Alexander Ovechkin

It’s been a rough couple of weeks for sports officials. Hockey star Alex Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals blamed the referees for his team’s collapse and first-round departure in the NHL playoffs. A Major League Baseball umpiring crew...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Alex Ovechkin played the last two games of the Washington Capitals' season with what the team said Thursday is a hairline fracture in his left foot. Ovechkin was hurt during Game 6 of Washington's first-round playoff series...

The Sports Xchange Ovechkin played two playoff games with broken foot Losing is painful enough, but Washington Capitals center Alex Ovechkin endured even more suffering while managing to play with a broken left foot in the final two games of an...

The Sports Xchange Capitals' Ovechkin to join Team Russia at '13 World Championships Though the Washington Capitals were eliminated in a seven-game series to the New York Rangers, star Alex Ovechkin will continue playing. The Capitals announced that...

The Sports Xchange NHL Roundup: Stars oust head coach, assistant The Dallas Stars fired head coach Glen Gulutzan on Tuesday after two seasons. Assistant coach Paul Jerrard has also been dismissed, Jim Nill announced less than a month after he...

Even one of the few seemingly healthy Panthers players needed surgery after an injury-marred season, as rookie forward Jonathan Huberdeau underwent successful hip surgery Tuesday in Nashville. Huberdeau, one of four Panthers to play in all 48 games,...

The Sports Xchange Rangers 5, Capitals 0 WASHINGTON -- Before his team caught a flight to the nation's capital ahead of Monday night's seventh and deciding game against the Washington Capitals, New York Rangers coach John Tortorella told reporters...

SportsDirect Inc. Recap: Rangers 5, Capitals 0 Rangers 5, Capitals 0: Henrik Lundqvist turned aside 35 shots to post his second consecutive shutout and make fourth-liner Arron Asham's first-period goal stand up as New York recorded the franchise's first...

The Sports Xchange Rangers clobber Caps in Game 7 shutout WASHINGTON -- Maybe New York Rangers coach John Tortorella was simply being prophetic when he said Game 7 is when "you make your legacy as a player." Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist took another...

The sixth-seeded New York Rangers and Southeast Division champion Washington Capitals are no strangers to facing off in a decisive Game 7. After the Rangers defeated the Capitals in last season's Eastern Conference second-round series with a 2-1 home...

Rangers 1, Capitals 0: Henrik Lundqvist stopped 27 shots for his seventh career playoff shutout and Derick Brassard scored midway through the second period to help host New York force Game 7 in its Eastern Conference first-round series. Brassard fired a...

NEW YORK — They haven't met in the playoffs in 40 years. They haven't meant when it has really mattered since Emile Francis was coach and Glen Sather was one of his Rangers players. They haven't meant since Orr and Espo were in Boston and Don Cherry...