Utah Hockey Club. He returned on Dec. 28 and has scored goals in four of his first seven games back. Ovechkin entered this season needing 42 goals to break Gretzky's record of 894 career goals,

Ovechkin is now 23 shy of breaking Wayne Gretzky's mark of 894 goals that many NHL observers thought would stand as one of the game's most unbreakable records.

1991 — Wayne Gretzky scores three goals, including his 700th, as the Los Angeles Kings beat the New York Islanders 6-3. 1993 — The Buffalo Bills stage pro football’s biggest comeback to beat the Houston Oilers 41-38 in overtime in the first round of ...

One of the primary story lines of this NHL season has been Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin’s pursuit of Wayne Gretzky’s career goals record. Over the first month of the season ...

One of the most exciting races in the NHL for this season is Ovechkin's chase to break Wayne Gretzky's goal record. The Great One's mark of 894 has stood for over nearly three decades, and it was ...

1991 — Wayne Gretzky scores three goals, including his 700th, as the Los Angeles Kings beat the New York Islanders 6-3. 1993 — The Buffalo Bills stage pro football’s biggest comeback to beat ...

Josh Allen threw two touchdown passes and ran for another score and the Buffalo Bills clinched the ... Only three players — Ray Bourque, Wayne Gretzky and Steve Yzerman — have more assists ...

Boston Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sells pitcher-outfielder Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees for $125,000 plus a $350,000 loan. 1931 — Nels Stewart of the Montreal Maroons scores

The Rams were winners on Saturday and again on Sunday night when they clinched the NFC West crown and the playoff berth that goes with it.

A strong team effort led by LeBron James and Max Christie helps carry the Lakers past Portland with Anthony Davis nursing an ankle sprain.

The NFL playoffs are set, Wemby reaches 100 career NBA games, "The Frozen Confines," the biggest wave ever surfed, Baker's Dozen, and more.

The great National Hockey League contradiction of sports, celebration and politics is upon us. We have already begun the daily Alexander Ovechkin watch, the giant leap as he makes his way toward the career goal-scoring lead in hockey history.