An empty net in hockey is when a team removes its goaltender from the ice, leaving its goal unattended. It's a calculated ...

Goalie pulls happen earlier and are more successful, resulting in more goals for both teams. And believe it or not, empty-net goals have quietly become big business. Yes, really. They impact ...

How has Oveckhin gotten so close to "The Great One?" The answer isn't a big disparity in empty-net goals. Ovechkin has eight empty-netters this season and an NHL-record 65 in his career ...

WASHINGTON --Alex Ovechkin proved Friday that he will not set the NHL goals record by scoring into an empty net. "I tell 'Carbs' (Capitals coach Spencer Carbery) right away, 'I don't want to do it ...

Alex Ovechkin scored his 878th career goal into an empty net with 0.1 seconds left on the clock to move closer to Wayne Gretzky's NHL career record, and the Washington Capitals defeated the ...

It was Ovechkin's league-leading eighth empty-netter of the season and 65th ... as the red, white and blue goal counter that was unveiled in one corner of Capital One Arena earlier in the week ...

There were 0.1 seconds left in regulation on Tuesday night when Alex Ovechkin scored his 25th goal of this NHL season, moving him one step closer to a record long thought untouchable. The 39-year ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Alex Ovechkin scored his 878th career goal into an empty net with 0.1 seconds left on the clock to move closer to Wayne Gretzky's NHL career record, and the Washington Capitals ...

Speaking after the game, Gretzky admitted he “felt bad” for Leonard, whose first career goal came on an empty-net breakaway late in the Capitals’ 5-3 win over the Blackhawks on Friday.