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Capitals place Devante Smith-Pelly on waivers (UPDATED)

UPDATE, 12:15 PM: Despite earlier reports that the Caps would waive Dmitrij Jaskin, the team has placed Devante Smith-Pelly on waivers instead. This story has been updated to reflect the changes. We have reached out to the team for comment. The original story appears below.

The Washington Capitals are beginning to prepare their roster ahead of the trade deadline.

Forward Devante Smith-Pelly has been placed on waivers.

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By Peter Hassett and Ian Oland 2 days ago

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Report: Capitals ‘possibly… checked in’ on Marcus Johansson, want Michal Kempny 2.0 at trade deadline

The Washington Capitals have struggled over the last two months and are no longer in first place in the Metropolitan Division. Reinforcements may be coming.

According to Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman, the Capitals are looking to be active ahead of the February 25 trade deadline and may be looking to have a reunion with a beloved former player.

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By Ian Oland and Peter Hassett 3 days ago

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Red eyes and deadlines

The trade deadline is but scant days away, so it’s time for Peter and Ian log onto the podcast one last time to ask the age-old question, are the Caps good? The team has problems — big problems — but they seem poised to make the playoffs … except Ian isn’t so sure. That, plus sleep problems and almost no esports chatter at all on the RMNB podcast.

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By Peter Hassett 4 days ago

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Squandered: Ducks beat Caps 5-2

The Washington Capitals should have had this one. The Ducks are a disaster: fired coach, goalie hurt, in the west’s basement. But they still totally outplayed Washington, who sabotaged themselves at every step.

Alex Ovechkin scored the lone goal of the first period, his 40th this season, just as a power play expired. Anaheim responded with two goals in the second period, including a mortifying one by Jakob Silfverberg as the Caps defense just sorta didn’t — more on that below. Carlson replied late in the second with a long slapper that hit some traffic in front of Ryan Miller.

But the Ducks got the lead early in the third period with a wild scramble in front of Holtby’s net and extended it with a Corey Perry power-play goal. With five minutes left, Silfverberg struck again after the Caps turned the puck over in neutral.

Caps lose.

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By Peter Hassett 5 days ago

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Caps at Ducks pregame: California knows how to party

The Caps’ tough road trip has gone pretty okay so far with Thursday’s solid win over the San Jose Sharks. Sunday night finds the Caps in Orange County, visiting the Anaheim Ducks, who are in deep doodoo.

Hope you set your TV to record True Detective because this one starts at 9:00 PM on NBCS Washington. You can stream the thing on the My Teams app too. I’m Peter, known for my good tweets, and I’ll do the recap thing.

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By Peter Hassett 5 days ago

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Rush goals are killing the Caps

I write a lot of game recaps, and those recaps have a section where I summarize all the goals that got scored, and I realized lately I’ve been using the word “rush” a lot in that section. For example, on Tuesday two of the three goals Columbus scored came on the rush, continuing a pattern we’ve been seeing all season.

The Caps have problems with their transition game, and they’re paying for it on defense. Whatever Brian MacLellan does to improve the team between now and the deadline should be paired with fixes to the x‘s and o‘s of Washington’s neutral-zone system.

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By Peter Hassett 1 week ago

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🚽🚽🚽 Blue Jackets beat Caps 3-0 🚽🚽🚽

Y’all. I don’t know exactly what just happened here, but it seems that the Caps got turbo-trounced by the Columbus Blue Jackets. To kick off their longest and most important road trip of the season, the Caps got their butts kicked. In hindsight, I imagine, Washington’s training staff will regret having replaced the team’s sports drinks with whatever horse-tranquilizers-and-LaCroix mix they were obviously chugging on Tuesday night.

After a (mercifully) scoreless first period, Anthony Duclair scored for Columbus, exploiting a bad line change that created a three-on-one rush. In the third, Nick Foligno got a goal (again, on the rush) to settle the matter. Artemi Panarin added an empty netter.

Caps loose. I know that’s a typo but I’m keeping it. For stylistic reasons.

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By Peter Hassett 1 week ago

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Caps vs Panthers pregame: Happy birthday, Burkie!

The Caps’ season-long homestand continues tonight as the Florida Panthers come to town. The Panthers have all but given up on a playoff run this season and appear to be gearing up for a ton of activity in free agency (courting Panarin and Bobrovsky maybe?), but that doesn’t mean the Caps can count them out.

The game begins at 7 PM on NBCS Washington. Stream that badboy using the My Teams app. The divine Ms. Elyse will write about the game for you.

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By Peter Hassett 2 weeks ago

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Five changes that will turn Caps into Cup contenders again

If you think the Capitals are worse than they were a year ago, you’re sorta right, but only just barely. By the numbers, there actually isn’t much difference between the team that lined up in February of 2018 and the one we see now.

I hope general manager Brian MacLellan takes that as both encouragement and motivation. Last year he spun some magic to turn the Caps from a so-so team into a team of destiny. He’s going to have to do it again, and here’s how.

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By Peter Hassett 2 weeks ago

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Caps beat Canucks 3-2 on Beagle’s big homecoming

The Caps handled the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday night, recording a badly needed win and welcoming home a beloved fan fave.

TJ Oshie forced a turnover then scored on a rebound to open scoring in the first period. The second went scoreless, which is the word we use when no one scores even if the game has a score, which obviously it did, it was 1-0 Caps. Brett Connolly crashed the net in the third period to get his first goal in 13 games, but Markus Granlund replied by catching a nice pass from Antoine Roussel to get the Canucks on the board a couple minutes later. Jakub Vrana put the Nucks back in their two-goal hole with a weird, weird goal. Elias Pettersson got a goal with the Nucks net empty, but it was over.

Caps win 3-2!

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By Peter Hassett 2 weeks ago

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