Capitals’ Tom Wilson day-to-day with upper-body injury

The 29-year-old has 11 goals and 19 points in 38 games this season while averaging 18:25 minutes of ice time. Prior to the start of the 2023-24 season, the Capitals and Wilson agreed to a seven-year, $45.5 million extension beginning in 2024-25. According to CapFriendly, the contract will have an average annual value (AAV) of $6.5 million.

Wilson notched 13 goals and 22 points in 33 games during the 2022-23 regular season. He missed the first half of the season recovering from surgery to repair a torn ACL. Then, shortly after his return to the lineup, he lasted only eight games before another injury took him out of the lineup for several weeks.

The Toronto, Ontario product was initially drafted No. 16 overall in the 2012 NHL Draft. He has spent 12 seasons in D.C., appearing in 718 regular season games, registering 139 goals and 175 assists for 314 points. He has added 1,369 penalty minutes and currently ranks third on the Capitals’ all-time record list.

Additionally, Wilson has appeared in 83 Stanley Cup Playoff games, notching 31 points. In 2017-18, he led the NHL in playoff hits with 100 as the Capitals won their first Stanley Cup. In 2021-22, Wilson represented the Capitals at the 2022 NHL All-Star Game in Las Vegas, his first career All-Star Game selection and will have the opportunity to do so again at the 2024 NHL All-Star Game in Toronto.

The Capitals will play the Seattle Kraken on Thursday and the New York Rangers on Saturday.