[Capitals] The Washington Capitals have named Spencer Carbery the team’s head coach.

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1. 🎉🥳

2. Looking at the comments on novacaps from when the caps lost carberry to Toronto makes me feel even better about this. Everyone was devastated over losing him, and now we have him back. Hopefully he’s the guy for a long time and will help us transition from the end of the ovechkin era into the new era.

3. He’s coming home!

   I’m not expecting the Caps to win another cup under him, but if we can see growth from the kids and keep Ovechkin motoring towards the record I’ll be happy.

   Edit: according to LeBrun it is a 4 year contract https://twitter.com/PierreVLeBrun/status/1663569311347142658

4. chefs kiss

5. Looking forward to creativity on the PP and a great bridge to the post-Ovechkin era 😢

6. Lavi out, Forsythe out, Carbery in. I’d like to buy Teddy and GMBM a beer.

   This is the best news.

7. In eight years as a head coach at the pro level, Carbery’s teams have finished below .500 just once. His best work yet was engineering a 17-game point streak in 2018-19 that took the AHL Hershey Bears from last place to the playoffs. He has been a quick riser after winning ECHL Coach of the Year (2014) and AHL Coach of the Year (2021). Washington wanted to keep him on, but Carbery took an assistant job with the Maple Leafs in 2021. Since Carbery took over running the power play, Toronto has the league’s second-best man-up unit (behind Edmonton).

8. Sweet. Looking forward to a breath of fresh air.

9. Got our guy

10. Everyone is excited about this. Guess I should be as well. Honestly don’t know enough about Carbery, but I’m eager to see how this turns out.

    For those who know all about this guy… explain like I’m five

11. Great news for a Tuesday!

12. From the leafs, take care of him guys.

13. So what is making everyone say this is the best hire?

    When we got reirden everyone was like fuck yes! We got lavi and everyone was saying the same thing. Then at the end everyone wanted them out

    Now everyone is like we got our guy!!!

    Not trying to be negative at all, just trying to learn.

14. Sweet baby Jesus

15. Hopping in the “Car” to “Bery” the eastern division these next few years! Finally a ray of sunshine peaks through. Looking forward to see what he can get done in this transitory period!

16. Only one question…

    Does he slingshot?

17. You can fire him after a year (no questions asked) if you had to

18. Biggest mistake caps made was not paying Barry trotz

19. LETS GO. Best 1 of 2 options in the market

20. Lol. Let’s bring in someone from the chokearama that is the TML. I guess we are going goals for OV and rebuild. Which makes perfect sense.

21. I don’t know, hiring a coach with experience in choking might come in handy during the playoffs.

22. INB4 Fire Carbery

23. Once again a coach with zero experience as HC. Was really good last time with freaking Reirden.