{"id":471688,"date":"2026-02-25T19:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T19:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/471688\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T19:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T19:44:11","slug":"washington-capitals-waive-f-sonny-milano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/471688\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Capitals waive F Sonny Milano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/washington-capitals\/15\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/washington-capitals\/15\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Capitals<\/a> placed forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/sonny-milano\/8477947\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/sonny-milano\/8477947\" target=\"_blank\">Sonny Milano<\/a> on waivers Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 29-year-old forward lost his place on the roster as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/connor-mcmichael\/8481580\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/connor-mcmichael\/8481580\" target=\"_blank\">Connor McMichael<\/a> was activated from injured reserve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Milano has four goals and eight points in 31 games with the Capitals this season after being limited to just three games last season. He is signed through this season at cap hit of $1.9 million and is scheduled for unrestricted free agency this summer.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Capitals will place Sonny Milano on waivers at 2 p.m. ET today with the purpose of assigning him to Hershey of the AHL.<\/p>\n<p>He has been designated as a non-roster player and Connor McMichael was activated from IR.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Gulitti (@TomGulittiNHL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomGulittiNHL\/status\/2026719035975467010?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Selected 16th overall by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/columbus-blue-jackets\/29\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/columbus-blue-jackets\/29\" target=\"_blank\">Columbus Blue Jackets<\/a> in the 2014 draft, Milano has 66 goals and 145 points in 344 games with Columbus, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/anaheim-ducks\/24\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/anaheim-ducks\/24\" target=\"_blank\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a> and Capitals. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">McMichael, 25, has eight goals and 31 points in 55 games this season. He posted a career-best 26 goals and 57 points in 82 games last season.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Capitals placed forward Sonny Milano on waivers Wednesday. The 29-year-old forward lost his place on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5114],"tags":[4759,191,5,4,57053,190,109,35805,5222],"class_list":{"0":"post-471688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-capitals","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-capitals","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-sonny-milano-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8477947","13":"tag-washington","14":"tag-washington-capitals","15":"tag-washington-capitals-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-15","16":"tag-washingtoncapitals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116132987861427643","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471688","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=471688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}