The Washington captain, who scored his 890th goal on Sunday, has 37 goals this season and needs five more with nine games left to become the NHL's all-time leader. Ovechkin scored 15 times ...

Wayne Gretzky, often hailed as the greatest hockey player of all time, made history on March 23, 1994, when he scored his 802nd goal, surpassing Gordie Howe's long-standing record. This monumental ...

Part of what makes Alex Ovechkin’s pursuit of Wayne Gretzky’s NHL goal-scoring record so compelling is that the two players ...

Fleury, who’s in his 21st and assuredly final season in the league, was on the home bench all night while Filip Gustavsson ...

Alex Ovechkin didn't score for Washington, staying at 889 career goals and six away from breaking Wayne Gretzky's all-time record. Ovechkin did initiate a memorable moment on the ice in Minnesota on ...

Wayne Gretzky has ignited controversy in Canada by voicing support for Team USA and his perceived ties to Donald Trump. This ...

Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby has done it again. With his latest point against the Buffalo Sabres, the ageless wonder and future Hall of Famer has s ...

"He was a very, very bright young man in terms of his goal-setting for his life," said Hockey Hall of Famer Igor Larionov, ...

Born Sept. 17, 1985, and coming of age just as the Soviet Union was giving way to a new Russia, Alex Ovechkin was drawn to ...

The Philadelphia Flyers fired John Tortorella during his third season as coach, the NHL franchise announced Thursday.