NHL all-time record goal scorer Alexander Ovechkin called for Russian athletes to be allowed to compete at the world's top ...

Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin has dropped the gloves on a handful of occasions, but when it comes to who the best ...

There’s an unwritten rule in hockey that players go a bit easier against their own goaltenders in practice. Alexander Ovechkin didn’t know that. “He took a one-timer that just missed me and ...

Alex Ovechkin now holds the NHL record with 897 goals. He passed Gretzky during the 2024–25 season, scoring his 895th goal on ...

Russian-born NHL player Alex Ovechkin has expressed his hope for an end to hostilities after Russia invaded Ukraine. “I would say it’s a hard situation,” the Washington Capitals left wing ...

During his first visit to Moscow after becoming the National Hockey League's all-time leading scorer last season, the ...

Alex Ovechkin's wife, Nastya, children Sergei and Ilya, mother Tatyana and father-in-law Kiril join the Great Eight on center ice for this ceremony. Touching moment at UBS Arena.

On March 12, 2018, Ovechkin became the 20th player in NHL history to score 600 goals, and in 2017-18, he won the Maurice "Rocket" Richard Trophy as the NHL's top regular-season goal-scorer for the ...

Ovechkin’s support of Putin and his war on Ukraine has long deserved attention and punitive action from the National Hockey League. Hockey player Ovechkin is Ovechkin the man.

Among the players who expected to see Ovechkin was Ann Schaab of the Ice Dogs. Schaab, 13, met Ovechkin in 2014 when he and the Capitals hosted a skating session for ASHA players at their practice ...

The next generation of NHL players grew up watching him and the booming one-timer from the left circle that became his signature. His rivalry with Sidney Crosby that began in 2005 breathed new life ...

Alex Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals before a game against Detroit in Washington on March 26, 2024. There’s an unwritten rule in hockey that players go a bit easier against their own ...