Earlier this season, when the Hershey Bears bused south for a game against the Norfolk Admirals, forward Caleb Herbert stopped at a museum while walking to practice. Inside, he noticed a picture of an old ship, sails climbing up the masts and flapping in the captured breeze, steering through choppy waters below. The image stuck with Herbert, a fifth-round draftee of the Washington Capitals five years ago, and when he returned home to the Twin Cities, he asked a tattoo artist to etch the boat onto his left arm.
“It sort of represents my life’s journey,” he said Friday afternoon, the penultimate day of his sixth development camp with Washington, making him the longest-tenured participant here.