Brian McNally

Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

There aren’t a ton of internal decisions for Capitals general manager George McPhee to make this summer. He has four unrestricted free agents pending July 5. Defenseman Tom Poti and forward Wojtek Wolski won’t be back for sure. We’re unclear on the status of forwards Matt Hendricks and...

Brian McNally

Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

Capitals free agent forward Wojtek Wolski has signed a contract with Kontinental Hockey League club Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod, the team announced on Monday. Wolski, 27, was not expected back in Washington, which took a flyer on the former first-round draft pick last summer for $600,000. But it...

Brian McNally

Published: Wed, May 15, 2013

The other prominent unrestricted free agent for the Capitals this summer is Matt Hendricks. The veteran winger has set himself up for the one big contract in his NHL career. Hendricks, 31, was plucked from the Colorado Avalanche organization before the 2010 season and quickly generated a...

Brian McNally

Published: Wed, May 15, 2013

The Capitals don’t have many decisions to make this summer. When NHL free agency opens on July 5 the two key players they have headed to the open market are center Mike Ribeiro and winger Matt Hendricks. Ribeiro was acquired at the trade deadline last June to be the second-line center...

Brian McNally

Published: Tue, May 14, 2013

The scene is all too familiar now. The long and tortured Stanley Cup playoff history of the Capitals means little to the current generation of players. None of them were born or raised here, after all. But the stinging defeats of recent years are taking an obvious toll. In the Alex Ovechkin...