All eyes will be on Alex Ovechkin on Friday as the Washington Capitals forward closes in on Wayne Gretzky's all-time goals record, but there are other concerns about the Eastern Conference leaders ...

How many Blockbuster video stores were still open when Alex Ovechkin scored his first NHL goal in 2005? Here's what the world ...

Ovechkin scored his 892nd career goal this week, moving to within three of breaking the all-time scoring record held by Wayne ...

The goal horn went off at Bugsy’s Pizza Restaurant and Sports Bar as it does every time the Washington Capitals score a goal.

RALEIGH, N.C. -- NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and many other League executives were at Lenovo Center on Wednesday to see ...

Reminders of Alex Ovechkin's pursuit of Wayne Gretzky's NHL career goals record are all over Washington and the surrounding ...

Capitals rookie Ryan Leonard wasn’t born yet when Alex Ovechkin was drafted in 2004. He was only eight months old when the ...

Alex Ovechkin is three goals away from being the NHL's all-time goal-scoring leader.  The 39-year-old Washington Capitals ...

Reminders of Alex Ovechkin’s pursuit of Wayne Gretzky’s NHL career goals record are all over Washington and the surrounding ...

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Which brings me to the distant future: who among the NHL stars now has a shot at what will be Ovechkin's record? This is ...

While Ovechkin has become of the NHL all-time greats, his hockey career began when he was growing up in Russia.