{"id":505301,"date":"2025-11-21T00:28:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T04:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=505301"},"modified":"2025-11-21T00:28:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T04:28:12","slug":"ovechkin-notches-a-hat-trick-to-move-to-10th-place-on-the-points-list","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/ovechkin-notches-a-hat-trick-to-move-to-10th-place-on-the-points-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Ovechkin notches a hat trick to move to 10th place on the points list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Ovechkin had his 33rd hat trick in the NHL and had an assist to move to 10th place on the league points leaderboard, leading the Washington Capitals to an 8-4 victory against the Montreal Canadiens, as that was the Canadian team&#8217;s 5th consecutive defeat.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian superstar has 10 goals in the current campaign to push his National Hockey League record to 907. Alex has 1,643 points to move 2 past Joe Sakic for 10th on the scoring list. Ovechkin has notched in 4 consecutive matches and 5 of 6.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MOVIN&#39; ON UP \ud83e\udd29 <\/p>\n<p>Alex Ovechkin has passed Joe Sakic and is now 10th all-time in points with 1,642! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q9NT0skLfD\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/q9NT0skLfD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NHL (@NHL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHL\/status\/1991697625184096707?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Alex is also the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> player in league history with 6 goals in a 4-match span at age 40 or older, as Teemu Selanne did it 14 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian scored the 1<sup>st<\/sup> goal in the game in a power play a minute in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> period, firing a wrist shot past goalie Sam Montembeault off a faceoff. The Capitals&#8217; superstar then assisted Ethen Frank 2 minutes in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> that gave the Capitals the lead for good at 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>Ovechkin notched 2 goals late in the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> period to continue to write history in the NHL.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Alex Ovechkin is doing the thing again.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udea8 33rd career hat trick tonight<br \/>\ud83d\udea8 He&#39;s got 6 goals in his last 4 games<br \/>\ud83d\udea8 He&#39;s got 7 goals in his last 6 games<br \/>\ud83d\udea8 He&#39;s now within 4 goals of the NHL lead<\/p>\n<p>He is 40 years old. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vDmkvmSwqD\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/vDmkvmSwqD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Grant Paulsen (@granthpaulsen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/granthpaulsen\/status\/1991701247397945694?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Ovechkin had his 33rd hat trick in the NHL and had an assist to move to 10th place on the league points [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":505302,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17524,17091],"news_category":[16709,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[21754,17894],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Alex secured the 10th place on the points list as his team won the match.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/505301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/505301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505303,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/505301\/revisions\/505303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505301"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=505301"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=505301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}