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

Alex Ovechkin scored for the fourth straight contest and owns a goals-per-game rate of 0.68 this season, which puts him on pace to pass Wayne Gretzky’s all-time record at home versus Carolina on April ...

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

How many career goals does Alex Ovechkin have? Ovechkin has 879 career goals. How many goals does Alex Ovechkin need to pass Wayne Gretzky? Ovechkin needs 16 goals to break Gretzk ...

The U.S. national women's hockey team beat Canada, 2-1, in a shootout on Thursday at the Scotiabank Centre in Halifax, Nova ...

Alex Ovechkin scored his 879th career goal to move within 16 of breaking Wayne Gretzky’s NHL goals record and the Washington ...

Captain gets outscored by fellow Russian Matvei Michkov but moves to within 16 goals of Wayne Gretzky’s NHL record in ...

Alex Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals is closing in on the NHL goals record of 894 held by Wayne Gretzky. Ovechkin has 879 ...

By allowing the Washington Capitals to score twice in the third period and post a 4-3 comeback victory, the Flyers racked up ...