Alex Ovechkin News

Bryan Little had two goals, including the go-ahead score in the third period, and the Atlanta Thrashers beat the Washington Capitals 7-4 on Friday night.

For so many years - an Ice Age, it seems - the Capitals were there, but they weren't there.

Alex Ovechkin left practice early Tuesday, but the reigning NHL MVP is expected to play in the Washington Capitals' season opener Friday in Atlanta.

One of the NHL's biggest stories of the 2008-09 season could be a turnaround by Tampa Bay, which in the course of four years has gone from Stanley Cup champion to the league's cellar dweller.

Alex Ovechkin probably doesn't need another preseason tuneup - he's ready to defend his NHL scoring crown now.

Alex Ovechkin scored a shorthanded goal and added two assists to lead the Washington Capitals to a 5-1 preseason victory over the Flyers last night.

Tonight's the night. Or rather, today's the day. Time is relative, after all, when the NHL's regular-season opener takes place overseas as it does today when the New York Rangers and Tampa Bay Lightning drop ...

Alex Ovechkin scored a short-handed goal and added two assists to lead the Washington Capitals to a 5-1 pre-season victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on Friday night.

Don Cherry credited Capitals coach Bruce Boudreau with getting the most out of Alex Ovechkin.

To get an idea of just how wide open the NHL's Eastern Conference is this season, all you have to do is start asking those involved about their competition.

Alex Ovechkin scored his first goal of the preseason and Washington held on to down New Jersey, 3-2, at the Prudential Center.

For the first time in months, I was able to listen to and watch Capitals hockey this week.

Last February, Washington Capitals Coach Bruce Boudreau pulled Brooks Laich aside. The dependable young center, who always did what Boudreau asked of him with both the Hershey Bears and the Capitals, was having trouble finding an offensive spark.

'You have to learn how to get your head to slow down while your body is still going at the same speed,' Boudreau recalled telling Laich, who played 18 minutes 21 seconds last night in the Capitals' 5-2 win over the Carolina Hurricanes in a preseason game at Verizon Center.

Alex Ovechkin got two goals and an assist, and Michael Nylander added two goals to help the Washington Capitals rally for a 5-2 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes in a preseason game Thursday night.

Crosby or Ovechkin? Brodeur or Nabokov? Phaneuf or Lidstrom? With NHL training camps getting underway hockey fans need to know who they should pick in their upcoming NHL Fantasy drafts.

One of the NHL's best stories during the regular season was the Washington Capitals' late-season charge to win the Southeast Division.

It's hard to top Viktor Dovgan's how'd-you-spend-your-summer story. The defenseman trained in Russia with reigning Hart Trophy winner Alex Ovechkin.

After a storybook 2007-08 season, Quintin Laing found he'd become a prominent Saskatonian, which is what residents of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, are called.

COLUMBUS - Single game tickets for Columbus Blue Jackets home regular season games at Nationwide Arena go on sale at noon Friday at the Arena Box Office, the FOX Sports Ohio Blue Line at The Mall at Tuttle ...

The Hurricanes led the Southeast Division almost all of last season, but we know how that turned out: no division title, no playoffs.