Ovi and Backstrom in 2020 (Caps Outsider)
Don’t look now, but Alex Ovechkin might be getting another team record by the end of this season.
Ever since Nicklas Backstrom passed Michal Pivonka with his 419th career assist in 2015, he has held and improved on the the team record, finishing with 762 before his career ended prematurely in 2023. While both Ovechkin and John Carlson have since also passed Pivonka, they had been hundreds of assists behind Backstrom while playing alongside him.
With 401 more games played than Backstrom, and with 7 in 15 games, Ovechkin now has 733 career assists, only 29 behind Backstrom’s mark.