The Washington Capitals are unlikely to make the playoffs with three games left in their 2025-26 season. It would mark their first miss under head coach Spencer Carbery, after sneaking in as the final team in 2023-24 and finishing atop the Eastern Conference in 2024-25.<\/p>\n
Despite the disappointing season, the organization\u2019s faith in Carbery hasn\u2019t wavered. General manager Chris Patrick recently told The Athletic\u2019s Pierre LeBrun<\/a> that he still has full confidence in his head coach.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s 100 percent our coach now and in the future,\u201d Patrick told LeBrun<\/a>. \u201cI just think he\u2019s the total package. He\u2019s come in and shown as a first-time coach in the NHL that he can get the respect of veteran guys and get them to play the system he wants them to play, and he\u2019s shown he can develop young players, too.<\/p>\n \u201cAs long as we can have him, we will.\u201d<\/p>\n The Capitals currently sit sixth in the Metropolitan Division and 12th in the Eastern Conference. They are three points out of a playoff spot and have played one more game than both teams they are chasing, the Philadelphia Flyers and the Ottawa Senators.<\/p>\n In his three seasons with the Capitals, Carbery has amassed a 131-83-29 record. Among all Capitals coaches, he ranks fourth in points percentage (.599), behind just Barry Trotz (.677), Bruce Boudreau (.672), and Todd Reirden (.642). Carbery\u2019s done this despite the team retooling and rebuilding on the fly as Alex Ovechkin<\/a> entered the twilight of his career.<\/p>\n Spencer Carbery\u2019s three seasons with the Capitals (5v5 analytics)<\/p>\n Season 2023-24 2024-25 2025-26 *Note: The Capitals still have three games remaining on their schedule this season<\/p>\n After Trotz\u2019s departure in 2018, Carbery is also the lone coach to have led the team to a playoff series victory, last year\u2019s five-game triumph over the Montreal Canadiens. Reirden and Peter Laviolette (.584) were both unsuccessful in two attempts, and Laviolette\u2019s 2022-23 Capitals missed the postseason altogether.<\/p>\n Last offseason, Carbery became the fourth head coach in franchise history to win the Jack Adams Award as NHL Coach of the Year<\/a> after he led the team to 50 wins for the first time since 2016-17. In doing so, he became the first to ever win Coach of the Year in the NHL, AHL, and ECHL \u2014 all three of North America\u2019s top professional leagues.<\/p>\n Given Patrick\u2019s comments, Carbery will likely remain behind the Capitals\u2019 bench for the post-Alex Ovechkin<\/a> era. The club\u2019s legendary captain is undecided if he\u2019ll continue his NHL career past this season<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Capitals are unlikely to make the playoffs with three games left in their 2025-26 season. It…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5114],"tags":[191,5,4,190,109,5222],"class_list":{"0":"post-549010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-capitals","8":"tag-capitals","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-washington","12":"tag-washington-capitals","13":"tag-washingtoncapitals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116376872153507614","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549010","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=549010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nRecord
\nCF%
\nxGF%
\nSCF%
\nHDCF%<\/p>\n
\n40-31-11
\n46.2
\n46.9
\n48.0
\n48.1<\/p>\n
\n51-22-9
\n51.0
\n51.4
\n52.5
\n52.6<\/p>\n
\n40-30-9*
\n49.5
\n50.5
\n49.9
\n50.7<\/p>\n