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caps·Washington Capitalsbylimelight79

General Game Day Thread!

Since there's low activity on the individual game day threads, we thought a better option would be to just have one stickied thread for all* games.

*All is defined as...2026 regular season and post season games? We'll figure it out as we go along.

Ideally there'll be a top level comment for the game in question, and the comments for that game can be posted as replies to that comment. If there's no top-level comment for a game you want to comment on, go ahead and start one.

Suggested wording for the top level comment should be something like: "Ducks @ Caps, 1/5/26". We're not going to be rigorous here, just be clear what game you're talking about.

Let's go Caps!

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caps·Washington Capitalsbyyo_scottie_oh

Welcome + Update on Direction of c/Caps

Welcome to c/Caps!

As moderators of this community, we want to share an important update regarding its direction.

Based on our current subscriber count and level of engagement, we’ve decided to put the individual game day posts on pause for now and replace them with a general, stickied post for comment threads about specific games. To be clear, we’re still here, and we encourage all Caps fans to continue posting and commenting in both c/Caps and ![email protected].

We appreciate your support and contributions, and we look forward to seeing where this journey takes us!

Thank you for being part of our community.

Best,

yo_scottie_oh & limelight79

Let’s Go Caps!

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caps·Washington CapitalsbyChristian

Jordan Kyrou for McMichael, Gastrin, and 16th overall

I've felt like the writing has been on the wall for McMichael for a while, even in his career year in 24-25 his name consistently appeared as a piece in trade rumors surrounding us.

My impressions about our prospects are essentially entirely based on hype and not observation, so I can't say anything notable on Gastrin other than he got some generic praise when he was inserted for a couple games in the Bears playoffs a few months back. There was a draft-room video posted after last year's draft that showed he was one of two guys our front office was targeting with that pick. (The other was a russian that Montreal took a few picks ahead of us.) Everything I've heard about him since then has been tempered praise, obviously prospects are unpredictable at this point but I'm sure there's a reason they felt comfortable using him as an add-in.

I'll admit I haven't watched a lot of Kyrou. He had a severe down year last year, but he waived his NTC to come here and at this point it's hard to question our pro scouting department. If our pro scouts and Carbery think he'll be brought back to form then I'm pumped.

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caps·Washington CapitalsbyChristian

Dowd traded to Vegas

The Washington Capitals have acquired a second-round pick in the 2029 NHL Draft, a third-round pick in the 2027 NHL Draft (originally from San Jose) and goaltender Jesper Vikman from the Vegas Golden Knights for forward Nic Dowd, senior vice president and general manager Chris Patrick announced today.

I'm really sad to see him go, and especially sad to see him go to a team I'm inclined to root against, but I can recognize this is a good move for the team. His age has been catching up to him a bit and the return is not bad. It also lets us have both Sourdif and McMichael playing center when the lineup is healthy, and both seem to do better there than on wing.

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caps·Washington Capitalsbylimelight79

Caps horn guy told not to use horn or be kicked out

This has to be an overzealous security guard, or someone complaining, something like that - but, last night, the fan who does the horn sound throughout the game (to which the crowd replies, "Let's go Caps") was told to no longer use his horn, or he'd be kicked out. He was told that he shouldn't have been allowed in with the horn, and that "rules change".

If you check the comments, apparently Ted granted him permission in 2003 via email to bring the horn in specifically for that purpose.

I'm hoping this was a misinformed security guard, something like that, and not an organizational decision. I can't believe the Caps organization would do something that dumb. And, yes, I know they traded Forsberg.

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