The NHL released a rendering for the upcoming 2023 Stadium Series Game between the Washington Capitals and Carolina Hurricanes on Saturday. The game is being held outdoors at the sold-out Carter-Finley Stadium.
The league also announced its game day entertainment plans, which are mostly slanted toward Carolina Hurricanes fans.
The design of the Washington Capitals’ Stadium Series jersey leaked online Thursday ahead of an official announcement by the team or the league.
Adidas, who is in the final season making jerseys for the league, published the sweaters on their website overnight.
ESPN 960 producer Mike Callow first noticed and posted the jerseys on Twitter.
By Ian Oland 10 months ago
The severely banged-up Washington Capitals wrapped up their early season road trip with a valiant 3-2 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes on Monday night. The Caps were able to grab the loser point on the back of some heroics from their goaltender and the defensive play in front of him.
Boo the shootout.
By Chris Cerullo 1 year ago
Darcy Kuemper scuffled early in the season. The former Av was plagued by bad bounces and a handful of tough goals. But the Capitals’ prized free agent signing over the offseason rebounded big time to finish the month of October with an impressive stat line.
Kuemper’s latest triumph came in a shootout loss to the Carolina Hurricanes on Halloween night. The 2022 Stanley Cup champion made 33 saves on 35 shots to finish the evening with a .943 save percentage. Kuemper stopped 12 of 14 high-danger chances he faced to keep the Caps in a game they probably should not have been in.
Kuemper was coming off the first shutout of his Capitals career – a 3-0 blanking of the Nashville Predators.
The Washington Capitals, decimated, wrapped up their road trip against the scary Carolina Hurricanes. And despite a dozen reasons why it could have been a slog, this was a really good and fun hockey game!
Stefan Noesen deflected Brent Burns point shot to make it 1-0 early, but Dylan Strome tied it up at the top of the second period, working hard off a rebound to beat Freddy Andersen. Alex Ovechkin got an Ovi Shot from the Ovi Spot – but assisted by Erik Gustaffson – to give the Caps a short-lived lead. Andrei Svechnikov tied it up with a very lucky bounce. Darcy Kuemper went super-saiyan to keep the Caps alive into overtime.
The Caps survived a Lars Eller penalty in overtime, so we got the shootout. For the first time this season, here are your shootout bullets:
Caps lose 3-2 in the shootout.
By Peter Hassett 1 year ago
This is your place to check for updates and comment along with the Capitals vs. Hurricanes game on October 31, 2022.
Happy Halloween, all you goobers, goblins, and witches! Tonight the Washington Capitals will take on the Carolina Hurricanes and — just to be totally upfront here — I’m just going to lean heavily into Halloween puns for this introduction because the Caps’ roster is so grim.
The Capitals are facing the scary possibility of being without TJ Oshie for most of the season after the team announced he was out indefinitely due to a lower-body injury earlier in the day. John Carlson will also ride his figurative broomstick up to press row due to an awkward fall Saturday.
What to watch for? Connor McMichael will get into his second game of the season and skate on the second line. Will he get a prolonged look up in the top six with big minutes or will he be sent away to go Trick or Treating on the bench? I don’t know, but I bet Peter Laviolette gives away toothbrushes.
Matt Irwin will unshroud himself from the figurative linen wrapping his body and waddle arms forward into his first game of the season tonight. The guy’s a pro’s pro and has played for Laviolette forever. Bet big mummy on him having a solid game.
The Capitals shut out the Predators after getting shut out by the Stars. That kind of symmetric opposite-ness is terrifying to me. But perhaps that’s the perfect potion to avoid a shutout of any kind tonight.
Tonight’s game is on NBC Sports Washington Plus and puck drop is a little after 7 pm.
PS – I’m sorry for the puns. Why do you read what I write?
The NHL just announced that tickets for the Capitals-Hurricanes Stadium Series game will go on sale Thursday, October 27, at 10 am.
This will mark the first sale of tickets to the general public.
The Carolina Hurricanes are a mid-market team, but they are selling outdoor game tickets like one of the big boys.
Carolina Hurricanes’ GM Don Waddell revealed that the team has already sold 30,000 tickets — which appears to be over half of the capacity — for its Stadium Series game against the Washington Capitals. The game will be held at a football venue, NC State’s Carter-Finlay Stadium, on February 18, 2023.
Waddell said that it’s “the most tickets sold to any season-ticket base of any franchise” for any previous outdoor game. The team sold out of its original allotment in three hours.
Canes fans are clamoring for even more tix, too.
By Ian Oland 1 year ago
The Washington Capitals and Carolina Hurricanes will have an Outdoor Game first when they take on each other at NC State’s Carter-Finlay Stadium on February 18, 2023.
ESPN’s Greg Wyshynski is reporting that fans will be allowed on the field for the Stadium Series game via new standing room only tickets. Or at least that’s how it’s being described.
By Ian Oland 1 year ago
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman held a press conference on Wednesday ahead of Game One of the Stanley Cup Final between the Colorado Avalanche and Tampa Bay Lightning.
During the event, the NHL released the official logos for its three upcoming outdoor games being held during the 2022-23 season.
That includes the mark for the Stadium Series game between the Washington Capitals and Carolina Hurricanes, which is being held on February 18, 2023, at NC State’s Carter-Finley Stadium.
