WASHINGTON — Getting ready for dinner on Tuesday night, Lars Eller got a call from Pittsburgh Penguins general manager Kyle Dubas with some news: he'd been traded to the Washington Capitals.

(AP Photo/Chris Szagola) Washington Capitals center Lars Eller (20) celebrates his goal with right wing Taylor Raddysh (16) ...

Eller snapped a 10-game goal-scoring drought when he put the Capitals ahead early in the third period on a partial breakaway goal. The Danish forward has managed five goals and 11 points in 34 ...

Eller recorded an assist in Tuesday's 3-1 win ... 24 blocked shots and a minus-2 rating over 48 appearances between the Capitals and the Penguins this season.

WASHINGTON – Alex Ovechkin scored his 878th NHL goal in the Washington Capitals 6-3 win against the Florida Panthers at Capital One Arena on Tuesday.

potting a rebound after center Lars Eller hit the post on a shot off the rush. Thompson picked up the secondary assist, his first point as a Capital and the fourth of his career. The nachos were ...

The Capitals have 29 games left for him to get to 895 or beyond this season, though he does have another year left on his contract. Andrew Mangiapane, Tom Wilson, Lars Eller and Nic Dowd scored on two ...

Matvei Michkov put on a show, scoring two goals for the Flyers. Washington's Alex Ovechkin scored Thursday night and is now 16 goals away from breaking Wayne Gretzky’s career record.

Eller (illness) was removed from injured reserve Sunday, per Sammi Silber of The Hockey News. Washington assigned Hendrix Lapierre to AHL Hershey in a corresponding move. Eller will likely return ...

The Philadelphia Flyers fell to the Washington Capitals 4-3 last night. Ahead of the game, it was announced that Ivan Fedotov would get the start on the net.

The Capitals hadn’t lost in regulation since ... Hughes’s first goal came less than a minute after center Lars Eller missed a scoring chance — it went down in the official play-by-play ...

Dylan Strome, Lars Eller, Andrew Mangiapane ... coaching is hardly to blame for so many top players underachieving. Capitals: They didn't play their best, and they're in a bit of a midseason ...