Spencer Carbery, head coach of the Washington Capitals, hails from Victoria, British Columbia. His family and friends are incredibly proud of his achievements, especially after leading the team to the playoffs in his first season and achieving the third-best winning percentage in the NHL this season.
General passers-by on Wednesday could be excused for being confused by the Washington Capitals flag flying alongside that of the Vancouver Canucks outside Christie’s Carriage House. The Canucks affiliation in this province is obvious but the Caps are not widely followed here with one caveat — head coach Spencer Carbery’s family and friends.
“There are not a lot of Capitals fans here outside of this pub — we couldn’t find many Capitals hats in sporting goods stores around town,” quipped uncle Brock Carbery, owner of Christie’s Carriage House, which has become the go-to Caps watching hub for the Carbery clan. “We are so proud of him. What he has done in Washington has been just fantastic.” After leading the Capitals to the playoffs in his first NHL stint last season, Carbery has guided Washington to the third-best winning percentage in the NHL this season heading into Wednesday’s game in the U.S. capital against the Canucks. His family knows the secret to his success because they know the man, and have since he was a kid skating in the Saanich Minor Hockey Association and then Racquet Club of Victoria. “Spencer is so good with people,” said Brock Carbery. “It’s that simple. His players absolutely love him. He has the total respect of his players.” Carbery says he absorbed a lot from his Island hockey coaches, including Jack Hagen and Craig Didmon at the Racquet Club, Pete Zubersky with the Peninsula Panthers of the Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League and Greg Adams with the Cowichan Valley Capitals in the B.C. Hockey League: “They all helped mold my hockey mind.” But his greatest coaching influence was dad Bryan Carbery, retired head coach of the University of Victoria golf team who guided the Vikes to four Royal Canadian Golf Association university titles in his 13 years. It was more by osmosis than verbally handed-down knowledg
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