Caps legend Travis Boyd is now a member of the Coyotes, who I believe are still located in Arizona as of press time. Boyd will be paid $750k on his one-year contract.
Boyd played 85 games for Washington before playing for Toronto and then Vancouver.
By Peter Hassett 6 hours ago
Today is a dog’s birthday. And if you’re like, “that’s not newsworthy” then
a) shut up
b) yes it is to me
c) also we’re a hockey site and it’s August
d) oh and it’s Anthony Mantha‘s dog, Millie, who is flawless
By Peter Hassett 2 days ago
Ex-Caps goalie Phillipp Grubauer and the expansion Seattle Kraken will have to restructure and resubmit their contract after the league rejected their first draft.
As reported by CapFriendly, Grubauer’s initial deal was front-loaded in violation of league rules.
By Peter Hassett 3 days ago
The deadline for eligible players to file for arbitration passed today. We now have the list of players who filed, and Capitals goalie Ilya Samsonov is not on it.
Two ex-Caps are though.
By Peter Hassett 3 days ago
Hello. I used this offseason to make a new record, and now you can hear it. If you want. It’s not mandatory or anything. It’s called Discord and Strife, and it’s streaming everywhere now. There’s a music video below too.
By Peter Hassett 3 days ago
Some scandalous news for your Saturday evening: San Jose Sharks forward Evander Kane is under investigation by the NHL for allegedly gambling on games in which he has played.
The allegations come from a source close to Kane who says the player deliberately lost games in collusion with bookkeepers.
By Peter Hassett 4 days ago
The New York Rangers have spent the last two weeks retooling their team by beefing up its roster with both smöl and lörge enforcers. They’ve traded for Barclay Goodrow, signed Jarred Tinordi as a UFA, and acquired Ryan Reaves – the self-proclaimed “solution to your Tom Wilson problem.”
The moves scream as an overreaction to the melee Wilson started with the Rangers in early May, which resulted in two line-brawls, over a half-dozen fights, an aggressive press release from the Rangers, and NYR mass-firing nearly everyone who had decision-making power over the team.
Friday, Capitals general manager Brian MacLellan was asked what he thought of all the hubbub during an interview on DC101’s Elliot In The Morning.
After being swept by the Baltimore Orioles last week, the Washington Nationals decided to blow up the team and rebuild, leaving only a handful of players remaining from the 2019 World Series team.
The Nats made six trades over the last 24 hours – none more painful than sending pitching ace Max Scherzer and star shortstop Trea Turner to the Dodgers for four prospects.
Friday night, after things finally settled down, the Nats posted this tribute video for Scherzer.
Alex Ovechkin is celebrating his new five-year contract with the Washington Capitals with new merch. Thursday, Ovechkin released I’m Back DC!!! shirts in his online Nike Store.
Free agency has been particularly wild this year. With teams extra wary due to the flat salary cap and in the wake of the Seattle expansion, the deals might not have been as big we had hoped, but I think we’ve still got a good bunch of eye-raisers.
I’ve analyzed every deal made during free agency and assigned grades to the very best of them . . . plus one very bad deal that I do not like at all.
By Peter Hassett 5 days ago
