The Capitals’ captain — who is now 16 goals away from breaking Wayne Gretzky’s scoring record of 894 — collided with Jack ...

Matthews can leave Sittler behind on the scoring list, and he’s already passed every Leaf but Mats Sundin, but he has no Sittler signature moments on his resume to date — not the Canada Cup-winning ...

(Ovechkin has two and Chychrun has one of Washington ... joining Radko Gudas, Alexander Romanov, Jacob Trouba, Jake McCabe and Ilya Lyubushkin in that distinction. Of those half dozen blueliners ...

Meriläinen lost that game, but only because he got beat by Alexander Ovechkin in his chase for Wayne ... third game since returning from a lower-body injury. Forsberg fended off a ton of rubber ...

Thompson stopped all 24 shots he faced, which set up Alexander Ovechkin's overtime game-winner ... with Charlie Lindgren (upper body) still on the injured reserve. Source: NHL.com ...

Sid, the greatest winner in hockey history. Sid, the longtime face of the National Hockey League. Sid, now in his 20th NHL ...

An attorney for the man accused of killing Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau claims the victims drank more than the defendant.

That leaves Cristall as the possible odd-man out if they need to use their prospect pool to acquire a piece to help Alexander Ovechkin go on ... the year with a lower-body injury.