Heading into this season, Ovechkin has scored 897 regular-season goals and has found the back of the net 77 times in the playoffs. That has him at a combined 974 goals. The total is the second most of ...

Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin has officially been entered into the World Records catalogue for breaking Wayne Gretzky's all-time NHL goals record. Ovechkin was officially honored and put ...

Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin shattered a Wayne Gretzky NHL goals record in Saturday's win over the Boston Bruins-- although not the one Ovechkin hopes to break soon. Ovechkin's empty-net ...

Shortly after Wayne Gretzky became the NHL’s all-time leading goal scorer in 1994, his father mentioned how someone, someday, would break his record. "I looked at my dad,” Gretzky recently recalled, ...

ELMONT, N.Y. — The floor was wet. Beyond that, inside the visitors’ locker room at UBS Arena, there weren’t many obvious signs of what took place Sunday, what Alex Ovechkin accomplished. It felt ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Alex Ovechkin fired just about the perfect shot from the place on the ice that has defined his remarkable career. When the puck hit the net, it made him the top goal scorer in NHL ...

Long before Alex Ovechkin surpassed Wayne Gretzky for the NHL goal-scoring record with No. 895 on Sunday, Gretzky moved into the top spot ahead of Gordie Howe by putting the puck in the net for the ...

No, defeating Wayne Gretzky’s 894 career NHL goals was not enough. The mountain continues to rise higher and higher. There’s no end to achieving greatness! The GR8 still has to defeat The Great One in ...