Alex Ovechkin, the NHL's new goal-scoring leader, stormed out of the gate with two goals in his first game in 2005. His league debut delayed by a season-long lockout, the 2004 No. 1 overall pick ...

Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin has broken Wayne Gretzky's NHL career goal record. Ovechkin, 39, entered this season needing 42 goals to break Gretzky's record of 894 career goals ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Alex Ovechkin cracked a Bud Light and casually took a sip as nearby fans chanted, “Ovi! Ovi!” He was soon joined by Wayne Gretzky to put the two greatest goal-scorers in ...

Alex Ovechkin scored career goal No. 895 on Sunday, breaking one of sports' all-time great records and passing hockey legend Wayne Gretzky as the NHL's all-time goal scorer. Ovechkin did so with a ...

With the 895th goal of his career, Alex Ovechkin has passed Wayne Gretzky in all-time goals. Ovechkin beat many goalies in many different ways with an unlimited bag of tricks, but his greatest ...

Decades later, during an increasingly inevitable assault on the record book, Alex Ovechkin is bearing down on the latter mark with a scoring style vastly different from Gretzky’s. While Gretzky ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Ovechkin’s famous one-timer has been an NHL wonder for two decades ...

It's the magic number in hockey this spring: the number of career goals it will take for Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin to break one of the most significant records in National Hockey ...

Alexander Ovechkin didn’t know that. “He took a one-timer that just missed me and went into the net. I was thankful it didn’t hit me,” Washington Capitals legend Olaf Kolzig joked to NBC ...

For more than a quarter century, the question of who was the greatest goalscorer in National Hockey League history wasn’t really a question at all. The answer was right there in his name.