Alex Ovechkin became the NHL's all-time goals leader and celebrated by chest-first sliding onto the ice at UBS Arena, a moment later turned into Capitals rally towels. Ovechkin said the ice was bad and he fell rather than intentionally diving, and teammate Pierre-Luc Dubois corroborated that the dive was accidental, noting that teammates swarmed him before he could celebrate as intended. Video shows Ovechkin falling after a power-play goal against Islanders goalie Ilya Sorokin. Ovechkin finished the 2024-25 season with 897 goals and is poised to reach 900 in 2025-26. Dubois said the NHL is difficult, with varying opportunities across teams and coaches.
Ice was bad today, so I fell,
I'm pretty sure it's a pretty cool moment. It was cool.
The funniest thing about all this is that after he scored the goal, his celebration [the dive] wasn't what he wanted to do at all. He fell!
When he got up, we were all already on top of him, so he couldn't celebrate like he wanted to.
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