With the Washington Capitals’ season over, today’s print story took an early glance at the offseason, the road ahead paved mostly with personnel decisions concerning contracts. Here are the key offseason dates:
Friday, May 15: Breakdown Day
Players and Coach Barry Trotz address reporters, their final interviews before scattering for summer. It’s a time to reveal injuries beyond the cloaked “upper-body” and “lower-body” code of the regular season, which means we’ll learn about the injury Eric Fehr suffered against the New York Islanders and what plagued Tim Gleason for the entire second round. Every player is expected to attend except rookie Andre Burakovsky, who was reassigned to Hershey for the Calder Cup playoffs, and…
Saturday, May 16: IIHF world championship semifinals
Alex Ovechkin arrived Thursday afternoon in the Czech Republic, sporting a Michael Jordan hat, to join Team Russia as the Capitals’ only representative at the IIHF world championships.