Top 3 Capitals takeaways after the NHL Trade Deadline
#1 Welcome back MoJo
The biggest move the Capitals made on NHL Trade Deadline day was bringing back Marcus Johansson. The Caps acquired him from the Seattle Kraken in exchange for Daniel Sprong, a 2022 fourth rounder, and a 2023 sixth rounder. The Kraken will retain 50 percent of Johansson’s $1.5 million cap hit.
The 31 year old played on multiple lines on the top nine and recorded six goals and 23 points in 51 games with the Kraken. With the Caps he spent time on the top line with Evgeny Kuznetsov and Alex Ovechkin before dropping to the third line.
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Johansson is no stranger to the Caps, having spent seven seasons with the team from 2010-11 through 2016-17 before being traded to the New Jersey Devils in the summer of 2017. That was the summer before the Capitals won the Cup and now Johansson is back and determined to win one too.
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Johansson has also seen stops with the Boston Bruins, Buffalo Sabres and Minnesota Wild and had struggled a few times to stay healthy. A lot of people wonder why the Caps traded a young forward for a player in their 30s. The answer is the Caps want to have a player that they could actually use and now they got one in MoJo.