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Tom Wilson and Alex Ovechkin vacation together in Mexico, play beach volleyball

Alex Ovechkin is vacationing in Mexico’s Riviera Maya for the bye week with his wife Nastya, his son Sergei, and his extended family.

We can now add first-line forward Tom Wilson to that list.

Monday afternoon, Nastya Ovechkina posted video to her Instagram Story of Wilson and his girlfriend, Taylor Pischke, playing a game of volleyball against Ovechkin on the beach. Pischke is a professional volleyball player from Canada.

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By Ian Oland 23 hours ago

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Here’s where the Capitals vacationed during the bye week

At first glance, one might think that All-Stars Braden Holtby and Hardest Shot winner John Carlson had the best vacation of all the Washington Capitals. You would be wrong.

The Capitals are returning for a Thursday morning practice ahead of a Friday night game against the Calgary Flames. Here’s what your favorite Caps players got up to during the All-Star Break and 2019 bye week!

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By Brennin Weiswerda and Ian Oland 12 months ago

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Brett Connolly, Taylor Chorney, Braden Holtby, and Tom Wilson went to Punta Cana together for bye week

Dolphin-loving teammates Andre Burakovsky, Jakub Vrana, and Devante Smith-Pelly may have vacationed together in the Bahamas, but they weren’t the only group of Caps players who spent the bye week together.

Brett Connolly, Taylor Chorney, Braden Holtby, and Tom Wilson all traveled to Punta Cana. The beach destination is located in the easternmost tip of the Dominican Republic.

If course the Holtbeast brought his best floppy hat for the occasion.

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By Ian Oland 2 years ago

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Andre Burakovsky and Jakub Vrana took a photo with a dolphin

Wednesday afternoon after re-joining the team in New Jersey, Capitals forward Andre Burakovsky reminisced about his bye week fun.

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By Ian Oland 2 years ago

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Alex Ovechkin feeds seagulls, lays down on bed at Bed Bath & Beyond during bye week vacation

Alex Ovechkin leads the league in goals at age 32 and is one of the game’s greatest players. So how does a legend like this spend a mandated bye week?

Ovechkin, like many of his teammates, migrated south and visited a tropical locale (Miami). But instead of taking a dip in the ocean or digging his toes in the sand, the Russian machine fed seagulls on the beach.

I’m serious.

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By Cara Bahniuk 2 years ago

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Andre Burakovsky would like to be a dolphin trainer

Andre Burakovsky is spending his bye week vacationing in the Bahamas with Jakub Vrana and Devante Smith-Pelly.

Like his visit in 2016, Burakovsky visited Atlantis’s Dolphin Cay.

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By Cara Bahniuk 2 years ago

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Andre Burakovsky, Jakub Vrana, and Devante Smith-Pelly are vacationing together in the Bahamas

In breaking bye week news, Caps teammates Andre Burakovsky, Jakub Vrana, and Devante Smith-Pelly are all vacationing together at Atlantis in the Bahamas.

Each player posted a similar balcony video in their Instagram story, once they arrived in their hotel room.

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By Ian Oland 2 years ago

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For bye week, Nate Schmidt vacations in Cabo with Golden Knights teammates (and their abs)

The NHL bye weeks are upon us and for the players (not named PK Subban) that means going to the beach.

The first-place Vegas Golden Knights are currently in day four of their scheduling hiatus and a big chunk of their core (get it?) went to Cabo San Lucas in Mexico.

While posing on a boat with his teammates, former Capital Nate Schmidt even debuted pink swimming trunks.

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By Ian Oland 2 years ago

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The bye week didn’t break the Caps, you silly geese

The Washington Capitals have a 5-4-1 record since their time off in mid-February. Normally, being a bit above a .500 points percentage isn’t bad, but for a team with Cup aspirations it’s been dispiriting.

Some have blamed the bye week for the Caps’ slump. One fan put it this way:

f$&k the bye week

— Capital Bobbler (@capitalbobbler) March 1, 2017

I don’t agree. I watched and covered Thursday’s game at San Jose, and — besides the result and the hour — I thought it was a solid game of road hockey by the league’s best team. I’m pretty confident the Caps are still good. Maybe they’re just not as lucky anymore.

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By Peter Hassett 3 years ago

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Caps fall to the bye-week curse in back-to-back losses

This weekend the Capitals dropped back-to-back road games to the Red Wings and the Rangers, losing two in a row for the first time since late December. The NHL is piloting a new “bye week” this season, whereby each team gets a five to seven-day mid-season break.

This weekend marked the Caps’ return from their own bye week and the continuation of what has been dubbed “the bye-week curse.” So far, 16 of 19 teams (including the Caps) have lost their first post-bye game.

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By Nathan Sick 3 years ago

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