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Alex Ovechkin has 26 goals this season and 879 career goals. The Washington Capitals captain is now 16 away from breaking ...

Boston’s Bill Cowley becomes the NHL all-time scoring leader when he scores a goal and an assist for the Bruins in a 10-1 win over the New York Rangers. Cowley’s 529 points is one more than Syd Howe, ...

Gretzky scored 51 goals that season -- the first of his nine 50-goal seasons, an NHL record he shares with Ovechkin and Mike ...

On the Rangers' side, they landed the best player in the deal—and it wasn’t even close. Nash played six seasons with New York, including a 69-point season. In 375 games, he tallied 145 goals, 107 ...

We asked AI to rank the top five NHL players of all time, and it gave us these results. Ranking the greatest NHL players of ...

which Gretzky — then with the New York Rangers — reached on March 29, 1999, against the New York Islanders. Ovechkin began this season with 853 career goals. Ovechkin scored the 879th goal of ...

Wayne Gretzky, born in 1961, is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and coach, celebrated as the greatest in NHL ...

Scoring with ease and disrupting every UCLA player besides Tyler Bilodeau, Illinois ended the Bruins’ nearly monthlong ...

Cruising to the top of the NHL standings by winning 36 of their first 54 games and losing just 11 in regulation, the ...