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Summary of the Washington Capitals 1992-93 Season

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September 19, 2024

Summary of the Washington Capitals 1992-93 Season

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With the Washington Capitals celebrating their 50th anniversary, NoVa Caps is summarizing each season of the team, from earliest to most recent. The series continues with the 1992-1993 season, their 19th season.

The Capitals record was 43-34-7 in 80 games for 93 points and second place in the Patrick Division. They ranked 10^th out of 24 for goals scored and 10^th out of 24 for goals given up. [Note: the NHL added two new expansion teams, the Ottawa Senators and the Tampa Bay Lightning.]

Positive news: This was among the most balanced attacks in Capitals history. Nine players scored at least 20 goals, and Kelly Miller was just shy of that with 18. Three of them were defensemen: Kevin Hatcher, Al Iafrate, and Sylvain Cote.

The downside is that there’s just one play anyone remembers from this year, and it occurred in the season-ending loss to the Islanders in Game 6 of the opening round. After Pierre Turgeon scored to give the Islanders a 5-1 lead and all but end the competitive portion of the series, he raised his hands in the air to celebrate. Dale Hunter took that as a signal to level Turgeon from behind.

That hit sidelined Turgeon for the next series (though he returned for the Eastern Conference finals against Montreal), and the ensuing suspension cost Hunter the first 21 games in 1993-94.

On the transactions front, the Capitals acquired Kevin Miller before the start of the season, which you assume would have made alternate captain Kelly Miller happy since they’re brothers. But the Kevin Miller era lasted just 10 games before he was shipped off to St. Louis, which felt more painful because the Caps sent future Hall of Famer Dino Ciccarelli to Detroit to acquire Miller and received Paul Cavallini when they sent him on to St. Louis. Shockingly enough, this example of asset management does not appear on GM David Poile’s Hall of Fame profile.

Notable Draftees in 1992 NHL Draft

Sergei Gonchar (D) – (1^st round — #14 overall)
Jim Carey (G) – (2^nd round — #32 overall)
Stefan Ustorf (LW) – (3^rd round pick — #53 overall)
Martin Gendron (RW) – (3^rd round pick — #71 overall)

General Manager: David Poile

Head Coach: Terry Murray

Captain: Rod Langway

Leaders

Goals: Peter Bondra (37), Kevin Hatcher (34), Dmitri Khristich (31)
Assists: Dale Hunter (59), Mike Ridley (56), Michal Pivonka (53)
Points: Peter Bondra (85), Mike Ridley (82)
Penalty Minutes: Alan May (268), Dale Hunter (198)

Major Trades

June 15, 1992
- Capitals acquire: Mark Hunter
- Whalers acquire: Nick Kypreos
June 20, 1992
- Capitals acquire: Kevin Miller
- Detroit Red Wings acquire: Dino Ciccarelli
June 20, 1992
- Capitals acquire: 1992 2^nd round pick (#32 used to pick Jim Carey), 1992 3^rd round pick (#53 used to pick Stefan Ustorf), and 1993 4^th round pick
- Toronto Maple Leafs acquire: 1992 1^st round pick (#23 used to pick Grant Marshall), 1992 4^th round pick
October 1, 1993
- Capitals acquire: Pat Elynuik
- Winnipeg Jets acquire: John Druce
November 1, 1992
- Capitals acquire: Paul Cavallini
- St. Louis Blues acquire: Kevin Miller
March 22, 1993
- Capitals acquire: Rick Tabaracci
- Winnipeg Jets acquire: Jiri Hrivnak, 1993 2^nd round pick

Previous Summaries

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1975-76 Season
1976-77 Season
1977-78 Season
1978-79 Season
1979-80 Season
1980-81 Season
1981-82 Season
1982-83 Season
1983-84 Season
1984-85 Season
1985-86 Season
1986-87 Season
1987-88 Season
1988-89 Season
1989-90 Season
1990-91 Season
1991-92 Season

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Washington Spirit goalkeeper Aubrey Kingsbury announces she’s pregnant

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February 26, 2026

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Washington Spirit goalkeeper Aubrey Kingsbury announces she’s pregnant

Washington Spirit goalkeeper Aubrey Kingsbury has announced that she and her husband Matt are expecting a baby in July.

The couple made the announcement in a video on the Spirit’s social media channels, holding a baby goalkeeper jersey on the pitch at Audi Field.

Kingsbury becomes the most recent Spirit star to go on maternity leave, following defender Casey Krueger, midfielder Andi Sullivan and forward Ashley Hatch.

Sullivan gave birth to daughter Millie in July, while Hatch welcomed her son Leo in January.

Krueger announced she was pregnant with her second child in October.

Kingsbury has served as the Spirit’s starting goalkeeper since 2018, and has been named the NWSL Goalkeeper of the Year twice (2019 and 2021).

The 34-year-old has two caps with the U.S. women’s national team, and was named to the 2023 World Cup roster.

The club captain will leave a major void for the Spirit, who have finished as NWSL runner-up in back-to-back seasons.

Sandy MacIver and Kaylie Collins are expected to compete for the starting role while Kingsbury is on maternity leave.

The Spirit kick off their 2026 campaign on March 13 against the Portland Thorns.

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Washington state board awards Yakima $985,600 loan for Sixth Avenue project design

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February 26, 2026

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Washington state board awards Yakima 5,600 loan for Sixth Avenue project design

YAKIMA, Wash. — Yakima could soon take a major step toward redesigning Sixth Avenue after the Washington State Public Works Board awarded the city a $985,600 loan.

The loan was approved for the design engineering phase of the Sixth Avenue project. The funding can also be used along Sixth Avenue for utility replacement and updated ADA use.

The Yakima City Council must decide whether to accept the award. If the council accepts it, the city’s engineering work will move forward with the design of Sixth Avenue.

The cost of installing trolley lines is excluded from the plan. The historic trolleys would need to raise the funds required to add trolley lines.

The award is scheduled to be discussed during next week’s City Council meeting.

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Microsoft promises more AI investments at University of Washington

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February 25, 2026

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Microsoft promises more AI investments at University of Washington

Microsoft will ramp up its investment in the University of Washington.

Brad Smith, the company’s president, made the announcement at a press conference with University of Washington President Robert Jones on Tuesday.

That means hiring more UW graduates as interns at Microsoft, he said.

And he said all students, faculty, and researchers should have access to free, or at least deeply-discounted, AI.

“ Some of it is compute that Microsoft is donating, and some of it is pursuant to an agreement where, believe me, we give the University of Washington probably the best pricing that anybody’s gonna find anywhere,” Smith said. He assured the small group of reporters present that it would be “many millions of dollars of additional computational resources.”

The announcement today didn’t include any specific numbers.

But Smith said Microsoft has already invested $165 million in the UW over several decades.

He pointed to Jones’ vision to spur “radical collaborations with businesses and communities to advance positive change,” and eliminate “any artificial barriers between the university and the communities it serves.”

Microsoft’s goal is for AI to help UW researchers solve some of the world’s biggest problems without introducing new ones.

At Tuesday’s announcement, several research students were present to demonstrate how AI supports their work.

Amelia Keyser-Gibson is an environmental scientist at the UW. She’s using AI to analyze photographs of vines, to find which adapt best to climate change.

It’s a paradox: AI produces carbon emissions. At the same time, it’s also a new tool to help reduce them.

So how do those things square for Keyser-Gibson?

“ That’s a great question, and honestly, I don’t know the answer to that,” she said. “I’m highly aware that there’s a lot of environmental impact of using AI, but what I can say is that this has allowed us to make research innovations that wouldn’t have been possible otherwise.”

“If we had had to manually annotate every single image that would’ve been an undergrad doing that for hours,” Keyser-Gibson continued. “And we didn’t have the budget. We didn’t have the manpower to do that.”

“AI exists. If we don’t use it as researchers, we’re gonna fall behind.”

Microsoft reports on its own carbon emissions. But like most AI companies, it doesn’t reveal everything.

That’s one reason another UW student named Zhihan Zhang is using AI to estimate how much energy AI is using.

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