Game 4 in Raleigh brought more trouble for the Washington Capitals as they fell 5-2 to the Carolina Hurricanes and slipped ...

No player in NHL ... Ovechkin’s total, but it’s a fairly significant drop. All time, among those who have played in 35 or more postseason games, Lemieux ranks first at 0.71 goals per playoff ...

On Monday night, the 39-year-old Capitals captain added one more elusive milestone to his never-ending resume by scoring his first career playoff overtime goal. The NHL reacted to Ovechkin's game ...

Following his historic milestone and a strong ... pair of goals in Game 1, Alex Ovechkin moved to 13th all-time in playoff goal scoring, only three goals shy of NHL icon Mario Lemieux, who has ...

WASHINGTON — Alex Ovechkin had seemingly ... record for the most goals in NHL history. The one thing he had not done — until now — was score an overtime playoff goal.

The team captain's third-period goal also broke a new NHL record. The Capitals announced, "Ovechkin scores his fifth goal of the playoffs to cut the deficit to 3-2. With the goal, Ovechkin passed ...

It was Ovechkin's first career playoff overtime goal ... to a magical season in which he surpassed Wayne Gretzky as the NHL's all-time goal scoring leader. He sealed the series opener after ...