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As for the other five players, four of them signed with Washington today. Center Jay Beagle inked a two-year deal while defenseman Patrick McNeill and Zach Miskovic and right wing Andrew Gordon signed one-year pacts.

Also, center Andrew Joudrey signed a one-year contract with the Capitals. Joudrey, Washington’s eighth-round (249th overall) pick in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft played on a Hershey contract last season.

Willsie, 32, is a former Capital and Hershey Bear who returns to the organization after splitting the past four years between the Los Angeles Kings and Colorado Avalanche organizations. A veteran of 380 NHL games since he made his debut in 1999-00, Willsie has totaled 52 goals and 56 assists (108 points) in the NHL. His best season came in 2005-06 with the Capitals when he finished fourth on the team with 41 points (19 goals, 22 assists) in 82 games.

ARLINGTON, VA. – The Washington Capitals have signed center/right wing Boyd Gordon to a one-year contract, vice president and general manager George McPhee announced today. In keeping with club policy, financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Defenseman Jeff Schultz signed a four-year contract extension with the Washington Capitals today, avoiding an arbitration with the team. The 24-year-old blueliner – Washington’s second choice (first round, 27th overall) in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft – just finished his fourth season in the NHL.

The signing locks up a top four defenseman for the Capitals for the next four seasons, and it gives Washington one of Schultz’s unrestricted free agent years at a salary cap hit of $2.75 million, a very amenable number when the unrestricted free agent signings last week of defensemen around the league are taken into consideration.

Schultz led the league with a plus-50 mark in 2009-10, obliterating the Capitals previous all-time single-season standard of plus-36 (set by Alan Haworth in 1985-86) in the process. He is the first Capital ever to lead the NHL in that department.