Alex Ovechkin and his Washington Capitals were on a road trip through California. Before flying from Los Angeles to San Jose, they had a night off. Sergey Kocharov, the Capitals’ head of communications,

Wayne Gretzky was once Edmonton’s favourite adopted son. The greatest ice hockey player in the history of the game had made that town’s team, the Oilers, the best in the game, winning four Stanley Cups in five years in the mid-1980s.

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Trump-appointed FBI director Kash Patel joined Alex Ovechkin's locker room celebration after their win on Friday night.

Goal No. 894 came at 6:13 of the third period, when Ovechkin gave the Capitals a 4-3 lead with a power-play goal. He skated into a one-timer from the left circle, going short side on Chicago goaltender Spencer Knight off a pass from John Carlson.

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