Matvei Michkov was on the verge of netting his first career hat trick on Thursday against the Montreal Canadiens when Travis Konecny found him streaking up the ice, giving the young star a wide-open ...

Alex Ovechkin has more empty-netters than anyone in NHL history, but he didn't feel compelled to add another against the ...

Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin is poised to break Wayne Gretzky's all-time goal record. How he got so close.

The Broncos will meanwhile celebrate the most successful season in program history. Western Michigan led the nation with 33 ...

Washington Capitals forward Alex Ovechkin had a chance to break Wayne Gretzky’s all-time goals record Friday night on home ...

Those buying beers or battling traffic missed nearly all the scoring action in a 3-1 Dallas Stars victory over the Kraken on ...

Only a missed empty netter in the final minutes of the Capitals' 4-3 victory over the Boston Bruins kept Ovechkin from ...

Jack Hughes and Cole Eiserman scored second-period goals and Boston University beat Penn State 3-1 on Thursday night to ...

"I've thought about it, and I haven't talked to Ovi about this yet, but this is my guess is that when it gets to that point, I don't think he's going to want to break it with an empty-netter ...

Ovechkin has 12 goals in his last 18 games and eight games remaining this season as he pursues the all-time mark Gretzky set before retiring in 1999. The 39-year-old Russian has 38 goals this season ...

Alex Ovechkin scores goals in a variety of ways. He laces one-timers from the leftmost face-off circle. He slips rolling pucks past outstretched goaltenders. He flicks shots from the center his ...