Quinn Hughes scored twice and the Vancouver Canucks beat NHL-leading Washington 2-1 on Saturday night, keeping Capitals star Alex Ovechkin 20 goals shy of breaking Wayne Gretzky's league record. Hughes has five goals and two assists in a five-game points streak.

With 34 regular season games left to play this year, Washington Capitals forward Alex Ovechkin is only 20 goals away from passing Wayne Gretzky’s record for the NHL record in all-time goals scored. As he inches closer and closer to the record,

Records, it is said, are made to be broken. And as Alex Ovechkin’s pursuit of Wayne Gretzky’s magical mark of 894 made its way through Vancouver on Saturday night, there is another goal-scoring chase that deserves some attention.

Quinn Hughes scored twice, and the Vancouver Canucks beat NHL-leading Washington 2-1 on Saturday night, keeping Capitals star Alex Ovechkin 20 goals shy of breaking Wayne Gretzky’s league record. Hughes has five goals and two assists in a five-game points streak.

Lankinen makes 32 saves for Vancouver; Washington loses in regulation for 1st time in 2025 after 12-game point streak

Alex Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals took a 2-1 regulation loss to the Vancouver Canucks Saturday night, continuing a concerning recent trend for the top dogs in the East.

We're tracking Ovechkin's pursuit of Gretzky's goal record and trying to determine the game in which he's most likely to break the record.

The Washington Commanders’ improbable, unexpected run for the Super Bowl is over, but another local franchise has been busy putting together a magical season of its own.

In a highly anticipated NHL Pacific Division clash, the Edmonton Oilers defeated the Vancouver Canucks 6-2 at Rogers Place on Thursday (Jan. 23). Zach Hyman scored twice for the Oilers, who charged out to a 3-0 lead after the first period and went ahead 5-0 in the middle frame.

A generation ago, it felt like the best hope a short guy had of thriving in the NHL was in the crease. Today, the dynamic has largely flipped. Ryan Dixon takes a look at each team's undersized players in this week's Power Rankings.

The Philadelphia Athletics beat Charter Oak 36-27 in a baseball game played on frozen Litchfield Pond in Brooklyn, N.Y., with the players wearing ice skates. 1957 — Joe McCarthy and Sam Crawford are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

The Great Eight is within striking distance of Wayne Gretzky's all-time NHL goals record of 894, which Gretzky reached on March 29, 1999, against the New York Islanders. Ovechkin began this season ...