Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman is reporting that the Washington Capitals and Nicklas Backstrom are in talks on an extension. Backstrom is an unrestricted free agent at season’s end.
Friedman reported the news during Hockey Night In Canada’s Saturday Headlines segment.
By Ian Oland 3 weeks ago
Nicklas Backstrom missed practice on Friday at MedStar Capitals Iceplex and will not play in Saturday’s game against the Vancouver Canucks.
The star center remains out two days after missing his first game of the season Wednesday with an upper-body injury.
The Washington Capitals have made a flurry of roster moves ahead of a potential Garnet Hathaway suspension for spitting.
Wednesday morning, the Capitals announced that star center Nicklas Backstrom, in a surprise, will miss the New York Rangers game with an upper-body injury. Nic Dowd and Carl Hagelin remain out. In corresponding moves, the Capitals placed Carl Hagelin on the long term injured reserve list (eligible to be activated Dec. 2) and Nic Dowd on injured reserve (eligible to be activated Nov. 21).
We have found the must-have holiday gift of the season. Sorry, Capitals fanny pack; It’s not you. Put your shopping lists away, because there is only one thing worth having under the tree this Christmas and it is the Nicklas Backstrom elf bobblehead.
The Capitals unveiled the bobblehead last week, where it is included in a special two-game holiday pack. Purchasers will receive two tickets to two games, two Caps t-shirts, and one festive Backstrom bobblehead.
By Ian Oland and Elizabeth Kong 1 month ago
The day after becoming the seventh most prolific point-scorer among Swedish-born skaters, Nicklas Backstrom tried to do his best so that his son could one day be a better player than him.
Backstrom took his tiny three-year-old son Vince out onto the ice before the Capitals’ optional skate Friday.
Nicklas Backstrom registered a secondary assist on Alex Ovechkin’s 13th goal of the season, Thursday night against the Panthers. It was a milestone point.
With the assist, Backstrom jumped ahead of Hockey Hall of Famer Peter Forsberg for seventh place on the all-time points list for Swedish-born players.
Coming into Thursday’s game against the Florida Panthers, the Washington Capitals are the best team in the league and they’re taking this honor very seriously.
During a Very Serious Evgeny Kuznetsov interview, Alex Ovechkin and Nicklas Backstrom did Kuzy’s signature goal celebration, flapping their wings up and down like a bird.
Great moments in team-building history can strike at any time. And before the Capitals game against the Toronto Maple Leafs, Caps players needed some quick thinking and some ingenious teamwork to fix all the things they broke during a pregame bout of sewer ball.
The Capitals broke a light multiple times and then – whoops! The soccer ball got stuck in the ceiling of Scotiabank Arena.
According to their practice schedule, the Washington Capitals spent Saturday in Vancouver before traveling to their next destination, Toronto, on Sunday.
Whatever the Capitals did in the Couv to relax and unwind, there was definitely some cuddling teammates, as documented on Alex Ovechkin’s Instagram.
“love u bro!” Ovechkin wrote in a caption as he sat in Nicklas Backstrom’s lap with his arms around his longtime center. The two veteran Capitals both laughed ridiculously.
By Ian Oland 2 months ago
Braden Holtby and Nicklas Backstrom were crucial pieces of the Capitals’ Cup-winning team. With both due to become free agents at the end of the 2019-20 season, Washington’s front office has important decisions to make for both of them. They could be traded for assets now, re-signed to big deals, or simply let go at the end of the season.
TSN’s “Insider Trading” video with Pierre LeBrun and Bob McKenzie recently covered the considerations and negotiations between players and management. LeBrun said he doesn’t think a new deal is coming soon, and that Holtby, Backstrom, and the team are aware that it comes down to how the team will look when the playoffs approach.
By Brennin Weiswerda 2 months ago
