The Washington Capitals made another move ahead of the team's annual summer Development Camp while additionally announcing the roster, camp schedule, and season schedule. We'll break it all down right here, right now.
First here's the Development Camp schedule where all practices except July 4 are free and open to the public at MedStar Capitals Iceplex.
Tuesday July 2: 2:30-3:30 Skills (Caps rink), Goalie Ice (Public rink)
Wednesday July 3: 9:15-10 a.m. Skills (forwards, public rink), 9:30-10:15 a.m. Skills (defense, Caps rink), 10:15-11 a.m. Skills (defense, public rink), 10:30-11:15 a.m. Skills (forwards, Caps rink)
Thursday July 4 CLOSED to the public: Goalie ice 8:30-9 a.m., 9-10 a.m. Skills defense, 10:15-11:15 a.m. Skills forwards
Friday July 5: On ice testing (Caps rink), Goalies (public rink) at 9:30-10:15 a.m. 10:30-10:45 a.m. Goalie Ice (public rink), 10:45-11:30 a.m. positional play defensemen (public rink), positional play forwards (Caps rink)
Saturday July 6: 8:30-9 a.m. Goalies public rink, 9-10:30 a.m. 3 on 3 tournament (Caps rink)
Check out who’s joining us for #CapsDevCamp, starting today at @MedStarIceplex
— Washington Capitals (@Capitals) July 2, 2024
On-ice sessions from July 2-3 and July 5-6 are free and open to the public. For more info, including the full schedule, visit https://t.co/xlvxaBY0Tg pic.twitter.com/EwiTZKuVvi
The roster includes the following with the jersey number they'll be sporting:
Forwards
Andrew Cristall 28
Zac Funk 71
Haakon Hanelt 65
Brett Hyland 59
Ryan Leonard 9
Eriks Mateiko 73
Ryan McGuire 86
Nikita Nikora 82
Terik Parascak 18
Ludwing Persson 85
Ilya Protas 62
Miroslav Satan 67
Petr Sikora 66
Alexander Suzdalev 14
Patrick Thomas 49
Oasiz Wiesblatt 50
Defensemen
Ayodele Adeniye 95
Cam Allen 54
Eric Charpentier 97
Ryan Chesley 22
Cole Hutson 39
Brent Johnson 34
Joaquim Lemay 47
Leon Muggli 45
Duncan Ramsay 81
Hudson Thornton 90
Goalies
Mason Beaupit 76
Antonie Keller 60
Nicholas Kempf 30
Collin MacKenzie 35
Jack Watson 75
The Caps additionally announced more signings which include forward Luke Philp to a one-year, two way contract ($775,000/$375,000) and forward Spencer Smallman to a one year, two way contract ($775,000/$350,000).
Philp is 28 and recorded six points with two goals and four assists including a plus three plus/minus rating in 15 regular season games with the Rockford IceHogs of the AHL in 2023-24 after missing the first 57 games of the season due to injury.
Smallman is also 28 and he recorded 21 points with 12 goals and nine assists in 53 games with the Colorado Eagles of the AHL last season. More depth to the depth chart as they say.
Finally the moment we've all been waiting for, the season schedule which you can download to your calendar and print out here. We'll have further breakdown of what that schedule looks like later and we all know the Caps open Oct. 12 against the New Jersey Devils at Capital One Arena. Spoiler alert that's the first of a three game homestand to begin the season.