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The Washington Capitals invited FCC chairman Brendan Carr to perform the ceremonial puck drop before a game last season. Carr did not reply to the email and appears to have declined the offer. The invitation was made by Zach Leonsis, president of media and new enterprises for Monumental Sports & Entertainment. The email was unearthed
From the outside, Alex Ovechkin broke the NHL goals record with relative ease during the 2024-25 season, scoring 44 goals in 65 games and posting his fifth-best goals-per-game mark of his career (0.68). But behind the scenes, Ovechkin admitted that he felt the enormity of what he was trying to accomplish, especially when he experienced
The NHL made a long-rumored project official on Wednesday. In conjunction with the retailer Fanatics, the NHL will release one new special-edition jersey for each team as part of the Hometown Remix program. While the league promises more information after the 2026-27 season begins on Tuesday, September 29, 2026, there is no official drop date
The Washington Capitals are getting serious with two of their young players headed for restricted free agency next summer. Capitals general manager Chris Patrick has begun contract negotiations with both Ryan Leonard and Justin Sourdif, per NHL.com’s Tom Gulitti. Both players have one year remaining on their current deals. Leonard is entering the final season
Alex Ovechkin is building a hockey memorabilia museum in Moscow, and some of his Washington Capitals teammates have become very familiar with the process. Every time Ovechkin scores a big milestone goal, he asks whoever assists on the marker for the gear they wore or used while making the assist. Cole Hutson, one of Washington’s
Cole Hutson made his NHL debut for the Washington Capitals on March 18 against the Ottawa Senators. The then-teenage defender skated an impressive 16:24 of ice time, scoring his first NHL goal into an empty net with 26 seconds remaining in regulation. While it may have looked like Hutson was cool as a cucumber for
Alex Ovechkin's mother, Tatyana, is being open about who she'd like her son to end his hockey career with.
Logan Thompson was arguably the best goaltender in the NHL last season. However, he didn’t finish within the top three for Vezina Trophy voting, and it appears he’s still having some trouble earning respect from one of the league’s top media outlets ahead of the 2026-27 campaign. NHL Network released a top-10 list of goaltenders
Alex Ovechkin will be back in the Washington, DC area early next month. “He plans to go to Washington in early September,” Ovechkin’s agent Gleb Chistyakov told TASS, as translated by Google Translate. Washington Capitals training camp typically starts during the third week of September. Ovechkin spent the first part of his summer on vacation
Riley Sutter is known more for his checking and penalty-killing than his offense. But in a KHL preseason game against Dinamo Minsk, the two-time Calder Cup champion with the Hershey Bears scored a highlight-reel goal for the Shanghai Dragons that took some incredible hand-eye coordination. Riley Sutter preseason goal After a Dinamo defenseman blocked Sutter’s
