896. alex ovechkin breaks all-time-goals NHL record

the russian ice-hockey player alex ovechkin (alexey 'ovi' oveckin) breaks wayne gretzky's all-time-goals record with 895 goals in 1487 ice-hockey NHL games (by unbelievable coincidence exactly the same number gretzky had in his career which ended with 894 goals + all-time-points record 2,857 + all-time-assists record 1,963) => the great 8 passes the great 1 in goals => 'the GR8 chase' was succesful  ... and he had 1 more goal a game or two later, so finished the season after only 64 games out of 82 with43 goals and 29 assists. will he continue next eeason as well and be the 1st player with more than 900 goals?😄

i thought this wayne gretzky NHL record will last forever ... it didnt ... long live alexey ovechkin .. btw, did you know that at time of gretzky / howe / m. lemieux / p. stastny & co. the ice-hockey NHL games often ended 8 : 6 or 7 : 4? and today in the era of ovechkin / jagr  & co. rather 4 : 2 or 3 : 2? of course, we could ask some AI module to search for goals per NHL game in the 70ties, 80ties, 90ties & today in order to get more accurate numbers, couldnt we?

is there any other active player who could break ovechkins all-time-goals record? probably not ... the next in the list is sidney crosby (624 goals), who is 2 years younger than alex ovechkin, but crosby will more likely mix-up the top 5 positions in all-time-points than in goals, if you asked me ... than we still have steven stamkos (582). what abt auston matthews (400) and the current season's top scorer, the german leon draisaitl (399)? both of them have 10+ more years to go ...

the dream came true 💕

goal #895 in washington's 1:3 against NY islanders

press conference after the game washington capitals : chicago bulls = 5 : 3

this 1st round pick for washington capitals paid really off, doesnt it?

NHL all-time-stats for goals: ovechkin, gretzky, howe, jagr

last 5 games for alex ovechkin for #894

wanna look-up the NHL stats for players mentioned in this blog?

• the all-time-goals ~ you will find the points, assist, game played leaders here as well. even the goalies stats are there
• ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
• alex ovechkin ~ 0.60 goals per game
• wayne gretzky ~ 0.60 goals per game in 1487 games and 21 carrier years
• gordie howe
• jaromir jagr
• mario lemieux ~ supermario have had 0.75 goals per game, but only 915 games in his 17 carrier years due to injuries
• peter stastny
• sidney crosby
• steven stamkos
• auston matthews ~ this guy has 0.64 goals per game and had twice more than 60 goals in a season
• leon draisaitl

there are still 5-7 games to go this (regular) season => will ovechkin reach 900 goals? maybe yes even if he missed approx 15 games of the season due to ankle injury. we will know in 2 weeks😄 .. addendum april 17th, no he didnt ... just see the 1st paragraph of this blog post ...

what about goalies? here is the save percentage (SV%) the best criteria, i think. some people think more about goals against average (GAA) or winning games ... but it is more dependent whether the goalie played for a strong team or for a weak one, isnt it? the interesting thing about goalies is, they've playd much less games than skaters ... it is probably a big difference whether you stay completely alone between the bars or if there are 4 other guys playing with you ...

• all-time-SV%
• dominik hasek, the dominator from the czech republic who played most time of his career in quite weak teams (pardubice in CSSR and buffalo sabres in the NHL)

btw, i'll update the numbers by the end of this regular season (approx april, 19th)

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silver conference in traditional hotel platzl, munich + trump driven market crash :o)

there was a looong and quite interesting silvercon aka silver conference aka roadshow of 6 junior mining and/or exploration companies in munich today.

6 companies => 3 hours => tasty lunch => back to my office to finish some stuff today ...  well, 6 companies a 30 minutes without any real break are too much for 1 day ...

avino silver's CEO david wolfin presents his company at hotel platzl, munich

it was like a deja vu experience for me as i've stopped to join this kind of conferences / road shows few years ago, well before the corona plandemic in 2020 ... why? easy! i've generally lost money when i've invested in this kind of small caps. they usually make roadshows / investors' lunch / investrors' presentations in order to collect money for the next round of financing as they usually issue new shares in order to continue drilling & operating in general sence ...

why did i attend this time? there was 1 company (avino silver) which i like and the show was in the well known hotel platzl in the very center of munich, where i've never been in before. to be honest, i didnt like the hotel at all: not nice from outside, not nice and not any special from inside, no nice views out of the windows ... you name it 😄

after all that cons, lets try to find few pros here:

• the food / lunch was delicious
• the conference room was fine and even somehow nice
• they've had a shoe polish machine 💕in the corridor in their conference area 

the traditional hotel platzl, munich

historical views at silver one's project candelaria, nevada, usa

who was here today?

• avino silver (TSX: ASM, NYSE: ASM) ~ it looks quite good for the company. they have opened a new silver mine in mexico in Q4/2024 and thus increased their production + cash flow + profit + share price as well. i've already few shares and i've bought few more, so i'm happy to see that my company is doing well
• silver storm mining (TSXV: SVRS) ~ they try to re-open the former 1st majestic silver's (TSX: A, NYSE: AG) la parilla mine in the state of durango, mexico. btw, 1st majestic is the single biggest shareholder of silver storm today => i've bought few shares in order to watch the company's development in my portfolio
• alta copper (TSX: ATCU) ~ copper project in mexico. i have few shares of alta copper already, which i've got after a chain of bankrcupcies / take-overs / M&A ... e.g. copper fox ... my acquisition price is $2.80 and the stock trades at $0.44 today. that means i've lost 84% of the money invested and also lost the opportunity to invest that money smarter for many years. that is what i ment above telling ya i've lost that much money with junior mining aka roadshow companies before ... 

many other companies did even worse than that or are already bankrupt today. unfortunately even 5 - 7 of my really big positions, especially silver + gold miners (not explorers!) like great panther silver + alexco mining + andover mining + americas gold and silver (former scorpio mining) + scorpio gold + jaguar mining + first mining gold + world copper + sterling mining + minco silver + .... 

thanks goodness, there are also 4 companies which did really fine and they probably overweight the many brutal losses. it is 1) amerigo resources (copper + molybdenum in chile), 2) wheaton precious metals (former silver wheaton, a royalty company in the precious metals business), 3) hudbay minerals (copper in canada + peru + usa + australia (?). btw, i didnt invest in hudbay directly. i was shareholder of altona mining, which was taken over by copper mountain, which itself was taken over by hudbay) and 4) agnico eagle mines (gold in canada. btw, Ag silver + Ni nickel + Co cobalt = AGNICO, got it? 😄 well, i've got my biggest share blocks of agnico by its takeover of osisko mining in 2014 and of kirkland lake gold in 2022. few more shares also via detour gold, which was taken over by kirkland in 2020. i've owned also few shares of agnico directly, but by far not that many as via its osisko + kirkland acquisitions) 

=> anyway, i have bought few cheap shares of alta copper at 0.43 few days after this road show and reduced my average price from 2.80 to 0.68 CAD. let's hope it makes sense🍀

• u.s. gold ~ no! it is not the former rob mcewen's company ... why not? rob mcewen changed the name to mcewen mining and dropped the old u.s. gold company name and the old website, so luke norman & his team took opportunity to grab it ... u.s. gold is an explorer / producer with gold / copper / silver projects in wyoming, idaho and nevada, usa
• tocvan ventures (CSE: TOC, OTCQB: TCVNF, FSE: TV3) ~ a really really small silver explorer in the state of sonora, mexico. the share price looks much too high right now maybe as a result of the current roadshow, so i've placed a very low limit order for this stock. if it comes a little bit down i will probably increase my limit and buy it, even if there is almost no trading volume at all ... and most of the trading is done in germany, which is really strange for a canadian company ... it looks like if the company survives just thanks to its promotion to german investors .... 
• silver one ~ a small silver explorer with projects in nevada, usa. luke norman is also here on the board, whatever that means ...

i've bought few more shares of avino and a small initial position in silver storm + u.s. gold + silver one + increased a litle bit my almost bankrupt alta copper stake (a day or two later) in order to watch the development of all these companies via my portfolio. i dont like to create watch lists, so i better invest few bucks and try to become familiar with all 'my' companies. of course, i do not comply too much if such an investment gets lost completely, you know?

maybe just to enter the market cheaper, today was a catasrophic crashy day in the markets: silver was down 6%, dow jones 3.98%, S&P 500 4.83%, nasdaq 100 5.41%,m oil 5%, gold 1.5%, ... next day (friday) fell the markets even much worse. at least almost all stocks were cheaper than few days before and i've bought few shares of some of my favorites. 😄 btw, why all that market crash?

A.) someone already knows usa is going to start a war against iran or the like

B.) it also could be a reaction to president donald trump's tariffs which he plans to impose on many, many coutries which will reduce the world trade. trump calls it reciprocal tariffs (and means retributive justice?). you know what? if you asked me, he mixes up tariffs with trade deficits as the most countries from his board do not impose such tariffs on u.s. goods & services (e.g. serbia does not have 74% tariffs on u.s. products, but it has 74% trade surplus with usa 😇)

just in case you asked yourself in what kind of business i will invest in my next life, it will be technology stocks like google, amazon, nvidia, facebook, sap, oracle, microsoft, .... or i will invest my time, money and energy in s.th. more related to 'save the nature' + people + family + relationships 💕

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zillertalarena, ski, AT

what a wonderful ski experience in the tirolian alps (tuxer alpen) in austria. even if it is just middle of march and i've been quite high, THERE IS NOT ENOUGH SNOW (and not enough water) IN THE MOUNTAINS ⛄🌋🌞 ... did we destroyed all climate yet?

the zillertalarena is a ski resort approx in the middle of the zillertal, which means ziller river's valley. my starting point was the village zell am ziller (575m). i was quite early, maybe 9:30 a.m., because it was just a 2:15 hours drive from munich today. the parking place was half empty and there was NO SNOW in the valley. there was also almost no snow all the way up to the middle stattion of the cable car (wiesenalm 1,309m). from here up to the highest ski run hill übergangsjoch 2,500m with its kapauns lift 2,502m came all the snow cannons to their best. in the areas between 1,700m and 2,500m was the skiing fine, ifyou asked me. btw, the other hills around are the karspitz 2,257m, isskogel 2,264m, kreuzjoch 2,558m, königsleitenspitze 2,315m.

the ski areal provides statistics of the day and it was also possible to record a short ski run which i could watch and download later using my ticket number at www.skiline.cc => well, i've had 19 lift rounds + 8,569 height meters + 46.5 km up & down today. as you have to register first, you would also get the stats of all season in associated locations (maybe even in whole austria?). what abt my video? it looks so slow and it was slow because in the late afternoon at PLUS 15 degrees celsius was the snow soft, mushy and heavy. anyway, here we go 😉🎿⛇

enjoy few pictures: 

zell am ziller, base station

zell am ziller im zillertal, tuxer alpen, tirol, AT

zillertalarena, ski, AT

kreuzjoch express aka x-press 2,408m

heaven & hell! leon draisaitl #29 himself? or just a guy wearing his edmonton oilers NHL jersey? draisaitl is at the moment the best german ice-hockey player and one of the best worldwide. he leads the goals scorer stats with 49 goals and just 10 more games to go before william nylander with 42 goals.

cable car wilde krimml 2,498m

what a nice messages, true?

wtf is this ugly thing? arts? i prefer the beautiful clouds, my dears

i'm so close to the skies ☁

what a deep snow run accident! i'had to find and excavate this ski

 some 10-15m higher as my final 'landing position' was 👻

lunch + live tirolean folk music at kreithütte (kleine rosenalm) at 1,700m 

the hanser x-press lift up to 2,246m was my favorite ski run today

the kapauns lift 2,502m and the wilde krimml cable car 2,498m

join at the highest ski run hill übergangsjoch 2,500m

there is a small creek from melting snow + ice, you see?

www.skiline.cc => videos + stats

finito => lets come back to the ziller valley

zell am ziller

next time i'll probably visit the mayrhofen ski arena with its harakiri ski run, which is the steepest piste austrias or maybe the last station in the ziller valley, the glacier ski area in hintertux 3,200m?

as i browse my blog backwards, i see my last skiing in tirol was the wonderful sellaronda round in south tirol, italy in early february. my last skiing in zillertal was the 1st ski areal in the valley (coming from munich), hochzillertal in 2014 (go to link only if you are NOT AFRAID of spiders🐜) 

few more pictures here.