January 17 vs Wild at Capital One ArenaTime: 7:00 TV: NBCSW Radio: 106.7 FM Washington Capitals 24-16-6 PP% 21.3(17th) PK% 80.8(10) Faceoff% 49.9(17th) Minnesota Wild 24-14-4 PP% 23.1(13th) PK% 79.4(15th) Faceoff% 47.4(26th)Caps anticipated lines: Ovechkin(C) 8 - Strome 17 - Aubé-Kubel 96
Milano 15 - Backstrom 19 - Wilson 77
Sheary 73 - Eller 20 - Oshie(A) 77
Johansson 90 - Kuznetsov 92 - Hathaway 21
Gustafsson 56 - van Riemsdyk 57
Orlov 9 - Jensen 3
Irwin 52 - Fehervary 42
Lindgren 79
PP1: Ovechkin, Kuznetsov, Oshie, Backstrom, Gustafsson
PP2: Wilson, Mantha, Johansson, Orlov, van Riemadyk
scratched:
Kuemper 35 - backup
Mantha 39
Alexeyev 27
Dowd 26 - lower body, day to day
IR/LTIR:
Brown 28 knee
Hagelin 62 - hip
Carlson 74 - face/ear
Wild anticipated lines: Kaprizov 97 - Steel 13 - Zuccarello 36
Boldy 12 - Gaudreau 89 - Hartman 38
Foligno(A) 17 - Eriksson Ek 14 - Greenway 18
Duhaime 21 - Dewar 26 - Reaves 75
Middleton 5 - Spurgeon(C) 46
Brodin 25 - Dumba(A) 24
Merrill 4 - Addison 2
Gustavsson 32
Fleury 29 - backup
tonight’s zebras: Furman South 13, Eric Furlatt 27
Travis Gawryletz 67, Dan Kelly 98
https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/caps-come-home-to-host-wild/c-340053676scoring summary 1st period: Fehervary(4) from Ovechkin(21) and van Riemsdyk(7) at 18:57
2nd period: Spurgeon unassisted at :50
Strome(9) from Fehervary(5) and Ovechkin(22) at 5:05
Brodin from Dewar and Dumba at 13:12
Spurgeon from Dewar and Reaves at 18:15
3rd period: Eriksson Ek ENG from Gaudreau at 19:06
Caps lose 4-2