March 9 vs Devils at Capital One Arena Time: 7:00TV: NBCSW Radio: 106.7 FMWashington Capitals 31-28-6 PP% 21.1(16th) PK% 82.7(8th) Faceoff% 49.8(18th) New Jersey Devils 41-16-6 PP% 21.7(14th) PK% 81.5(10th) Faceoff% 51.5(11th)Caps anticipated lines: Ovechkin(C) 8 - Kuznetsov 92 - Wilson 43
Mantha 39 - Backstrom 19 - Smith 16
Milano 15 - Strome 17 - Oshie 77
Sheary 73 - Dowd 26 - Aubé-Kubel 96
Sandin 38 - van Riemsdyk 57
Alexeyev 27 - Iorio 6
Irwin 52 - Carlsson 18
Kuemper 35
PP1: Ovechkin, Oshie, Backstrom, Kuznetsov, Sandin
PP2: Wilson, Mantha, Strome, van Riemsdyk
scratched:
Lindgren 79 - backup
Protas 59
Fehervary 42 - lower body - day to day
Jensen 3 - lower body - day to day
IR/LTIR:
Brown 28 - knee
Hagelin 62 - hip
Carlson 74 - face/head
Devils anticipated lines: Tatar 90 - Hischier 13 - Mercer 91
Meier 96 - Hughes 86 - Boqvist 70
Palat 18 - Haula 56 - Bratt 63
Wood 44 - McLeod 20 - Bastian 14
Siegenthaler 71 - Hamilton 7
Graves 33 - Marino 6
Smith 2 - Severson 28
Schmid 40
Vanecek 41 - backup
tonight’s zebras: Dan O’Rourke 9, Justin Kea 44
Brandon Gawryletz 64, Bryan Pancich 94
https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/caps-stop-home-for-date-with-devils/c-341995812scoring summary 1st period: van Riemsdyk(7) unassisted at 19:50
2nd period: Haula PPG from Mercer and Severson at 6:55
Mercer from Hischier and Tatar at 7:32
Strome(15) from Oshie(13) and Milano(19) at 9:50
3rd period: no goals
OT:no goals
SO:Oshie ❎ Huges ❎
Kuznetsov ❎ Bratt ❎
Backstrom ❎ Hischier ❎
Ovechkin ❎ Meier ✅
Caps lose 3-2
