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Caps face Jets in opener of five-game trip on Monday

With a 7-2-1 record in their last ten games, the Washington Capitals are playing better than at any point in the season since early November. Something has changed with the team, and it would behoove us to figure out what. For starters, the winning is obvious. The Capitals were really struggling late-January through mid-February, but…

The Washington Capitals can inch closer to a playoff spot when they host the Philadelphia Flyers on Friday.

For Connor McMichael and Aliaksei Protas, and maybe another guy or two, find that consistency. If they can do that the Washington Capitals have themselves a couple of really nice players for their future.

ARLINGTON, VA -- The Washington Capitals have seen their fortunes change in recent weeks, going 4-1-1 in their last six games. That success comes despite a slew of injuries as players got hurt in four consecutive games. But with several veterans out of commission, skaters from down the depth chart have stepped up to fill…

The Washington Capitals are set to take on Metropolitan Division rival, the Philadelphia Flyers, on Friday night. After an 8-3 shellacking at the hand of the Detroit Red Wings in their last game, head coach Spencer Carbery changed up his lines at Thursday's practice. Carbery's biggest change was placing rookie center Hendrix Lapierre on the…

More than ten years ago, I was worried about Marcus Johansson's play. Getting game-by-game statistics was much harder in those days, so I had to ask some favors to get good data to back up my hypothesis. Turned out he was struggling, so I wrote about it, ultimately suggesting that the Caps might want to…

The Washington Capitals have been bit by the injury bug in recent weeks. They've lost a player to injury in each of the last four games as they enter a back-to-back onagainst the Ottawa Senators and Detroit Red Wings on Monday and Tuesday. Reinforcements have arrived from the AHL-leading Hershey Bears and it looks like…

DALLAS (AP) — Bo Horvat scored his second overtime winner against the Dallas Stars this year, giving the New York Islanders a 3-2 victory Monday night.

The Washington Capitals came into their game Monday night banged up and bruised. Four players had gotten hurt in the span of the week, and what was left of the roster was set to face an Ottawa Senators lineup that had gone 7-2-1 in their last 10. Six points out of a playoff spot and…