Sports World Reacts to Alex Ovechkin Breaking Wayne Gretzky's Goals Record
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J.P. Hoornstra writes and edits Major League Baseball content. A veteran of 20 years of sports coverage for daily newspapers in California, J.P. covered MLB, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the Los Angeles Angels (occasionally of Anaheim) from 2012-23 for the Southern California News Group. His first book, The 50 Greatest Dodgers Games of All-Time, published in 2015. In 2016, he won an Associated Press Sports Editors award for breaking news coverage. He once recorded a keyboard solo on the same album as two of the original Doors.
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Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin now has the most goals in NHL history, a hallowed record that touched off reactions from the broader sports world on Sunday.
Shortly after Ovechkin scored his 895th career goal against the New York Islanders, the Washington Nationals' baseball game paused to recognize the accomplishment.
"Nats play Alex Ovechkin's historic goal on the big screen to a loud ovation and OVI chants," Nationals reporter Bobby Blanco wrote on Twitter/X. "Awesome moment back in D.C."
The Baltimore Orioles congratulated Ovechkin on their Twitter/X account, writing "HISTORY MADE. Congratulations, O!!"
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