Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin has now moved within 23 goals of catching Wayne Gretzky for most goals in NHL history.

Fresh off Saturday's 7-4 loss to the Capitals, the Rangers, who have lost 16 of their last 21 games, have "no other option" ...

Utah Hockey Club. He returned on Dec. 28 and has scored goals in four of his first five games back. Ovechkin entered this season needing 42 goals to break Gretzky's record of 894 career ...

SAN JOSE – Cody Ceci scored with 24.2 seconds left in the third period to lift the San Jose Sharks to a 3-2 win over the New ...

The Rangers had come into Washington having stopped a four-game losing streak Thursday in Madison Square Garden against Boston. But they couldn’t build on it, and with the loss, the Rangers (17-20-1) ...

Ovechkin is 23 goals away from passing Wayne Gretzky for the most goals in NHL history and scored again in a wild 7-4 victory over the New York Rangers. Postgame, he was asked — as was to be expected ...

Alex Ovechkin scored his 872nd career goal to move 23 away from breaking Wayne Gretzky’s NHL record, and the Washington ...

For most of the last five weeks, the Caps have been engaged in low-scoring, tight-checking contests. But on Saturday ...

Alex Ovechkin has been a force with the Washington Capitals this season, no matter if a fractured leg took him out of the lineup for over a month. Ever since re ...

The defense — team and individual — was leaky, which isn’t new. And the Rangers’ reliable penalty kill gave up two key goals, ...

Dylan Strome, typically a man of many words, needed just a few to sum up the Washington Capitals’ win over the New York ...