Utah Hockey Club. He returned on Dec. 28 and has scored goals in four of his first five games back. Ovechkin entered this season needing 42 goals to break Gretzky's record of 894 career goals,

Ovechkin is 23 goals away from passing Wayne Gretzky for the most goals in NHL history and scored again in a wild 7-4 victory over the New York Rangers. Postgame, he was asked — as was to be expected — about how fast he could get the record,