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The Washington Capitals have signed college free-agent forward and local product Joe Snively to a two-year entry-level contract that begins next season. General manager Brian MacLellan announced the deal Monday. Snively is a native of nearby Herndon, Virginia, and played his youth hockey at the Capitals' practice facility as part of the Little Caps program. Continue to Article

March 18, 2019 11:41:am EST

The Blackhawks have had a roller coaster year. With exactly three weeks left in the regular season, the Blackhawks find themselves five points out of a playoff spot with a game in hand. How has this happened? It all started on Jan. 20 when they snapped a five-game losing streak in an 8-5 win over the defending Stanley Cup champion Washington Capitals on national television that featured dueling five-point outings by Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews, who were reunited as linemates. Continue to Article

March 17, 2019 10:46:am EST

It was a night of personal milestones in Pittsburgh on Tuesday as Evgeni Malkin became the 88th player in NHL history to record his 1,000th career point, while Alex Ovechkin became just the 49th player to hit the 1,200 point plateau. In the end, it was Malkin's team that ended up getting the two important points in the standings in a 5-3 win that was highlighted by a quick flurry of goals in the second period to completely swing the game, snapping what had been a seven-game winning streak for the defending Stanley Cup champions. With just under eight minutes to play in the second period the Penguins were not only trailing by a pair of goals, but were not even really generating any sort of a consistent threat offensively against Capitals goalie Braden Holtby. Continue to Article

March 12, 2019 10:24:pm EST

Carl Hagelin watched helplessly from the penalty box as the short-handed unit he helped transform got to work. Seconds after stepping out following another successful kill, Hagelin scored the go-ahead goal on a breakaway to help the Washington Capitals beat the Winnipeg Jets 3-1 on Sunday night for their seventh consecutive victory. With players blocking shots and Pheonix Copley stopping the puck, the defending Stanley Cup champions killed off all five minor penalties they took to keep their winning streak alive. Continue to Article

March 10, 2019 11:22:pm EST