The Capitals have a captain who will turn 38 before next season and a new coach who will be 41 when he runs his first NHL game, the league’s youngest head man. Spencer Carbery will be the eighth head coach for Alex Ovechkin. And he could be the last.
, an NHL veteran of four previous teams, 18 previous seasons, a Cup win and two other appearances in the Cup finals.This is a tennis match, and the volley is now back from established and experienced to young and unproven, although maybe that’s too dismissive of Carbery, who is proven at the sport’s lower levels. MacLellan said the Capitals at least did background checks on available veterans — not the“Spencer came out on top from Day One,” MacLellan said.
Maybe the most impressive thing Carbery said Thursday involved his decision to leave a comfortable job in a familiar organization — he was the AHL’s coach of the year in Hershey — for a job as a Toronto Maple Leafs assistant before the 2021-22 season. “I never played in the National Hockey League,” Carbery said. “I hadn’t coached there yet. It was a difficult decision but one that I felt that: a) I could help their organization, and b) me personally, I felt like it would help a lot with my development to one day hopefully become a National Hockey League.”The path for the Capitals to get better in personnel isn’t obvious.
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