Saturday night, the Washington Capitals traveled to Bridgeport, Connecticut, and played the New York Islanders at Webster Bank Arena. Five minutes into the first period, Marcus Johansson suffered a lower body injury.
In tonight’s preseason game, the Caps are facing Jason Chimera’s New York Islanders. After the first period, the Caps are up 1-0 thanks to a power play goal by our #88 defenseman Nathan Schmidt.
By Elyse Bailey 7 years ago
The Capitals announced the first large group of cuts to the training camp roster on Thursday. The cut players will report back to their junior hockey teams, to AHL camp in Hershey, or if they were on a professional tryout they will just be released.
By Chris Cerullo 7 years ago
In the second period of tonight’s game vs. the Habs, Andrew Shaw decided to continue his streak of being the biggest dickhead in the sport and was ejected for boarding Caps defenseman Connor Hobbs.
By Elyse Bailey 7 years ago
Several Caps fans that ventured to Verizon Center tonight noticed someone else other than George McPhee in the house. Hall of Famer Chris Chelios was in the house to watch his son, 24-year-old defenseman Jake Chelios, play for the Carolina Hurricanes.
By Elyse Bailey 7 years ago
Photos: Amanda Bowen
The Capitals closed out the 2015-16 preseason with a dominating 6-2 win over the New York Islanders on Sunday evening. The Isles iced their B-squad players, making this final game an easy win for the home team.
The stars of the night were Ovechkin-Kuznetsov-Oshie line and Washington’s special teams, as you’ll see below.
By Amanda Bowen 7 years ago
The Capitals announced their final roster cuts Monday morning. The most surprising dismissal was veteran center Derek Roy, who played well during training camp. With Jay Beagle announced as the team’s third-line center and Nicklas Backstrom potentially missing only four games, the Caps must have seen little upside keeping Roy around as a fourth-line center.
The Caps also cut forwards Liam O’Brien and Chandler Stephenson, defensemen Aaron Ness and Ryan Stanton, and goalie Justin Peters, who struggled mightily last year, from training camp. That means Philipp Grubauer will be Braden Holtby’s back-up this year.
As the Capitals PR team noted, Ness, Peters, and Stanton will all have to pass through waivers before joining the Hershey Bears in the AHL.
For those of you keeping track at home, that means forwards Chris Brown (who is injured), surprise-of-camp Sean Collins, and oft-criticzed Stan Galiev all remain on the roster, at least for now.
Photo: @washcaps
(I’m not going to spend too much time on this because the Islanders were playing their B-team and hadn’t played in six days.)
The Washington Capitals beat the New York Islanders 6-2 on Sunday. Alex Ovechkin scored two power play goals and they were both gr8 shots from The Ovi Spot.
Photo: Amanda Bowen
When TJ Oshie took the ice for the Caps’ final preseason game against the New York Islanders, he sported a shiner under his left eye and a cut on the bridge of his nose. His battle wounds were courtesy of Adam McQuaid’s fists on Friday night. McQuaid is the veteran of 43 NHL fights.
Photo: Amanda Bowen
Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin called TJ Oshie a “tough customer” after TJ’s fight with enforcer Adam McQuaid Friday. Ovechkin was impressed with how his new linemate could dish out punishment and take it as well.
“I see a couple good hits in his face,” Ovechkin said to NHL.com’s Katie Brown.
After reviewing photos from RMNB’s Amanda Bowen and social media, I can confirm that Ovechkin saw those “good hits in [Oshie’s] face.” Ovechkin and the Bruins’ Chris Kelly had front-row seats to the fight. Together they watched, arms wrapped around each other like they were taking Homecoming photos.
