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Byline: Bailey Johnson Pierre-Luc Dubois was only supposed to keep the puppy for two weeks. The little black dog, at the time unnamed, was intended to be a temporary foster [...]

Byline: Bailey Johnson NASHVILLE - By his own admission, Ethen Frank didn't have a good training camp with the Washington Capitals. There was an opportunity for him to crack the [...]

Byline: Bailey Johnson The Washington Capitals have been missing their best game for weeks, and an overtime loss to the Montreal Canadiens on Friday at Capital One Arena added an [...]

Byline: Bailey Johnson Games between teams based on opposite sides of the continent, that only see each other twice a year, rarely come with the kind of edge that the [...]

Byline: Bailey Johnson The headlines and attention weren't just focused on the expected names, such as 2023 first-round pick Ryan Leonard, who captained the United States to the gold medal. [...]

Byline: Bailey Johnson There was a time that an NHL team using two defensemen on the power play wouldn't have raised any eyebrows. Before the proliferation of the 1-3-1 setup [...]

Byline: Bailey Johnson Dylan Strome, typically a man of many words, needed just a few to sum up the Washington Capitals' win over the New York Rangers on Saturday afternoon [...]

Byline: Bailey Johnson Spencer Carbery has been sounding the alarm for weeks. Even as his Washington Capitals have kept winning, with 25 victories in their first 38 games, he has [...]

Byline: Bailey Johnson The Minnesota Wild has had the Washington Capitals' number over the past three seasons, and that run continued Thursday night at Capital One Arena - with this [...]

Byline: Bailey Johnson DETROIT - The Washington Capitals knew the Detroit Red Wings would come out swinging. NHL teams typically get a boost following a coaching change, and the Red [...]

Byline: Bailey Johnson TORONTO - In their last game before the NHL's holiday break, the Washington Capitals looked in need of a breather. On Saturday night at Scotiabank Arena, following [...]

Byline: Bailey Johnson TORONTO - After missing 16 games with a broken left fibula, Alex Ovechkin will return for the Washington Capitals on Saturday night against the Toronto Maple Leafs. [...]

Byline: Bailey Johnson The Washington Capitals appear to be on the verge of a belated Christmas present. Captain Alex Ovechkin, who has been out of the lineup for 16 games [...]

Byline: Bailey Johnson The first time Ross Mahoney saw Aliaksei Protas, the now 6-foot-6, 23-year-old forward was a tall and skinny 17-year-old playing for Belarus at the 2018 under-18 world [...]

Byline: Bailey Johnson BOSTON - The Washington Capitals completed their eighth back-to-back set of games - and their third in December - on Monday night against the Boston Bruins, a [...]

Byline: Bailey Johnson Six months ago, the Los Angeles Kings traded Pierre-Luc Dubois just one season into his eight-year contract. It wasn't working for Dubois in Los Angeles, and the [...]

Byline: Bailey Johnson The Washington Capitals still have not lost more than two games in a row. After his team fell on consecutive nights on the road at the beginning [...]

Byline: Bailey Johnson Alex Ovechkin's return from a broken fibula is getting closer, but it won't be before the NHL's holiday break. The Washington Capitals captain shed his noncontact jersey [...]

The offense was going to slow down at some point. The Washington Capitals were not, under any reasonable expectation, going to continue to shoot and score at the highest rate [...]

Byline: Bailey Johnson DALLAS - Spencer Carbery couldn't have known his pregame comments would prove to be prophetic. On Monday morning, before the Washington Capitals played the Dallas Stars at [...]

Byline: Bailey Johnson For as good as the Washington Capitals have been on the road - they're winners of 10 straight away from Capital One Arena after they beat the [...]

Byline: Bailey Johnson The Washington Capitals have demonstrated that they aren't just off to a good start this year, they're a good hockey team competing to be one of the [...]

Byline: Bailey Johnson COLUMBUS, Ohio - These Washington Capitals don't know how to panic. Not much was working for the Capitals offensively for the majority of Thursday's game at Nationwide [...]

Byline: Bailey Johnson When Brian MacLellan, Bryan Helmer and Rob Concannon woke up Tuesday, the teams they are in charge of - the NHL's Washington Capitals, the American Hockey League's [...]

Byline: Bailey Johnson Two of Pierre-Luc Dubois' four goals this season came without a goaltender in the net. The Washington Capitals center has 15 assists and a total of 19 [...]

Byline: Bailey Johnson MONTREAL - Spencer Carbery doesn't want to hear anything about the difficulty of playing on back-to-back nights. The Washington Capitals coach has long rejected the idea that [...]

Byline: Bailey Johnson TORONTO - The tradition in the Washington Capitals' dressing room is that if the Capitals get a point in a game, whoever read the starting lineup keeps [...]

Byline: Bailey Johnson In the six games the Washington Capitals have played without captain Alex Ovechkin, they have scored eight power-play goals. In Ovechkin's last six games before he suffered [...]

Byline: Bailey Johnson NEWARK - They did it again, these Washington Capitals, who ideally would like to lead from start to finish every once in a while but are proving [...]

Byline: Bailey Johnson TAMPA - Whether a good culture in the dressing room begets winning or winning makes the dressing room a good place to be, one thing is abundantly [...]

Byline: Bailey Johnson FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Just before noon on July 1, the opening day of free agency in the NHL, the Washington Capitals announced that they had traded [...]

Byline: Bailey Johnson SUNRISE, Fla. - Neither the Washington Capitals nor the Florida Panthers came into Monday's game at Amerant Bank Arena firing on all cylinders. The Panthers entered the [...]

Byline: Bailey Johnson For the first time this season, the Washington Capitals didn't follow a loss with a victory. After losing to the Colorado Avalanche on Thursday night at Capital [...]

Byline: Bailey Johnson Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin is expected to miss four to six weeks as he recovers from a fracture to his left fibula, the team announced Thursday, [...]

Byline: Bailey Johnson The Washington Capitals had a simple plan for the beginning of their temporary Alex Ovechkin-less reality: Everyone, including the coaches, needed to do just a little bit [...]

Byline: Bailey Johnson Tom Wilson was the first of Alex Ovechkin's teammates to see the unfamiliar sight Monday. Wilson's night had ended a few minutes early, after he received a [...]

Byline: Bailey Johnson Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin is listed as week-to-week after suffering a lower leg injury, the team announced Tuesday. Ovechkin's injury, which came during the Capitals' 6-2 [...]

Byline: Bailey Johnson SALT LAKE CITY - Under other circumstances, the Washington Capitals' victory at Delta Center on Monday would have prompted a boisterous celebration. The Capitals beat the Utah [...]

Byline: Bailey Johnson LAS VEGAS - The biggest win in Washington Capitals history came at T-Mobile Arena in June 2018: Game 5 of the Stanley Cup finals. But until Sunday, [...]

Byline: Bailey Johnson DENVER - Ten months ago at Ball Arena, Nathan MacKinnon had his way with the Washington Capitals. MacKinnon scored four goals and tacked on an assist as [...]

Byline: Bailey Johnson Spencer Carbery knows it has been only 15 games. He's well aware that his Washington Capitals are still in the early stages of a six-month slog - [...]