The Washington Capitals will wear five different jerseys during the 2022-23 season and Monday, they announced when they’ll rock their navy blue alternates.
The Capitals will wear the W jersey 10 times starting on October 17, 2022, and ending on April 17, 2023.
The NHL announced a multi-year partnership with Supponor on Monday that the league says will transform how we view hockey on television and streaming.
The NHL is introducing Digitally Enhanced Dasherboards (DED) that give broadcasters the ability to put dynamic graphics over arena boards. This will allow in-arena advertisements to be replaced by things like live stats, betting odds, goal celebration graphics, and dynamic ads on local, national, and international NHL game broadcasts.
We could see never-before-seen things on the boards like URLs, social media, and QR codes per the NHL.
By Ian Oland 5 hours ago
Washington Capitals players are a good bunch and on Sunday, Bally Sports Ohio’s Dave Maetzold shared another example.
The rink-side reporter for the Columbus Blue Jackets revealed that Capitals players helped a fellow fan and cancer survivor meet Alex Ovechkin at the team bus after missing the Caps captain the Columbus Blue Jackets preseason game. Ovechkin signed the fan’s jersey and took a photo, sending them “over the moon with excitement.”
Ovechkin, who played the night before against the Detroit Red Wings, did not dress against the Blue Jackets on Saturday, but watched from above at Nationwide Arena as a healthy scratch.
Maetzold pointed out that the interaction was private and “organic.” He added, “Just great players being human.”
The Hershey Bears announced their initial 28-man Training Camp roster on Sunday hours after the Capitals made its second large cut of Training Camp.
The 2022-23 Bears’ team, as its currently constructed, will be headlined by local product Sam Anas and Capitals’ first-round pick Hendrix Lapierre.
Several strong veteran players are on the way.
By Ian Oland 1 day ago
If it wasn’t official before, it is now. The Washington Capitals have their goaltending duo for the 2022-23 season.
The team will go with Darcy Kuemper and Charlie Lindgren as its number one and number two after placing Zach Fucale on NHL waivers, Sunday.
The news was reported by Chris Johnston.
By Ian Oland 1 day ago
The Seattle Kraken revealed its first mascot on Saturday and it actually has something in common with some of our more critical Twitter followers. It should go back under the bridge from where it came.
After a year-long wait, Buoy the Troll was unveiled to the Kraken crowd during its preseason game against the Vancouver Canucks, Saturday.
Buoy rappelled down from the rafters where he was met by mild cheers from a confused Seattle crowd.
To be precise, Buoy is not a sea monster but is monstrous.
Coolio passed away at the age 59 on Wednesday.
The Washington Post’s Samantha Pell reported on Twitter that the Capitals paid tribute to the legendary rapper after their 2-0 victory against the Detroit Red Wings on Friday.
The team played the Coolio hit Gangsta’s Paradise to celebrate their win. Pell added that the song was “literally blaring” as she approached the locker room.
The Washington Capitals will be without one of their organizational depth goaltenders for the first part of the season.
Saturday, the Capitals announced that Clay Stevenson had surgery to address an unspecified injury to his right hand.
Per the team, Stevenson is expected to miss four to six weeks, putting his return sometime around early to mid-November.
The Washington Capitals will play the second half of a preseason back-to-back on Saturday.
The Caps will take on the Columbus Blue Jackets at Nationwide Arena. The game will be streamed live on the Capitals’ website and can be heard on Caps Radio 24/7.
The Capitals dressed a mostly star-studded lineup against the Detroit Red Wings as Alex Ovechkin and Darcy Kuemper made their preseason debuts. Against the Blue Jackets, the second half of the team will dress, but featuring one notable return from Friday: Aliaksei Protas.
By Ian Oland 2 days ago
On Tuesday, Sportsnet freelancer and former Kings of Leonsis founder, Adam Vingan, tweeted what appears to be The Definitive list for the most handsomest head coaches in the NHL. Put together by researchers from gambling.com, the sports betting website used the beauty measurement app, Golden Ratio Face, to determine who was the sexiest coach and who was the most looks-challenged.
Despite the list’s vast reach and discussion on Twitter, I thought giving coverage to something so superficial, ridiculous, and kinda mean was beneath even our non-lofty standards of coverage. Yet, NHL beat writers started asking head coaches about the list and inadvertently gave it a Capitals angle, thus making it in bounds for YA BOI IAN OLAND.
