Ovechkin is five goals from breaking Wayne Gretzky’s record, but the captain’s team is in a funk that continued Sunday with an 8-5 loss to the scuffling Sabres.

The Capitals (47-17-9, 103 points) have lost three straight (0-2-1) after an 8-5 Sunday Buffalo Sabres, which marked the first game all season in which they allowed more than five goals. Still, Ovechkin had a three-point game which included scoring his 890th career goal,

His long connection to Russian President Vladimir Putin complicates Alex Ovechkin's legacy in the eyes of some.

Alex Ovechkin is five goals away from become hockey's all-time leading scorer. He tallied his 890th career goal in Sunday's 8-5 loss to the Buffalo Sabres on Sunday. Along with Ovechkin's 37th on the season,

Wayne Gretzky was once Edmonton’s favourite adopted son. The greatest ice hockey player in the history of the game had made that town’s team, the Oilers, the best in the game, winning four Stanley Cups in five years in the mid-1980s.

The Washington Capitals superstar continues to close in on Gretzky’s longstanding record of 894 career NHL goals.

Ovechkin is four goals behind Gretzky’s 894 and will eventually become the league’s all-time leading scorer, a milestone that Bruins forward David Pastrnak discussed after Monday's practice. “We all know how hard it is to score in this league,