Breaking down the potential 2024-25 Washington Capitals defensive pair of Jakob Chychrun and John Carlson

Next up as we look ahead to Washington Capitals training camp we break down the potenial defensive pair of Jakob Chychrun and John Carlson. As we're working on this Carlson is represeting the Caps over in Las Vegas, Nevada as part of the NHL media tour.

The basics

John Carlson finished with 10 goals and 42 assists for 52 points along with five game winning goals while averaging 25:54 minutes of ice time a night. Jakob Chychrun on the other hand had 14 goals and 27 assists for 41 points with the Ottawa Senators last season. The Caps acquired him over the summer.

Natural Stat Trick

Carlson finished with a corsi for percentage of 47.52 percent, an expected goals for percentage of 48.76 percent and a high danger chances for percentage of 48.68 percent in the regular season and that number went up in the playoffs.

In the postseason Carlson finished at a 53.80 percent corsi for percentage, a 54.37 percent expected goals for percentage and a 60 percent high danger chances for percentage.

Now lets look at Chychrun who finished in the regular season with a corsi for percentage of 50.02 percent, a 47.55 percent expected goals for percentage and a 46.87 percent high danger chances for percentage. That's pretty good.

On the informal skate front there was some good news as Ethan Bear was back on the ice after he entered the player assistance program in April. Tom Wilson and Trevor van Riemsdyk were also marked present per Sammi Silber of The Hockey News.

The full list of attendees at informal skate included Alex Ovechkin, Jakob Chychrun, Pierre-Luc Dubois, Dylan Strome, Martin Fehervary, Connor McMichael, Sonny Milano, Nic Dowd, Taylor Raddysh, Brandon Duhaime, Aliaksei Protas, Matt Roy, Alex Alexeyev, Ivan Miroshnichenko, and Logan Thompson. Silber also notes that Andrew Mangiapane is in Washington and joined the team but wasn't on the ice for the infromal skates. Training camp officially opens on September 19.

As the season gets closer fans are once again enoucraged to check out Palmer Alley to showcase their ALLCAPS pride for the 50th anniversay.

Also a happy belated birthday to Kevin Hatcher and we hope our friends had fun out on the golf course for a good cause for the Laughlin Family Foundation that Craig and Courtney put together for their wife and mother, Linda. We're excited to hear more stories about the success and turnout of the event.

Also as we're writing this more players have trickled into town with training camp just nine days away.