Michal Neuvirth News

Fansided's hockey community is participating in a mock-draft this spring . A Thus, it falls to Capitals Outsider to chime in for the 11th overall selection .

Dany Sabourin 's main claim to NHL fame was in the 2007 Stanley Cup Playoffs. Vancouver Canucks starting goaltender Roberto Luongo had to use the restroom, so Sabourin played 3:34 before intermission.

As the 2011-2012 NHL season begins its final act, we look ahead to the start of a new hockey year.

The Caps may very well match that mark in 2012-13 with Michal Neuvirth and Braden Holtby .

While most of this offseason will be consumed with who the Capitals will hire as the next head coach, we should also start focussing on what the roster will look like come October.

Without Michal Neuvirth's hip injury, Braden Holtby doesn't step in as the Washington Capitals' starting goalie and, for at least two rounds, turn into one of the biggest stories of the NHL playoffs.

ARLINGTON , Va. - The Washington Capitals and the Hershey Bears of the American Hockey League have extended their affiliation agreement through the 2013-14 season, Capitals Vice President and General Manager George McPhee and Hershey President and General Manager Doug Yingst announced Wednesday.

Now that we as fans are in the off-season, it is time for a little back-seat general managing.

The 22-year-old's journey from third on the franchise depth chart to playoff starter demonstrated that, even at a young age, Holtby is ready to take the next step in his NHL career.

Of the players on Washington's NHL roster , six are set to become unrestricted free agents on July 1, meaning they can sign with any team they choose.

NHL digital portrait artist Que-ink has outdone herself - starting a digital portrait of Capitals goaltender Braden Holby right after Washington eliminated Boston and finishing today, a project that took her 79 hours and 22 minutes using the online drawing software TegakiE.

Which player has raised his fantasy value the most during the playoffs, Braden Holtby, Erik Gustafsson, Brayden Schenn, Chris Kreider, or someone else? Which player has diminished his fantasy value the most during the playoffs, Alex Semin, Alex Ovechkin, Roberto Luongo, Ilya Bryzgalov, Brian Elliott, Patrick Marleau, or other? Coach Brouwer: Braden ... (more)

Tomas Vokoun stumbled into a one-year, $1.5 million deal with the Washington Capitals last July when other options fell out beneath him.

Washington Capitals center Jay Beagle walks back to the locker room after warming up before the Washington Capitals take on the Boston Bruins in Game 4 of first-round playoff hockey at Verizon Center in Washington on Thursday, April 19, 2012.

For quite some time, Washington Capitals general manager George McPhee tried to persuade former player Dale Hunter to return to the team as its coach.

Braden Holtby #70 of the Washington Capitals drinks water between plays during a game against the New York Rangers in Game Six of the Eastern Conference Semifinals during the 2012 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at Verizon Center on May 9, 2012 in Washington, DC.

Braden Holtby didn't dwell on the Capitals' triple-overtime loss to the Rangers in Game 3. Instead, he turned aside 18 shots in a 3-2 victory in Game 4 that deadlocked the Eastern Conference semifinal series.

No one should take that to mean this series isn't intense in its own right, it's just without the extra-curricular things that both teams experienced more of in the first round.