March 11 vs Islanders at UBS Arena Time: 7:30TV: NBCSW Radio: 106.7 FMWashington Capitals 31-28-7 PP% 20.9(17th) PK% 82.4(9th) Faceoff% 49.7(18th) New York Islanders 34-25-8 PP% 17.2(28th) PK% 82.7(8th) Faceoff% 50.8(13th)Caps anticipated lines: Ovechkin(C) 8 - Kuznetsov 92 - Wilson 43
Milano 15 - Strome 17 - Oshie 77
Mantha 39 - Backstrom 19 - Smith 16
Sheary 73 - Dowd 26 - Aubé-Kubel 96
Sandin 38 - van Riemsdyk 57
Fehervary 42 - Jensen 3
Irwin 52 - Alexeyev 27
Kuemper 35
PP1: Ovechkin, Oshie, Backstrom, Kuznetsov, Sandin
PP2: Wilson, Strome, Mantha, van Riemsdyk
scratched:
Lindgren 79 - backup
Protas 59
Carlsson 18
IR/LTIR:
Brown 28 - knee
Hagelin 62 - hip
Carlson 74 - face/head
Isles anticipated lines: Lee(C) 27 - Horvat 14 - Holmstrom 10
Parise 11 - Nelson 29 - Palmieri 21
Martin 17 - Cizikas 53 - Fasching 20
Engvall 19 - Bailey 12 - Clutterbuck 15
Pelech 3 - Mayfield 24
Romanov 28 - Pulock 6
Aho 25 - Dobson 8
Varlamov 40
Sorokin 30 - backup
tonight’s zebras: Wes McCauley 4, Beau Halkidis 48
Julien Fournier 56, Tyson Baker 88
https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/caps-start-long-ny-weekend-on-saturday-vs-isles/c-342076968scoring summary 1st period: Engvall unassisted at 5:18
Strome(16) from Sandin(21) and van Riemsdyk(13) at 6:41
Oshie(17) from Sandin(22) and van Riemsdyk(14) at 19:13
2nd period: no goals
3rd period: Mantha(10) from Ovechkin(26) and Strome(31) at 4:15
Dowd(11) unassisted at 12:18
Backstrom(4) from Sandin(23) and Mantha(16) at 13:19
Caps win 5-1