{"id":144984,"date":"2025-09-15T13:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T13:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/144984\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T13:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T13:09:07","slug":"capitals-put-assistant-mitch-love-on-leave-pending-investigation-nbc4-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/144984\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitals put assistant Mitch Love on leave pending investigation \u2013 NBC4 Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/nbcwashington.com\/tag\/washington-capitals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Washington Capitals<\/a> put assistant coach Mitch Love on leave pending the results of an investigation by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcwashington.com\/tag\/nhl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">NHL<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Capitals announced the move Sunday and said they would have no further comment until the league&#8217;s investigation is complete.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Washington Capitals assistant coach Mitch Love has been placed on team-imposed leave pending results of an investigation by the National Hockey League,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CapitalsPR\/status\/1967301813356703919\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">the team said<\/a>. &#8220;We will refrain from further comment until the NHL\u2019s investigation is complete.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Before coming to the Capitals, Love was head coach of the Calgary Wranglers of the<a href=\"https:\/\/theahl.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> American Hockey League <\/a>in 2022-23. He has worked with Washington&#8217;s defensemen.<\/p>\n<p>Love is a two-time recipient of the AHL&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/ahlhalloffame.com\/louis-ar-pieri-memorial-award\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Louis A.R. Pieri Memorial Award <\/a>given to the league&#8217;s most outstanding coach. He won the award in back to back in 2021-22 and 2022-23, one of only three AHL coaches to ever win consecutive seasons.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s the only coach to win the award in his first two AHL seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Love interviewed with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsboston.com\/nhl\/boston-bruins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Boston Bruins<\/a>, Pittsburgh Penguins and Seattle Kraken for their head coaching vacancies this offseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Capitals put assistant coach Mitch Love on leave pending the results of an investigation by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85,4791],"class_list":["post-144984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-washington-capitals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}