The record touch was set when Washington lost away to Vegas with 3-4 in overtime.
- It is a nice company, says Ovetjkin, according to the NHL, about touching the legends' records.
- I'm pretty happy.
It felt good today, our chain had quite a few chances.
Marcus Johansson got an assist point to one of Ovetjkin's two goals.
Bossy, who died last Friday, is the only one of the three to score 50 goals in nine straight seasons.
The Russian is the oldest to score 50 goals in an NHL season, 36 years and 215 days.
It was the 158th time he scored at least two goals in an NHL game during his 17th season.
That puts him in joint second place in the number of multi-goal matches together with Brett Hull.
Only Gretzky has more, 189 games with more than one goal.