{"id":246629,"date":"2025-10-23T17:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T17:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/246629\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T17:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T17:46:08","slug":"rasmus-sandin-misses-capitals-practice-due-to-upper-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/246629\/","title":{"rendered":"Rasmus Sandin misses Capitals practice due to upper-body injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/file-rasmus-sandin-warmups-aland-6665.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Rasmus Sandin\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ud83d\udcf8: Alan Dobbins\/RMNB\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Rasmus Sandin did not join the rest of his Washington Capitals teammates for practice at MedStar Capitals Iceplex on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>According to the team, the 25-year-old defenseman is out with an upper-body injury. Sandin has played in all seven of the Capitals\u2019 games to begin this season.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rasmus Sandin is not practicing this morning with an upper-body injury, per the Capitals.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Katie Adler (@katieEadler) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/katieEadler\/status\/1981370647587803591?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 23, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the team\u2019s 4-1 win over the Seattle Kraken on Tuesday, the Swedish blueliner skated a season low 15:01 of ice time. He took just four shifts in the third period, last coming off the ice after a 21-second shift with 7:53 left in regulation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe should be okay,\u201d head coach Spencer Carbery said Thursday. \u201cHe\u2019s not traveling to Columbus, but we consider him day-to-day, so nothing long-term.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sandin is averaging 19:23 of ice time per game this fall and has recorded two assists in his last three games. Last season, he did not miss a single game, notching 30 points (4g, 26a) in 82 appearances.<\/p>\n<p>With Sandin out of action, Declan Chisholm skated on the Capitals\u2019 bottom defense pairing with Trevor van Riemsdyk. Chisholm has averaged 14:42 of ice time in the two games he\u2019s gotten into in October.<\/p>\n<p>Dylan McIlrath was the lone extra defenseman at practice after <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2025\/10\/18\/pierre-luc-dubois-injured-reserve-capitals\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">being activated off injured reserve last weekend<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Capitals will travel to Columbus and play the Blue Jackets on Friday night. The matchup is the first half of a back-to-back for the Caps, who\u2019ll return home on Saturday to host the Ottawa Senators at Capital One Arena.<\/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: Alan Dobbins\/RMNB Rasmus Sandin did not join the rest of his Washington Capitals teammates for practice at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-246629","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\/246629","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=246629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}