According to MoneyPuck.com, Stuart Skinner ranks No. 49 in Goals Saved Above Expected among goalies who logged at least 15 games with -3.9. Calvin Pickard ranks No. 53 with -6.9. Both goalies own sub-.900 save percentages, and Skinner is out for now after taking an unfortunate stray knee to the head last week.

The Capitals and Alex Ovechkin are riding high in the regular season, but the Stanley Cup Playoffs will present new challenges.

His long connection to Russian President Vladimir Putin complicates Alex Ovechkin's legacy in the eyes of some.

Ovechkin scored his 892nd career goal this week, moving to within three of breaking the all-time scoring record held by Wayne Gretzky. With Ovechkin now just a hat trick away from setting the record, Bettman said he plans for a traveling party to attend all of his remaining games to be ready for the moment.

Raised in Moscow within the Soviet sports system by parents who were accomplished athletes, Alex Ovechkin was given every chance to succeed at hockey and along the way showed he didn’t need special tr

The Washington Capitals signed their highest draft pick since 2007 to an entry-level contract on Monday.  Following the Boston College Eagles loss to Denver in

Alex Ovechkin almost stopped playing hockey. His mother, Tatyana, was a basketball player, his father, Mikhail, was a soccer player and they were traveling with their teams, leaving no one to take ...

Alex Ovechkin almost stopped ... especially when you have the lineage.” Ovechkin was 14 when Larionov, by that time already a three-time Cup champion, sat with him in the locker room and shared ...