The Washington Capitals will be without Alex Ovechkin, Evgeny Kuznetsov, Dmitry Orlov and Ilya Samsonov for at least four games after they violated the NHL’s coronavirus protocols on the team’s season-opening road trip.
Capitals coach Peter Laviolette said those four players will enter quarantine after a close contact with a positive case. The league fined the Capitals $100,000 on Wednesday for breaking coronavirus protocols, which involved players meeting in close proximity in a hotel room without masks.
The Washington Post reported Samsonov tested positive Tuesday night, resulting in Ovechkin, Orlov and Kuznetsov being added to the protocol-related absences list.