Wayne Gretzky, born in 1961, is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and coach, celebrated as the greatest in NHL ...

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

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

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

It's no small feat, and looking from the outside in, one would wonder: how does that impact a team's structure? And critics ...

Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers studies the game from his team’s bench during a 1980s game. Gretzky's list of achievements is as long as the sticks, first wooden, then composite ...

Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin is one of the most heralded players in NHL history. The legendary forward already has ...

Game by game, Alex Ovechkin is chipping away at Wayne Gretzky's all-time NHL goal-scoring record. Now with 879 career goals, 16 away from surpassing Gretzky, he'll look to keep it going when the ...

The Caps would lose in overtime in a matchup of two of the NHL's top teams. Alex Ovechkin ties the score at 4 and moves 18 goals from breaking Wayne Gretzky's record. Ovechkin scored against the ...

One of the most exciting races in the NHL for this season is Ovechkin's chase to break Wayne Gretzky's goal record. The Great One's mark of 894 has stood for over nearly three decades, and it was ...

The countdown is on with Alex Ovechkin just 17 goals from overtaking Wayne Gretzky as ... his 20 years in the NHL, Gretzky's play contributed to more goals for his teams than any player by far.