He truly is the best.”Linemate Dylan Strome, who has assisted on 16 of Ovechkin's 29 goals this season, acknowledged “it's going to be tough still” to set the record in March or April. Asked if scoring 13 in Washington's final 25 games was doable,

Alex Ovechkin is closing in on Wayne Gretzky's all-time NHL record of 894 goals. The 39-year-old recorded a hat trick on Sunday against the Edmonton Oilers, bri

Alex Ovechkin fired a perfect wrist shot past Calvin Pickard for his first goal of the game, scored from his office on the power play for his second and sailed a shot into an empty net from his own zone to complete the hat trick.