Alex Ovechkin has 26 goals this season and 879 career goals. The Washington Capitals captain is now 16 away from breaking ...

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

On a January night, after a recent Tampa Bay win in Pittsburgh, Sidney Crosby came out to meet Team Canada coach Jon Cooper ...

We're tracking Ovechkin's pursuit of Gretzky's goal record and trying to determine the game in which he's most likely to ...

Capitals sniper Alex Ovechkin has been a role model his whole career and that goes beyond Washington and Russia.

ARLINGTON, Va. — As the final seconds ticked off the clock in the Washington Capitals' win over the Florida Panthers on ...

Luka to the Lakers feels like a Babe. Not the good kind. We’re looking at a potential “The Curse of Luka” on the Dallas Mavericks.

Babe Ruth got traded. Wayne Gretzky got traded. Diego Maradona got transferred, which is just a fancy way of saying traded ...