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Winnipeg Jets defenseman Josh Morrissey has been fined $8,468 but not suspended for unsportsmanlike conduct against Washington Capitals forward T.J. Oshie. The NHL's department of player safety announced the punishment Thursday after a disciplinary hearing with Morrissey. Morrissey threw Oshie to the ice late in the Jets' victory over the Capitals on Wednesday night. Continue to Article

November 15, 2018 6:06:pm EST

It's been five months since the Washington Capitals clinched their first-ever Stanley Cup championship, but some Caps fans are still going the distance to remind the Penguins of their title win. Sampson Coe, a Maryland-native and an avid Capitals fan, traveled all the way to the Antarctic Peninsula to remind actual penguins who the Stanley Cup champions are. On Wednesday, the 29-year-old posted a photo on Facebook of himself with a Capitals Stanley Cup champions T-shirt standing in front of a waddle of penguins. Continue to Article

November 15, 2018 3:40:pm EST

Gavin McHale, a former Western Hockey League goaltender whose NHL dream ended a decade ago, was finishing up practice with the University of Manitoba Bisons women’s hockey team. The 31-year-old goaltending coach did what most do these days when work is over: he checked his phone. What was different than other days was a screen littered with roughly 10 missed calls, most of them from Winnipeg Jets assistant general manager Craig Heisinger, and another from a random Pennsylvania number. A few hours earlier, Washington Capitals goaltender Braden Holtby tweaked something in his upper-body during an informal skate at Bell MTS Place. Holtby was slated to start Wednesday night’s game against the Jets, but whatever happened during that brief morning jaunt on the ice turned an expected start into a game-time decision. Continue to Article

November 15, 2018 10:23:am EST

It's no wonder the Washington Capitals are suffering from a serious Stanley Cup hangover. It's not uncommon for the winners of hockey's holy grail to get off to a slow start the following season but when you consider how much liquor the Capitals players consumed during a seemingly summer-long party -- particularly captain Alex Ovechkin -- it's conceivable that their heads could ache until Christmas. The Capitals are outside of the top eight spots in the Eastern Conference and granted, there are still more than 60 games to go, but they have a target on their backs that they haven't had previously. Continue to Article

November 14, 2018 12:57:am EST

Washington Capitals forward Tom Wilson had his 20-game suspension reduced to 14 games by a neutral arbitrator on Tuesday and became eligible to play immediately, scoring a goal and taking two penalties in 16:47 of ice time at Minnesota in a 5-2 win over the Wild . Wilson already served 16 games of his suspension for an illegal check to the head of St. Louis forward Oskar Sundqvist in each team's preseason finale. The ruling by Shyam Das allowed Wilson to will recoup $378,049 of the $1.26 million he initially forfeited as part of the suspension. Continue to Article

November 13, 2018 11:44:pm EST