With the Washington Capitals needing to make roster cuts for their opening roster against the Buffalo Sabres, listed below is the roster coming out of camp. Note that rosters have expanded to 26 from 23 and there are six players on a taxi squad.
Forwards
Nicklas Backstrom
Nic Dowd
Lars Eller
Carl Hagelin
Garnet Hathaway
Evgeny Kuznetsov
T.J. Oshie
Alex Ovechkin
Richard Panik
Conor Sheary
Daniel Sprong
Jakub Vrana
Tom Wilson
Defenders
John Carlson
Zdeno Chara
Brenden Dillon
Nick Jensen
Dmitry Orlov
Justin Schultz
Jonas Siegenthaler
Trevor van Riemsdyk
Goalies
Ilya Samsonov
Vitek Vanecek
Taxi Squad
F Daniel Carr
F Brian Pinho
D Martin Fehervary
G Pheonix Copley
G Zach Fucale
G Craig Anderson
Transactions
Loaned the following players to the Hershey Bears of the American Hockey League: Kody Clark, Brett Leason, Garrett Pilon, Joe Snively and Riley Sutter. Additionally, the Capitals have re-assigned Axel Jonsson-Fjallby from Vasterviks (Sweden) to Hershey, and Hendrix Lapierre has been loaned to Chicoutimi of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.
Capitals placed nine players, including forward Shane Gersich and Michael Sgarbossa in addition to defenseman Lucas Johansen and goaltender Pheonix Copley, on waivers. Forwards Daniel Carr and Philippe Maillet; defensemen Paul LaDue and Cam Schilling; and goaltender Zach Fucale were the other five players placed on waivers.
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