{"id":893868,"date":"2026-10-25T07:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T07:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/893868\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T07:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T07:06:11","slug":"report-capitals-have-given-ivan-miroshnichenko-permission-to-seek-trade-will-only-make-move-for-legit-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/893868\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Capitals have given Ivan Miroshnichenko permission to seek trade, will only make move for \u2018legit return\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ivan Miroshnichenko<\/a> appears likely to be on his way out of DC.<\/p>\n

According to Sportsnet\u2019s Elliotte Friedman<\/a>, the Capitals have given Miroshnichenko permission to speak to other NHL teams as he seeks a trade. Miroshnichenko has played in just three games for the Caps this season, averaging 11:03 of ice time and scoring one goal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is one other name potentially to add to trade boards here, and that is Washington\u2019s young forward Ivan Miroshnichenko,\u201d Friedman said on Sportsnet\u2019s Saturday Headlines<\/a>. \u201cHe was the 20th overall pick in 2022; he\u2019s a talented young guy. He\u2019s played three games this year and scored against Montreal, but he just can\u2019t get in the lineup.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s been given permission to talk to other teams by the Capitals. Now, what the Capitals have said is that they have to get a legit return. They\u2019re not going to put him on waivers; they know he won\u2019t clear. They will trade him, but the return has to be legitimate. They won\u2019t just do it for the sake of doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The news comes just over a week after Friedman also reported<\/a> that multiple other teams were keeping tabs on Miroshnichenko as he continues to sit out as a healthy scratch. The Russian winger has only been able to get into Washington\u2019s lineup this season after Pierre-Luc Dubois<\/a> fell ill earlier this month and was quickly returned to the press box as the Capitals got healthy.<\/p>\n

Miroshnichenko has played in 55 career games with the Capitals, recording 14 points (6g, 8a). Over the past three years, he\u2019s spent most of his time in the AHL with the Hershey Bears, registering 101 points (46g, 55a) in 141 games. He won the 2024 Calder Cup with the Bears, recording 12 points (7g, 5a) in 20 games during their successful postseason run.<\/p>\n

The club\u2019s 2022 first-round pick signed a two-year, $1.85 million contract extension last October and made the Capitals out of training camp this fall. That achievement mattered significantly, as he is no longer waiver-exempt, meaning the Caps would have had to risk putting him through waivers to get him back to the Bears.<\/p>\n

The Capitals are currently carrying 14 forwards, 7 defensemen, and 2 goaltenders on their active roster. Outside of Miroshnichenko, Ethen Frank<\/a> has been the regular extra forward this year, playing just two games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ivan Miroshnichenko appears likely to be on his way out of DC. According to Sportsnet\u2019s Elliotte Friedman, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":893869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-893868","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\/893868","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=893868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}