VIDEO SHOWS: WASHINGTON CAPITALS CELEBRATE ALEX OVECHKIN REACHING 1,500 GAMES PLAYED AND 900 GOALS SCORED IN CEREMONY BEFORE NHL GAME AGAINST WINNIPEG JETS SHOWS: WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES (NOVEMBER 26, 2025) (WASHINGTON CAPITALS HANDOUT – Must courtesy 'Washington Capitals'. No resales) 1. INTERIOR CAPITAL ONE AREA – WASHINGTON CAPITALS FORWARD ALEX OVECHKIN ON ICE WAVING TO CROWD AFTER HE IS INTRODUCED AT CEREMONY TO CELEBRATE REACHING 1,500 GAMES PLAYED AND 900 GOALS SCORED 2. OVECHKIN GREETING CAPITALS PRESIDENT OF HOCKEY OPERATIONS BRIAN MACLELLAN, CAPITALS GENERAL MANAGER CHRIS PATRICK, HIS YOUNGEST SON ILYA AND OLDEST SERGEI, WIFE ANASTASIA SHUBSKAYA, AND MOTHER TATYANA OVECHKINA 3. OVECHKIN AND PATRICK STANDING NEXT TO TROPHY COMMEMORATING OVECHKIN'S 900 GOALS SCORED IN NHL 4. OVECHKIN SHAKING HANDS WITH MACLELLAN AND POSING NEXT TO PAINTING OF OVECHKIN FROM HIS FIRST SEASON WITH CAPITALS AND CURRENTLY 5. OVECHKIN AND FAMILY POSING FOR PHOTO WITH CAPITALS TEAMMATES 6. OVECHKIN KISSING HIS SONS AND MOTHER AND APPLAUDING 7. WARMUP SKATE BEFORE NHL GAME AGAINST WINNIPEG JETS – OVECHKIN GIVING HIS MOTHER A PUCK 8. OVECHKIN SPEAKING TO HIS SONS ILYA AND SERGEI 9. VARIOUS OF ILYA AND SERGEI TAKING SHOTS AGAINST CAPITALS GOALTENDER CHARLIE LINDGREN DURING WARMUPS 10. OVECHKIN IN SUIT WALKING PAST LARGE 'GR8NESS' SIGN 11. VARIOUS OF KIDS WRITING MESSAGES TO OVECHKIN ON LARGE POSTER 12. LARGE SCREEN WITH 'ALEX OVECHKIN 1,500 NHL GAMES 900 NHL GOALS' (MUTE) 13. VARIOUS CLOSEUPS OF OVECHKIN PAINTING (MUTE) 14 VARIOUS CLOSEUPS OF 900 GOALS SCORED TROPHY (MUTE) STORY: Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin was honoured in a pre-game ceremony at the Capital One Arena on Wednesday (November 26) for becoming the first NHL player to score 900 career goals and for surpassing 1,500 games earlier this season. Ovechkin's sons, Sergei, 7, and Ilya, 5, were dressed in black "Screaming Eagle" Capitals jerseys and the two were accompanied by Ovechkin's wife, Anastasia and mother, Tatyana. The celebrations doubled after Ovechkin scored in Capitals' 4-3 win over visiting Winnipeg Jets 4-3, marking the team's fifth win in their last six games. John Carlson, Jakob Chychrun and Connor McMichael also scored, while Tom Wilson, Sonny Milano, Ethen Frank, Matt Roy, and Anthony Beauvillier picked up assists for the Capitals. Charlie Lindgren made 18 saves. Gabriel Vilardi got a pair of goals and Mark Scheifele scored once for Jets, while Kyle Connor had three assists. Josh Morrissey and Dylan DeMelo each had an assist. Eric Comrie made 30 stops for the Jets. Capitals opened the scoring early in the contest when Wilson led a rush into the Jets' zone and found Carlson alone in the slot for a 1-0 lead. Chychrun then made it 2-0 for the Capitals with a screened point shot with more than five minutes left in the first period. Jets then cut the deficit with 22 seconds remaining in the opening frame. Connor picked off a turnover in the Capitals' end and fed Vilardi for a tap-in, making it 2-1. Vilardi got his second of the game on the power play as he tipped in Morrissey's long shot from the blue line from the side of the net to make it 2-2. Ovechkin restored Capitals' lead after he spun off the boards and fired a high shot past Comrie for career goal number 908 to give his team a 3-2 advantage. The Capitals went up 4-2 at the 5:25 mark of the third period. McMichael picked up a turnover on their blue line and raced up the ice on a breakaway and scored on a backhand. The Jets got within one with 4:49 remaining in regulation from Scheifele, who snapped in a shot, but that was as close as the Jets would get, suffering their third straight loss. (Production: David Grip and Suramya Kaushik)
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