Meanwhile, the Capitals have Charlie Lindgren under contract as well. He has started 140 games in his career, while also starting 112 for the Caps in his three years with the franchise.

Led by Ovechkin's resurgence — he scored 44 goals in 65 games and became the greatest goal scorer of all time in the process — Washington finished 51-22-9, winning the Eastern Conference and ...

Over the course of his 20-year career, Ovechkin has been an All-Star 12 times, won the Hart Trophy three times and led the Capitals to their only Stanley Cup title to date during the 2017-18 season.

Ovechkin will enter the final year of his contract. A lot of the offseason work is already done with Jakob Chychrun, Logan Thompson, Charlie Lindgren, Nic Dowd and Dylan McIlrath signing contract ...

During the regular season, Washington Capitals star Alexander Ovechkin made history when he became the NHL's all-time leading goal-scorer, surpassing the legendary Wayne Gretzky during an April 6 ...

Thompson is 1-0-1 against the Canadiens with a 3.04 GAA and a .889 SP, while Lindgren, a former Hab, is 3-1-0 against them with a 2.51 GAA and a .899 SP.

Both an established Alexander Ovechkin and a then-debuting John Carlson will do everything in their power to make sure that doesn’t happen, as the sole remaining members of that 2009-10 Capitals ...

Ilya Sorokin stopped 28 shots. Charlie Lindgren finished with 18 saves for the Eastern Conference-leading Capitals, who lost for the fifth time in seven games (2-4-1).

Lindgren allowed four goals on 22 shots in Sunday's 4-1 loss to the Islanders. Lindgren took his first loss in four appearances in April, though he's allowed 12 goals on 87 shots in that span. The ...

Alexander Ovechkin became the leading goal scorer in National Hockey League (NHL) history when he broke a tie atop the leaderboard with Wayne Gretzky by scoring his 895th career goal in the second ...