Gretzky scored 51 goals that season -- the first of his nine 50-goal seasons, an NHL record he shares with Ovechkin and Mike ...

Alex Ovechkin has 26 goals this season and 879 career goals. The Washington Capitals captain is now 16 away from breaking Wayne Gretzky’s NHL goals record.

In the third period of a Thursday night battle between the Washington Capitals and the Ottawa Senators, future NHL Hall of ...

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

Wayne Gretzky scored 894 goals in 1,487 career NHL ... who had just won his first Hart Trophy and scoring title, as the face of the Capitals' "Young Guns" resurgence. "I just felt so fortunate ...

The countdown is on with Alex Ovechkin just 17 goals from overtaking Wayne Gretzky as the NHL's career goal leader – a mark that once seemed unsurmountable and earned Gretzky the nickname The ...