The Washington Capitals have Monday off following their 4-3 shootout loss to the Buffalo Sabres in their preseason opener at Capital One Arena on Sunday. The team returns to training camp activities on Tuesday in preparation for their second preseason game on Thursday, hosting the Detroit Red Wings at Capital One Arena (7 PM ET; Monumental Sports Network locally, NHL Network nationally). NoVa Caps’ photojournalist Joe Noyes was on hand during the first days of camp from Medstar Capitals Iceplex. You can follow his excellent work on his Instagram page or visit his website.
Forwards participating in this year’s training camp included: Nicolas Aube-Kubel (#96), Nicklas Backstrom (#19), Andrew Cristall (#28), Nic Dowd (#26), Pierrick Dube (#72), Ethen Frank (#53), Ryan Hofer (#84), Jimmy Huntington (#83), Brett Hyland (#59), Jake Karabella (#95), Evgeny Kuznetsov (#92), Hendrix Lapierre (#29), Alex Limoges (#55), Beck Malenstyn (#47), Anthony Mantha (#39), Connor McMichael (#24), Sonny Milano (#15), Ivan Miroshnichenko (#63), Julian Napravnik (#75), T.J. Oshie (#77), Alex Ovechkin (#8), Matthew Phillips (#45), Aliaksei Protas (#21), Garrett Roe (#89), Henrik Rybinski (#58), Michael Sgarbossa (#23), Joe Snively (#91), Dylan Strome (#17), and Matt Strome (#98), Riley Sutter (#61), Alexander Suzdalev (#14), Patrick Thomas (#49), Bogdan Trineyev (#36), Mike Vecchione (#36), and Tom Wilson (#43).
Participating defensemen included: Alex Alexeyev (#27), John Carlson (#74), Logan Day (#52), Joel Edmundson (#6), Martin Fehervary (#42), Hardy Haman Aktell (#4), Vincent Iorio (#2), Nick Jensen (#3), Lucas Johansen (#46), Michael Kim (#66), Nick Leivermann (#76), Benton Maass (#50), Jake Massie (#94), Jon McDonald (#40), Dylan McIlrath (#25), Aaron Ness (#51), Chase Priskie (#56), Rasmus Sandin (#38), Colin Swoyer (#73), and Trevor van Riemsdyk (#57).
In net during camp included: Garin Bjorklund (#80), Mitchell Gibson (#78), Antoine Keller (60), Darcy Kuemper (#35), Charlie Lindgren (#79), Hunter Shepard (#31), and Clay Stevenson (#33).
By Della Young