The Washington Capitals announced that they optioned Martin Fehervary and Vitek Vanecek down to Hershey, Wednesday morning.
The day prior, head coach Todd Reirden hoped the 20-year-old Fehervary would get a multi-game audition to show how much he had developed in Hershey during the season.
Hershey Bears goaltender Vitek Vanecek was named the MVP of the 2020 AHL All-Star Challenge held in Ontario, California, Monday night.
Vanecek only allowed two goals during parts of the Atlantic Division’s four games in a round-robin tournament.
Hershey Bears goaltender Vitek Vanecek has been named to the 2020 AHL All-Star Game. Vaneck will join Bears teammate and the Atlantic Division captain, Matt Moulson, in Ontario, California over the weekend. The Bears also announced that forward Mike Sgarbossa is “unavailable to participate.”
The 24-year-old Czech goalie is 13-7-1 with a 2.37 goals against average and .910 save percentage this season.
The Bears announced the news in a press release at noon Tuesday.
Ilya Samsonov may be married now, but he still has a special place in his heart for Vitek Vanecek.
On Tuesday, the Czech goaltender was named the Hershey Bears’ player of the week after posting a shutout and back-to-back victories.
In the comments of the Instagram post announcing the news, Samsonov congratulated his former teammate.
Yes, it included the kissy face emoji.
There were many wonderful tiny moments during the Hershey Bears’ world record-breaking Teddy Bear Toss at Giant Center, Sunday night.
One of my personal favorite exchanges was when goaltender Vitek Vanecek and defenseman Martin Fehervary switched roles and Vitek started shooting Teddy Bears at Fehervary with his goalie stick.
The Hershey Bears held their annual Teddy Bear Toss Game Sunday night at Giant Center. 45,650 stuffed animals rained down onto the ice, breaking the world record they set last season of 34,798.
Stanley Cup champion Christian Djoos, who was sent down to the AHL earlier in the day by the Capitals, scored the historic Teddy Bear Toss goal.
By Ian Oland and Cara Bahniuk 4 months ago
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).
Ilya Samsonov gave up four goals on 39 shots during the Capitals’ 5-2 loss to the Montreal Canadiens Friday.
Saturday morning, the Caps’ backup netminder was sent down to Hershey, but not for the reason you might think.
By Ian Oland 5 months ago
A significant portion of the Washington Capitals roster has returned to DC over the last few weeks to participate in informal practices at MedStar Capitals Iceplex leading up to the first day of Training Camp on September 12.
But many of these players, and some who still remain at home, are using the Labor Day holiday weekend to do one final trip with their loved ones before the start of the season.
Here’s what your favorite players (and PA announcer) are up to!
Jake the 🐍 is back!
Wednesday afternoon, Vitek Vanecek posted to his Instagram Story showing that both he and his close friend Jakub Vrana are back in DC. Vrana will soon join star players like Braden Holtby, TJ Oshie, John Carlson, Nicklas Backstrom, and Evgeny Kuznetsov who have been participating in informal skates at MedStar Capitals Iceplex over the last few weeks.
