With a 36-11-8 record and 80 standings points through 55 games, the Capitals are the top team in the Eastern Conference and ...

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

The GR8 continues to fit his nicknamesake. On Sunday, in a game against the Utah Hockey Club, Washington Capitals forward ...

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

While Florida has an NHL-high eight players at 4 Nations, division-rival Carolina four and the still-dangerous New York Rangers six, the Caps have the only true break with no games between Feb. 9-22.

In their 25-year history, the Jackets and their fans have never needed each other more than this season, in the wake of the ...

It would be almost impossible to top the Mikko Rantanen trade before the NHL’s March 7 trade deadline, but the Hurricanes’ ...

Alex Ovechkin scored his 878th career goal into an empty net with 0.1 seconds left on the clock to move closer to Wayne Gretzky's NHL career record, and the Washington Capitals defeated the defending ...

Hockey legend Wayne Gretzky turned 64 on Sunday ... him as the greatest hockey player of all time. Gretzky won four Stanley Cup Championships with the Edmonton Oilers. He has nine Hart Trophies ...