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Alex Ovechkin will make his preseason debut against Detroit Red Wings as Capitals look to test out new power play

The Great Eight is ready for some game action.

Washington Capitals head coach Spencer Carbery announced that the first practice group from Wednesday’s Training Camp session would be the team’s game group for Thursday’s matchup against the Detroit Red Wings. That means that Caps captain Alex Ovechkin will take the ice for his preseason debut.

Other veterans that will join Ovechkin on the ice include Nicklas Backstrom, Evgeny Kuznetsov, Tom Wilson, Nic Dowd, TJ Oshie, John Carlson, and Charlie Lindgren.

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Spencer Carbery thinks Connor McMichael’s a gamer: ‘When the game’s on the line, he wants the puck; he wants to be the guy’

ARLINGTON, VA–Connor McMichael will make his first appearance in the Capitals’ preseason lineup on Thursday, but it won’t be his first time playing under head coach Spencer Carbery. The two spent a season together with the Hershey Bears in 2020-21 before Carbery left to take an NHL job with the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Carbery’s emphasis on young players’ development should mesh well with McMichael, who spent nearly all of last year with Hershey after a full rookie season with the Capitals in 2021-22. Now reunited in Washington, McMichael and Carbery are continuing to build on a foundation established back in the AHL.

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Ivan Miroshnichenko skates on top line with Alex Ovechkin and Nicklas Backstrom, power play gets first work during Training Camp

The Washington Capitals and new head coach Spencer Carbery kicked off another day of Training Camp with a bit of a surprise among their forward lines. When Group A took to the ice for their practice session, it was apparent that some interchanging of the team’s regular two groups of players had gone on.

No longer was Anthony Mantha a part of the team’s top trio with Alex Ovechkin and Nicklas Backstrom. That honor belonged to 2022 first-round draft selection, Ivan Miroshnichenko.

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Joel Edmundson to miss 4-6 weeks with fractured hand

ARLINGTON, VA–The Capitals will officially be without both of their biggest offseason acquisitions to start the regular season. On Wednesday morning, the team announced that defenseman Joel Edmundson will miss 4-6 weeks after undergoing a procedure on a fractured hand.

Edmundson’s injury came on Sunday during an intrasquad scrimmage ahead of the team’s first preseason game against the Buffalo Sabres. He missed practice Tuesday before having a meeting with team doctors to determine the injury’s severity.

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By Katie Adler 2 days ago

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Martin Fehervary is literally faster than Connor McDavid (and all other defensemen in the NHL)

Martin Fehervary is a gifted, quick skater, especially for a defenseman, and the Washington Capitals have known that since he was drafted in the second round of the 2018 NHL Draft. But, what if someone were to tell you that he’s literally faster than Edmonton Oilers superstar Connor McDavid?

Via data from NHL Edge, the league’s puck and player tracking technology, Fehervary did in fact post a faster “top maximum skating speed” during the 2022-23 season than McDavid. Fehervary actually finished third in the entire league with his 24.21 mph max speed and McDavid finished sixth (24.16 mph).

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NHL 24 rates Alex Ovechkin as fifth-best left wing in hockey, gives him top ratings in both wrist shot and slap shot power

The 2023-24 season won’t start for another few weeks, but Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin has already gotten his first grade of the campaign.

Ahead of the release of video game NHL 24, EA Sports is revealing their in-game ratings for top NHL players. The game, which comes out on October 6, will feature Colorado Avalanche star defenseman Cale Makar as its cover athlete.

Ovechkin is still the highest-rated player on the Caps in the latest edition of the game and is ranked as the fifth-best left wing in hockey. His overall rating comes in at 91, down one point from the 92 he received last year.

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Vincent Iorio is ready to push for a regular role with the Capitals: ‘The fire is already there. I’ve been working really hard this summer.’

The Washington Capitals have already suffered two injury scares to defensemen early during 2023 Training Camp. Trevor van Riemsdyk looks to have dodged any time out of the lineup after leaving Sunday’s preseason game early but the same can’t be said for Joel Edmundson.

New head coach Spencer Carbery told the media on Tuesday that Edmundson’s upper-body injury prognosis was “probably not good.” While that is rough news this early in the year — especially for a Caps team who dealt assets to acquire Edmundson — the injury also means more opportunity for younger names on the blueline depth chart.

One of those names is Vincent Iorio, the Caps’ top pick from the 2021 NHL Draft and someone the team already expected to play in 10-20 NHL games this season.

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Spencer Carbery gives update on Joel Edmundson after scrimmage injury: ‘Probably not good, but we’ll know more tomorrow’

ARLINGTON, VA–The Capitals may have to wait longer than expected to see offseason acquisition Joel Edmundson in action. Though Edmundson was not in the lineup for Sunday’s preseason opener against the Buffalo Sabres, he sustained an upper-body injury during an intra-squad scrimmage and did not practice Tuesday.

Edmundson is set to meet with team doctors Tuesday afternoon, head coach Spencer Carbery told reporters. Carbery wouldn’t have a firm sense of the injury until after that meeting, but he didn’t seem optimistic.

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Spencer Carbery’s forward lines and defense pairings after Capitals make first round of Training Camp cuts

The Washington Capitals made their first round of Training Camp cuts on Monday. Four players were sent back to their junior teams and eight others have been returned to the AHL’s Hershey Bears as the team trimmed down from 63 combined skaters and goaltenders to 51.

After the cuts, the Caps took the ice on Tuesday in just two groups compared to the three that they started the preseason with. Within those two groups, new head coach Spencer Carbery has tweaked his lines and defense pairings a tad since the first time we saw them last week.

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Joel Edmundson misses Training Camp skate with upper-body injury, Trevor van Riemsdyk practices after leaving game early

The Washington Capitals returned to the ice at MedStar Capitals Iceplex on Tuesday after having a day off following their first action of the preseason. But one player did not come out of Sunday’s action unscathed and it’s not one who played against the Buffalo Sabres.

According to TNT’s Tarik El-Bashir, veteran defenseman Joel Edmundson suffered an upper-body injury in the scrimmage held for players not on that gameday roster. The newly acquired blueliner is still being evaluated to determine the severity of that injury.

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