After a 21-year hiatus, Starting Lineup figures will return to the marketplace in late September.
Fanatics announced the news in a press release on April 18.
The online sports retailer will partner with toy-maker Hasbro and trading-card company Panini to re-launch the popular and iconic brand.
The Hershey Bears announced on Thursday that they signed forward Matthew Strome and defenseman Michael Kim to AHL contracts for the 2022-23 season.
Matthew (right in the photo) is the younger brother of Washington Capitals forward Dylan Strome (left) and Anaheim Ducks forward Ryan Strome (middle). Last season the Mississauga native split time between the Lehigh Valley Phantoms of the AHL and the Reading Royals of the ECHL.
By Chris Cerullo 3 weeks ago
Former Capitals forward Mathieu Perreault retired from professional hockey on Thursday after 13 seasons in the NHL.
Perreault-cho cinco will not be out of a job long though. The Drummondville, Quebec-native will join the French-speaking TVA Sports network this fall and give his analysis on La Poche Bleue le midi — a daily sports news show providing “discussions, analysis, entertainment, and lots of fun”.
By Chris Cerullo 3 weeks ago
The Washington Capitals held their most heavily attended preseason informal skate at MedStar Capitals Iceplex on Thursday. Over a dozen NHL regulars attended and participated in various drills.
One very notable partaker in the action was winger Carl Hagelin. The Athletic’s Tarik El-Bashir reports that the veteran Swede took part in the skate wearing a normal white practice jersey instead of the light blue one he donned previously. That light blue sweater has in the past denoted a player rehabbing an injury a la defenseman Alexander Alexeyev who is still skating in his after undergoing shoulder surgery.
By Chris Cerullo 3 weeks ago
The Ottawa Senators re-signed star forward Tim Stützle to an eight-year, $66.8 million extension on Wednesday. The 2022-23 season will be the last season on his rookie, entry-level deal before this new extension kicks in.
The 20-year-old German broke out in his sophomore NHL campaign after moving to his more natural center position after spending the majority of his rookie season on the wing. In 79 games, the former third overall draft selection recorded 58 points.
Stützle’s the latest young star in the league to sign a max-length deal during the NHL’s current flat cap era.
By Chris Cerullo 3 weeks ago
The NHL announced the broadcasting schedule of its national TV partners on Wednesday.
The Washington Capitals will feature on national TV 13 times next season, including their Opening Night, home opener against the Boston Bruins on October 12.
By Chris Cerullo 3 weeks ago
The Washington Capitals continue to have more and more of their roster show up to informal skates at MedStar Capitals IcePlex. Rookie Camp begins in a little over a week and the start of the main Training Camp is now just two weeks away.
Wednesday, the two newest faces to show up in the on-ice group are also new to the team altogether. They come in the form of offseason additions Dylan Strome and Connor Brown.
By Chris Cerullo 3 weeks ago
When I was a web designer during my mid-20s, I once had a programmer tell me something I’d never forget. After he noticed I was constantly wound up and staying late in the night to finish a website for an important client, he pulled me aside and said “work smarter, not harder.” I was burning myself out and, while my hard work was admirable, a different approach would be better for me, the team, and the project as a whole.
That lesson is also apparently something that the goal-driven Hendrix Lapierre learned this summer as well.
Lapierre, intensely focused on making the NHL, is aware that his smaller body type and frame hold him back from being able to consistently produce in the top league in the world. So during his summers, he hits the weight room with a fury. But while he’s making progress, he’s found that his gains were perhaps not where he wanted them to be yet.
By Ian Oland 3 weeks ago
Hendrix Lapierre participated in the NHLPA Rookie Showcase at MedStar Capitals Iceplex.
Not only did the 20-year-old rookie reveal the first real-life example of the Capitals’ new jersey ad, but he also dished more on his experience playing with his childhood idol, Alex Ovechkin, last season.
“It was great,” a smiling Lapierre said to the media, including RMNB. “Yeah, he’s my teammate, but he’s still my idol pretty much. I grew up watching him. As you guys saw, I had a poster of him and a bunch of jerseys and stuff. Being with him on a daily basis for 30 [days] last year was awesome.”
Washington Capitals 2022 third-round draft selection, Alexander Suzdalev, signed with the Regina Pats of the WHL for the 2022-23 season in mid-August. The deal reunited him with former teammate Connor Bedard.
Bedard, the expected runaway number one overall selection in the 2023 NHL Draft, played parts of the 2020-21 season with Suzdalev on HV71’s Jr. team. The 17-year-old phenom spoke after a day of Regina Training Camp action about what it’s like to play with the talented Swede.
“He’s such a skilled player,” Bedard said. “I got to play with him a bit in Sweden a couple years back. In these couple intrasquad games so far, it’s been so fun to play with him. He’s so skilled and it seems like he can find me all the time. I’m really looking forward to building that chemistry and he’s definitely a special player.”
By Chris Cerullo 3 weeks ago
