The Washington Capitals will make sure there is a local feel when Alex Ovechkin breaks the NHL's all-time goals record.

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Alexander Ovechkin is creeping up on Wayne Gretzky's all-time goals record, entering Tuesday night's Washington Capitals-Anaheim Ducks game with 886, only eight fewer than The Great One's 894. Yet he ...

Ovechkin is on the verge of breaking one of Wayne Gretzky's most-storied records and The Great One plans on witnessing that ...

Colin Campbell called the Washington Capitals on the phone – back in the day when they had no public draft lottery – to ...

Alexander Ovechkin is 11 goals away from breaking Wayne Gretzky's all-time NHL goals record. Partnering with the NHL’s Hockey ...

Alexander Ovechkin is on the verge of breaking Wayne Gretzky’s record (894 goals scored in the regular season in the NHL). Ovechkin has 885 at the time of writing; he only needs nine to equal ...

It was never a question of whether Gretzky would score on any given night—only how often. Growing up in Caledon, Ontario, as ...

One voice was Michael Taylor, mayor of Sterling Heights, a Macomb County suburb heavily dependent on the auto industry. He ...

Aliaksei Protas had the first hat trick of his NHL career, Alex Ovechkin and Pierre-Luc Dubois each had three points and the Washington Capitals extended their winning streak to five, defeating the ...