The Washington Capitals beat the San Jose Sharks 5-2 at the Shark Tank on Tuesday and it got chippy and chirpy.
Evander Kane was ejected for a high hit on Radko Gudas late in the game, knocking the Capitals defenseman woozy and out of the game.
At the teams’ two benches, Joe Thornton and Tom Wilson had a conversation that was, thankfully for all of us, caught on a hot mic.
Nicklas Backstrom will miss his sixth straight game with an undisclosed upper-body injury.
Tuesday, during the morning skate, Backstrom was an extra forward indicating he would not get a jersey tonight.
Connor McMichael’s groundbreaking (or I guess, icebreaking?) year continues.
Monday, the 18-year-old Capitals prospect was named to Team Canada’s World Junior Championship Selection Camp, where he will have an opportunity to make Canada’s 2020 U-20 World Junior team.
The nod is another honor for McMichael this calendar year which includes being a first-round pick (25th overall) in the 2019 NHL Draft, signing his first NHL contract, and participating in his first NHL training camp (where he was dominant at times in games).
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On Monday, December 9, 2019, our website, Russian Machine Never Breaks, will celebrate its tenth anniversary. (Come to our party!). Over the years, lots of people expressed puzzlement at why we named our hockey website after the United States’ geopolitical rival.
The name is actually a quote uttered by Alex Ovechkin thirteen years ago. Recently I spoke to The Athletic’s Tarik El-Bashir, the beat writer who first reported the viral quote, about its origin.
Washington Capitals forward Carl Hagelin has been cleared by the Capitals and will return to the lineup Tuesday against the San Jose Sharks. Monday was the first day Hagelin was eligible to come off the long term injured reserve.
Hagelin has missed the Capitals’ last 11 games due to an unknown upper-body injury.
There were many wonderful tiny moments during the Hershey Bears’ world record-breaking Teddy Bear Toss at Giant Center, Sunday night.
One of my personal favorite exchanges was when goaltender Vitek Vanecek and defenseman Martin Fehervary switched roles and Vitek started shooting Teddy Bears at Fehervary with his goalie stick.
It took 20 games, but Capitals’ second-round pick Brett Leason finally scored his first AHL goal of this career. And it came in one of the biggest games of the Hershey Bears season: Teddy Bear Toss Night.
Leason scored the overtime game-winning goal and tallied the first three-point game of his professional career against the Hartford Wolf Pack.
The Hershey Bears held their annual Teddy Bear Toss Game Sunday night at Giant Center. 45,650 stuffed animals rained down onto the ice, breaking the world record they set last season of 34,798.
Stanley Cup champion Christian Djoos, who was sent down to the AHL earlier in the day by the Capitals, scored the historic Teddy Bear Toss goal.
By Ian Oland and Cara Bahniuk 1 week ago
In the midst of a four-game road trip, the Washington Capitals have sent down Beck Malenstyn and Christian Djoos to the Hershey Bears, suggesting some injured Capitals players are getting healthy and ready to return.
The Capitals, who defeated the Detroit Red Wings on Saturday 5-2, do not play again until Tuesday against San Jose.
At this point in his career, Alex Ovechkin makes history almost every night he touches the ice. And Saturday, after scoring his 24th career hat trick against the Detroit Red Wings, Ovechkin joined more elite company after notching his 15th straight 20-goal season to start his career.
Ovechkin is only the fifth player ever to do so joining Marcel Dionne, Mike Gartner, Jaromir Jagr, and Mats Sundin.
