The big story of the week and one of the biggest stories in the 2024-25 NHL season is Alexander Ovechkin passing Wayne Gretzky as the all-time leading goal scorer.

We know Alex Ovechkin and Wayne Gretzky light the lamp with the best of players, but who joins him as the best goal-scorers in the history of the NHL?

Gretzky had the highest peaks. Lemieux might have had the most talent. The New York Islanders’ Mike Bossy was the most efficient. But Ovechkin is the most prolific, the most consistent, the most enduring — combining those legends’ finishing ability with a durability none could match, and doing it in a vastly more difficult era in which to score.