A limited number of 2025 Caps Canine Calendars are now available for perchase, per the Washington Capitals. The calendar will feature the 2024-25 squad with their dogs as well as dogs for adoptions hrough WTAR. All calendar proceeds benefit Wolf Trap Animal Rescue (WTAR) and Monumental Sports & Entertaiment Foundation (MSE Foundation).
They are available at WashCaps.com/CanineCalendar as well as at the Team Store and merchandise stands at Capital One ARena as well as the Team Store at MedStar Capitals Iceplex. The cost is $20.
Per the Capitals press release, photography services were provided by Virgil Ocampo Photography with Paige Dowd, Annie van Riemsdyk, and Taylor Wilson serving as art directors for the calendar.
The players featured in the calendar include Alexander Alexeyev, Jakob Chychrun, Nic Dowd, Pierre-Luc Dubois, Charlie Lindgren, Connor McMichael, Dylan Strome, Jakub Vrana, Logan Thompson, and Tom Wilson with their dogs. Nicklas Backstrom, Brandon Duhaime, Hendrix Lapierre, Andrew Mangiapane, Sonny Milano, Alex Ovechkin, Aliaksei Protas and Rasmus Sandin with dogs from Wolf Trap Animal Rescue.
Also in the roster for the calender is John Carlson with his dog and Dubois' dog who was fostered and adopted from WTAR, Trevor van Riemsdyk with his dog and a dog from WTAR, Martin Fehervary with the dog who was fostered and adopeted from Wolf Trap Animal Rescue and Caps alumni Karl Alzner and Alan May were also included.
Since 2012 MSE Foundation and the Capitals have raised nearly $650,000 for local animal shelters through the sale of Caps Canine Calendars since that year. MSE Foundation is committed to making the Greater Washington region a better place for all by supporting game changing solutions for the community. Learn more at MonumentalFoundation.org and follow MSE Foundation on X (formerly Twitter), and Instagram.
Wolf Trap Animal Rescue is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a mission to operate a life saving animal rescue transport and adoption program. These transports operate weekly, where hundreds of homeless puppies and kittens are relocated from Mississippi to awaiting foster homes in Northern Virginia.
Relocating these pets helps to prevent shelters from overcrowding and unnessary euthansia - providing the only hope for pets to find a home. Once transported to WTAR's foster program in Northern VA, the rescued pets are provided all the necesssary veterinary care and training they need until they find their perfect forever home through WTAR's adoption program.
Since 2015 when the program was founded, they have rescued and adopted nearly 12,000 homeless pets in need. Bravo to the Caps and fans, let's step up and order that calendar.