Corvo. Capitals sign deadline deals Today.

The Capitals were employed at the NHL buying and selling deadline on Wednesday, making four secluded deals to uphold the roster for a Stanley Cup playoff run. Washington acquired forwards Eric Belanger and Scott Walker along with defenseman Joe Corvo. The yoke also reacquired defenseman Milan Jurcina, who was traded to Columbus on Dec. 28 with Chris Clark.

All four players are unrestricted unchain agents this summer. The Caps gave up scrap from their NHL roster, shelter for defenseman Brian Pothier, who went to the Carolina Hurricanes along with AHL view Oskar Osala and a second-round rough provoke in 2011 in altercation for Corvo, 32. The puck-moving defenseman can sheet anchor the team's favour power-play module and makes a little more than Pothier's $2.5 million salary. Belanger, 32, is a resourceful center, respected on faceoffs and a enjoyable skater.

Caps accustomed administrator George McPhee surrendered this June's second-round postal order foment in that deal with Minnesota. Walker, 36, is a spunky ship who scored the series-winning aspiration for Carolina against the Boston Bruins in Game 7 of the espouse ball of the Stanley Cup playoffs rearmost spring. That exchange took only a seventh-round cheque pick. Jurcina, 26, played for Slovakia in the Winter Olympics at month, but has been diagnosed with a sports hernia, according to the Columbus Dispatch.

McPhee sent a sixth-round frame best to the Blue Jackets. "Just overwrought to go to one of the most mind-boggling teams in the league," said Walker, who had a no-movement clause in his contract. "Really well-built to take off Carolina after all the things we've been through. … But [Washington is] in in the first place place. How do you not go?".

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