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Westminster resident Jackson DeAdder, who played high school ice hockey at Loyola Blakefield, is joining the Boston Bruins' junior organization.

A series of roster moves over the past two weeks have left the Washington Capitals with one obvious need, and it could be addressed as soon as noon on July 1.

The Washington Capitals have traded forward Andre Burakovsky to the Colorado Avalanche for second- and third-round picks in the 2020 NHL draft.

Brooks Orpik called it a career Tuesday after 15 bruising NHL seasons in which he established himself as a big-hitting, shutdown defenseman.

On the second day of the NHL draft, the salary cap crashed the party with P.K. Subban, Patrick Marleau and J.T. Miller were on the move.

The Washington Capitals selected center Connor McMichael with the 25th overall selection in the first round of the 2019 NHL Draft on Friday at Rogers Arena.

The Baltimore Blast announced the re-signing of 2018-2019 First Team All-Major Arena Soccer League defender Adriano Dos Santos to a two-year extension.

The Washington Capitals have re-signed winger Carl Hagelin to a four-year, $11 million deal.

After a half-century of disappointment, even Mother Nature didn't dare spoil the celebration of St. Louis' first-ever Stanley Cup championship.

At one point, the St. Louis Blues could've been the Baltimore Blues.

Surprise, surprise, all four division champions lost in the first round for the first time in major four North American pro sports history, the teams that played in last year's Cup Final are out and the team that finished 21 points ahead of the rest of the NHL got swept.

The Carolina Hurricanes stormed back to stun the Washington Capitals, 4-3, in Game 7 on Wednesday night to eliminate the defending Stanley Cup champions.

The player who earned the “Mr. Game 7” moniker for going 7-0 with seven goals and seven assists in winner-take-all situations lost in a Game 7 for the first time with the Washington Capitals in 2017. Now he's back as captain of the Carolina Hurricanes.

Jordan Staal scored the go-ahead goal and added an assist in the third period, and the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Washington Capitals, 5-2, on Monday night to force Game 7 in their first-round playoff series.

The Capitals look as if they've found the swagger that led them to winning the Stanley Cup last year and can eliminate the Hurricanes in Game 6 on Monday night.

Capitals' Todd Reirden among rookie coaches enjoying chess match in playoffs

Teuvo Teravainen scored the go-ahead goal with 27.9 seconds left in the second period, and the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Washington Capitals, 2-1, on Thursday night to even their playoff series at two games apiece.

No league is as unintentionally cruel to its top seed as the NHL. In the 32 years that the Presidents' Trophy has been awarded, just eight teams that claimed it have gone on to win the Stanley Cup.

Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin injured Carolina Hurricanes rookie Andrei Svechnikov with a punch to the face during a fight in Game 3 of their first-round playoff series Monday night. 

In one of their worst performances of the season, the Capitals fell 5-0 to the Hurricanes Monday night at PNC Arena as Washington holds a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven series.

If the Capitals repeat as Stanley Cup champions, it will largely be due to Brooks Orpik’s influence on the ice and in the dressing room.

Capitals vs. Hurricanes, Game 2

Just hours before the first playoff game of his NHL career, center Nic Dowd has inked a deal to remain with the Washington Capitals for the next three seasons.

For once, Alex Ovechkin and the rest of the Washington Capitals head into the Stanley Cup playoffs without having to hear — and answer — so many of those same old same olds.

Playoff rookies and close friends, Nic Dowd and Nick Jensen are set to play in their first career postseason when the Capitals kick off their first-round series against the Carolina Hurricanes Thursday at Capital One Arena.

The Capitals swept their four-game regular-season series against the Hurricanes, who ended a 10-year playoff drought with this berth.

Capitals close with a victory, get Hurricanes in first round

Capitals vs. Canadiens

Tom Wilson's hands are evidence of the toll fighting can have on the body, of the risk of injury every time he sheds his gloves and literally exposes one of his most important assets.

Braden Holtby's journey back to the starter's net, to being considered one of the best goaltenders in the NHL, ironically started with accepting that he was

The Baltimore Banners’ annual players-vs.-coaches scrimmage marked the culmination of the eighth season for the free hockey program for at-risk Baltimore youth at the Mimi DiPietro Family Skating Center.

Alex Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals will get a chance to celebrate their Stanley Cup championship with President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday.

The 14U Harford North Stars all-girls ice hockey team from Harford County, based out of Ice World in Abingdon, won the Chesapeake Bay Hockey League (CBHL) Playoff Championship in Frederick last weekend.

Evgeny Kuznetsov had two goals and two assists in the Washington Capitals' 6-4 win over the Los Angeles Kings.

Wednesday night's 6-3 defeat to the Maple Leafs extended the Capitals' losing streak to seven games — and Washington's free fall will now be paused by a week-long break.

After 13-year-old defenseman Divyne Apollon II faced racist taunts, two Washington Capitals players have invited his Metro Maple Leafs, who had his back, to Monday's game against the St. Louis Blues.

At its core, 2018 was defined not by games but by the complex and sometimes tragic stories that accompany them.

Washington Redskins tackle Trent Williams practiced Monday and has been fully cleared after being taken to the hospital in an ambulance following the team’s game at Dallas on Thanksgiving Day.

The Stanley Cup was making the rounds in Baltimore on Friday, visiting Oriole Park at Camden Yards and the Rye Street Tavern in Port Covington.

A Stanley Cup championship banner rose to the rafters at the home of the Washington Capitals for the first time, and everyone in attendance Wednesday night got to relive the sheer excitement of it all.

The Chesapeake Bayhawks have signed midfielder-attackman Colin Heacock (Boys' Latin, Maryland) to a three-year deal through the 2021 Major League Lacrosse

From Scottsdale, Ariz., to the University of Oklahoma to Baltimore, rookie tight end Mark Andrews has preached the same message to children once like him: Diabetes doesn’t define you. It’s only a part of you.

Chandler Stephenson was mid-celebration on the ice after winning the Stanley Cup when someone yelled his name.

In the first game of its three-game, 10-day trip to Italy, the Maryland men's basketball team beat the Rome All-Stars, 89-53, at Pala Fonte Roma Eur, about 45 minutes south of downtown Rome.

Ted Leonsis wants the AFL to continue it's upward path — and with both of his teams in the ArenaBowl this year, it seems as if his plan is working.

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The North American Hockey League team will open its 60-game schedule at its home rink, Odenton's Piney Orchard Ice Arena, in September.

The first four-day race week of Laurel Park's summer meet opens with a bang as multiple stakes-winning fillies Shimmering Aspen and Crabcakes are set to face

The United States advanced to the championship game of the Federation of International Lacrosse Men's World Championship by beating Australia, 14-5, in the

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