{"id":191298,"date":"2025-09-30T02:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T02:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/191298\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T02:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T02:40:09","slug":"the-nhl-says-the-capitals-didnt-acquire-any-notable-players-this-offseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/191298\/","title":{"rendered":"The NHL says the Capitals didn\u2019t acquire any notable players this offseason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/declan-chisholm-justin-sourdif-capitals.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Declan Chisholm and Justin Sourdif\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ud83d\udcf8: Katie Adler\/RMNB\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The NHL <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHL\/status\/1972346818391380320\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">posted a graphic on social media<\/a> that may be humorous to Washington Capitals fans.<\/p>\n<p>The league listed all of the notable players acquired over the offseason by Metropolitan Division teams. Scroll down here and let me know if you notice anything weird.<\/p>\n<p>Carolina Hurricanes<\/p>\n<p>Nikolaj Ehlers<br \/>K\u2019Andre Miller<\/p>\n<p>Columbus Blue Jackets<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Coyle<br \/>Isac Lundestrom<br \/>Miles Wood<\/p>\n<p>New Jersey Devils<\/p>\n<p>Connor Brown<br \/>Evgenii Dadonov<\/p>\n<p>New York Islanders<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Drouin<br \/>Emil Heineman<br \/>David Rittich<\/p>\n<p>New York Rangers<\/p>\n<p>Vladislav Gavrikov<br \/>Scott Morrow<br \/>Taylor Raddysh<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia Flyers<\/p>\n<p>Christian Dvorak<br \/>Dan Vladar<br \/>Trevor Zegras<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh Penguins<\/p>\n<p>Matt Dumba<br \/>Anthony Mantha<br \/>Arturs Silovs<\/p>\n<p>Washington Capitals<\/p>\n<p>N\/A<\/p>\n<p>Ah, yes, the NHL says the Capitals added no notable players.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I\u2019m not saying <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2025\/06\/28\/capitals-trade-declan-chisholm-wild-chase-priskie-draft-picks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">defenseman Declan Chisholm<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2025\/06\/26\/capitals-acquire-forward-justin-sourdif-trade-florida-panthers-two-draft-picks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">forward Justin Sourdif<\/a> are parade-planning acquisitions, but they were indeed additions, and they are in similar notability as Isac Lundestrom and Taylor Raddysh. You could even add Ryan Leonard here, too, who is entering his first full rookie season in the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, someone with the Capitals who has access to a printer notices this graphic on X and puts it up inside the locker room. Despite shocking everyone and finishing first in the Eastern Conference last season, the Capitals <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2024\/12\/05\/spencer-carbery-on-capitals-exclusion-from-4-nations-face-off-rosters-to-not-have-one-guy-there-is-a-little-odd-to-me\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">still can\u2019t get no danged respect<\/a>, and it\u2019s at your own peril to do so.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udcf8: Katie Adler\/RMNB The NHL posted a graphic on social media that may be humorous to Washington Capitals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-191298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}