October 14 vs Lightning at Capital One Arena
Time: 7:00
TV: Monumental Sports, ESPN
Radio: 106.7FM, Caps Radio Network

Washington Capitals 2-1-0
PP% 0(31st) PK% 57.1(31st) Faceoff% 44.9(26th)
Tampa Bay Lightning 1-2-0
PP% 25(7th) PK% 92.3(6th) Faceoff% 39.7(32nd)

Caps anticipated lines:
Beauvillier 72 - Strome 17 - Ovechkin(C) 8
Protas 21 - McMichael 24 - Wilson(A) 43
Milano 15 - Lapierre 29 - Leonard 9
Duhaime 22 - Dowd 26 - Sourdif 34

Fehérváry 42 - Carlson(A) 74
Sandin 38 - Roy 3
Chychrun 6 - van Riemsdyk 57

Thompson 48
Lindgren 79 - backup

PP1: Ovechkin, Strome, Wilson, Milano, Carlson
PP2: Ovechkin, McMichael, Protas, Chychrun, Sandin

scratched:
Iorio 2
Chisholm 47
Dubois 80 - day to day - lower body

IR:
McIlrath 52 - lower body

Bolts anticipated lines:
Hagel 38 - Point 21 - Kucherov(A) 86
Guentzel 59 - Cirelli 71 - Goncavles 93
Holmberg 29 - Gourde 37 - Bjorkstrand 22
Chaffee 41 - Geekie 14 - Douglas 42

Hedman(C) 77 - Moser 90
McDonagh(A) 27 - Cernak 81
Lilleberg 78 - Crozier 24

Vasilevskiy 88
Johansson 31 - backup

tonight’s zebras:
Francis Charron 6, Michael Markovic 31
Libor Suchanek 60, Dan Kelly 98

https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/caps-host-bolts-in-homestand-opener

https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/skate-shavings-news-and-notes-from-caps-morning-skate-x2473

https://scoutingtherefs.com/2025/10/49831/todays-nhl-referees-and-linespersons-10-14-25/

scoring summary
1st period:
Guentzel from McDonagh and Cirelli at 7:06
2nd period:
Protas(3) from McMichael and Wilson at 17:38
3rd period:
Point PPG from Hedman and  Kucherov at 1:23
Wilson(2) PPG from Strome and Carlson at 4:56
OT:
Chychrun(1) from Wilson and Strome at 1:19

Caps win 3-2

I was tempted to tune in to the second half..

Caps were off today after the back to back weekend. So no update on Dubois.

Don't think Carbs trusts the 3rd line (ie: Lappi) very much. I imagine it won't be long until Lappi is scratched for Milano. McMike 3C and possibly Milano or Leonard at 1wing. If that line continues to struggle that is.

Bull  You don't know what your talkin' about! 

Dubois left the game with 6:44 remaining, Milano had one shift in the 3rd


https://www.nhl.com/scores/htmlreports/20252026/TV020038.HTM