Alex Ovechkin got back on the ice this week for the first time since the Washington Capitals were eliminated from the 2024 playoffs. The Great Eight laced up his skates and played in a Dynamo Moscow alumni game with other graduates from the club's academy in his age group. Ovechkin flew back to his native…
Before heading back to DC for the start of Training Camp, Evgeny Kuznetsov was a guest on Slippery Ice, a Russian-language hockey show co-hosted by former Capitals forward and team amateur scout (per Elite Prospects) Andrei Nikolishin. After discussing his 2019 NHL-levied, three-game suspension for inappropriate conduct related to a positive drug test, Kuznetsov was…
The Washington Capitals appeared resistant to give young players minutes during the Peter Laviolette era, but with Lavy gone, Alex Alexeyev, seemed ecstatic about his future in DC. Spending much of the 2022-23 season as a healthy scratch and extra defenseman, Alexeyev showed promise at the end of the year while regularly receiving a lineup…
Evgeny Kuznetsov held his first press conference with Capitals media on Thursday, the first day of Capitals Training Camp. There, he seemed to blame himself for last season's struggles and called Spencer Carbery "a perfect match" for a rebound year in 2023-24. “I’m not the guy that’s going to get big paycheck and be happy…