The Washington Capitals’ season ended Sunday night with a loss to the Boston Bruins in Game 5 of the first-round playoffs matchup, but defenseman Dmitry Orlov and goaltender Ilya Samsonov aren’t done playing yet.
The duo will join Team Russia at the 2021 World Championship, which began May 21 and runs through June 6 in Minsk, Belarus and Riga, Latvia. Alex Ovechkin, meanwhile, wasn’t included in the Russian team “due to injury,” according to the International Ice Hockey Foundation’s release.
Ovechkin missed seven games late in the season with a lower-body injury, but he returned against the Bruins, scoring two goals and adding two assists in the first four games of the series.