Alex Ovechkin, on the verge of becoming the league’s all-time leading goal scorer largely on the strength of his cannonading one-timer slap shot, uses an extra whippy stick, in the mid-to-upper-70s.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Alex Ovechkin scored twice ... He struck again on a 40-foot slap shot on a power play 5:38 into the second to put the Capitals up 4-1. Capitals: Washington has scored 24 ...

Ovechkin made it 1-0 at the 5:59 mark with a power-play goal, firing a shot from the left circle that hit the stick of Vegas defenseman Alex Pietrangelo and sliced inside the near post.

There is only one name left for Alex Ovechkin to catch atop the NHL ... His signature one-time slap shot from the left dot ...