January 3 vs Sabres at Capital One Arena Time: 7:00TV: NBCSWRADIO: 106.7 FM Washington Capitals 21-13-5 PP% 21.9(17th) PK% 81.3(11th) Faceoff% 48.8(21st) Buffalo Sabres 18-15-2 PP% 28(3rd) PK% 72.9(27th) Faceoff% 32.1(32nd) Caps anticipated lines: Ovechkin(C) 8 - Kuznetsov 92 - Sheary 73
Milano 15 - Strome 17 - Mantha 39
Johansson 90 - Eller 20 - Oshie 77
Protas 59 - Dowd 26 - Hathaway 21
Gustafsson 56 - van Riemsdyk 57
Orlov(A) 9 - Jensen 3
Fehervary 42 - Irwin 52
Kuemper 35
PP1: Ovechkin, Oshie, Strome, Kuznetsov, Gustafsson
PP2: Sheary, Orlov
scratched:
Lindgren 79 - backup
Alexeyev 27
Snively 91
Aubé-Kubel 96
IR/LTIR:
Backstrom 19 - hip
Brown 28 - knee
Wilson 43 - knee
Malenstyn 47 - hand
Hagelin 62 - hip
Carlson 74 - face
Sabres anticipated lines: Skinner 53 - Thompson 72 - Tuch 89
Peterka 77 - Cozens 24 - Quinn 22
Mittlestadt 37 - Jost 17 - Olofsson 71
Girgensons(A) 28 - Krebs 19 - Okposo(C) 21
Samuelsson 23 - Dahlin(A) 26
Power 25 - Clague 38
Bryson 78 - Lyubushkin 46
Luukkonen 1
Anderson 41 - backup
Tonight’s zebras: Mitch Dunning 20, Steve Kozari 40
CJ Murray 68, Travis Toomey 90
https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/caps-host-sabres/c-339449516scoring summary 1st period: Tuch from Thompson and Skinner at 10:48
Milano(6) from Mantha(13) and Irwin(2) at 12:07
Thompson PPG from Dahlin and Cozens at 17:29
2nd period: Thompson from Tuch and Lyubushkin at 5:50
Ovechkin(27) from Kuznetsov(28) at 16:46
3rd period: Dowd(10) from Milano(12) at :55
Ovechkin(28) from Sheary(16) at 7:10
Jost from Mittlestadt and Power at 11:42
OT: Thompson from Tuch at 3:00
Caps lose 5-4