{"id":559722,"date":"2026-04-26T05:00:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/559722\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T05:00:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:00:29","slug":"washington-capitals-miss-playoffs-for-first-time-under-spencer-carbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/559722\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Capitals miss playoffs for first time under Spencer Carbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Capitals were eliminated from playoff contention without taking the ice Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Capitals were eliminated from playoff contention without taking the ice Monday night.\n<\/p>\n<p>Tyson Foerster scored the only goal in a shootout to lead the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hurricanes-flyers-score-721c24af7b8ee3902783a7e28fa04dcf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Philadelphia Flyers to a 3-2 win<\/a> over the Carolina Hurricanes, sending the Flyers to the playoffs for the first time since 2020.<\/p>\n<p>With 96 points, the Flyers clinched third in the Metropolitan Division, mathematically eliminating the Capitals, who have 93 points. Washington is 42-30-9 overall and 16-7-2 within the division.<\/p>\n<p>It marks the first time the Capitals have missed the postseason since the 2022-23 season and the first under head coach Spencer Carbery. The result also comes after Washington won its home finale against Pittsburgh, which may have been star <a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/washington-capitals\/2026\/04\/is-sunday-ovechkins-last-game-at-capitol-one-arena-wtop-talks-to-fans-about-his-record-breaking-career\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Alex Ovechkin\u2019s last game in D.C<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Washington, which is on a three-game win streak, ends its regular season Tuesday night in Columbus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"single-page__signature bottom\">Get breaking news and daily headlines delivered to your email inbox by signing up <a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/newsletter-signup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"single-page__signature bottom\">\u00a9 2026 WTOP. All Rights Reserved. This website is not intended for users located within the European Economic Area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Capitals were eliminated from playoff contention without taking the ice Monday night. The Washington Capitals were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5114],"tags":[426,191,5,22201,17989,4,283,190,109,5222],"class_list":{"0":"post-559722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-capitals","8":"tag-alex-ovechkin","9":"tag-capitals","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-jose-umana","12":"tag-nfl-playoffs","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-spencer-carbery","15":"tag-washington","16":"tag-washington-capitals","17":"tag-washingtoncapitals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116469250374385450","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559722","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=559722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}