Ovechkin hit the NHL with literally a thundering, glass-breaking crash — the hit that he delivered on Columbus defenseman Radoslav Suchy that cracked the plexiglass on his very first NHL shift. He ...

Witness Ovi's evolution from rock star rookie to "young gun" to Cup winner to chasing Gretzky (and much more).

An electric goal-scoring talent with Russia’s national junior teams, Ovechkin headed to Washington that summer accompanied by ...

Ovechkin still has one more step to take, and as soon as the subject turned to trying to score his record-breaking 895th ...

But Ovechkin and fellow incoming rookie Sidney Crosby of Pittsburgh rode a ... you knew who he was from the time he was 13,” recalls Jeff Halpern, then the Washington Capitals’ captain.

Ovechkin was cast against Sidney Crosby, the mild-mannered and ... At the time, Washington wasn’t a hockey town. Jeff Halpern, who grew up in the D.C. area, watched many iterations of the ...

Players like Jeff Halpern, Brian Willsie and Chris Clark ... league-wide was eclipsed by the arrival of another rookie: Sidney Crosby, the 18-year-old center and the league's best draft pick ...

Halpern, PhD Joseph C ... Professor of Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University Michael Lairmore, DVM, PhD Distinguished Professor Emeritus University of California ...