Caps announce final cuts 2016-10-12 The final cuts were announced today ahead of the pre-season start for the Hershey Bears. There were no surprises as everyone who was expected to go back to Hershey was sent back yesterday prior to the Capitals pre-season tilt against the New York Islanders which saw the team win 5-1. Here is your teams final roster going into the season: WASHINGTON CAPITALS LW C RW Ondrej Palat Anze Kopitar Loui Eriksson Benoit Pouliot Martin Hanzal Radim Vrbata Anders Lee Sean Couturier Alexander Burmistrov Tobias Rieder Brian Boyle Jonathan Marchessault Extra Forward: Patrick Dwyer LD RD Francois Beauchemin Justin Faulk Marc Staal Aaron Ekblad Clayton Stoner Zbynyk Michalek Extra Defenceman: Nate Prosser G Roberto Luongo Andrei Vasilevskiy Patrick Dwyer will only see time in case of injury so he'll be in the press box most nights with one of Nate Prosser or Clayton Stoner as those two will share time on the 3rd defensive pair. Matt Nieto and Nikita Nesterov will be the first two players called up if needed. And here is the expected line-up for the farm team, though things can change here in pre-season: Hershey Bears LW C RW Matt Nieto Zac Dalpe Emerson Etem Shane Prince Phil McRae Christian Thomas Sonny Milano Louis-Marc Aubry Jeremy Langlois Max Friberg Ethan Werek Joel Vermin Extra Forwards: Justin Vaive, Danick Gauthier, Stefan Fournier LD RD Justin Falk Chris Summers Nikita Nesterov Tommy Cross Jarred Tinordi Mark Alt Extra Defenceman: Jordan Schmaltz, Paul Postma, Nick Jensen, Beau Schmitz G Anthony Stolarz Spencer Martin Extra Goalie: Matt Hackett The forward group is pretty much set, Justin Vaive may get time incase of injury or call ups. The Defence will see Postma and Schmaltz rotating in from time to time for Cross, Tinordi, and Alt. As for the Goalies, the only time Hackett will get time is incase of injury. He'll have to get his starts in the ECHL.
