Washington’s hockey star chases Wayne Gretzky’s career goals record the way his team seeks the NHL’s best record: ...

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

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

Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin opens up about the future of Russian stars in the NHL and gives a key piece of ...

Game by game, Alex Ovechkin is chipping away at Wayne Gretzky's all-time NHL goal-scoring record. Now with 879 career goals, 16 away from surpassing Gretzky, he'll look to keep it going when the ...

The GR8 continues to fit his nicknamesake. On Sunday, in a game against the Utah Hockey Club, Washington Capitals forward ...

(AP Photo/Nick Wass) WASHINGTON (AP) — Alex Ovechkin scored the 877th goal of his career to move ... Capitals: They hung with the best in the Western Conference by responding each time it ...

In their 25-year history, the Jackets and their fans have never needed each other more than this season, in the wake of the ...

The Capitals are the only team in the league without a player in the 4 Nations Face-Off international tournament between the ...

The Winnipeg Jets and Washington Capitals are the best teams in their respective divisions. But which of the two teams is ...

Addition by subtraction was supposed to improve the chemistry of the Canucks and help transform Elias Pettersson back into the dominant player he once was. That has yet to happen, though.