Ice hockey great Jaromir Jagr has announced he is selling a majority stake in his hometown team the Kladno Knights in the Czech league.

Capitals forward Alex Ovechkin has scored goals against more unique goalies than any player in NHL history, passing Jaromir Jagr.

Ovechkin has 21 goals in 29 games, including six in 11 games since returning from a broken leg that held him out for 40 days. He's scoring at a pace of .72 goals per game and 2.49 goals per 60 minutes, the most in the league of any skater.

Alex Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals is closing in on the NHL goals record of 894 held by Wayne Gretzky. Ovechkin has 876 goals and needs 19 to break the record.

With his overtime goal on Thursday, Alex Ovechkin has now scored against 179 different goalies in his NHL career — more than any other player.

Alex Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals is closing in on the NHL ... He also has 134 game-winning goals, two away from breaking Jaromir Jagr's mark (135). Ovechkin has scored on 179 goaltenders ...

Ovechkin entered this season needing 42 goals to break Gretzky's record of 894 career goals, which has stood since 1999. The Washington captain has 23 goals this season, with 31 games left. This season, he moved into second place with 20 consecutive 20-goal seasons and set a record for the number of goalies he has scored against in his career.

For the Washington Capitals, this season was expected to be about Alex Ovechkin's chase to surpass Wayne Gretzky for the NHL's career goal-scoring record.

With the Capitals in town Thursday night, Kraken fans get an up-close view of Alex Ovechkin as he closes in on Wayne Gretzky's record for goals scored.

OK, so it’s not Alex Ovechkin vs. Connor McDavid at Rogers Place on Tuesday. The Edmonton Oilers superstar was suspended for three games following a stick-wielding kerfuffle in the dying seconds of their previous one against the Vancouver Canucks,

beating Leevi Merilainen in overtime to give the Washington Capitals a 1-0 victory over the Ottawa Senators on Thursday night. Merilainen became the 179th goalie Ovechkin has scored against, breaking a tie with Jaromir Jagr atop the career list.

No. 2 Michigan State allowed two goals in the third period in a 4-2 loss against No. 11 Ohio State on Thursday at Value City Arena.