For the only time this season, Alexander Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals traveled to Edmonton to play the Oilers. Edmonton was without Connor McDavid, as he served game one of his three-game ...

Ovechkin was held off the scoresheet Saturday until firing the puck into an empty net for his 869th career goal. Logan Thompson stopped ... and Mathew Barzal and Alexander Romanov each had two ...

Ovechkin scored his 22nd goal of the season to push his career total to 875. Gretzky scored 894 goals in the NHL.

Alex Ovechkin moved within 20 goals of breaking Wayne Gretzky’s NHL record with an empty-netter, helping the Washington Capitals beat the Seattle Kraken 3-0 on Thursday night for their sixth straight ...

Goalie Logan Thompson ... selected Alex Ovechkin No. 1 overall in the 2004 draft and Pittsburgh made Sidney Crosby the first pick the next year. “I don’t play for that,” Thompson said ...

Alex Ovechkin is knocking on the door of hockey history and the title of the greatest scorer the sport has ever seen. The Washington Capitals legend is closing in on breaking the NHL scoring ...

Pittsburgh's game at Washington on Saturday night will be the 71st regular-season meeting of the team's superstar captains, the Penguins' Sidney Crosby and the Capitals' Alex Ovechkin. The pair ...

With 874 career goals, Ovechkin is 21 away from surpassing ... Washington logged its third straight win as Logan Thompson made 24 saves for his second consecutive shutout. He and the Capitals ...

Edmonton Oilers forward Corey Perry snapped a wrist shot past Washington Capitals goaltender Logan Thompson early in the ...

Lindgren will dress against Pittsburgh but will play second chair as he backs up Logan Thompson ... Carbery will reunite Dylan Strome and Alex Ovechkin after separating the two earlier in the ...