When Ovechkin broke the record in the second period, the game stopped. Officials rolled out a carpet onto the ice, and ...

For years, the adage ‘records are meant to be broken’ didn’t apply to Wayne Gretzky’s. Now it does, thanks to Alex Ovechkin.

There would have been a tidy symmetry had Alexander Ovechkin waited until Saturday to break Wayne Gretzky's NHL record for career goals.

Alexander Ovechkin is on the verge of breaking Wayne Gretzky's all-time NHL goal-scoring record, needing just two more goals.