Getting ready for dinner on Tuesday night, Lars Eller got a call from Pittsburgh Penguins general manager Kyle Dubas with some news: he'd been traded to the Washington Capitals. First, it was a wave of shock,

Eller, a member of the Capitals’ Stanley Cup winners in 2018, returns after being traded to Colorado in March 2023.

It’s Hump Day. There’s a lot of business to address. Let’s get to it. Lars Eller’s day began in Pittsburgh and ended with him headed to Washington — where he achieved his greatest success — as part of a rare trade between the Penguins and Capitals.