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Ovechkin scores 2, Capitals beat Flyers 6-3

By KEVIN COONEYApril 17, 2021 GMT

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Alex Ovechkin scored twice to move within one goal of Marcel Dionne for fifth place on the NHL’s career goals list as the Washington Capitals downed the Philadelphia Flyers 6-3 on Saturday...

Third-period penalty kills help Capitals beat Lightning

By STEPHEN WHYNODecember 22, 2019 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — It looked like curtains for the Washington Capitals when Lars Eller went to the penalty box with the score tied and the Tampa Bay Lightning's NHL-best power play given more than a minute of 5-on-3 time...

Caps’ Ovechkin and Kuznetsov inspire Russian players, fans

By STEPHEN WHYNOJune 5, 2018 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Alex Ovechkin knows the Washington Capitals have plenty of fans back in Russia....

Russia becomes a reliable pipeline for ready-made NHL talent

By STEPHEN WHYNOJune 4, 2017 GMT

Down the street from where Detroit's Russian Five took the NHL by storm in the 1990s, defenseman Nikita Zaitsev sat down for dinner with his agent and explained that his pain of being passed over in the draft three times was gone...