Tag: Washington Capitals

Rumors: Johansen’s KHL Offers, Stars, Vermette and Green

Farhan Lalji: CSKA Moscow (KHL) were suppose to be sending Ryan Johansen a one-year $5 million offer last night. It would be his seventh offer from a KHL team. Mike Heika: There has been open dialogue between the Stars and RFAs…

Mark Easson

Rumors II: Friedman’s Thoughts, Handzus, Nylander, BizNasty and Timonen

Elliotte Friedman of SportsNet: CBA talks between the NHL and the Refs/linesmen are moving well.Will a team offer Mike Babcock a role similar to Patrick Roy's position with personnel control? Roy is also the VP of Hockey Operations. With five…

Mark Easson

Morning Hits: Alfie, Lucic, Price … PTOs – Coyotes, Wings, Caps and Devils

Helene St. James: Daniel Alfredsson's back pain is bad enough that they don't expect him at training camp later this week. SportsCentre: Alfredsson's agent said they'll wait till his back settles down before making any decisions. Matt Kalman: Bruins Milan…

Mark Easson

Rumors: Soderberg, Johansen, Bobrovsky and Bellemare

Fluto Shinzawa of the Boston Globe: Bruins center Carl Soderberg will be a UFA at the end of the season and he could explore the open market. He won't be a top-two center with the Bruins, but another team might…

Mark Easson

Rumors: Blue Jackets, Stars, World Cup, Capitals and Vokoun

Katie Strang: Kurt Overhardt, Ryan Johansen's agent, spoke with Blue Jackets assistant GM Bill Zito yesterday. There is a still a big gap, but both sides will continue to talk. Aaron Portzline: Boone Jenner would likely move back to center…

Mark Easson

Morning Hits: Maple Leafs, Capitals, Kings, Lightning and Devils

Kevin McGran: MLSE's Tim Leiweke:  “There are players we have in our org today whose numbers are off the chart good + whose character is just terrible.” Pierre LeBrun: In an email, Leiweke said that he was talking about players…

Mark Easson

Washington Capitals 2014-15 Season Primer

The Washington Capitals are the last Metro division and Eastern Conference team in our season primer series. Use the below Tabs to view Capitals info for this upcoming season, as well as some numbers from last year. 2013-14 record: 38-30-14, 90…

Mark Easson

Quick Hits: Winter Classic, SportsVu Tracking, Diaz and Fraser

Mike DeBonis of the Washington Post: The NHL and Washington Nationals have reached an agreement to host 2015 Winter Classic at D.C. ballpark according to three sources close to the talks. The Capitals are set to face the Blackhawks on…

Mark Easson

Rumors: Ovi and Malkin, Wild, Canucks, Heatley and UFAs

Igor Eronko: KHL president Alex Medvedev to Sport-Express.ru on when we'd see Alex Ovechkin and Evgeni Malkin in the KHL: 'You mean comeback to Russia? There might be good surprises in a year' Michael Russo of the Star-Tribune: Training camp…

Mark Easson

Rumors: Red Wings, Avalanche and Oilers

Ansar Khan of MLive: (mailbag) Tyler Myers and Mike Green were among the players the Red Wings looked at acquiring this offseason. The Wings inquired about Ryan Kesler but they didn't have the assets to acquire him or didn't want…

Mark Easson

Morning Hits: Datsyuk, Kuznetsov and Vincour

Katie Flynn of theScore: Red Wings Pavel Datsyuk hasn't ruled out playing for his hometown Avtomobilist Yekaterinberg of the KHL before his hockey days are finished. He'll be 38-years old when his Red Wings contract expires in three years. Datsyuk…

Mark Easson

The Top 10 Worst NHL Contracts

Every year teams sign players to contracts that are awful. It’s the nature of the business, sometimes you have to take a gamble to try to improve your team, and sometimes, those gambles backfire drastically. For my list, the likes…

Greg Stamper