Alexander Ovechkin is creeping up on Wayne Gretzky's all-time goals record, entering Tuesday night's Washington Capitals-Anaheim Ducks game with 886, only eight fewer than The Great One's 894. Yet he ...

Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin is chasing Wayne Gretzky's all-time goal record. Can he break it this season?

Ovechkin is on the verge of breaking one of Wayne Gretzky's most-storied records and The Great One plans on witnessing that ...

Aliaksei Protas scored his first NHL hat trick on Tuesday in the game against the Anaheim Ducks with Alex Ovechkin's kind ...

Washington picked first in the draft with Ovechkin. Pittsburgh, with the second pick, chose Malkin, who like Ovechkin, will ...

Washington (42-14-8), which has won four in a row, is tied with the Winnipeg Jets for first in the NHL with 92 points.

The 39-year-old Ovechkin is within striking distance of Wayne Gretzky's all-time NHL goals record of 894. "The Great One" scored his final goal on March 29, 1999. "The Great Eight" could very well ...

Washington Capitals left winger Alex Ovechkin is on the verge of history. Ovie stands just nine goals shy of Wayne Gretzky’s ...

Aliaksei Protas had the first hat trick of his NHL career, Alex Ovechkin and Pierre-Luc Dubois each had three points and the Washington Capitals extended their winning streak to five, defeating the ...

This is something that not even Mario Lemieux or Wayne Gretzky managed to accomplish ... Crosby's 21 overtime goals is good enough for second on the all-time list behind only Alexander Ovechkin's 26.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Alex Ovechkin scored his 880th, 881st and 882nd career goals to record a hat trick and move 13 goals away from breaking Wayne Gretzky's NHL record and give the Washington ...