The Washington Capitals added two players at the 2026 NHL Trade Deadline: defenseman Timothy Liljegren and forward David Kampf.
The two newest Caps selected their jersey numbers with the team on Saturday evening. Liljegren will don number 27, and Kampf will wear number 64.
Timothy Liljegren, #27
Liljegren’s new digits are a change from the number 37 he wore in his prior two NHL stops with the Toronto Maple Leafs and San Jose Sharks. No one on the Capitals currently wears 37, but the last to do so was legendary goaltender Olaf Kolzig, making the number unofficially retired.
According to a 2023 article on The Athletic from Joshua Kloke, it doesn’t sound like Liljegren will be too upset to leave the number 37 in the past.
“I just got the number,” Liljegren said then. “I don’t care about the number. I don’t have a special number. I’ve played on so many different teams, I’ve had so many different numbers.”
Before Liljegren, twenty other players have worn 27 while with the Capitals. Some of the most notable names to do so include Paul Mulvey, Dave Christian, Craig Berube, Ben Clymer, Karl Alzner, and, most recently, Alex Alexeyev.
David Kampf, #64
Kampf has only worn the number 64 in the NHL since his debut with the Chicago Blackhawks in 2017. The only other number he has worn in North America was 7 during his 33-game stint with the Rockford IceHogs in 2017-18.
“I got it in Chicago,” Kampf told Kloke of number 64. “I always wore number 10 when I was young, but six plus four equals 10, right?”
Kampf will become only the fourth player in Capitals franchise history to wear 64, joining Roman Tvrdoň, Peter LeBlanc, and Brian Pinho.
