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

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

Sid, the greatest winner in hockey history. Sid, the longtime face of the National Hockey League. Sid, now in his 20th NHL ...

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Nicolas Roy, Shea Theodore and Jack Eichel scored and Adin Hill made 16 saves as the Vegas Golden Knights ...

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 ...

The U.S. national women's hockey team beat Canada, 2-1, in a shootout on Thursday at the Scotiabank Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Captain Hilary Knight scored in regulation and was one of three ...

Capitals sniper Alex Ovechkin has been a role model his whole career and that goes beyond Washington and Russia.

Now closing in on Wayne Gretzky’s career goals record, the 39-year-old Ovechkin is now playing against many of those ...

William Nylander netted his second career hat trick and Matthew Knies collected one goal and one assist as the visiting ...

Marc-Andre Fleury had 32 saves for the Wild, who swept the Bruins in both meetings last season but could not get anything past Swayman on Tuesday. Minnesota was shut out for the second straight game.

Panthers alternate captain Matthew Tkachuk, one of the few Americans on team, told the president, “You wake up every day ...