The Washington Capitals also avoided arbitration with Tomas Fleischmann, who was scheduled to meet on Wednesday, signing him to a new 1-year deal. The reports have been mixed, but the salary seems to remain the same across the board at $2.6 million, but there is a report of a $100,000 signing bonus, which would lift his cap hit to $2.7 million. I'm going to call it the latter for now, those signing bonuses do run rampant these days.Fleischmann scored at a pretty good rate in 2010, picking up 51 points (23 goals and 28 assists) in 69 games, 0.74 points-per-game, which would have looked even better if he had managed to play in a few more games. His 51 points have him ranked 89th among all forwards, with some room to grow in 2011 and would be considered a pretty good gamble, if you decided to move him up a little bit.
| Forwards | Defense | Goalies |
| Alex Ovechkin | Mike Green | Semyon Varlamov |
| Alex Semin | Tom Poti | Michal Neuvirth |
| Brooks Laich | Jeff Schultz | |
| Mike Knuble | John Erskine | |
| Tomas Fleischmann | John Carlson | |
| Eric Fehr | Karl Alzner | |
| Jason Chimera | ||
| Matt Bradley | ||
| David Steckel |
The Capitals are showing some good cap management skills, as they should be starting to look more and more at some depth players, with most of their skill already signed on. Right now, I have them with 18 players on their current roster for an annual cap hit of $52.9 million, leaving them with about $6.5 million for their remaining five roster spots. The Capitals are without any more key restricted free agents, so now they should be looking within to get some depth, possibly one more unrestricted free agent and then the team should be built. I don't expect too much more from Washington, but we can always be surprised, right?
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