Somewhere on somebody’s 200-foot sheet of ice in the coming weeks, a monumental achievement in sports history will be capped ...

The Washington Capitals clash with the Detroit Red Wings in a high-stakes match at Capital One Arena. Washington, leading the ...

Ross Mahoney, a Regina product who was the Capitals’ director of amateur scouting at the time, recalls meeting a 16-year-old ...

NHL: Alexander Ovechkin is eight goals shy of tying Wayne Gretzky’s all-time record as the Washington Capitals face the San ...

Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin is chasing history, but his focus remains on something bigger. Find out what’s driving ...

NHL fans have their eyes locked on Washington Capitals captain Alexander Ovechkin this season and his chase for Hockey Hall ...

They were right. The Capitals play the Sharks on Saturday at SAP Center with Ovechkin, now 39, just eight goals away from tying Wayne Gretzky atop the NHL’s all-time goal-scoring list.

"The Great Eight," as he's called, is in the final countdown of his chase for Hockey Hall of Famer Wayne Gretzky's all-time ...

Wayne Gretzky (894) 2. Alex Ovechkin (888 ... slotting the puck in an empty net against the Florida Panthers. Alexander Ovechkin scores an empty-netter with 0.1 left to give him his 878th goal ...

Last year, Sotheby’s set a record with another Gretzky stick, used in Edmonton's 1988 Stanley Cup-clinching game, selling it ...