Do people here think Ovie will break Gretzky's goal record?
I don’t. I think it’s a pretty tall order. He’s 32 years old now. Play out why he’d need to do and it’s pretty daunting.
To start, he’d need to continue to play lights out the next three years to get within striking distance. Based on his career, assumes he gets 50 this year, then has two more 50 goal seasons and a 30 goal season over the next three.
Roughly 740 goals at that point.
Then he’d need some Jagr-like health and continued good play over the next 5 years. 30 goals each each and he breaks the record.
I think scoring that well and consistently in your upper 30s is going to be hard.