The offseason has arrived for all but a handful of teams who are still taking part in the playoffs. Accordingly, it’s now time to examine what they will need to accomplish over the coming months. Next up is a look at the Washington Capitals.
Although the NHL is still in the off-season, rumour season is well underway. Here are just a few of the rumours currently attracting attention on the Bettman circuit: Alex Ovechkin wants to finish his career in Russia Alex Ovechkin will be 39 at the start of next season.
Nick Alberga: There had been some speculation that Craig MacTavish could be a possibility to join Craig Berube‘s staff in Toronto. A source said there is “no chance” of that happening.
It remains to be seen whether Alex Ovechkin can break Wayne Gretzky’s regular-season goals record; Ovechkin has 853 and Gretzky 894. Will Ovie be able to score 42 goals over the next two campaigns, as he turns 39 in September and has slowed considerably over the past year and a half?
The Washington Capitals snuck into the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs with just 91 points before being swept by the New York Rangers in the Eastern Conference quarterfinals.
We say it often enough, but the fact is clear: Kent Hughes and Martin St-Louis seem to prefer good players on 200 feet. They don’t want one-dimensional players.
With the NBA's Wizards now joining the NFL's Commanders and MLB's Nationals in possessing a No. 2 overall draft pick during the past calendar year, things could look different in D.C. very shortly.
The Penguins won big in the series-deciding game that was super tight for the first six games. Fifteen years ago today, the Penguins went into the Verizon Center for a series-deciding game with the Capitals and ran out of the building with an easy win.
Alex Ovechkin and his Washington Capitals are in for another long offseason after being swept in the first-round of the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs by the New York Rangers.
Less than two weeks after making some disingenuous remarks following a win over the Philadelphia Flyers, Alexander Ovechkin and his Washington Capitals were swept by the New York Rangers in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs.
There is, of course, no way of knowing how the Pittsburgh Penguins would have fared if they’d qualified for the Stanley Cup playoffs. Perhaps they would have sustained the momentum of their late-season surge, and made a legitimate run at upsetting a team that finished far ahead of them in the Metropolitan Division standings.
If Alex Ovechkin hadn’t led the Washington Capitals to a Stanley Cup championship in 2018, the franchise would probably be considered one of the most futile in the National Hockey League when it comes to playoff hockey.
The New York Rangers are moving on in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Mika Zibanejad and his team defeated Alex Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals in Game 4.
Alex Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals are out of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Washington fell to the New York Rangers 4-2 on Sunday night, ending their 2023-24 season.
The New York Rangers broke out the brooms against the Washington Capitals to cap off their first-round series.
Alex Ovechkin hasn't been quite himself through the first two games of the Washington Capitals' Eastern Conference first-round series against the New York Rangers.
If the Capitals are going to have any chance to get back in their first round series against the Rangers they are going to need to get a lot more from superstar forward Alex Ovechkin.
The Philadelphia Flyers’ season came to an end on Tuesday night, and that didn’t stop a longtime rival like Washington Capitals forward Alexander Ovechkin from taking some pot shots after the game had ended.
Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin scored his 30th goal of the 2023-24 season on Tuesday evening to set a new National Hockey League record for the most career 30-goal seasons by a single player.
As Washington Capitals forward Alex Ovechkin continues to chase down Wayne Gretzky's all-time goals record, he keeps checking off a lot of smaller records along the way.
With his goal against the Detroit Red Wings, Alex Ovechkin has an NHL record with his 18th career 30-goal season. He surpassed the mark set by Mike Garner, who played for five NHL teams in his career, including the Washington Capitals.
Washington Capitals winger Alex Ovechkin scored the 850th goal of his illustrious National Hockey League career to put his team up 1-0 in the first period of Friday’s game against the Carolina Hurricanes.
Alex Ovechkin has been making a dent in the NHL goal record of 894 set by Wayne Gretzky for a while now, but the Washington Capitals legend hit another huge milestone on April 5, 2024, against the Carolina Hurricanes.
He might be the most prolific goal-scorer in hockey history, but that did not hide the fact that Alexander Ovechkin started off the season on a bit of a lull.
Ovechkin is dragging the rest of his team — which looked dead in the water a few weeks ago — with him.
With less than 20 games left in the 2023-24 season, the Washington Capitals are hoping to make a final push for the last wild card playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.
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