Whoops, voted no as I thought it was top-10 players, not just forwards.
Gretzky
Lemieux
Howe
Crosby
Jagr
Richard
Hull
Bossy
Messier
Beliveau
are fairly clearly ahead in my eyes. He’s in (and perhaps at the forefront of) the next group with (other) Hull, Esposito, Lafleaur, etc. The problem with Ovechkin is that his sole major claim to fame is his incredible goal scoring abilities, but Richard, Hull, and Bossy may all be argued as equal or better than him in that regard, with better secondary resumes. Unless he keeps scoring 40+ goals for many years - which is entirely possible - he’ll likely never be ranked ahead of them, not to mention Gretzky, Lemieux, and Howe.