Three CapFriendly staff members will join Capitals front office when acquisition deal closes

In a statement released today by Washington Capitals general manager Brian MacLellan, he addresses the acquisition of CapFriendly and announces that Jamie, Ryan and Christopher Davis will be joining the Capitals staff once the purchase is complete in early July.

“The Capitals have agreed to acquire CapFriendly, including its tools and functions for its in-house hockey operations department,” MacLellan said in a statement. “CapFreindly will continue to operate independently until the transactions close which is anticipated to occur in early to mid-July after the conclusion of the NHL draft and start of free agency.”

“This strategic move will provide the Capitals organization with the ability to digest, present and analyze both our internal and league-supplied data and will also bring on board Jamie, Ryan and Christopher Davis, talented members of the CapFriendly team,” MacLellan stated. “The existing infrastructure will be a valuable addition to te team’s hockey operations department in many ways. We anticipate that this acquisition will significantly enhance and integrate the various branches of our hockey ops department allowing us to strengthen management, scouting, analytics and player development, in addition to augmenting our salary cap and contractual applications.

We are thrilled Jamie, Ryan and Chrispther have agreed to join our organization and are excited to add the CapFriendly platform and the team’s related deep industry knowledge to the Capitals front office,” MacLellan said.

According to the report, there were several teams who had agreements in place to use CapFriendly’s advanced tools and Application Programming Interface (API), however there were multiple teams who had received notification that their accessibility rights would be changing, which led to the growing speculation one NHL franchise was purchasing the entire website.