Playoff overtime is the best thing in sports, always, unless it’s your team playing, in which case it’s the absolute worst, ...

MONTREAL -- It was well before the Washington Capitals would be headed to Bell Centre to play the Montreal Canadiens during ...

1985 — For 2nd time, Wayne Gretzky, scores 7 points in a Cup game (3 goals, 4 assists). 1989 — Mario Lemieux ties NHL playoff records with four first-period goals, five overall and eight points as the ...

Former NHL player Wayne Gretzky, left, with Washington Capitals ... Oct. 14, 1979 Stanley Cup titles: 4, all with Edmonton (1984, ‘85, ’87, '88) NHL records: Goals (895), power-play goals ...

The Tampa Bay Lightning will face their in-state rival, the Florida Panthers, on Tuesday night in Game 1 of their first-round ...

Cats-Bolts is the third game of four Tuesday on the ESPN family of networks, following New Jersey - Carolina ( 6 p.m. ET, ...

Alex Ovechkin scored his first overtime playoff goal for the Washington Capitals in Game 1, securing a win over the Montreal Canadiens. The 39-year-ol ...

Alex Ovechkin had seemingly done it all in hockey, leading the Washington Capitals to the Stanley Cup in 2018, earning the ...

Capitals star Alex Ovechkin reached hockey immortality by breaking Wayne Gretzky's all-time scoring record (895 goals) ...

In the nine playoff series that Mitch Marner, Auston Matthews, William Nylander and Morgan Rielly have played in Toronto, ...

Ovechkin broke Gretzky’s NHL career goals record late in the season, and the Capitals defied expectations by finishing atop the Eastern Conference. They now turn their attention to the next challenge, ...