First up to start the series, we have Buffalo Sabres forward JJ Peterka. The 23-year-old has been improving every year since his rookie season, and is up for a pretty big pay raise this summer.

Washington surged after a big hit by Wilson, with Andrew Mangiapane’s winner coming with 3:37 left, as the Caps beat the Canadiens, 5-2, for a 3-1 series lead. “I don’t,” Capitals Coach ...

Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin tied Wayne Gretzky's all-time NHL goal record Friday night with two scores against the Chicago Blackhawks. "The Great One" was in the building, with ...

the Jackets avoided elimination from the playoff race for the fourth straight game by downing the Washington Capitals, 4-1, at Capital One Arena to sweep the top team in the Eastern Conference in ...

Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin has broken Wayne Gretzky's NHL career goal record. Ovechkin, 39, entered this season needing 42 goals to break Gretzky's record of 894 career goals ...

Bailey Johnson joined The Washington Post in 2023 to cover the Washington Capitals. Previously, she spent two years at the Columbus Dispatch, where she started on the high school sports beat ...

We need to continue to do that in the last four games." Buffalo took a 2-0 lead in the first period on goals by JJ Peterka and Rasmus Dahlin before Blue Jackets forward James van Riemsdyk cut it ...

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Aaron Judge broke a sixth-inning tie in the second game with his eighth home run this season, and the New York Yankees swept a doubleheader from the Toronto Blue Jays 11-2 and 5-1 Washington ...

The crash closed a one-mile stretch of the southbound Baltimore-Washington Parkway early Friday, snarling traffic headed into the District from Maryland.

Dan Balz is chief correspondent at The Washington Post. He joined The Post in 1978 and has been involved in political coverage as a reporter or editor throughout his career. Before coming to The ...

Jeff Stein is the White House economics reporter for The Washington Post. Since joining The Washington Post in November 2017, he has covered the Republican tax law; the government shutdown ...