Capitals re-sign enforcer Brashear
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Enforcer Donald Brashear signed a one-year, $1.1 million contract extension with the Washington Capitals on Monday.
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Defenseman Dmitri Kalinin re-signed with the Buffalo Sabres late Tuesday, ending his threat to play next season in Russia.
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The Washington Capitals are within a point of first place.
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The Washington Capitals' collective confidence received a considerable boost after Tuesday's drubbing of the Ottawa Senators, their second win over the Eastern Conference's best team in three days.
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The Washington Capitals dropped the "interim" tag from Bruce Boudreau's title Wednesday, making him the team's full-fledged head coach.
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With his prospects for ice time dwindling, Milan Jurcina was traded yesterday to the Washington Capitals for a fourth-round pick in 2008.
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ASHBURN, Va.  -- If the NHL allowed goaltenders to be captains, Olie Kolzig would have been wearing the "C" on his jersey for several years already. As it is, the Washington Capitals announced Wednesday that Chris Clark will be the team's on-ice leader this season -- a role he fully expects to...
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The Washington Capitals are gaining more confidence. The Ottawa Senators will attest to that.
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The Vancouver Canucks on Thursday re-signed defenseman Nolan Baumgartner, and added right wing Jeff Heerema and defenseman Joe DiPenta.
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The Montreal Canadiens re-signed goalie David Aebischer to a $1.9 million, one-year contract Wednesday, and also signed free-agent forward Sergei Samsonov to a two-year contract and made two trades.
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The decision to switch Capitals veteran Ben Clymer from forward to defenseman appears to have been a wise move.
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It was more pep rally than news conference, with the mayor and city officials wearing red Washington Senators caps, the ones with the curly "W" on the front. Baseball returned to the nation's capital for the first time in 33 years Wednesday, with an announcement from Major League Baseball that the Montreal Expos will move to Washington next season.
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Center Vernon Fiddler re-signed with the Nashville Predators on Thursday after playing most of last season with the team's AHL club.
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CBC SPORTS ONLINE - As expected, the Tampa Bay Lightning are bringing back their captain, Dave Andreychuk, for another season. The Lightning on Tuesday announced the 40-year-old Andreychuk,had agreed to a one-year deal.
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Rookie Nicklas Backstrom has a career-high four assists, Viktor Kozlov scores two goals and the surging Capitals beat the Panthers, 5-3.
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Sweden's Josef Boumedienne should give the Capitals a boost in two areas where they were woefully deficient a year ago: getting the puck out of the defensive zone and scoring on the power play.
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After starting the season poorly enough to get their coach fired, the Washington Capitals have found their legs.