Alex Ovechkin fired a perfect wrist shot past Calvin Pickard for his first goal of the game, scored from his office on the power play for his second and sailed a shot into an empty net from his own zone to complete the hat trick.

The 39-year-old Ovechkin is within striking distance of Wayne Gretzky's all-time NHL goals record of 894. "The Great One" scored his final goal on March 29, 1999. "The Great Eight" could very well surpass that mark 26 years later.

The Edmonton Oilers are a good hockey team. Led by supernova stars Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl, Edmonton pushed the Florida Panthers to a seventh game in last year’s Stanley Cup finals and entered Sunday afternoon’s game at Capital One Arena in fifth place in the NHL.