Alex Ovechkin scored his 879th career goal to move to within 16 of breaking Wayne Gretzky's NHL goals record and the ...

Captain gets outscored by fellow Russian Matvei Michkov but moves to within 16 goals of Wayne Gretzky’s NHL record in ...

Caps give up two penalty shots -- while on the power play -- and lose to Senators in overtime, 5-4, despite a goal from Alex ...

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

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 ...

Alex Ovechkin scored the 877th goal of his career to move 18 away from breaking the NHL record, but the Washington Capitals ...

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

Ovechkin scored against the Ottawa Senators exactly ... Alex Ovechkin finds the back of the net for his 876th goal to pull the Capitals within 1. Ovi added another empty-net tally to his career ...

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

Rookie netminder Leevi Merilainen, making his eighth career start, stopped 26 of 27 for the Senators — and became the 179th goaltender Ovechkin has scored ... to pass it back to [defenseman ...

Ovechkin entered this season needing 42 goals to break Gretzky's record of 894 career goals, which has stood since 1999. The Washington captain has 23 goals this season, with 31 games left. This ...

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