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Washington Capitals 2023-24 season player review for Connor McMichael, with a look ahead to 2024-25 and beyond.

Ivan Miroshnichenko's star turn continued in Game 2 of the Atlantic Division Finals against the Hartford Wolf Pack, Saturday. The 20-year-old Russian rookie scored twice, including an electrifying highlight-reel goal in the second period. He now has five goals in his last three games. Miro's tallied in three straight contests for the first time in…

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After going without a point in the Hershey Bears' first three games of the playoffs, Ivan Miroshnichenko scored two goals in Game 4 of the Atlantic Division semifinals against the Lehigh Valley Phantoms. The goals were big, but his best play of the night came late in the third period where, during one shift, he…

HERSHEY, PA -- Dylan Strome was one of three Washington Capitals players that came up from DC to watch Saturday's Hershey Bears playoff game -- a 5-1 Game 2 win over the Lehigh Valley Phantoms. Connor McMichael and Beck Malenstyn, members of the 2023 Calder Cup championship team, made the trek to Giant Center to…

The Hershey Bears' regular season leading goal scorer, Ethen Frank, found the net twice for the Bears in Saturday's first period to push the Bears to a 5-1 victory over the Lehigh Valley Phantoms in Game Two of the Atlantic Division Semifinals. With assists from linemate Joe Snively on both goals, Frank tied his goal…

Mike Vecchione invented the ROAR last season, a standing bear pose celebration where a Hershey goal-scorer lets out an animalistic war cry after lighting the lamp. Not only did the celebration catch on with Bears players and fans alike, it also was the final act of the team's 2022-23 season. Vecchione, in what was a…

Hunter Shepard tallied his 15th career AHL playoff win Wednesday against the Lehigh Valley Phantoms in Game One of the Atlantic Division Semifinals. Shepard made 30 saves in the Hershey Bears' 2-1 victory. Shepard, the reigning AHL playoff MVP, was less than five minutes away from recording his fourth career AHL playoff shutout before getting…

The Hershey Bears' first series of the 2024 Calder Cup playoffs is set. The Bears will take on their geographic rival, the Lehigh Valley Phantoms, in the Atlantic Division semifinals. The Bears got a first-round bye after winning the division and posting the best record in the AHL while Lehigh Valley swept the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins…

Ryan Leonard will play in the NCAA National Championship game after his Boston College Eagles defeated the Michigan Wolverines 4-0 in the Frozen Four on Thursday night. The Washington Capitals top prospect tallied an assist on the game's opening goal by Will Smith in the first period. Leonard's apple marked his 60th point (31g, 29a)…