard to do.
Gordie Howe was the first NHL player to reach 700 goals in 1968 and Jaromir Jagr became the seventh player to do so in 2014. In the 46 years in between – including the league’s highest-scoring quarter-century from the early 1970s through the mid-1990s – just five other players reached the milestone.