January 5 vs Hurricanes at Capital One ArenaTime: 7:00TV: Monumental SportsRadio: 106.7 FM, Capitals Radio 24/7Washington Capitals 18-12-6PP% 13.7(28th) PK% 81.1(12th) Faceoff% 46.7(28th)Carolina Hurricanes 21-13-4PP% 27.3(4th) PK% 83.1(8th) Faceoff% 51(12th)Caps anticipated lines:Ovechkin(C)
8 - Kuznetsov
92 - Wilson
43Pacioretty
67 - Strome
17 - Lapierre
29Protas
21 - McMichael
24 - Mantha
39Malenstyn
47 - Dowd
26 - Aubé-Kubel
96Fehervary
42 - Carlson(A)
74Edmundson
6 - Bear
25van Riemsdyk
57 - Jensen
3 Kuemper
35PP1: Ovechkin, Strome, Wilson, Kuznetsov, Carlson
PP2: Ovechkin, Bear
scratched:
Shepard
31 - backup
Alexeyev
27Phillips
45Sandin
38 - illness
IR:
Milano
15 - upper body
Oshie
77 - upper body
Lindgren
79 - upper body
LTIR:
Backstrom
19 - hip - season
Canes anticipated lines:Svechnikov 37 - Aho 20 - Teravainen 86
Noesen 23 - Kotkaniemi 82 - Necas 88
Martinook 48 - Staal 11 - Jarvis 24
Bunting 58 - Drury 18 - Lemieux 28
Slavin 74 - Burns 8
Skjei 76 - Pesce 22
Orlov 7 - Chatfield 5
Kochetkov 52
Ranta 32 - backup
tonight’s zebras:Trevor Hanson 14, Brandon Blandina 39
Scott Cherrey 50, Kiel Murchison 79
https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/caps-clash-with-canesscoring summary1st period:Dowd(5) from Aubé-Kubel(5) and Malenstyn(5) at 7:06
Strome(14) PPG from Ovechkin(17) and Carlson(19) at 16:29
2nd period:Svechnikov from Aho at 5:17
3rd period:Jarvis from Ponomarev and Orlov at 3:23
Svechnikov PPG from Aho and Burns at 12:41
Burns PPG from Svechnikov and Aho at 13:59
Orlov SHG EN unassisted at 18:11
Ponomarev from Kotkaniemi at 19:01
Caps lose 6-2