{"id":263354,"date":"2025-10-31T18:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T18:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/263354\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T18:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T18:27:09","slug":"spencer-carbery-on-brandon-duhaimes-halloween-prank-the-retaliation-that-dewey-faces-after-that-it-was-funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/263354\/","title":{"rendered":"Spencer Carbery on Brandon Duhaime\u2019s Halloween prank: \u2018The retaliation that Dewey faces after that\u2026 it was funny\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON, VA \u2014 Notorious jokester Brandon Duhaime <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2025\/10\/30\/brandon-duhaime-werewolf-halloween-prank-scares-capitals\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">got his teammates in the holiday spirit this week with a Halloween prank for the ages<\/a>. Donning a werewolf costume and a fake machete, Duhaime hid in an oversized box before jumpscaring players as they arrived at the rink, eliciting a string of frightened reactions from the normally tough athletes.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Spencer Carbery was spared from Duhaime\u2019s furry wrath that day, instead laughing alongside Capitals fans at the final video.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWatched it this morning,\u201d Carbery told reporters on Friday. \u201cHad to watch it again because it was hilarious. That stuff never gets old, especially the early morning stuff where you\u2019re catching people off guard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though Carbery likely didn\u2019t know at the time, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L4mARADExSM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">extended cut of the video<\/a> revealed that Duhaime had tried to add him to his list of victims that morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey, go get Carbs. That\u2019d be \u2014\u201d Duhaime said, miming a shocked face.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Carbery also commented on Martin Fehervary\u2019s complete non-reaction to the prank.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know, probably inside he was just like \u2013\u201d Carbery mimed tensing up. \u201cIt\u2019s amazing, human beings\u2019 different reactions to (situations). Some people would just freeze, some are like, \u2018Ahhh!&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Duhaime may have executed the prank on behalf of the Capitals\u2019 digital media team, but that doesn\u2019t mean his teammates won\u2019t try to get back at him for the scare, as Carbery pointed out on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then the retaliation that Dewey faces after that. That\u2019s \u2014 yeah, (the video) was funny,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>At least one player on the team appeared to get their comeuppance on Friday morning, adding a name tag to Duhaime\u2019s helmet.<\/p>\n<p>As for whether anyone else is plotting revenge, that\u2019s for Duhaime\u2019s teammates to know and him to find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, VA \u2014 Notorious jokester Brandon Duhaime got his teammates in the holiday spirit this week with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-263354","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\/263354","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=263354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}