No one wanted to see Alexander Ovechkin get hurt. But, such is the National Hockey League. The last time Utah Hockey Club ...

Alexander Ovechkin, nicknamed “The Great 8” and “Ovi,” is a celebrated Russian ice hockey player currently serving as the ...

Washington’s hockey star chases Wayne Gretzky’s career goals record the way his team seeks the NHL’s best record: ...

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

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

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

The ban, a response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, means it’s decreasingly likely the Capitals star will get to play in the ...

Russian superstar forward and Washington Capitals’ captain Alexander Ovechkin scored another goal ... Canadian-American ice hockey star Wayne Gretzky played for four different NHL teams between ...

Otherwise, both stayed on the ice during the prime ... But the measure of a great hockey player isn't only how many goals they rack up. Consider how Ovechkin compares to his contemporaries on ...

Many of the league’s superstars will sit out the best-on-best tournament because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ...

Five charts how close Alex Ovechkin is to overtaking Wayne Gretzky's career goal scoring title and how both dominated the NHL.