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Matt Hendricks will get a new contract from someone this summer. Whether the Washington Capitals will give it to him remains to be seen.

The Washington Capitals may not have been able to make the deep playoff run they were hoping to, but they should have a good shot at getting back to the postseason with almost their entire roster set to return next season.

Adam Oates won just two of the first 11 NHL games he coached. It was the kind of start that could've been a breeding ground for doubt and second-guessing. "I wasn't second-guessing myself being a coach," Oates said.

In Game 2 of the 2009 Eastern Conference Semi-Finals against the Washington Capitals , both Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin dueled like titans while netting hat tricks.

Ryan Carter of the New Jersey Devils helped Team USA in an 8-3 whipping of the reigning World Champions, scoring a shorthanded goal and adding an assist.

Sidney Crosby of Pittsburgh and Washington's Alex Ovechkin are once again finalists for the Hart Trophy, while John Tavares of the New York Islanders is also in the running for the NHL's Most Valuable Player.

Brooks Laich skated with the Capitals in New York last week , between Games 3 and 4 of his team's first-round NHL playoff series.

Alex Ovechkin played the last two games of the Washington Capitals' season with what the team says is a hairline fracture in his left foot.

Capitals coach Adam Oates continued the back-and-forth between the Rangers and Washington after their playoff series.

The long ride to work is usually made with The Sports Junkies on the radio, which was a good or bad thing this week depending on whether you wanted to listen to a lot of necessary dissection of the Capitals' latest letdown.

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Alex Ovechkin played the last two games of the Washington Capitals' season with what the team said Thursday is a hairline fracture in his left foot.

Slava Malamud of Sport-Express envisions a bright future for Alex Ovechkin in this translation of an article from the Russian sporting press.

Paul Stastny scored twice and added a pair of assists to lift the United States to an 8-3 rout of Russia in the quarterfinals of the 2013 World Hockey Championship.

Washington Capitals ' captain Alex Ovechkin and the team's general manager, George McPhee both raised questions on Tuesday about the officiating during the Caps' Stanley Cup Eastern Conference quarterfinal series against the New York Rangers.

Erat's brief time in Washington since being acquired at the trade deadline from the Nashville Predators has been marred by injuries.

The next stage of the IIHF World Hockey Championship is set to kick off from Stockholm and Finland as quarterfinal action gets underway on Thursday.

The Washington Capitals searched for a second-line center for the past few years.

Whatever speculation there was about Alex Ovechkin being injured during the Washington Capitals latest playoff defeat has disappeared pretty quickly.

Would an extra practice, or Eric Fehr's rollerblades, the day before Game 3 have helped the Caps maintain momentum in New York? A lot has been said about why the Caps lost to the Rangers.