Alex Ovechkin’s feat put a fresh spotlight on the hockey star’s past support for Russia’s leader and on his stance on the war ...

Kremlin propagandist Valentin Bogdanov said he asked the FBI director for a reaction to Alex Ovechkin breaking the NHL ...

The Washington Capitals player scored his 895th NHL career goal, prompting praise from Russian media and politicians.

The International Ice Hockey Federation will decide in April ... one that includes the Russian team and one that does not. The matter needs to be resolved urgently, because not only the teams ...

Putin’s war in Ukraine, which has resulted in the Russian and Belarusian hockey teams being banned from international tournament play, has made that relationship increasingly fraught for Ovechkin.

To organize any such events in partnership with Russian government or sporting officials would be to ignore, and thereby to ...

“The International Ice Hockey Federation just voted to keep ... NHL teams also faced the Soviet Red Army team in exhibitions in the 1970s, and the USSR played Canada in Summit Series in ...

Alex Ovechkin broke one of the great records in sport when he surpassed the legendary Wayne Gretzky for goals in the NHL, but ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin gave Alex Ovechkin, the Moscow-born star player on Washington, D.C.’s, professional hockey team, a shoutout Monday. During a game against the New York ...

Raised in Moscow within the Soviet sports system by parents who were accomplished athletes, Alex Ovechkin was given every ...