November 7 vs Oilers at Capital One Arena Time: 8:00TV: NBCSWRadio: 106.7 FM, Caps Radio 24/7Washington Capitals 5-6-2 PP% 20.9(16th) PK% 80.5(14th) Faceoff% 45.4(29th) Edmonton Oilers 7-5-0 PP% 31.9(2nd) PK% 72.6(28th) Faceoff% 51.7(11th) Caps anticipated lines: Ovechkin(C) 8 - Kuznetsov(A) 92 - Sheary 73
Milano 15 - Strome 17 - Johansson 90
Mantha 39 - Eller 20 - Aubé-Kubel 96
Protas 59 - Dowd 26 - Hathaway 21
Fehervary 42 - Jensen 3
Gustafsson 56 - van Riemsdyk 57
Johansen 46 - Irwin 52
Lindgren 79
PP1: Ovechkin, Kuznetsov, Strome, Johansson, Gustafsson
PP2: Mantha, Sheary, Milano, Eller, van Riemsdyk
scratched:
Kuemper 35 - backup
McMichael 24
Snively 91
Orlov 9 - day to day
IR/LTIR:
Backstrom 19 - hip
Brown 28 - Knee
Wilson 43 - knee
Malenstyn 47 - hand
Hagelin 62 - hip
Carlson 74 - lower body
Oshie 77 - lower body
Oilers anticipated lines: Nugent-Hopkins(A) 93 - McDavid(C) 97 - Puljujarvi 13
Kane 91 - Draisaitl(A) 29 - Hyman 18
Foegele 37 - McLeod 71 - Ryan 10
Shore 14 - Holloway 55 - Yamamoto 56
Nurse 25(A) - Ceci 5
Kulak 27 - Bouchard 2
Murray 28 - Barrie 22
Skinner 74
Campbell 36 - backup
tonight’s zebras: Eric Furlatt 27, Kendrick Nicholson 30
Libor Suchanek 60, Devin Berg 87
https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/caps-host-oilers/c-337293090scoring summary 1st period: Strome(3) unassisted at 18:15
2nd period: Strome(4) PPG from Kuznetsov(8 and Gustafsson(4) at :26
McDavid from Draisaitl and Barrie at 8:33
Kuznetsov(1) PPG from Strome(8 and Gustafsson(5) at 12:25
Nugent-Hopkins from Hyman at 14:10
Ovechkin(8 PPG from Gustafsson(6) and Kuznetsov(9) at 14:36
3rd period: Draisaitl from Hyman and Kane at 2:54
Kuznetsov(2) PPG from Ovechkin at 18:09
Nugent-Hopkins from Nurse and McDavid at 18:54
Caps win 5-4