- Dylan Strome beat the goalie with a one-handed poke move in the Hockey Night in Brampton shootout
- Team Messier and Team Rielly skated to a 9-9 tie in front of a packed CAA Centre
- Read below for the video and the full guest list of NHL names who suited up
Dylan Strome found his summer highlight in a small rink northwest of Toronto.
The Capitals center suited up for Hockey Night in Brampton on Wednesday at the CAA Centre, and his shootout attempt became the clip everybody passed around on Thursday. Strome came in slow, took his top hand off the stick and poked the puck home one-handed while the goalie sold out on the fake.
Watch the move that got Strome trending:
Strome played for Team Messier. Hockey Hall of Famer Mark Messier captained one side, Maple Leafs defenseman Morgan Rielly had the other, and the two rosters wound up tied 9-9.
Money was the real scoreboard. Organizers announced $2,525,000 raised for the William Osler Health System Foundation and Brampton’s second hospital. Five editions in, the game has now pulled in close to $80 million toward that build.
Here’s the final horn and the check presentation at center ice:
The guest list went deep on both ends of the age range. Paul Coffey, Doug Gilmour, Wendel Clark, Gary Roberts, Ryan Getzlaf, Curtis Joseph, Joe Kocur, Kris Versteeg, Mark Giordano and Kirk Muller all took a shift.
Current players filled out the rest. Sharks prospect Michael Misa, Ducks defenseman Pavel Mintyukov, Sabres defenseman Owen Power and Senators forward Stephen Halliday were in, along with PWHL forwards Emily Clark and Jaime Bourbonnais.
Rielly has spent the week telling anyone who asks that he isn’t expecting a trade out of Toronto, so captaining a charity game 40 minutes up the highway tracked just fine.
Strome heads back to Washington needing a rebound. He finished under 60 points for the first time since joining the Capitals in 2022, and the shootout was one of the few places he stayed sharp. He went 4-for-8 in the skills competition, the only Washington skater to convert more than once, while the club won just two of its eight shootouts.
Training camp opens soon, and a chunk of the roster is already skating at MedStar Capitals Iceplex. Strome should be back on that ice shortly, hopefully with the Brampton move still in his back pocket.
