{"id":23810,"date":"2025-06-29T06:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T06:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/23810\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T06:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T06:24:09","slug":"chris-patrick-will-not-commit-to-tendering-alex-alexeyev-qualifying-offer-its-important-for-him-to-get-an-opportunity-at-the-nhl-level-with-us-or-with-somebody-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/23810\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Patrick will not commit to tendering Alex Alexeyev qualifying offer: \u2018It\u2019s important for him to get an opportunity at the NHL level, with us or with somebody else\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alex Alexeyev\u2019s<\/strong> time in Washington may soon come to an end.<\/p>\n

Alexeyev, 25, has struggled to secure regular ice time with the Capitals, spending much of the last few years as a healthy scratch in DC. He played just eight regular-season games for the Caps in 2024-25, though an injury to Martin Fehervary<\/a> saw him dress for 10 playoff games. His single-season career high in games played, 39, came during the 2023-24 campaign.<\/p>\n

Capitals general manager Chris Patrick<\/strong> spoke on Alexeyev\u2019s status on Saturday ahead of the start of free agency, suggesting that the team may look elsewhere to get Alexeyev more playing time.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a young guy that didn\u2019t get to play a bunch of games this year. I think it\u2019s important for him to get an opportunity at the NHL level, if that\u2019s with us or if that\u2019s with somebody else,\u201d he said. \u201cSo we\u2019re going to be as helpful as we can to him to get him the best opportunity to play in the NHL next year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alexeyev is set to become an arbitration-eligible restricted free agent this offseason, with the Capitals required to tender a qualifying offer by Monday in order to retain his rights. When asked, Patrick would not comment on whether the team planned to qualify Alexeyev.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll let that come out at the right time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

If Washington opted not to tender a qualifying offer, Alexeyev would become an unrestricted free agent on July 1.<\/p>\n

President of hockey operations Brian MacLellan spoke in May about the frustration Alexeyev felt from spending so much time out of the lineup, noting that the team hoped to give him more ice time next season.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you don\u2019t play as much as he did this year, which is fortunate for us that we\u2019ve been healthy, but it\u2019s frustrating for him, it hurts his development,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve done as much as we could without playing games to develop his skills and work on his game, but he\u2019s in a difficult spot, and he came in and I thought he played well at the end of the year. Going forward, I think it would be best if we could get him more games, and we\u2019ll see where it goes from there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alexeyev, the Capitals\u2019 first-round pick in the 2018 NHL Draft, saw relatively low minutes even when in the lineup for the Capitals this season, averaging 16:04 of ice time in the regular season and just 10:25 in the playoffs. In 80 career NHL games, he has recorded eight points (1g, 7a) over parts of four seasons.<\/p>\n

The Capitals have already acquired a potential replacement for Alexeyev, trading for left defenseman Declan Chisholm<\/a> on Saturday in a draft-day deal with the Minnesota Wild. Chisholm, 25, played 66 games for the Wild in 2024-25, recording 12 points (2g, 10a) and averaging 17:00 on ice per game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Alexeyev\u2019s time in Washington may soon come to an end. Alexeyev, 25, has struggled to secure regular…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-23810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114765225210398928","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}