Capitals Sign Center Nic Dowd To $3.9M, 3-Year Extension

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November 15, 2021 astatine 10:13 am

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nic Dowd signed a $3.9 million, three-year hold with the Washington Capitals connected Sunday, giving the reliable halfway immoderate semipermanent information and a important raise.

Dowd volition number $1.3 cardinal against the wage headdress each of the past 3 seasons, astir treble his existent $750,000 value. He’s coming disconnected a shortened 2021 play successful which helium scored a career-high 11 goals, and said helium wanted to support the roots helium has grown successful the D.C. area.

“Obviously, a batch of things spell into it, but I deliberation that this is simply a large spot to play,” Dowd said astatine the archetypal intermission of the Capitals’ crippled Sunday nighttime against the Pittsburgh Penguins. “I’ve been astir a mates of different organizations — some bully organizations — but this has decidedly been home. And my woman loves it. We emotion it.”

Dowd has missed 3 consecutive games with a lower-body injury. He has been constricted to 9 games this play and has 1 goal.

The 31-year-old prioritized a coagulated caller declaration implicit the chartless of escaped agency, particularly with the headdress staying level to relationship for pandemic gross losses.

“Free bureau hasn’t been arsenic affable successful the past mates years to a batch of people,” Dowd said. “You spot immoderate guys that don’t motion large deals, and that benignant of surprises you, truthful I deliberation the hazard appraisal was the biggest (part of the) decision-making process.”

Dowd scored arguably the biggest extremity of his vocation successful overtime of Game 1 of Washington’s first-round bid against Boston successful the archetypal circular past season. He has 79 points successful 316 regular-season NHL games with the Los Angeles Kings, Vancouver Canucks and Capitals.

“I honestly consciousness similar I’m getting close into my 27/28 years of my career, which, a batch of guys, that’s erstwhile they deed their peak,” Dowd said. “That’s however I consciousness astir my vocation close now. And I deliberation I’m a young 31-year-old. I deliberation a batch of radical don’t adjacent recognize I’m that aged until they spot it and they’re benignant of amazed by it. So, yeah, I deliberation I inactive person a batch near to give.”

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