Even as he gets closer to being immortalized as the NHL's goals leader, Ovechkin remains a hockey fan at heart. "I've seen his stick rack at the rink, he definitely has a lot of sticks," Capitals ...

The Washington Capitals showered Alex Ovechkin with gifts on Thursday for breaking Wayne Gretzky's record. Here's what he received.

The most expensive hockey stick ever to sell was Gretzky’s 1988 Stanley Cup Finals game-used stick, which sold for $336,000 last year. It’s possible Ovechkin’s jersey and stick from Sunday ...

Ovechkin got Sorokin's stick after the game outside the Islanders ... "I think it's a big moment for all hockey world," said Sorokin, who made 28 saves. "Congrats to him and his family.

It just stayed the same the whole time that I played with him.” Before every Capitals game, Alex Ovechkin grabs a hockey stick that he won’t use to cut two that he will. The stick is for ...

The Washington Capitals star came into Friday's game two goals shy of tying the NHL's career record, set decades ago by the great Wayne Gretzky. The Capitals have six games left in the regular season.

giving Ovechkin his stick when asked — still had full appreciation of the moment they were a part of. “No matter what team you were cheering for tonight, everyone was a hockey fan," Islanders ...

Alex Ovechkin broke Wayne Gretzky's record of 894 goals, becoming the NHL's all-time leading scorer. The Washington Capitals honored him with a touching ceremony, including a golden hockey stick ...

Gretzky passed Hall of Famer Gordie Howe in 1994, and he held the record for 31 years and 14 days before Ovechkin toppled it on Sunday. The climb for Ovechkin was a long and steady one as the ...

Kolzig said the “blade of his stick is like a hook ... He gets shots off when you think he never could.' Ovechkin has taken the hockey world by storm since that rookie season, adding more ...

Boys' hockey jumped from 8,154 in Ovechkin's rookie season to 10,553 ... has donated 66,826 sticks, 2,992 nets, 44,240 balls and 12,568 pucks to participating schools. More than 25,000 players ...