The Capitals reduced their training camp roster to 51 players.
ARLINGTON, V.A. — The Washington Capitals have made their first cuts of training camp, reducing their roster to 51 players.
Washington assigned four skaters to their junior clubs, sending Brett Hyland to the Brandon Wheat Kings, Jake Karabela to the Guelph Storm, Patrick Thomas to the Brantford Bulldogs and Antoine Keller to the Acadie-Bathurst Titan.
The Capitals then sent eight players to the Hershey Bears' training camp: Jimmy Huntington, Julian Napravnik, Garrett Roe, Matthew Strome, Michael Vecchione, Michael Kim, Benton Maass and Colin Swoyer.
Notable players still up include 2023 second-rounder Andrew Cristall, who has gained a lot from skating with the team's top players like Tom Wilson and T.J. Oshie. Alexander Suzdalev is also still up with the big club, as the team wants to get a closer look at the progress he has made. Hendrix Lapierre, Riley Sutter and Vincent Iorio are more notable Bears still up in D.C., and offseason signees Pierrick Dube, Matthew Phillips and Alex Limoges are also still at camp.
Here's the updated roster:
Forwards: Alex Ovechkin, Nicklas Backstrom, T.J. Oshie, Tom Wilson, Dylan Strome, Evgeny Kuznetsov, Anthony Mantha, Sonny Milano, Connor McMichael, Aliaksei Protas, Max Pacioretty*, Nicolas Aube-Kubel, Nic Dowd, Andrew Cristall, Pierrick Dube, Ryan Hofer, Ethen Frank, Hendrix Lapierre, Alex Limoges, Beck Malenstyn, Ivan Miroshnichenko, Matthew Phillips, Henrik Rybinski, Michael Sgarbossa, Joe Snively, Riley Sutter, Alexander Suzdalev, Bogdan Trineyev, Riley Sutter
*Injured reserve
Defensemen: John Carlson, Joel Edmundson, Martin Fehervary, Nick Jensen, Rasmus Sandin, Trevor van Riemsdyk, Alexander Alexeyev, Hardy Haman Aktell, Vincent Iorio, Lucas Johansen, Dylan McIlrath, Chase Priskie, Aaron Ness, Jon McDonald, Jake Massie, Nick Leivermann
Goaltenders: Darcy Kuemper, Charlie Lindgren, Hunter Shepard, Clay Stevenson, Garin Bjorklund, Mitchell Gibson