February 26 vs Senators at Capital One ArenaTime: 7:00TV: Monumental SportsRadio: 106.7 FM, Capitals Radio 24/7Washington Capitals 26-21-9PP% 16.8(25th) PK% 80.1(14th) Faceoff% 46.8(28th)Ottawa Senators 25-27-3PP% 16.3(26th) PK% 74.6(29th) Faceoff% 50.9(13th)Caps anticipated lines:Ovechkin(C)
8 - Strome
17 - Wilson(A)
43Protas
21 - McMichael
24 - Mantha
39Pacioretty
67 - Sgarbossa
23 - Dubé
72Malenstyn
47 - Lapierre
29 - Aubé-Kubel
96Sandin
38 - Carlson(A)
74Alexeyev
27 - van Riemsdyk
57Edmundson
6 - Bear
25Kuemper
35PP1: Ovechkin, Strome, Mantha, Wilson, Carlson
PP2: Ovechkin, Pacioretty, Sgarbossa, Aube-Kubel, Sandin
scratched:
Lindgren
79 - backup
Miroshnichenko
63Milano
15 - illness
Jensen
3 - lower body
IR:
Oshie
77 - lower back - week to week
Dowd
26 - upper body
Fehervary
42 - lower body
LTIR:
Backstrom
19 - hip - season
Kuznetsov
92 - player assistance - indefinite
Sens anticipated lines: Tkachuk 7 - Pinto 57 - Tarasenko 91
Joseph 21 - Stützle 18 - Giroux 28
Greig 71 - Norris 9 - Batherson 19
Kubalik 81 - Kastelic 12 - Kelly 27
Sanderson 85 - Bernard-Docker 24
Chabot 72 - Brannstrom 26
Chychrun 6 - Hamonic 23
Forsberg 31
Korpisalo 70 - backup
tonight’s zebras:Jon McIsaac 2, Mitch Dunning 20
Andrew Smith 51, James Tobias 61
https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/caps-host-ottawascoring summary1st period:Protas(5) from Mantha(12) and McMichael(11) at 6:30
Carlson(4) PPG from Strome(22) at 8:30
Batherson from Tkachuk and Pinto at 10:12
Pinto from Hamonic and Tkachuk at 12:41
Pacioretty(2) PPG from Sgarbossa(2) and McMichael at 18:33
Malenstyn(6) from Protas(20) and Aubé-Kubel(10) at 18:47
2nd period:Tkachuk from Tarasenko and Pinto at 1:27
Lapierre(3) from Malenstyn(10) and Bear(3) at 1:58
Lapierre(4) from Mantha(13) and Protas(21) at 10:55
3rd period:no goals
Caps win 6-3