December 13 vs Blackhawks at United CenterTime: 9:00 TV: ESPN Radio: 106.7 FM, Caps Radio 24/7Washington Capitals 14-12-4 PP% 21.9(18th) PK% 81.4(8th) Faceoff% 48.7(21st) Chicago Blackhawks 7-15-4 PP% 23.5(13th) PK% 74.2(24th) Faceoff% 56.5(1st) Caps anticipated lines: Ovechkin(C) 8 - Strome 17 - Sheary 73
Milano 15 - Kuznetsov 92 - Oshie(A) 77
Johansson 90 - Protas 59 - Mantha 39
Aubé-Kubel 96 - Dowd 26 - Hathaway 21
Gustafsson 56 - Carlson(A) 74
Orlov 9 - Jensen 3
Irwin 52 - van Riemsdyk 57
Lindgren 79
PP1: Ovechkin, Oshie, Kuznetsov, Strome, Carlson
PP2: Sheary, Milano, Johansson, Orlov, Gustafsson
scratched:
Shepard 31 - backup
Snively 91
Johansen 46
Eller 20 - ?
IR/LTIR:
Backstrom 19 - hip
Alexeyev 27 - concussion
Brown 28 - knee
Kuemper 35 - upper body
Fehervary 42 - upper body
Wilson 43 - knee
Malenstyn 47 - hand
Hagelin 62 - hip
Hawks anticipated lines: Lafferty 24 - Domi 13 - Kane 88
Kurashev 23 - Toews 19 - Raddysh 11
Khaira 16 - Dickinson 17 - T. Johnson 90
Blackwell 43 - Entwistle 58 - R. Johnson 52
J. Johnson 8 - Jones 4
Tinordi 25 - Murphy 5
McCabe 6 - Mitchell 51
Mrazek 34
Soderblom 40 - backup
tonight’s zebras: Francis Charron 6, Brandon Blandina 39
Kilian McNamara 93, Jonny Murray 95
https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/caps-take-on-hawks/c-338709614scoring summary 1st period: Ovechkin(18) from Carlson(11) and Sheary(8 at :24
Ovechkin(19) from Sheary(9) and Milano(8 at 8:14
Johnson from McCabe and Khaira at 19:00
2nd period: van Riemsdyk(3) from Ovechkin(14) and Strome(17) at 4:56
Toews PPG from Raddysh at 11:38
Dowd(5) from Hathaway(3) and Aubé-Kubel(1) at 17:18
3rd period: Ovechkin(20) from Mantha(10) and Kuznetsov(19) at 6:34
Mantha(8 from Jensen(11) at 8:59
Domi from Mitchell and Kane at 18:51
Orlov(1) from Aubé-Kubel(2) and Hathaway(4) at 19:24
Caps win 7-3