Exchange Bank Announces Jessica Dominguez, Branch Manager

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Exchange Bank Announces Jessica Dominguez, Branch Manager

2025-04-03 02:00 Last Updated At：02:20

SANTA ROSA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 2, 2025--

Exchange Bank (OTC: EXSR) is pleased to announce Jessica Dominguez as assistant vice president and branch manager supporting the St. Francis location at 136 Calistoga Road, Santa Rosa, CA.

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Dominguez joined Exchange Bank in 2018, bringing a wealth of experience from various banking roles. She initially served as a Relationship Banker at the Dutton branch before expanding her expertise in our Trust and Investment team. Realizing her passion for customer interaction, she transitioned back to retail banking at the Windsor branch in 2023. There, she deepened her engagement with the community, volunteering with local nonprofits and actively participating in professional organizations.

Dominguez is a dedicated community advocate, a member of Windsor Rotary, and an active participant in the Windsor Chamber of Commerce. She also serves on the membership committee for the Sonoma County Women’s Professional Group.

Beyond her professional commitments, Dominguez is a devoted mother and enjoys outdoor activities, exploring different cuisines, and playing on the Exchange Bank softball team, where she has been the pitcher for the past two years.

About Exchange Bank

Headquartered in Sonoma County and founded in 1890, Exchange Bank is a full-service community bank with assets of $3.30 billion. Exchange Bank provides a wide range of personal, commercial, and trust and investment management services with 17 retail branches in Sonoma County, a retail branch in Roseville and Trust & Investment Management offices in Santa Rosa, Roseville, Marin County and Silicon Valley. The Bank’s legacy of financial leadership and community support is grounded in its core values of commitment, respect, integrity, and teamwork. Exchange Bank is known for its people who care about their customers, their company, and the communities where they live and work. Exchange Bank is a 19-year winner of the North Bay Business Journal’s Best Places to Work survey and a 13-time winner of the Best Bank of Sonoma County by the Press Democrat’s Readers’ Choice 2024 awards. Exchange Bank was named Best Consumer Bank by the NorthBay biz Magazine’s Best of the North Bay readers’ poll and Best Local Bank by The Petaluma Argus Courier People’s Choice Awards 2024. Exchange Bank is also a winner of the 2024 San Francisco Business Times Corporate Philanthropy award, and the Bohemian Magazine’s Best of the North Bay 2024 named Exchange Bank Best Business Bank and Best Consumer Bank. www.exchangebank.com

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How Alex Ovechkin became the top goal-scorer in NHL history

2025-04-07 02:19 Last Updated At：02:21

Alex Ovechkin became the greatest goal scorer in NHL history because of a never-before-seen combination of a wicked shot, consistency over two decades and remarkable durability that kept him on the ice long enough to break Wayne Gretzky's record.

Ovechkin scored his 895th career goal Sunday against the New York Islanders, passing Gretzky with a flair for the dramatic that has marked the Russian superstar's career, now in its 20th NHL season.

How did Ovechkin rewrite a record many thought would never be broken when Gretzky retired?

Gretzky was a dazzler, an artist on skates who would fool defensemen and goaltenders alike with his moves, not to mention a surprising and baffling shot. His scoring came no matter the situation, including five short-handed.

While Gretzky might be described as mesmerizing, Ovechkin brought sheer power and strength. His shot — described as peculiarly “heavy” by the goalies and defenseman tasked with stopping it — was laser-like. He has beaten a record 182 different netminders on this journey, including 28 times on Marc-Andre Fleury.

“I don’t like getting scored on by him, but I love the battle over the years," Fleury once said. “I feel fortunate I was able to play in this time. He probably owes me a few things for scoring so many goals on me. I helped it out pretty good. I’m glad I got to face him.”

Gretzky's favorite way of scoring was off the rush or deking a goalie out of his pads. His “office” was behind the net where he could start a play that wound up with him lighting the lamp but more often led to one of his astounding 1,963 assists, a league record that will never be touched.

Not Ovechkin. So many of his NHL-record 325 power-play goals have come from his spot in the left faceoff circle. The puck getting to Ovechkin and him blasting his right-handed rocket of a one-timer into the net is what he is most known for.

At the age of 39, Ovechkin reached 40 goals in a season for a 14th time — the most in league history — by adapting and adding more variety of scoring to his repertoire.

Just that he is still excelling in his late 30s is a testament to Ovechkin playing through pain that would sideline others and managing to avoid some of the long-term injuries that would have slowed this pursuit. And he got the record this season even after missing 16 games with a broken left fibula.

His offseason workouts changed as he got older, from weight-training to off-ice sprinting, though his teammates note he still seems to eat what he wants, when he wants.

“Obviously impressive that he hasn’t missed a lot of hockey games, which is incredible,” said Nicklas Backstrom, who assisted on nearly 300 of Ovechkin's goals. “If you ask players around the league, I don’t think one player will say you play with not feeling anything for 80 games, at least. That’s just part of hockey culture, I think, and obviously he’s done it better than others.”

Even so, few thought any player would get close to Gretzky, who has been the record-holder for the most goals since passing Gordie Howe with his 802nd goal on March 23, 1994. Gretzky has 54 other records, including 2,857 total points.

Ovechkin won't touch that one — but he does have another year on his Capitals contract, so he will have plenty of chances to add to his scoring record.

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