{"id":788107,"date":"2026-07-27T22:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T22:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/788107\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T22:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T22:27:08","slug":"justin-sourdif-working-out-with-flyers-star-travis-konecny-ahead-of-sophomore-season-with-capitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/788107\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Sourdif working out with Flyers star Travis Konecny ahead of sophomore season with Capitals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Justin Sourdif<\/a> is already grinding away ahead of his second full NHL season with the Washington Capitals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old forward is currently in Calgary, getting in some offseason workouts with Sutter Skills Development, a high-performance player development program run by former NHL forward Brody Sutter of the legendary Sutter hockey family.<\/p>\n

In a recent clip posted to the program\u2019s Instagram account, Sourdif can be seen doing drills with star Philadelphia Flyers<\/a> winger Travis Konecny<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Other notable players involved in the camp this summer include Buffalo Sabres<\/a> forward Peyton Krebs<\/a> and former Capitals forward Sheldon Rempal.<\/p>\n

Sourdif is coming off a rookie year with the Capitals in which he recorded 35 points (15g, 20a) in 78 games and finished 12th in Calder Trophy voting<\/a>. He finished tied for eighth in rookie scoring. With Sourdif on the ice at five-on-five, the Capitals outscored their opposition 47 to 28, the second-best goals-for percentage (62.7 percent) on the team.<\/p>\n

While Sourdif will be pushed down the depth chart, likely into the fourth-line center role, he is projected to be given even more responsibility as one of the club\u2019s go-to defensive forwards after the departure of Nic Dowd<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Head coach Spencer Carbery has already mentioned Sourdif as a top option to take on some big shorthanded minutes, which he rarely had during the 2025-26 campaign, averaging just eight seconds of penalty-kill time per game. At five-on-five this past year, Sourdif also started almost 40 percent of his shifts in the offensive zone, which could see a major decrease if Carbery deploys his fourth line as he has in the past.<\/p>\n

Sourdif is already eligible for a contract extension as he will become a restricted free agent next summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justin Sourdif is already grinding away ahead of his second full NHL season with the Washington Capitals. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-788107","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\/788107","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=788107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}