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Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin continues to shatter records on his way to Wayne Gretzky's all-time regular season ...

Cruising to the top of the NHL standings by winning 36 of their first 54 games and losing just 11 in regulation, the ...

Pittsburgh Penguins superstar captain Sidney Crosby will miss his first game in nearly three years when he sits out a road ...

Bobby Brink and Tyson Foerster both came agonizingly close to scoring, with Brink narrowly missing a wraparound attempt and ...

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

It was a roller coaster of a night at the Wells Fargo Center. Although the Flyers lost 4-3 to Alex Ovechkin and the ...

Ovechkin scored with 53 seconds remaining in the first period, taking a centering pass from Martin Fehervary and flicking it ...

Ovechkin scored on a one-timer from the inside edge of the right face-off circle at 19:07 of the first period to move within 16 goals of passing Wayne Gretzky 's NHL record of 894. Ovechkin has scored ...

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