By STEPHEN WHYNO The second round of the NHL playoffs begins May 5, after no sweeps and two series going the distance to get ...

A month after breaking Wayne Gretzky's NHL career goal-scoring record, Alex Ovechkin is in the second round of the playoffs ...

While Getzky is in the final years of his career, the Capitals are not as old a team as many perceive them to be. 27-year-old ...

As the Washington Capitals' resident "hockey nerd," Dylan Strome is an avid reader of the NHL game notes and usually the ...

Alex Ovechkin is four months away from turning 40 and still was among the Washington Capitals’ most consistent hitters in the ...

The Carolina Hurricanes and Washington Capitals will start their second-round Stanley Cup playoff series Tuesday.

The Capitals have only five players left who played in that series: Wilson, fellow forwards Alex Ovechkin, Lars Eller and Nic ...

The Capitals' offseason acquisitions had their hands all over a Game 5 win to eliminate the Montreal Canadiens.

Washington’s clinical closeout win sent the Capitals to the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time since ...

The Washington Capitals looked every bit like the top team in the Eastern Conference most of the time in winning their ...

For the first time in seven years, the Washington Capitals were on the smiling end of a playoff handshake line. And they got ...