passing Wayne Gretzky on Sunday, April 6th against the New York Islanders. His goal against Ilya Sorokin made history, and he solidified his spot as one of the best to ever play the game of hockey.

Wayne Gretzky is widely considered to be the best hockey player ever ... but the more free-flowing, faster style of play seen in the modern NHL has its roots in how Gretzky completely took ...

Wayne Gretzky ... play one-timer, launched from—where else?—the left circle. Ovechkin celebrated with a penguin-style belly slide. There is no longer any doubt that these are the greatest ...

Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin is poised to break Wayne Gretzky's all-time goal record. How he got so close.

Even after Ovechkin broke Gretzky's all-time goals record, some of "The Great Ones" records will never be topped ...

Here is everything Ovechkin said in his postgame press conference after breaking Gretzky's all-time goals record: On how it feels to break Wayne Gretzky's record: "To be honest wi ...

The Great Eight is now the greatest goal-scorer. Alex Ovechkin completed his chase of Wayne Gretzky on Sunday at ... for a power-play goal at 7:26 of the second period after Casey Cizikas went ...

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