The Washington Capitals are dealing with some more injuries ahead of Saturday’s meeting with the Carolina Hurricanes.<\/p>\n
Per the NHL Media site, the Capitals have placed forward Connor McMichael and defenseman Matt Roy on the injured reserve.<\/p>\n
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McMichael skated 16:17 minutes against the Detroit Red Wings on Thursday, but did not play the final 8:27 minutes of the third or any of overtime or the shootout. It’s unclear what happened to the 25-year-old or what the ailment is.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Roy, who has missed the last two games with a lower-body injury, last played on Jan. 24 against the Edmonton Oilers.<\/p>\n
Injuries have been nothing new for Washington this season, as the team has dealt with a number of absences over the course of the campaign. The team is finally back in D.C. after a six-game road trip out west.<\/p>\n
The Capitals could potentially make a recall ahead of their 5 p.m. matchup, and are also dealing with some uncertainty surrounding their goaltenders. Logan Thompson is day-to-day with an upper-body injury, and Charlie Lindgren was hurt at the end of Thursday’s win and had to be helped off the ice and down the tunnel.<\/p>\n
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Clay Stevenson remains up with the team as of Saturday, and the team used its second and final 23 man roster limit-goaltender exemption to bring Stevenson up without having to clear a roster spot.<\/p>\n
The Hershey Bears recalled goaltender Seth Eisele from the South Carolina Stingrays on Saturday, indicating that Garin Bjorklund could be in route to D.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Capitals are dealing with some more injuries ahead of Saturday’s meeting with the Carolina Hurricanes. Per…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5107],"tags":[194,29,5176,908,3725,1601,93,146,5,195,11461,907,7603,4,1560,109],"class_list":["post-438441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-carolina-hurricanes","tag-carolina","tag-carolina-hurricanes","tag-carolinahurricanes","tag-charlie-lindgren","tag-clay-stevenson","tag-connor-mcmichael","tag-detroit-red-wings","tag-edmonton-oilers","tag-hockey","tag-hurricanes","tag-injured-reserve","tag-logan-thompson","tag-matt-roy","tag-nhl","tag-the-capitals","tag-washington-capitals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115991264995334673","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}