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

the russian ice-hockey player alex ovechkin (alexey 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 😄

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 (622 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 (579 goals) and the current season's top scorer, the german leon draisaitl who has 10 more years to go ...

the dream came true 💕

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
• wayne gretzky
• gordie howe
• jaromir jagr
• mario lemieux
• peter stastny
• sidney crosby
• steven stamkos
• 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😄

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)

eof

silver conference aka roadshow for investors in the traditional hotel platzl, munich

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 

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

... COMING SOON ....

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 (they usually issue new stock 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 famous hotel platzl in the very center of munich, where i never been in before ... well, 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 here few pros:

the food / lunch was delicious

the conference room quite nice and okay 

they have had a shoe polish machine 💕in the corridor in their conference area 

so who was here today?

• avino silver (TSX: ASM, NYSE: ASM)
• silver storm mining (TSXV: SVRS) ~ they try to re-open the former 1st majestic silvers (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
• alta copper (TSX: ATCU) ~ copper project in mexico. i have fee shares of alta already, which i've got after a chain of bankrcupcies / take-overs or M&A ... 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 tlost the opportunity to invest that money smarter ... => thats what i ment above telling ya i've lost that much money with raodshow companies before ...
• u.s. gold ~ no! it is not the rob mcewen's company ... why not? rob mcewen changed the name to mcewen minig and dropped the old u.s. gold company name and the old website, so luke norman & his team took opportunity to grab it ... 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
• silver one ~ ~ a small silver explorer with projects in nevada, usa ... luke norman is on the board here too

i've bougt few more shares of avino + very few shares of silver storm + u.s. gold + silver one today, just to see them in my portfolio. i dont like to carry watch lists, so i better buy few shares in order to watch their development and do not really comply if the investment gets lost completely, you know?

today was (as reaction to donald trumps tariffs?) a catasrophic crashy day in the markets as silver was down 6%, dow jones 3.98%, S&P 500 4.83%, nasdaq 100 5.41%,m oil 5%, gold 1.5%, ... ... so at least all stocks were cheaper then the day before, wasnt they? 😄

i've placed also a limit order for tocvan resources ... as according to its tiny market cap it seems to display a roadshow effect and the stock will come down after all these roadschows ends ....