With the yellow skate laces and tinted visor, the goal celebrations and gap-toothed smile, Alex Ovechkin became a role model ...

Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin certainly has a flair for the dramatic, and he's inched one goal closer to Wayne Gretzky's ...

Ovechkin met with Bondra’s grandson before practice and stopped to take photos with the young fan and give him the gift. Bondra’s grandson, wearing his grandfather’s No. 12 Capitals jersey, wasted no ...

If Alex Ovechkin ... and the Capitals signed the 25-year-old center. He's their leading scorer. Like when the Toronto Maple Leafs traded 23-year-old defenseman Rasmus Sandin to Washington in ...

The Washington Capitals ... to the NFC Championship game. Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin made it clear who he’s rooting for, arriving for the game wearing the jersey of Commanders quarterback ...

The Edmonton Oilers allowed Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin ... shared photos of Ovechkin trying on Gretzky’s old glove and stick as well as one of his old jerseys.

Capitals sniper Alex Ovechkin has been a role model his whole career and that goes beyond Washington and Russia.

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When Brendan Morrison played for the Washington Capitals in 2009-10, he was amazed by the goal-scoring prowess of a young Alex Ovechkin. But a road trip in Edmonton solidified just how much of a ...