Caps Trade Eminger to Philly for 27th Pick

The Capitals traded D Steve Eminger and the 84th pick (3rd round) for Philadelphia's 1st round pick. With the pick they selected defensemen John Carlson. Carlson is a big guy with good skating ability but will be a project.

Capitals Final Cuts

The Capitals finalized their starting lineup this afternoon by placing Steve Eminger on the injured reserve list.

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Eminger and Sutherby Signed

Per Washingtoncaps.com, the Caps have resigned D Steve Eminger and C Brian Sutherby to 1 year deals. Both had an up and down season last year and will be looking to improve. If they don't, they may be looking for a job somewhere else. The Caps have a lot of talent coming up behind these two at their respective positions so it's time to put up the numbers. The two are among the longest tenured Caps with 192 NHL games played by Eminger and 254 by Sutherby. That's good enough to rank 69th and 56th on the Caps All-Time games played list. Olie Kolzig and Matt Pettinger are the only members of the team that have played more games as a Cap. The fans already seem to have sacrificed Eminger (who is only 23) because of a lack of development, and there seems to be murmurings about Sutherby whose number were down sharply last year. Will they last the season? Its too soon to tell.