A lot has modified over the course of Alex Ovechkin’s profession, together with the report books.
The Washington Capitals star is anticipated to rewrite these very quickly when he scores his 895th profession objective to turn out to be the NHL’s all-time main scorer by breaking the report lengthy held by Wayne Gretzky.
That historic objective will happen practically 20 years after Ovechkin scored the primary objective of his NHL profession, which got here throughout his debut on October 5, 2005.
Let’s check out simply how various things had been again when Ovechkin scored that first objective in comparison with when he’s getting ready to changing into the league’s all-time main scorer.
Ovechkin’s age:
2005 – 20
2025 – 39
Ovechkin’s teammates:
2005 – Dainius Zubrus, Jeff Halpern, Brian Willsie, Jamie Heward, Olaf Kolzig
2025 – Dylan Strome, Aliaksei Protas, John Carlson, Tom Wilson, Logan Thompson
Reigning champions:
2005 – The 2004-2005 NHL season was canceled attributable to a lockout, however the 2003-2004 champion was the Tampa Bay Lighting; San Antonio Spurs; Boston Crimson Sox, New England Patriots
2025 – Florida Panthers, Los Angeles Dodgers, Boston Celtics, Philadelphia Eagles
Reigning NHL MVP:
2005 – The 2004-2005 NHL season was canceled attributable to a lockout. The earlier season’s Hart Memorial Trophy winner as MVP was Martin St. Louis of the Tampa Bay Lightning.
2025 – Nathan MacKinnon of the Colorado Avalanche
U.S. President
2005 – George W. Bush
2025 – Donald Trump
Donald Trump
2005 – Star of the truth tv present “The Apprentice”
2025 – U.S. president
Well-liked TV reveals
2005 – “Desperate Housewives,” “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” “American Idol,” “Deal or No Deal”
2025 – “Severance,” “White Lotus,” “Adolescence,” “Daredevil: Born Again”
Prime Billboard track
2005 – “Gold Digger” by Kanye West
2025 – “Luther” by Kendrick Lamar and SZA
Prime Film in theaters
2005 – “Flightplan”
2025 – “A Working Man”
2005 – 5,663
2025 – 1
2005 – 4.02 million
2025 – 220.6 million
Reigning Finest Actress and Actor at Academy Awards
2005 – Hilary Swank (“Million Dollar Baby”) and Jamie Foxx (“Ray”)
2025 – Mikey Madison (“Anora”) and Adrien Brody (“The Brutalist”)
Common value of gasoline
2005 – $2.27
2025 – $3.13
2005 – $1.26
2025 – $4.95
2005 – $243,900
2025 – $414,500
NHL’s highest paid participant
2005 – Jaromir Jagr, New York Rangers ($8.36 million)
2025 – Auston Matthews, Toronto Maple Leafs ($13.25 million)
Sports activities Illustrated cowl
2005 – Ronnie Belliard of the then Cleveland Indians
2025 – New York Mets
Well-liked cellphone
2005 – Motorola RAZR V3
2025 – iPhone 16 Professional Max
Cell telephones used for…
2005 – Calling individuals. Textual content messages had been additionally changing into well-liked.
2025 – All the pieces (and infrequently calling individuals)
Well-liked Apple merchandise
2005 – iPod, Mac Mini, iPod Shuffle, iPod Nano
2025 – iPhone, Apple Watch, Airpods, MacBook Air
Well-liked social media platform
2005 – MySpace
2025 – TikTok
Amazon inventory value
2005 – $2.36
2025 – $178.41
LeBron James’ profession factors whole
2005 – 1,654
2025 – 42,000+
Tom Brady’s profession passing yards
2005 – 15,097
2025 – 89,214
Dallas Cowboys’ championships
2005 – 5
2025 – 5
Listed here are 5 issues to learn about Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin.
