Ex-Capitals player to get paid over career ending hit

A former Capitals defenseman will receive worker’s compensation and disability payments more than nine years after his career was ended by a devastating blow to the head.

For almost a decade, Jamie Huscroft and the Capitals have faced off over the claim in D.C. courts and worker’s compensation administration. The kink in his claim was that Huscroft’s career ending injury happened in a game in Canada while he was playing for a Capitals’ minor league team, the Portland (Maine) Pirates.