Washington’s hockey star chases Wayne Gretzky’s career goals record the way his team seeks the NHL’s best record: ...

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

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

The biggest storyline of the NHL season has by far been the GR8 Chase with Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin on the precipice of passing hockey legend Wayne Gretzky for the all-time goals ...

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

Utah Hockey Club. He returned on Dec. 28 and has scored 10 goals since. Ovechkin entered this season needing 42 goals to break Gretzky's record of 894 career goals, which has stood since ...

Boston’s Bill Cowley becomes the NHL all-time scoring leader when he scores a goal and an assist for the Bruins in a 10-1 win over the New York Rangers. Cowley’s 529 points is one more than Syd Howe, ...

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 Washington Capitals’ star is just 17 goals shy of Wayne Gretzky’s all-time record, thanks in large part to an avalanche ...

Alex Ovechkin has 26 goals this season and 879 career goals. The Washington Capitals captain is now 16 away from breaking ...

Midway through the 1987 Canada Cup, Mike Keenan paired Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux. Could Jon Cooper use the same tactic ...

Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin certainly has a flair for the dramatic, and he's inched one goal closer to Wayne Gretzky's ...