March 4 vs Sharks at SAP CenterTime: 7:00TV: NBCSW Radio: 106.7 FMWashington Capitals 30-27-6 PP% 20.9(16th) PK% 82.4(7th) Faceoff% 49.6(18th)San Jose Sharks 18-32-12 PP% 18.3(26th) PK% 83.1(5th) Faceoff% 50.3(16th) Caps anticipated lines: Ovechkin(C) 8 - Kuznetsov 92 - Wilson 43
Mantha 39 - Backstrom(A) 19 - Smith 16
Milano 15 - Strome 17 - Oshie(A) 77
Sheary 73 - Dowd 26 - Aubé-Kubel 96
Sandin 38 - van Riemsdyk 57
Alexeyev 27 - Irwin 52
Carlsson 18 - Iorio 6
Kuemper 35
PP1: Ovechkin, Oshie, Kuznetsov, Strome, Mantha
PP2: Ovechkin, Wilson, Van Riemsdyk, Sandin
scratched:
Lindgren 79 - backup
Jensen 3 - lower body - day to day
Fehervary 42 - lower body - day to day
IR/LTIR:
Brown 28 - knee
Hagelin 62 - hip
Carlson 74 - face/head
Sharks anticipated lines: Eklund 72 - Hertl 48 - Zetterlund 20
Johnsson 18 - Couture(C) 39 - Barabanov 94
Gregor 73 - Strum 7 - Svechnikov 10
Lindblom 23 - Lorentz 16 - Labanc 62
Ferraro 38 - Karlsson(A) 65
Vlasic 44 - Benning 5
Simek 51 - MacDonald 9
Kahkonen 36
Reimer 47 - backup
today’s zebras: Chris Schlenker 3, Gord Dwyer 19
Trent Knorr 74, Joe Mahon 89
https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/caps-trip-continues-in-san-jose/c-341800644scoring summary 1st period: Hertl PPG from Karlsson and Eklund at 12:03
Barabanov from Couture and Johnsson at 15:30
2nd period: Smith(5) from Strome(28) and Milano(16) at 8:46
Aubč-Kubel(3) from Sheary(19) and Dowd(11) at 11:30
Irwin(1) from Carlsson(1) and Aubé-Kubel(7) at 15:28
Smith(6) from Sandin(17) and Strome(28) at 19:02
3rd period: Oshie(16) PPG from Ovechkin(25) and Sandin(18) at 5:50
Sturm from Gregor and Karlsson at 9:02
Ovechkin(34) from Wilson(3) and Carlsson(2) at 9:11
Ovechkin(35) from Iorio(1) and Sandin(19) at 16:05
Strome(14) from Milano(17) at 17:30
Caps win 8-3
