How do you best celebrate your 900th match? One way is so clear to win. Another to get a lot of points together.

Nicklas Bäckström and Alexander Ovetjkin made sure to tick off both when playing their 900th match together when Washington visited New Jersey in the NHL ice hockey.

Nicklas Bäckström celebrated the best, with two goals and two assists, while Alexander Ovetjkin satisfied with a goal and an assist.

Bäckström's point harvest also made him pass 900 points in the league just by speed.

There is no doubt that the two players thrive on the ice. Before the meeting with New Jersey, Bäckström had played to 254 of Ovetjkin's 581 goals, while Ovetjkin accounted for assists in 98 of Bäckström's 237 goals.

In the meeting against New Jersey, Ovetjkin was noted for an assist to Bäckström's one goal, while Bäckström played until Ovetjkin.

- Usually he screams for the puck, that's why. No, I think we work so well together because I'm more of a forward and he is a purely goal scorer. I think that's why it worked so well, Bäckström told the Washington Post before the meeting.

He thinks the two are happy off the ice as well.

- We always have fun together, something that I think is great. I think we will continue to enjoy ourselves for a long time, ”says Bäckström.

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Ovetjkin oozes praise over Bäckström.

"He is an amazing person and incredible center, and to be around him and see how he has grown up and matured, that is fantastic," he told the Washington Post.

Nicklas Bäckström's ten-year contract expires this year. The match against New Jersey has not directly deteriorated the negotiating position for the Swede, who is trying to get a new agreement. If he gets what he wants, he stays in the American capital.

- This is my home. Washington has been fantastic to me, and I love to play here. It's my family. When you have that feeling, you don't want anywhere else, he tells nhl.com.

Bäckström hopes that Ovetjkin will remain as well.

-We both have been here so long and we have been a part of this, part of what they started building a few years ago. It's been fun to be a part of it, and that's what you want to end, Bäckström tells the site.

Ovetjkin has another year left on the contract, and Washington's owner Ted Leonisis has said he wants both players to "play here forever, and then they retire and then they will be very closely associated with us."

-It's obviously a very important thing to hear that "your" owner says so about you and whether they want to sign a contract with us or not. But we will see what happens, Ovetjkin tells nhl.com.