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The Penguins and Capitals renewed arguably the highest-profile rivalry of the salary-cap era on Saturday night.

Pittsburgh's game at Washington on Saturday night will be the 71st regular-season meeting of the team's superstar captains, the Penguins' Sidney Crosby and the Capitals' Alex Ovechkin.

The Washington Capitals come into a matchup against the Pittsburgh Penguins as winners of three games in a row.

With his overtime goal on Thursday, Alex Ovechkin has now scored against 179 different goalies in his NHL career — more than any other player.

A long-standing record is close to being broken. On Saturday evening, Alexander Ovechkin potted an empty net goal for his 20th of the season, giving him 873 career goals.

The Great Eight is within striking distance of Wayne Gretzky's all-time NHL goals record of 894, which Gretzky reached on March 29, 1999, against the New York Islanders. Ovechkin began this season with 853 career goals.

Nedeljkovic has now scored a goal in the ECHL, AHL and NHL. That can't possibly have happened before: 12/30/16, ECHL for Florida @ Atlanta 3/10/18, AHL for Charlotte v Hartford 11/17/23, AHL for Wilkes-Barre v Providence 1/17/25, NHL for Pens @ Sabres

The left wing practiced Monday on a line with Dubois at center and Aliaksei Protas at right wing. Ovechkin, who has 20 goals in 27 games this season and is 22 away from breaking Wayne Gretzky ’s NHL record of 894 goals, has played regularly with Dylan Strome, who practiced on a line with Connor McMichael and Tom Wilson.