{"id":335791,"date":"2025-12-07T21:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T21:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/335791\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T21:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T21:53:07","slug":"spencer-carbery-explains-why-capitals-recalled-bogdan-trineyev-with-ryan-leonard-out-if-clay-stevenson-will-start-a-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/335791\/","title":{"rendered":"Spencer Carbery explains why Capitals recalled Bogdan Trineyev with Ryan Leonard out, if Clay Stevenson will start a game"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Capitals lost two important players at the end of their four-game road trip.<\/p>\n

Rookie forward Ryan Leonard is out long-term<\/a> due to a blindside hit he received from Jacob Trouba<\/a>, while goaltender Charlie Lindgren suffered an upper-body injury and will be out of the lineup for a spell. Both players were placed on injured reserve Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

In response, the Capitals called up winger Bogdan Trineyev and goaltender Clay Stevenson from the Hershey Bears<\/a>. Trineyev was previously with the Capitals from November 26 through December 3 on a separate stint and did not make his NHL debut, while this will mark Stevenson\u2019s first appearance with the Capitals this season.<\/p>\n

\u201cSimilar to the previous decision, [Trineyev] has played really well from all indications down in Hershey,\u201d Capitals head coach Spencer Carbery explained after the team\u2019s morning skate. \u201cWe sort of had envisioned the lineup is what it\u2019s going to look like forward-wise tonight (against the Columbus Blue Jackets), and he wasn\u2019t going to play. So it was a situation where \u2013 bring Bogdan up, if we need an extra forward, he\u2019s here and can go into the lineup, and then we\u2019ll assess after tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

What Carbery means by assess is unclear. He could be referring to Trineyev possibly playing in the future and slotting onto a line. Management could also consider a longer-term solution to fill Leonard\u2019s hole in the lineup, such as Ivan Miroshnichenko, Ilya Protas, or Brett Leason. After playing the Blue Jackets, the Capitals will have ample time to decide, as they do not play again until Thursday against the Carolina Hurricanes.<\/p>\n

In Hershey, Trineyev has recorded 12 points (6g, 6a) in 16 games this season. The 6-foot-3, 206-pound forward plays in all situations and ranks first on the Bears in plus-minus rating (+7), second in goals, and third in points.<\/p>\n

Carbery was also asked about the team\u2019s goalie plans and whether Stevenson might figure into a game. With Hershey this season, Stevenson is 7-4-0 along with a 2.54 goals against average and 0.913 save percentage.<\/p>\n

\u201cThings have changed, right \u2014 with that plan, with Chuckie going down, so now we just have to pivot a little bit,\u201d Carbery said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t mean that Clay\u2019s not going to get into the net because I\u2019m not going to guarantee it, but I\u2019m assuming he\u2019s going to get in at some point.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stevenson made his NHL debut during the Capitals\u2019 final regular-season game of the 2025-26 campaign. Despite surrendering five goals to the Penguins in a 5-2 loss, Stevenson earned high praise from Carbery for his performance<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought he was fantastic all night,\u201d Carbery said then. \u201cJust laid it on the line for us. First start, to be put in that situation and playing that game, he was really, really proud of the way that he fought and how he competed and how he played. He was fantastic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stevenson was held out of Hershey\u2019s game against the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins on Saturday night as Mitch Gibson served as the backup to Garin Bjorklund in the Bears\u2019 4-1 loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Capitals lost two important players at the end of their four-game road trip. Rookie forward Ryan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-335791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335791","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=335791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}