December 9 vs Kraken at Capital One Arena Time: 7:00TV: NBCSW Radio: 106.7 FM, Caps Radio 24/7Washington Capitals 12-12-4 PP% 21.2(22nd) PK% 80.3(10th) Faceoff% 48.4(22nd) Seattle Kraken 15-7-3 PP% 25(10th) PK% 68.3(30th) Faceoff% 44.4(31st) Caps anticipated lines: Ovechkin(C) 8 - Strome 17 - Sheary 73
Milano 15 - Kuznetsov 92 - Oshie(A) 77
Johansson 90 - Eller 20 - Mantha 39
Protas 59 - Dowd 26 - Hathaway 21
Gustafsson 56 - Carlson(A) 74
van Riemsdyk 57 - Jensen 3
Alexeyev 27 - Irwin 52
Lindgren 79
PP1: Ovechkin, Oshie, Strome, Kuznetsov, Carlson
PP2: Sheary, Milano, Johansson, Gustafsson, van Riemsdyk
scratched:
Shepard 31 - backup
Snively 91
Aubé-Kubel 96
Kuemper 35 - day to day - upper body
IR/LTIR:
Orlov 9 - lower body
Backstrom 19 - hip
Brown 28 - knee
Fehervary 42 - upper body
Wilson 43 - knee
Malenstyn 47 - hand
Hagelin 62 - hip
Krak anticipated lines: Burakovsky 95 - Wennberg 21 - Bjorkstrand 22
McCann 19 - Beniers 10 - Eberle(A) 7
Donato 9 - Gourde(A) 37 - Tanev 13
Sprong 91 - Geekie 67 - Kuhlman 25
Dunn 29 - Larsson(A) 6
Oleksiak 24 - Schultz 4
Soucy 28 - Borgen 3
Grubauer 31
Jones 30 - backup
tonight’s zebras: Jon McIsaac 2, Kevin Pollock 33
Derek Nansen 70, Dan Kelly 98
https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/caps-come-home-to-host-kraken/c-338559998scoring summary 1st period: Larsson from Geekie and Kuhlman at 17:51
2nd period: Mantha(7) from Irwin(1) and Alexeyev(1) at 5:20
Johansson(6) PPG from Milano(7) and Ovechkin(13) at 13:15
3rd period: Eller(5) from Mantha(8 at 18:54
Ovechkin(16) ENG from Kuznetsov(17) and Carlson(9) at 19:56
Caps win 4-1