Canadiens rookie goalie Jakub Dobes thinks Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin deserves a suspension for a hit in Sunday's game.

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 ...

Shortly after Wayne Gretzky became the NHL’s all-time leading goal scorer in 1994, his father mentioned how someone, someday, would break his record. "I looked at my dad,” Gretzky recently ...

Even after Ovechkin broke Gretzky's all-time goals record, some of "The Great Ones" records will never be topped ...

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

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

Ovechkin has scored his 891 goals in 1,484 games during 20 NHL seasons with Washington, which selected him with the No. 1 pick in the 2004 NHL Draft. Gretzky scored his 894 goals in 1,487 games during ...

Ovechkin still has one more step to take, and as soon as the subject turned to trying to score his record-breaking 895th against the New York Islanders at UBS Arena in Elmont, New York, on Sunday ...

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 ...

The countdown is on with Alex Ovechkin just 5 goals from overtaking Wayne Gretzky as the NHL's career goal leader – a mark that once seemed unsurmountable and earned Gretzky the nickname The ...

On this episode of Getting to the Bottom of It, host Max Porter speaks with Kieran Laffey, the president of GW Ice Hockey, about Alex Ovechkin’s record-breaking season and the Washington Capitals’ ...

The Washington Capitals star came into Friday's game two goals shy of tying the NHL's career record, set decades ago by the great Wayne Gretzky. The Capitals have six games left in the regular season.