The Washington Capitals were the top team in the Eastern Conference this regular season. Still, the Capitals were eliminated by the Carolina Hurricanes in the second round of the playoffs. The ...

RALEIGH, N.C. — The Washington Capitals spent Sunday, the day between Games 3 and 4 of their second-round Stanley Cup playoff series against the Carolina Hurricanes, proclaiming that they weren’t ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Knowing full well the chances of being competitive in their second-round series against the Carolina Hurricanes hung in the balance, the Washington Capitals flipped the script from ...

General manager Chris Patrick and the Capitals have defied expectations in Alex Ovechkin's golden years. Patrick Smith / Getty Images Even as Alex Ovechkin, John Carlson and the rest of the Washington ...

Coming into last season, the Washington Capitals had taken major steps to improve a roster that, by plenty of measures, had fluked its way into the postseason and summarily gotten stomped in the first ...

Alexander Ovechkin is only one goal away from becoming the NHL’s all-time leading goal scorer. Send your words of encouragement to the Capitals captain in a voicemail through the WTOP News app, ...