Caps Replace Forwards

The last stop on the team update tour is Washington and they have been making some waves to keep their high-octane offense going at a good click this summer. The Caps picked up Mike Knuble and Brendan Morrison from the free agent market after losing Sergei Fedorov and Viktor Kozlov to Russia. The addition of Knuble is a big benefit to the Capitals, as they really needed someone to muck it out in front of the net and could be a big help cleaning up Alex Ovechkin's point shot on the power play. I would expect a pretty big season from Knuble this year.

No new faces so far on the blueline or in goal for the Caps, although the goaltending question will be a big one when training camp finally arrives. Who is going to be the number one guy out of camp? I can't wait to see what the answer is, because that keeper will be a good one to draft in the fantasy leagues.

Forwards	Defense	Goaltenders
Alex Ovechkin	Mike Green	Jose Theodore
Nicklas Backstrom	Shaone Morrisonn	Simeon Varlamov
Alex Semin	Tom Poti
Brooks Laich	Jeff Schultz
Mike Knuble	John Erskine
Tomas Fleischmann	Brian Pothier
Michael Nylander
Brendan Morrison
Eric Fehr
David Steckel
Boyd Gordon
Matt Bradley
Chris Clark

The Capitals are not going to struggle to fill their roster, especially since they are really close to doing so anyways. They already have 21 guys under contract for $55 million, which doesn't leave them with too much for the remaining two guys, but they won't necessarily need them or if they do, they'll fill them out with some young minor-league talent.

On the RFA list for the Caps, Milan Jurcina, who earned about $900,000 last season. He'll likely be up for a raise, if and when he does sign. That'll even fill up the last of the cap space, so no one else can join the club.