Alex Alexeyev missed practice on Wednesday for personal reasons and now we know why.
Alexeyev and his wife, Kate Alexeyeva, welcomed their first child, a baby boy, on Wednesday.
Monumental Sports Network’s Tarik El-Bashir was the first to report the news.
The newfound dad strength comes as Alexeyev will likely be called into game action with several injuries to Capitals defensemen. The 24-year-old blueliner has been a healthy scratch all eight games this season.
Alex and Kate married last May and announced they were having their first child a month later.
Alexeyev’s happy news comes a week after we learned that Connor McMichael and his girlfriend Lene became first-time parents.
“We’ve got a lot of new little Caps coming into the fold,” head coach Spencer Carbery said Thursday.
Congratulations, Alex and Kate!
