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Nic Dowd and Carl Hagelin will miss tonight’s game against Canadiens

Bottom six forwards Nic Dowd and Carl Hagelin will miss Friday night’s game against the Montreal Canadiens. Both forwards have upper-body injuries.

Hagelin practiced in a light blue no-contact jersey during the morning skate while Dowd did not at all. The injuries leave the Capitals with only 17 healthy skaters on their roster currently, necessitating a callup later today.

“There’ll be a recall made from Hershey for a player tonight. We’re going to meet and make that decision here in the next little while,” Todd Reirden said.

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By Ian Oland 3 days ago

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Carl Hagelin will miss Saturday’s game against Vegas Golden Knights with upper-body injury

The Washington Capitals will be without one of their bottom line forwards and top penalty killers against the Vegas Golden Knights, Saturday.

Carl Hagelin will miss the game with an upper-body injury.

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By Ian Oland 1 week ago

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The Washington Capitals’ Halloween costumes, ranked

It’s that time o’ the year again, boys and ghouls and babes: Caps Halloween is upon us. Instead of rating da boys on their Corsi and Fenwick or whatever, we will now rate them using the eye test. For their costumes.

After extensive research and focus group feedback, we have divided the costume criteria into three categories: Party Vibes, Arts And Crafts, and Unproblematicness.

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By Brennin Weiswerda 3 weeks ago

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These photos from the Capitals Canine Calendar photoshoot will make you want to adopt every dog on Earth

ARLINGTON, VA — The best day of the Washington Capitals season, in this author’s humble opinion, occurred Monday when Caps players participated in its annual dog calendar photoshoot. Partnering with Homeward Trails Animal Rescue, the boys spent the afternoon posing (and hugging and cuddling) with dogs up for adoption as well as their own pups from home. This year, the Capitals modeled in front of vintage cars or their own vehicles.

While the Homeward Trail dogs stole everyone’s heart (please return it soon please, I’m having trouble functioning), the day started out with an appearance by the Capitals new dog, Captain.

Captain posed in a vintage silver car and wore silly hats, loving the attention he got throughout.

Meanwhile, Capitals players John Carlson, Nic Dowd, TJ Oshie, Alex Ovechkin, Chandler Stephenson, Garnet Hathaway, and Nick Jensen all posed with their own dogs. Tom Wilson, Nicklas Backstrom, Lars Eller, Tyler Lewington, Jakub Vrana, Evgeny Kuznetsov, Dmitry Orlov, Michal Kempny, Radko Gudas, Carl Hagelin, Richard Panik, Jonas Siegenthaler, Brendan Leipsic, and Ilya Samsonov took their photos with dogs available for adoption through Homeward Trails.

Since the calendar began in 2014, the Caps have raised more than $250,000 for Homeward Trails. A limited number of calendars will be available for $20 beginning Nov. 27 when the Capitals host the Florida Panthers. The calendar will also be sold online and in the team stores at Capital One Arena and MedStar Capitals Iceplex. Details will be announced at a later date.

While the official photos won’t be seen until the release, we hope these adorable photos will tide you over until then.

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By Cara Bahniuk 1 month ago

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Please welcome Carl Hagelin to the blooper reel after this gnarly wipe out

On Wednesday, the NHL instagram account was taken over by skills coach Daniel Broberg, more popularly known as @db_hockey_factory. The takeover highlighted a handful of NHL players currently in Stockholm, Sweden getting ready for camp.

Among the handful of players was the Capitals’ very own left winger, Carl Hagelin! He glided around the ice, showing off some sweet skills training moves but, more importantly, he got a tad tripped up and still managed to gracefully pull off a tumble to the ice.

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By Elyse Bailey 3 months ago

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Carl Hagelin congratulates retiring Matt Cullen with shirtless pool photo

After 21 seasons in the NHL, 42-year-old Matt Cullen is calling it quits. The three-time Stanley Cup champion (2x Pittsburgh, 1 Carolina) announced his retirement through the Pittsburgh Penguins on Wednesday.

“I’ve been in a constant state of almost-retirement for the last few years. But coming into this last season, I knew that no matter what it would be the end,” Cullen wrote on the Penguins website in a Players’ Tribune-esque goodbye post. “It was an emotional time, but I knew it was coming. It just felt right and I was really at peace with everything when it was over. I felt like it was only right to retire in Pittsburgh with everything that the organization had given me and done for me. I’m so happy I came back and finished my last year in Pittsburgh. I wouldn’t trade that last year for anything.”

Cullen received many salutes on social media from his past teammates including current Capital Carl Hagelin.

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By Ian Oland 4 months ago

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A very good photo of three Stanley Cup champions in Prague

Carl Hagelin traveled from his native Sweden and had dinner last night with his “brother in law,” Capitals teammate Jakub Vrana, in Prague. And now there’s another confusing layer to this onion dip of a trip to the Czech Republic.

Jaromir Jagr was there too!

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By Ian Oland 4 months ago

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Jakub Vrana and ‘brother in law’ Carl Hagelin are hanging out in Prague

Jakub Vrana may not have signed a new contract with the Capitals yet, but he’s calling Carl Hagelin his “brother in law” on Instagram, so I feel pretty confident he’s coming back.

Vrana posted a video to his Instagram Story of himself having dinner with Hagelin in Prague.

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By Ian Oland 5 months ago

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From Brett Connolly to Jakub Vrana, here’s Brian MacLellan on all the pending Capitals moves you’re interested in this summer

Washington Capitals general manager Brian MacLellan made a rare appearance in front of the media on Thursday to discuss all the happenings of the team from injuries to the NHL Draft.

The most interesting part of the discussion came when Mac took questions on the team’s philosophy on moves this summer and beyond. The Capitals have a glut of middle and bottom six forwards that are free agents including Jakub Vrana, Andre Burakovsky, Brett Connolly, and Devante Smith-Pelly. Braden Holtby and Nicklas Backstrom are also unrestricted free agents the summer of 2021 and can begin negotiations on a new deal as soon as July 1.

We wrote about how the Capitals would like to bring back Andre Burakovsky, but are listening to offers. Here’s what MacLellan had to say on the others.

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By Ian Oland 5 months ago

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Carl Hagelin cites Capitals’ Stanley Cup window and role on team for re-signing. ‘I don’t think I ever thought about going to free agency.’

From the outside looking in, there was no guarantee the Washington Capitals or trade-deadline pickup Carl Hagelin would come to a contract agreement heading into the summer. Hagelin, a two-time Stanley Cup champion with the Pittsburgh Penguins, was coming off an expensive four-year, $16 million contract. With how close the Capitals were to the salary cap and how many important free agents they had now and in the future, a deal seemed far-fetched.

But late last week, after freeing up $3.405 million and addressing a need on defense (Radko Gudas) with the Matt Niskanen deal, the Caps found enough money to bring Hagelin back with a four-year, $11 million deal that’s worth $2.75 million per season.

According to Hagelin, he never even considered becoming an unrestricted free agent.

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By Ian Oland and Elizabeth Kong 5 months ago

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