The Capitals are the only team in the league without a player in the 4 Nations Face-Off international tournament between the ...

Cruising to the top of the NHL standings by winning 36 of their first 54 games and losing just 11 in regulation, the ...

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

Welcome to the NHL On Tap, a daily look at the games on the NHL schedule. There are nine games on the schedule for Thursday, ...

It was a roller coaster of a night at the Wells Fargo Center. Although the Flyers lost 4-3 to Alex Ovechkin and the ...

Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin continues to shatter records on his way to Wayne Gretzky's all-time regular season ...

Alex Ovechkin and Matvei Michkov were both at peak powers on Thursday, but Ovechkin's Capitals got the last laugh in a win ...

The NHL’s top two seeds will meet for the first time this season when the Washington Capitals play host to the Winnipeg Jets in a marquee matchup tonight. My Jets vs. Capitals predictions expect a ...

Ovechkin scored a goal in Thursday's 4-3 win against the Flyers. It was goal 879 of his career.

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