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Players, coaches and teams will look to rewrite the postseason record book during the 2022 NHL playoffs. Here are some records that may soon be broken, and others that probably never will be.

Fenway Sports Group, which owns the Boston Red Sox, is about to add the NHL’s Pittsburgh Penguins to its portfolio, per a report.

A female high school hockey goalie returned to the ice after being heckled with obscene and sexist chants at a recent game.

California billionaire businessman Ronald Burkle’s adult son Andrew has been found dead at his home. The Burkle family says in a statement to People magazine that Andrew Burkle died Monday in Beverly Hills and will be greatly missed.

Capitals’ goaltender Braden Holtby is the second current player to turn down an invitation to the White House. Teammates are supporting each other whether they attend the White House visit or not, NBC Sports Washington’s JJ Regan reports.

The Washington Capitals placed playoff hero Devante Smith-Pelly on waivers Wednesday ahead of next week’s NHL trade deadline.

Washington Capitals right winger Tom Wilson could face a suspension of six or more games for a blindside hit to the head of St. Louis Blues center Oskar Sundqvist during a preseason game Sunday.

Washington Capitals right winger Tom Wilson could face a suspension of six or more games for a blindside hit to the head of St. Louis Blues center Oskar Sundqvist during a preseason game Sunday.

Washington Capitals player Devante Smith-Pelly said again Wednesday that he would not visit the White House if President Donald Trump invites the team to celebrate their Stanley Cup win.

Alex Ovechkin scored early and Andre Burakovsky added two second-period goals to help the Washington Capitals put a decade of playoff frustration behind them with a 4-0 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference final Wednesday night.

The Washington Capitals kept trying to downplay their own forgettable playoff history, the one pockmarked with disappointment and despair. Still, they couldn’t run from it.

Jakub Vrana scored the go-ahead goal with 4:38 remaining, Braden Holtby made 35 saves and the Washington Capitals beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 6-3 in Game 5 Saturday night to take a 3-2 lead in the second-round series and put the back-to-back defending Stanley Cup champions on the brink of elimination.

The NHL suspended Washington Capitals forward Tom Wilson for three games for an illegal check to the head of Pittsburgh Penguins forward Zach Aston-Reese in the second period of Game 3 of their second round series.

The schedule for the second round matchup in the NHL playoffs between the Washington Capitals and the Pittsburgh Penguins has been announced.

New evidence is being used to vet Russian athletes ahead of next month’s Pyeongchang Games, the International Olympic Committee said Thursday. The IOC said a database from the Moscow anti-doping laboratory shows evidence of attempts to “hide and modify” biological data pointing to steroid use. The Olympic body said it will pass on the data to international sports federations, who...

Dawn Staley and her champion South Carolina Gamecocks are still waiting for their invite to the White House. “We haven’t gotten an invitation yet and that in itself speaks volumes,” the women’s basketball coach told The Associated Press in a phone interview on Friday night. “We won before those other teams won their championships. I don’t know what else has...

The Stanley Cup is a blessing for one Pittsburgh Penguins family. Yesterday, Penguins’ right-winger Josh Archibald used the coveted Stanley Cup as a baptismal font for his son Brecken’s baptism. Philip Pritchard posted photos of the three-week-old’s christening on Twitter. Standing over the cup, a clergy member blessed the child’s head in one photo. Wearing white, Brecken sat propped in...

Jimmy Fallon hands out accolades to the Pittsburgh Penguins and Nashville Predators players competing for the Stanley Cup.

A video posted to YouTube Thursday shows an angry Washington Capitals fan knocking over a female Pittsburgh Penguins fan after Wednesday’s 2-0 loss ended the Caps’ season.