Team Russia played Team Sweden on Tuesday, and Alex Ovechkin scored his second goal of the 2019 IIHF World Championship during the second period.
Pittsburgh Penguins’ center Evgeni Malkin tallied the primary assist.
By Brennin Weiswerda 5 days ago
Tuesday afternoon the Hershey Bears announced that they had signed Logan Thompson to a one-year AHL contract for the 2019-20 season.
The Canadian goaltender has previously participated with the Capitals organization in their Development Camp and Rookie Tournament in 2018.
By Rachel Cohen 5 days ago
Dmitrij Jaskin is a big, cheap forward with a good reputation and even better numbers — but the coach won’t play him.
By Peter Hassett 5 days ago
Capitals’ play-by-play announcer Joe Beninati may be going home with some more hardware at the 61st Capital Emmy Awards. Beninati, who has won 12 Emmy Awards previously, is nominated for two more awards, including Sports Play-by-Play announcer and Sports Event/Game-Live/Unedited.
The 61st Capital Emmy Awards will take place on June 22nd at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center. A live stream will be available on the Capital Emmy’s website.
Beninati has been calling Capitals games on TV since 1994 and has been covering the team together with Craig Laughlin for 25 years.
By Cara Bahniuk 6 days ago
The Washington Capitals aren’t done. The team announced its second re-signing of the day – this time, Hershey Bears forward Brian Pinho. Pinho will make $700k at the NHL level, and $100k in the AHL.
Drafted 174th overall by the Capitals in the 2013 NHL Draft, Pinho played his first professional season with the Hershey Bears in 2018-19. Over 73 regular season games, Pinho scored four goals, and tallied eight assists. His only goal of the 2018 Calder Cup playoffs was a decisive tally in overtime of Game Five, sending Hershey to the Atlantic Division Finals.
By Donya Abramo 6 days ago
Team Great Britain has had a rough time during their first return to the top tier of World Championship hockey since 1994. But, in amongst the shellacking and beatdowns, the team never once gave up. Finnish coach Jukka Jalonen even commented of Team GB, after Finland’s 5-0 win over them, that, “I think Great Britain played very well today. They fought hard, played well together, and made it very hard for us to score.”
Goaltender Ben Bowns posted 227 saves in seven games, but his world-class backstopping was never quite enough to buoy Great Britain to a win. And so, Great Britain entered Monday needing to beat a far more experienced French side, who have been competing at the top tier of World Championship hockey since 2008.
A win of any kind would keep Great Britain in the top division, with the IIHF tie-breaker for teams on the same points being the winner of the matchup. A loss of any kind would send them back to Division I-A.
Welshman Ben Davies ensured that the Team GB hockey dream would remain alive through 2020. Davies deked French goaltender Florian Hardy and sent a backhand shot into the net, giving them a 4-3 overtime win, and Team GB went as wild as they might have had they won gold.
By Donya Abramo 6 days ago
The Washington Capitals announced their first signing of the offseason Monday afternoon. The Caps re-signed Hershey Bears forward Shane Gersich to a one-year, two-way contract for next season. Gersich will make $700k at the NHL level and $115k at the AHL level.
The Capitals have also guaranteed Gersich a minimum salary of $125,000.
If you want to call Braden Holtby‘s 2018-19 season a bounce-back, I wouldn’t blame you, but I think that might even undersell it a bit. Holtby rules.
By Peter Hassett 6 days ago
The Sharks and Blues entered Game Five of the Western Conference Final tied with two wins apiece. And while the game started off relatively evenly–the Sharks had eleven shots in the first period, but the Blues had one goal on four shots–the Sharks sank pretty quickly after that.
The Blues ended up with twice as many shots as the Sharks (40-21) while the Sharks had six times as many penalty minutes (36-6).
By the end of the game, the Sharks’ bench was six players short: Erik Karlsson, Joe Pavelski, Tomas Hertl, and Joonas Donskoi with injuries, and Micheal Haley and Evander Kane for misconducts.
Halfway through the third period the Sharks even tweeted out a picture of their depleted bench with an emoji version of the sarcastic “this is fine” meme.
By Brennin Weiswerda 7 days ago
Russian machine never breaks, but it does leak human blood sometimes.
Saturday, during Russia’s 3-1 win against Latvia, Alex Ovechkin was struck in the face by a broken stick.
Ovechkin showed off the war wounds the following day during Russia’s 3-0 win over Switzerland.
