ARLINGTON, VA — With just two weeks remaining before training camp, the Capitals have welcomed more familiar faces to their informal skates at MedStar Capitals Iceplex. Martin Fehervary, Connor McMichael, and Sonny Milano joined the skate on Thursday morning after arriving back in DC.
Offseason acquisitions Andrew Mangiapane and Brandon Duhaime also began participating in the skates earlier in the week. Both were back at the rink Thursday morning as they prepare for their first season with the Capitals.
Fehervary’s appearance comes just over a week after an injury forced him to withdraw from Team Slovakia at the 2026 Winter Olympic Qualifiers. He had previously revealed the injury to NHL.com’s Nick Cotsonika, though he indicated it wasn’t serious.
“I would like to [play at the Qualifiers],” he said then. “We’ll see. I’m still a little bit dealing with some health issues, but we’ll see how the thing’s going. So far it looks good. [It’s] nothing major. I’m practicing, but it’s before the season and we talked with the Caps and if I’m not going to be 100 percent, I shouldn’t go. So, we’ll see.”
McMichael is back with the Capitals after signing a two-year, bridge extension with the club this past summer. The 23-year-old center is set for a Training Camp competition to earn one of the four center spots in the team’s everyday lineup.
Due to injuries, Milano dressed for only 49 games during the 2023-24 campaign. Despite that, the crafty winger recorded a new career-high in goals in a single season with 15.
This week’s new additions at the informal skates join an ever-growing group of participants with training camp just around the corner. Other notable players who skated on Thursday included Pierre-Luc Dubois, Logan Thompson, Matt Roy, Nic Dowd, Jakub Vrana, Dylan Strome, Aliaksei Protas, Taylor Raddysh, Vincent Iorio, and Bogdan Trineyev.
The Capitals are set to hold their annual rookie camp from September 13-16 before kicking off training camp on September 19.
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