Alex Ovechkin made history when he scored against the New York Islanders on a power play in the second period.

Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin set the NHL record for career goals when he scored No. 895 Sunday afternoon against the New York Islanders to pass Hall of Famer Wayne Gretzky.

Shortly after Wayne Gretzky became the NHL’s all-time leading goal scorer in 1994, his father mentioned how someone, someday, would break his record. "I looked at my dad,” Gretzky recently ...

Long before Alex Ovechkin surpassed Wayne Gretzky for the NHL goal-scoring record with No. 895 on Sunday, Gretzky moved into ...

You see, Ovechkin scored goal No. 895 in his 1,487th career NHL game, the exact same amount of games it took for Gretzky to score his final NHL goal — No. 894 — back in 1999. Not only that ...

The Great One has company. Alex Ovechkin tied Wayne Gretzky for the most goals scored in NHL history, netting his 894th career goal in the third period of the Washington Capitals' home game ...

Alex Ovechkin finally did it. On Sunday afternoon on Long Island, the Washington Capitals star broke Wayne Gretzky’s record to become the NHL’s all-time leading goal scorer with 895.

Alex Ovechkin fired just about the perfect shot from the place on the ice that has defined his remarkable career. When the ...

The Washington Capitals star came into Friday's game two goals shy of tying the NHL's career record, set decades ago by the ...

It took Alex Ovechkin 1,486 games, almost 7,000 shots on net and nearly 20 seasons of work to catch Wayne Gretzky and his NHL ...