{"id":93252,"date":"2025-08-19T02:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T02:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/93252\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T02:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T02:00:08","slug":"alex-alexeyev-praises-capitals-head-coach-spencer-carbery-for-how-hard-he-works-hes-just-obsessed-with-hockey-lives-and-breathes-it-hates-to-lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/93252\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Alexeyev praises Capitals head coach Spencer Carbery for how hard he works: \u2018He\u2019s just obsessed with hockey. Lives and breathes it. Hates to lose.\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alex Alexeyev is no longer a member of the Washington Capitals after signing a one-year contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins earlier this summer. Alexeyev recently spoke about departing the Caps with RG\u2019s Daria Tuboltseva<\/a> and mentioned being happy to get a new opportunity where he\u2019ll likely play more than the eight games he saw this past year.<\/p>\n

Capitals head coach Spencer Carbery was the man who kept Alexeyev on the sidelines for the majority of the year, sticking with a basically unchanging six-man defense corps. Despite Carbery\u2019s role in delivering him those many healthy scratches, Alexeyev had nothing but positive words to say about how hard his former bench boss works to win hockey games.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s just obsessed with hockey,\u201d Alexeyev told Tuboltseva<\/a>. \u201cLives and breathes it. Hates to lose. He\u2019ll rewatch a game ten times, study one play under a microscope. Even on the bench, he\u2019s always on his tablet. After games, he\u2019s already reviewing clips on the bus. By the time we\u2019re in the locker room, he\u2019s got ideas ready. Everything\u2019s noted, organized. He\u2019s 100% committed to the job.\u201d<\/p>\n

In two seasons under Carbery, Alexeyev got into 47 total games, which was more than the 33 games he played under Peter Laviolette the prior two seasons. Carbery also trusted Alexeyev as the next man up when Martin Fehervary\u2019s 2024-25 season was ended prematurely due to injury, dressing Alexeyev for all 10 of the Capitals\u2019 playoff games.<\/p>\n

Carbery has always been confident in Alexeyev to fill in whenever called upon, praising the defender\u2019s ability to jump into high-pressure situations without much of a warm-up.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would actually say it\u2019s part of his mental makeup,\u201d Carbery said last season<\/a>. \u201cWhen he comes into the lineup \u2013 he has a very clear understanding of what is impressive to us as coaches and to our management is getting out of games clean, breaking pucks out well, defending well, not getting beat in any one-on-one situation, be good with your regroup touches, your O-zone blue line touches, and get out of that hockey game.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd he, sitting for a while, sitting for a while, doesn\u2019t come in trying to save the world. He comes in and goes, I know exactly what I need to do for 16 to 18 minutes tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alexeyev isn\u2019t the only recent Capitals player to depart the club and then comment positively on Carbery. Evgeny Kuznetsov, who the Caps dealt to the Carolina Hurricanes at the 2024 trade deadline, praised Carbery\u2019s communication skills in an interview last December<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cCarbery knows how to communicate details to players,\u201d Kuznetsov said. \u201cI\u2019ve seen him give players the opportunity to make mistakes more than once, but in the end, they understood what was required of them. He has a huge amount of trust in the players.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Capitals are headed into their third season under Carbery, looking to improve upon their second-round elimination from the spring. The team is 91-53-20 since Carbery was hired, one of just 11 teams to cross the 200 standings point threshold across the last two seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Alexeyev is no longer a member of the Washington Capitals after signing a one-year contract with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-93252","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\/93252","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=93252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}