Alex Ovechkin scores overtime winner in Ottawa to close on Wayne Gretzky, push Capitals atop NHL
The 39-year-old winger took a pass from Rasmus Sandin on a 2-on-1 breakaway and fired it past rookie Leevi Merilainen, the ...
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NHL EDGE stats: 10 numbers behind THE GR8 CHASE
The Capitals are the only NHL team to rank in the top five of the League in goals from both high-danger areas (76; tied for ...
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Tuch, Peterka score in shootout to lift Sabres over Capitals 4-3
Tage Thompson also scored for the Sabres ... He needs 23 goals to pass Wayne Gretzky’s all-time goal scoring record of 894. He’s scored four times in six games since he returned to the ...
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Sabres snap three-game skid with shootout win over Capitals
Alex Tuch and Tage Thompson also scored for the Sabres ... Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin was kept off the scoresheet. He ...
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Inside the NHL: Tage Thompson's turnover in OT ruined a bounceback offensive game
LAS VEGAS — When I approached Tage Thompson at his locker after the Sabres practiced Friday in T-Mobile Arena, we both knew the elephant-in-the-room question was coming. That mind-numbing loss ...
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Top-5: Sidney Crosby, the best playmaker in Penguins history
Here are the results and highlights: Alex Ovechkin scored to inch closer to Wayne Gretzky’s goal record ... Peyton Krebs opened the scoring early in the game. Then, Tage Thompson doubled the lead a ...
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Sabres Notebook: Alex Ovechkin's goal chase makes only appearance in KeyBank Center on Monday
He is now 23 shy of breaking Gretzky's mark of 894 that many NHL observers thought would stand as one of the game's most unbreakable records. Ovechkin has 19 goals this season, leaving him one shy ...