WASHINGTON — The Capitals mentioned Thursday that no resolution has been made on Alex Ovechkin‘s future within the NHL after an electronic mail was despatched to season-ticket holders calling subsequent season his final.
The group on social media mentioned the e-mail was mistakenly despatched by somebody within the company gross sales division.
Ovechkin broke Wayne Gretzky’s career goal-scoring record this spring and now has a complete of 897. The upcoming 2025-26 season is his final on his present contract, signed in 2021, and he turns 40 in September.
He has mentioned he intends to play next season, which might be his twenty first within the league.
Ovechkin is coming off a whirlwind season through which he overcame a damaged leg to attain 44 targets — the third most within the league — and move Gretzky’s profession mark of 894 that lengthy appeared unapproachable.
Ovechkin led the group with 5 targets in 10 video games this postseason however had only one objective within the second spherical as he and the group fell in need of the Jap Convention finals for the fifteenth time in 16 appearances throughout his profession. The one ECF look was a part of the group’s Stanley Cup run in 2018, when Ovechkin received the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP.
