Martin Fehervary Secures His Future with the Capitals
Washington Capitals defenseman Martin Fehervary has signed a seven-year contract extension, which will keep him with the team through the 2032-33 season. The deal is worth $6 million annually, the team announced on Tuesday.
Fehervary, who had one year of team control remaining, will enter the final season of a three-year bridge contract, where he will earn $2.675 million before his new contract takes effect at the start of the 2026-27 season.
In the previous season, Fehervary scored five goals and achieved 25 points, his personal best, while playing 19 minutes. He also played a crucial role in the Capitals’ penalty kill, accumulating 245 shorthanded minutes, which helped the team rank fifth in the NHL with an 82% success rate in penalty killing.
Securing Fehervary, 25, with a long-term contract means the Capitals now have seven players with more than three years remaining on their current contracts.
This also reduces the number of decisions the Capitals’ management will have to make before what is expected to be an active offseason in 2026, in which the club projects to have $39.25 million in cap space, according to PuckPedia.
That same offseason will coincide with the expiration of the contract of the captain and all-time leading scorer in NHL history, Alex Ovechkin, along with that of defenseman John Carlson.
Meanwhile, the Capitals have their entire top defensive unit under contract as they look to improve on the 2024-25 season, in which they finished atop the Metropolitan Division with 111 points before losing in the Eastern Conference semifinals to the Carolina Hurricanes in five games.
