Coming off a two-goal game against the Bruins that vaulted him into a tie with Ilya Kovalchuk for top spot in Winnipeg/Atlanta franchise history, Scheifele’s 328 career goals are dwarfed by Ovechkin’s ...

The teams with the two highest point totals in the NHL will face off on Saturday night when the Winnipeg Jets visit the Washington Capitals.

Aircraft window trim, a waterlogged cockpit checklist and American Airlines branded sugar packets joined a grim collection of debris plucked from the icy Potomac River on Thursday by Dean Naujoks.

The Pittsburgh Penguins are home today for practice, then begin four games they know are crucial to re-establishing hope for ...

Five charts how close Alex Ovechkin is to overtaking Wayne Gretzky's career goal scoring title and how both dominated the NHL ...

In the third period between the Capitals and Senators, Alex Ovechkin inched closer to Wayne Gretzky's all-time goal record.

Ovechkin scored his 23nd goal of the season to push his career total to 876. Gretzky scored 894 goals in the NHL.

"The Great Eight" came up clutch when the Washington Capitals needed him most with a third period tally to close the gap with ...

OTTAWA -- Alex Ovechkin scored his 876th NHL goal and the Washington Capitals lost 5-4 in overtime to the Ottawa Senators at ...

Ovechkin entered this season needing 42 goals to break Gretzky's record of 894 career goals, which has stood since 1999. The ...

We're tracking Ovechkin's pursuit of Gretzky's goal record and trying to determine the game in which he's most likely to ...

MONTREAL (AP) — Marc-Andre Fleury made 19 saves for his first shutout of the season in likely his final game in Montreal, ...