Alex Ovechkin has 26 goals this season and 879 career goals. The Washington Capitals captain is now 16 away from breaking ...

(AP Photo/Frank Gunn, File) FILE - Edmonton Oilers Wayne Gretzky, left, and New York Islanders Denis Potvin (5) jostle for a loose puck during the first period of an NHL hockey game at the Nassau ...

(AP Photo/Nick Wass, File)(AP/Nick Wass) Alex Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals is closing in on the NHL goals record of 894 held by Wayne ... 177 multi-goal games, second to Gretzky (189).

I tried as hard as I could." Before becoming Alex Ovechkin's first NHL coach in Washington, Glen Hanlon played goalie for 476 games, including allowing Wayne Gretzky's first NHL goal. By Hanlon's ...

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

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Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin is back from his fractured left fibula and resuming his pursuit of Wayne Gretzky's NHL career ... with 30 games left. This season, he moved into second ...

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

The 39-year-old Washington Capitals star is now just 17 goals shy of Wayne Gretzky’s career scoring record. With TK games left, there’s a legitimate chance that Ovechkin overhauls the Great ...

Wayne Gretzky. The best part? He can break that record this season. Though he missed a few weeks due to injury, the Russian winger has scored 24 goals in 36 games throughout the 2024-25 campaign ...