The Washington Capitals have\u00a0acquired forward Wyatt Bongiovanni from the\u00a0Ottawa Senators\u00a0for forward Graeme Clarke, senior vice president and general manager Chris Patrick announced today. Bongiovanni will report to the Hershey Bears of the American Hockey League (AHL).<\/p>\n
Bongiovanni, 26, has recorded 25 points (12g, 13a) in 54 games with the\u00a0Belleville Senators\u00a0(AHL) this season. The 6\u20190\u201d, 193-pound forward ranked tied for second on Belleville in power-play goals (2), fifth in goals and tied for seventh in points.<\/p>\n
During the 2024-25 season,\u00a0Bongiovanni established AHL single-season career highs in goals (22) and points (33) in 54 games with Belleville. The Birmingham, Michigan native led the Senators in game-winning goals (5) and ranked tied for first in goals, second in power-play goals (8) and fifth in points.<\/p>\n
Bongiovanni\u00a0signed with the Winnipeg Jets\u00a0on April 17,\u00a02022 after completing his collegiate career at Quinnipiac University. In four seasons with the Bobcats,\u00a0Bongiovanni recorded 90 points (50g, 40a) in 123 career games\u00a0and served as team captain\u00a0during\u00a0his senior season in 2021-22.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In\u00a0215\u00a0career AHL games with\u00a0Belleville and Manitoba, Bongiovanni has recorded\u00a0101\u00a0points (63g,\u00a038a).\u00a0In addition, Bongiovanni has registered seven points (3g, 4a) in 12 career Calder Cup playoff games. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Clarke, 24, has recorded 24 points (15g, 9a) in 50 games with Hershey this season. The Waconia, Minnesota native has registered 210 points (99g, 111a) in 332 career AHL games with Hershey, Iowa, Utica and Binghamton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Capitals have\u00a0acquired forward Wyatt Bongiovanni from the\u00a0Ottawa Senators\u00a0for forward Graeme Clarke, senior vice president and general…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-508387","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\/508387","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=508387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}