The countdown is on with Alex Ovechkin just 12 goals from overtaking Wayne Gretzky as the NHL's career goal leader – a mark that once seemed unsurmountable and earned Gretzky the nickname The ...

Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin is on pace to pass Wayne Gretzky's NHL career goal record before season's end. Ovechkin, 39, entered this season needing 42 goals to break Gretzky's ...

WASHINGTON --Goals like the third one Alex Ovechkin scored Sunday make it feel like he might be destined to break Wayne Gretzky’s NHL goal record this season. Sure, the Washington Capitals left ...

Alex Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals is closing in on the NHL goals record of 894 held by Wayne Gretzky. After a hat trick on Sunday, Ovechkin has 882 goals and needs 13 to break the record.

Alex Ovechkin is inching closer and closer to breaking Wayne Gretzky's all-time goals record — and on Sunday, he gave himself a big boost. The Washington Capitals captain scored his 32nd career ...

Yet Capitals winger Alex Ovechkin is closing in on that Gretzky record. The Capitals drafted him with the first overall pick in the 2004 NHL Draft and he has been in the NHL since the 2005-2006 ...

Alex Ovechkin is closing in on Wayne Gretzky's all-time NHL record of 894 goals. The 39-year-old recorded a hat trick on Sunday against the Edmonton Oilers, bringing his season goals tally to 29 ...

Now atop the NHL standings, Washington’s players, coaches and fans reckoned with history on Sunday as captain Alex Ovechkin scored a hat trick in the Capitals’ 7-3 win over the Edmonton Oilers.

WASHINGTON — Alex Ovechkin fired a perfect wrist shot past Calvin Pickard for his first goal of the game, scored from his office on the power play for his second and sailed a shot into an empty ...

Alex Ovechkin's standout performance against the Edmonton Oilers, including a hat trick, brings him closer to breaking Wayne Gretzky's NHL goal record. Ovechkin's season tally is now 29 ...