Yesterday, the Capitals traded for a pure fighter in D.J. King.

Michael NylanderWe’ve just received confirmation that Michael Nylander cleared waivers today. That means that yesterday, the Capitals put the 37-year-old center up for grabs to any of the NHL’s other 29 teams that wanted him. Today, they found out nobody did. Nylander is set to make three million dollars this season, which is slightly more than the Caps just agreed to pay their second best defenseman, Jeff Schultz. Additionally, Nylander has a salary cap hit…

The Capitals have signed restricted free agent forward Boyd Gordon to a one-year, $800,000 deal. Gordon received only a $40,000 raise over last season’s salary, but he’ll be an unrestricted free agent next season if the Caps can’t work out an extension in the coming year. So who is Boyd Gordon? If you’ve been following the Caps as long as we have, you already know. Gordon was the Caps’ first-round draft pick in 2002,…

Newest Washington Capital Dany Sabourin played in the Boston Bruins organization last year. Last year, the Pittsburgh Penguins signed Brent Johnson, the steady, fan-favorite goalie who didn’t quite fit into the Washington rotation. Today, at 9 a.m., the Washington Capitals announced they have signed former Pittsburgh Penguins backup goalie, Dany Sabourin. Although both Sabourin and Johnson have been sent to the minor leagues after brief auditions with the Vancouver Canucks, and both have spent…

On Thursday, the NHL allows unrestricted free agents to begin negotiating with new teams. Players who have reached the end of their contracts and achieved the right combination of age and experience — usually guys over twenty-seven years old — can go play anywhere they want, for whatever someone will pay them.

Photo by afagen. Who is Evgeny Kuznetsov? A lot of D.C. publications will ask this question in the next few weeks, but we won’t. Okay, sure, he’s a six foot tall, 172 pound kid who was born in a time when Courtney Love was a legitimate feminist icon and global superstar. But it’s not when he was born, what he eats for breakfast, what kind of music he listens to, what he believes in…

Image by clydeorama Tonight at 7 p.m. you can watch the first round of the NHL draft on Vs. In a week where the Caps have received some of their annual propers with one of two available MVP awards (Alexander Ovechkin), comeback player of the year (former Capital Jose Theodore), and first team NHL all star nods (Ovechkin and defenseman Mike Green), this is just one more reliable sign that summer is here and…

The 2010 playoff-edition Washington Capitals are here, and they are here to cause pain. You might not recognize all four of the Caps’ latest acquisitions, but no one will recognize you when they get through with you. The departing Brian Pothier, for all his previous experience with post-concussion syndrome, will be happy he doesn’t have to hit the Kettler ice with this bunch.

The Washington Capitals are the best team in the NHL’s eastern conference, and the hottest in the league, only a few games removed from a franchise-record fourteen game winning streak. They have scored the most goals in the NHL by a margin of half a goal per game, and their defense is distinctly middle of the road. It’s only fitting, then, that as they approach the NHL’s 3pm deadline for trades in the 2009-10 season, they have added… two veteran forwards?

Photo by Ghost_Bear Tonight the Capitals came from behind to beat the Florida Panthers 7-4. With Alex Ovechkin and Mike Green among a slew of injured players, Mike Knuble put up four points to spark the win. The total tied his personal best, from Valentine’s Day, 2003. Asked what it was like to be a leader on this team, Knuble calmly dismissed the assertion. “It’s just one game,” he said, talking up the importance…