The Washington Capitals have signed defenseman Brooks Orpik to a one-year contract, senior vice president and general manager Brian MacLellan announced today. Orpik's contract will carry an average ...

If you ask a longtime Carolina Hurricanes fan who the most hated player in franchise history is, the first answer out of their mouth will be Brooks Orpik. Usually, there isn't a millisecond of thought ...

Brooks Orpik was not the first 2008-09 Penguin to retire. That honor — if it’s an honor — went to Phillippe Boucher later that summer. He was 35 at the time, and a healthy scratch for the last six ...

Forwards around the NHL will have one less bruising defenseman to worry about heading into next season. On Tuesday morning, Washington Capitals blueliner Brooks Orpik announced his retirement from the ...

After 15 years, Capitals defenseman Brooks Orpik, a two-time Stanley Cup champion, calls it a career originally appeared on nbcsportswashington.com Brooks Orpik wanted to wait. A few days after a ...

WASHINGTON — During their back-to-back Stanley Cup final runs in 2008 and 2009, the Pittsburgh Penguins knew all about what Brooks Orpik can do. The rugged, bruising defenseman's ability to play on ...

Brooks Orpik has announced his retirement today from the National Hockey League (NHL) after 15 seasons. Born in San Francisco, California, but raised in Amherst, New York, the steady defenceman was a ...

Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Brooks Orpik returned to the lineup for Game 4 of their second round series against the New York Rangers, but it’s not clear when he’ll play again. In his first period ...

Brooks Orpik has always liked being busy. When he hung up his skates in June 2019 after a 16-year NHL career, it took the two-time Stanley Cup champion with the Pittsburgh Penguins and Washington ...

The Washington Capitals signing Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Brooks Orpik has been widely panned as the worst move in this summer’s NHL free agent frenzy. It’s obviously up to Orpik to hold up his ...