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Wayne Gretzky Congratulates Alex Ovechkin for Becoming NHL's All-Time Leading Goal Scorer · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: To honor this monumental achievement, Please welcome Alexis family, his
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  Speaker 1: wife Nastia and their two children, Sergei and Ilya, Alex's
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  Speaker 1: mother Tatiana, and father in law Kill. Joining them is
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  Speaker 1: NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, Capital's owner Ted Leonsis and the
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  Speaker 1: great One, Wayne Gretzky and the new NHL all time
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  Speaker 1: goals leader Alex Ovechkin.
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  Speaker 2: We have all just.
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  Speaker 3: Witnessed history in front of greatness. Wayne, You'll always be
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  Speaker 3: the great one, and you had a record that nobody
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  Speaker 3: ever thought could be broken, but Alex, you did it.
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  Speaker 3: You have been amazing. You have been the consummate player,
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  Speaker 3: representing the NHL extraordinarily on and off the ice. Thank
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  Speaker 3: you for all you have given the game, and greatness
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  Speaker 3: starts with players like you and Wayne, a team in
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  Speaker 3: an organization like the Capitals. Ted Leons's congratulations.
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  Speaker 2: You get a pud.
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  Speaker 3: To celebrate and commenate this moment. There is a Canadian
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  Speaker 3: artist who does sports named Tony Harris.
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  Speaker 4: You collect his paintings.
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  Speaker 3: We had this painting especially commissioned for you to celebrate
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  Speaker 3: and commemorate this amazing, amazing accomplishment. Congratulations.
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  Speaker 4: Greatness is now part of your name, and that the
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  Speaker 4: original great one. Oh thank you, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 5: First of all, I wanted to say it's nice not
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  Speaker 5: to be at the Nassau Call see him, because I
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  Speaker 5: lost a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Of games there.
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  Speaker 5: Secondly, the history of this organization from mister Tory, mister Harbor,
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  Speaker 5: got to sit with Brian Trutche and Witch scoring today,
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  Speaker 5: just such wonderful people.
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  Speaker 2: I wish the Islanders and the New York fans.
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  Speaker 5: All the best, but we're here today to celebrate this
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  Speaker 5: guy here, number eight. I can tell you firsthand, I
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  Speaker 5: know how hard it is to get to eight ninety four.
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  Speaker 4: Eight ninety five. It is pretty special.
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  Speaker 5: My congratulations to Onlie Alex, his mom and dad, his family,
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  Speaker 5: his wife and kids. When I broke the record, my
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  Speaker 5: two kids were about the age of his boys, so
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  Speaker 5: it's kind of reminiscent for me, and I'm so happy
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  Speaker 5: that two of my boys are here tonight. But there's
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  Speaker 5: nothing better than the National Hockey League. They say records
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  Speaker 5: are made to be broken, but I'm not sure who's
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  Speaker 5: going to get more goals than that. It's the greatest
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  Speaker 5: game in the world. I want to congratulate every organization,
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  Speaker 5: the commissioner in the league, and to the referees who
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  Speaker 5: do such a great job.
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  Speaker 4: Our sport is so hard.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, trust me.
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  Speaker 5: I was John McEnroe a lot when I played, but
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  Speaker 5: these guys do an incredible job.
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  Speaker 2: And thank you all so much. Alex.
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  Speaker 5: I said I'd be the first guy to shake your
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  Speaker 5: hand when you broke the record.
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  Speaker 4: And I wore this paint.
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  Speaker 2: And one last thing before Alex speaks. One of the
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  Speaker 2: great things.
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  Speaker 5: About my setting the record calling how bought my wife
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  Speaker 5: a beautiful gift and a wonderful note. And we know
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  Speaker 5: how the legacy of hockey passes down, but so it
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  Speaker 5: does it with the families and the wives. So my
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  Speaker 5: wife has something very beautiful for his lovely wife that
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  Speaker 5: we want to pass on. But mister Leones, congratulations. And
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  Speaker 5: when I set the record, they bought me a rolls Royce,
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  Speaker 5: So get you got your work cut out.
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  Speaker 2: Where they are. Like I always said all the time,
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  Speaker 2: it's a team sport.
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  Speaker 6: Without my boys, the whole organization, the fans that train
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  Speaker 6: your coaches, I would never stand there and obviously I
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  Speaker 6: would never.
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  Speaker 2: Pass a great one. So fellas, thank you very much.
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  Speaker 2: I love you so much.
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  Speaker 7: And uh, I know Nikolas, back to me here t
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  Speaker 7: j oh she Fellas.
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  Speaker 2: I love you. We did it, boys, we did it.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: Listen'm okay to let me score eight ninety five.
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  Speaker 2: I love your.
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  Speaker 6: Brother and the last thing, all of your fans for
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  Speaker 6: all the world.
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  Speaker 2: Raussian, we did it. Voice, we did it. It's a
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  Speaker 2: it's time.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I'm the most important thing to my mom, my family,
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  Speaker 6: my beautiful wife, my father in law, my beautiful kids.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: I love you so much and without you, without your support,
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  Speaker 6: that would never stand here.
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  Speaker 8: So love you, guys, play and slumps together.
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  Speaker 2: The show coming.
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  Speaker 4: Singer So