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Kane - Turris - Laine Silfverberg - Koivu - Nylander Raffl - Filppula - Karlsson Copp - Lowry - Rowney Gersich Peca Reserves: Roy, Gauthier, Dea, Robinson, Walker, Engvall DeMelo - Ellis Grzelcyk - Gudas Djoos - Ryan Hunwick Reserve: Friedman Murray Michalek

Two of my best players: Yandle and Klingberg are right on the edge right now!

Pending the IR placement of Michael Raffl... Activation: The Washington Capitals activate Adam Lowry and place him on the NHL roster.

Assignment: Capitals assign Christian Djoos to the AHL Re-call: Capitals re-call Dylan DeMelo to the NHL Nylander - Koivu - Laine Kreider - Turris - Kane Dzingel - Filppula - Silfverberg Roussel - Copp - Kassian Raffl Karlsson(inj) Klingberg - Ellis Yandle - Gudas Grzelcyk - DeMelo Hunwick Lehtonen Murray (inj)

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Once again buyers at the deadline, the Caps did what they could to once again compete for the cup while also setting the team up for the future. The biggest piece moved out was Zetterberg. We weren't going to give up Zetterberg without receiving a viable roster replacement. He brings us great leadership and versatility and we know in the Eastern Conference all the production You can get is essential. With that being said Koivu sort of works as a perfect replacement. The biggest differences between Koivu and Zetterberg are team and term. We would have only likely been able to keep Zetterberg for one more season. After that Laine and Nylander are due for raises and we likely would not be able to afford him. Giving us the opportunity to leverage him for a player who could play the same role, will likely provide for us in the playoffs this season, and has the significantly more manageable term on his contract made this deal very attractive for out club. After we traded JT Compher earlier this season we opened up a hole organizationally. We really didn't have any surefire prospects on flexible contracts to develop and become products of the Washington Capitals system. Thompson is a guy that we targeted to fill that role and we anticipate that he will be a Capital for a long long time. The development of a large handful of young defensemen led us to trading vanRiemsdyk and bringing in Raffl. We feel that with our depth on defense that at least one guy was going to have to go before next season and TVR was that guy. Raffl is a versatile and very responsible piece that we like having on our side that has the skill set to play throughout the lineup. Thank you firstly to Mike as well as all the other participants in this league who work so hard to make this happen. Capitals Current Lineup: E. Kane - K. Turris - W. Nylander C. Kreider - M. Koivu - P. Laine R. Dzingel - V. Filppula - J. Silfverberg A. Roussel - A. Copp - M. Karlsson M. Raffl Z. Kassian (inj) J. Klingberg - R. Ellis K. Yandle - R. Gudas C. Djoos - M. Grzelcyk M. Hunwick K. Lehtonen M. Murray (inj) IR: A. Lowry

When Mike trades "future considerations" does that mean cheaper contracts and maybe a UFA in the offseason?

@Mike Vanderhoek Hey man, probably not your top priority right now with the trade deadline going on but i just checked my spreadsheet and my "unsigned prospects" list is empty. Both Filip Hronek and Sami Niku should he listed in that category. Thanks!

We're all entitled to our opinion but I'm definitely not looking at the trade from a bias perspective. Myers, Roslovic, Armia and Lemieux is a huge package. How's bogo playing though? Wpg loved him but he had a substance abuse problem.

Tyler Myers is a very good dman. Armia is a very skilled, big bodied, young forward who is very strong around the walls. Lemieux is only I'm the AHL because the jets have one of the deepest lineups in the league. Jets used the 1st round pick to draft Roslovic. Winnipeg is beyond thrilled with we acquired in that deal.

Sarcasm?

Dan O'Regan was Jack Eichels winger in college.

Assignment: Matthew Peca to AHL Activation: Chris Kreider to NHL

Oh wow a player went to the west!