Five charts how close Alex Ovechkin is to overtaking Wayne Gretzky's career goal scoring title and how both dominated the NHL ...

Ovechkin, who is 18 goals away from breaking Wayne Gretzky ’s all-time record (894), tied the score 4-4 at 12:21 of the third ...

The Capitals are on track to make the playoffs for the second straight year. As such, it’s understood every game with a ...

Alex Ovechkin's wrist shot finds the net to pad the Capitals' lead vs. the Blues and creep ever closer towards Gretzky's scoring record. Alex Ovechkin nets 862nd goal Ovechkin scored his eighth ...

OTTAWA -- Alex Ovechkin scored his 876th NHL goal and the Washington Capitals lost 5-4 in overtime to the Ottawa Senators at ...

Wayne Gretzky's record of 894 career goals was once thought to be unbreakable, but Alex Ovechkin had other ideas. The ...

Rather than ice a roster merely helping Ovi break Gretzky's record, the Caps have been one of the NHL's best. Here's how they threaded the needle.

They were in a back-to-back, and they didn't come into our zone maybe the first seven minutes, and their first chance was the puck ping-ponged off two skates, a shin pad, and ends up on Ovechkin's ...

and there's usually a stick or some shin pads on him," Carbery said. Ovechkin didn't get much time and space to work with, and even when he did, he wasn't able to get pucks on net. The Russian ...

With the Capitals leading by a goal, Ovechkin backhanded a loose puck at the front of the net off a faceoff under Jonathan Quick's right pad to make it 5-3 at 10:50 of the third period and move ...