The greatest pick-up game that ever happened in Washington

Kettler Iceplex was the scene of a rare sight Friday morning. Capitals players John Carlson, Jay Beagle, Jason Chimera, Brooks Laich, ex-Cap Jeff Halpern and retired Capital Peter Bondra took to the ice for a pickup game with a few college players (including both George McPhee’s son, Graham McPhee, and Peter Bondra’s son) from NVCC, Michigan State, Princeton and the University of Connecticut, to name a few.

John Carlson tweeted Thursday evening that he and a few other locked out players and teammates would be scrimmaging local college hockey players at 8:30 a.m on Friday at Kettler. Considering hockey fans in the D.C. area have been deprived of hockey for going on four months, this was a welcome distraction to the lockout.