Oshie and Backstrom were by Ovechkin's side during the long journey to the record. Sunday's game was no different.

Brooks Orpik, T.J. Oshie, Braden Holtby and Devante Smith-Pelly also joined Backstrom on the ice. They performed the ...

Gretzky, of course, was in attendance at the Islanders game along with Washington star Nicklas Backstrom, who played for ...

Perhaps Ovechkin and Backstrom could team up one last time if Backstrom ... it was natural for Nestor to become interested in ice hockey and he played Minor Hockey as a teenager, which has ...

ARLINGTON, V.A. – Alex Ovechkin was the one to call Nicklas Backstrom ... a legitimate hockey town. "That was obviously very special... we created this hockey city vibe," Backstrom said.

As Alex Ovechkin closes in on Wayne Gretzky’s all-time goal-scoring record, hockey fans are faced with a decision: how to balance the celebratory aspects of the winger’s historic achievement against ...

Nicklas Backstrom ... regular-season team in the NHL three times (2010, 2016, 2017). “It was a pretty special moment when we won together there, and we realized that,” Backstrom said of ...