March 17 vs Blues at Capital One Arena Time: 7:00TV: NBCSW+Radio: 106.7 FMWashington Capitals 33-29-7 PP% 20.8(21st) PK% 82.7(5th) Faceoff% 49.8(17th) St. Louis Blues 29-33-5 PP% 21(18th) PK% 76.2(23rd) Faceoff% 49.6(18th)Caps anticipated lines: Ovechkin(C) 8 - Strome 17 - Sheary 73
Oshie 77 - Kuznetsov 92 - Wilson 43
Milano 15 - Backstrom 19 - Smith 16
Protas 59 - Dowd 26 - Aubé-Kubel 96
Sandin 38 - van Riemsdyk 57
Irwin 52 - Carlsson 18
Alexeyev 27 - Fehervary 42
Kuemper 35
PP1: Ovechkin, Oshie, Strome, Backstrom, Sandin
PP2: Wilson, Kuznetsov, Smith, Sheary, van Riemsdyk
scratched:
Lindgren 79 - backup
Mantha 39
Jensen 3 - upper body - day to day
IR/LTIR:
Brown 28 - knee
Hagelin 62 - hip
Carlson 74 - face/head
Blues anticipated lines: Toropchenko 13 - Thomas 18 - Kyrou 25
Vrana 15 - Buchnevich 89 - Kapanen 42
Saad 20 - Schenn 10 - Blais 79
Walker 26 - Alexandrov 59 - Pitlick 9
Leddy 4 - Parayko 55
Scandella 6 - Faulk 72
Krug 47 - Tucker 75
Hofer 30
Greiss 1 - backup
tonight’s zebras: Mitch Dunning 20, Chris Lee 28
Bevan Mills 53, Joe Mahon 89
https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/caps-host-blues-on-friday/c-342333994scoring summary 1st period: Blais from Saad and Schenn at 1:54
2nd period: Kyrou from Vrana and Parayko at 4:51
Kapanen from Buchnevich and Leddy at 9:25
Blais from Krug and Saad at 14:56
3rd period: Fehervary(6) from Alexeyev(5) and Milano(20) at 5:47
Backstrom(5) PPG from Ovechkin(28) and Sandin(25) at 17:14
Schenn ENG unassisted at 18:21
Caps lose 5-2