You could argue that Alex Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals haven't exactly been playoff beasts the past couple of years.

Alex Ovechkin, who recently surpassed Wayne Gretzky for the most goals in NHL history, has no desire to step out of the ...

Longtime NHL coach Bruce Boudreau joins Ryan Kennedy and Michael Traikos to discuss what's going on in the Stanley Cup ...

Hockey collectors are in for a treat. Alex Ovechkin, after breaking Wayne Gretzky's record, has signed eight of his rookie ...

WASHINGTON — Alex Ovechkin had seemingly done it all in hockey, leading the Washington Capitals to the Stanley Cup in 2018, ...

That doesn’t mean he’s the greatest goal scorer ever. Oh, he’s among the greatest. But does having the most goals make him ...

The Great Eight has topped The Great One. Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin set the NHL record for career goals when he scored No. 895 Sunday afternoon against the New York Islanders to ...

Two weeks since Alex Ovechkin became the NHL's all-time leading goal scorer, he and the Washington Capitals turn their ...

Ovechkin has won one Stanley Cup in his Hall of Fame career. Back in 2018, Ovechkin and the Capitals took down the Las Vegas ...

That’s when it became Ovechkin’s signature trick and it’s what put him on the path to being the NHL’s all-time best scorer, a path he couldn’t get to without a little help from those ...

The answer isn't a big disparity in empty-net goals. Ovechkin has eight empty-netters this season and an NHL-record 65 in his career, but he's not too far ahead of Gretzky in that category.

Reminders of Alex Ovechkin’s pursuit of Wayne Gretzky’s NHL career goals record are all over Washington and the surrounding suburbs of the nation’s capital.