The only person near Ovechkin who could be remotely considered a modern peer is Jaromir Jagr, who played 24 seasons from 1990 ...

Somewhere on somebody’s 200-foot sheet of ice in the coming weeks, a monumental achievement in sports history will be capped ...

Ross Mahoney, a Regina product who was the Capitals’ director of amateur scouting at the time, recalls meeting a 16-year-old ...

NHL fans have their eyes locked on Washington Capitals captain Alexander Ovechkin this season and his chase for Hockey Hall ...

The Washington Capitals clash with the Detroit Red Wings in a high-stakes match at Capital One Arena. Washington, leading the ...

NHL: Alexander Ovechkin is eight goals shy of tying Wayne Gretzky’s all-time record as the Washington Capitals face the San ...

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

The NHL's all-time leading goal-scorer is expected to be in attendance for Alex Ovechkin's games as the Washington Capitals ...

As Ovechkin closes in on passing Wayne Gretzky for the most goals in NHL history — the Washington Capitals superstar, with 886 goals, was nine short of eclipsing Gretzky’s record of 894 going into the ...

"The Great Eight," as he's called, is in the final countdown of his chase for Hockey Hall of Famer Wayne Gretzky's all-time ...

They were right. The Capitals play the Sharks on Saturday at SAP Center with Ovechkin, now 39, just eight goals away from tying Wayne Gretzky atop the NHL’s all-time goal-scoring list.

Alexander Ovechkin, or the "Great Eight" as he's called, is now exactly — checks notes — well, his jersey number of goals ...