Caps legend Travis Boyd is now a member of the Coyotes, who I believe are still located in Arizona as of press time. Boyd will be paid $750k on his one-year contract.
Boyd played 85 games for Washington before playing for Toronto and then Vancouver.
By Peter Hassett 2 months ago
The Vancouver Capitals are at it again!
Monday, Vancouver claimed Travis Boyd off waivers from the Toronto Maple Leafs. According to Sportsnet’s Chris Johnston, the Leafs were trying to save cap space ahead of the April 12 trade deadline by stashing Boyd on their taxi squad and only going with a 20-man roster.
That plan, uh, did not work.
Over the offseason, Travis Boyd signed a one-year, $700k deal with the Toronto Maple Leafs, leaving the Capitals after six seasons in their organization.
After being put on waivers by the Leafs and placed on the taxi squad at the beginning of the year, Boyd, a 2018 Stanley Cup champion, made his Leafs debut Tuesday against the Calgary Flames after sitting out the team’s first seven games.
He scored in his first game with his new team.
By Ian Oland 8 months ago
The NHL had one of the biggest waiver days in its history on Monday per The Athletic’s Thomas Drance.
With training camps so massively short due to the pandemic-shortened 2020-21 season, teams opted to hold onto their plyers until the last possible waiver wire day, leading to over a 100-plus players being putting up for grabs. Nine Washington Capitals players were a part of that group highlighted by Pheonix Copley, Paul LaDue, and Shane Gersich.
Braden Holtby wasn’t the only member of the Capitals’ 2018 Stanley Cup team to leave the team since the start of free agency.
Bottom-six forward Travis Boyd also signed a one-year deal with the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday, ending a six-year tenure with the Capitals and Hershey Bears.
Shortly after signing, Boyd posted a goodbye note to the organization.
Another Caps Cup-winner has moved on. Depth forward Travis Boyd is now a member of the Toronto Maple Leafs, inking a one-year deal at the league minimum of $700,000.
By Peter Hassett 12 months ago
The Washington Capitals had until 5 PM on Wednesday to extended qualifying offers to their remaining restricted free agents.
The team has chosen to extend qualifying offers to Jonas Siegenthaler and Shane Gersich, keeping their rights, while choosing to non-tender Travis Boyd, Connor Hobbs, and Kristofers Bindulis, who will become unrestricted free agents on Friday.
By Ian Oland 12 months ago
Travis Boyd is extremely low-key. He’s a bottom-six ninja.
By Peter Hassett 1 year ago
In his media availability on Thursday morning, Caps head coach Todd Reirden set expectations for tonight’s round-robin game against the Philadelphia Flyers.
Travis Boyd will step into the lineup, but less is certain about John Carlson.
By Peter Hassett 1 year ago
Alex Ovechkin scored his first goal since the coronavirus pandemic paused the 2019-20 season (as long as you don’t count all of these and these).
During an intrasquad scrimmage featuring all active members of the Capitals Phase 3 roster, Ovechkin tallied the only goal for Team White. Team Red was victorious 3-1.
