December 30 vs Predators at Capital One ArenaTime: 7:00TV: Monumental SportsRadio: 106.7 FM, Capitals Radio 24/7Washington Capitals 17-11-5 PP% 11.8(30th) PK% 82.7(10th) Faceoff% 47.2(28th) Nashville Predators 19-16-1 PP% 20.3(17th) PK% 76.3(25th) Faceoff% 48.9(22nd) Caps anticipated lines:Ovechkin(C)
8 - Strome
17 - Kuznetsov
92Phillips
45 - Lapierre
29 - Wilson
43Protas
21 - McMichael
24 - Mantha
39Malenstyn
47 - Dowd
26 - Aubé-Kubel
96Sandin
38 - Carlson(A)
74van Riemsdyk
57 - Bear
25Edmundson
6 - Jensen
3Shepard
31PP1:
PP2:
scratched:
Kuemper
35 - backup
Alexeyev
27Fehervary
47 - upper body
Lindgren
79 - upper body
IR:
Milano
15 - upper body
Oshie
77 - lower body
LTIR:
Pacioretty
67 - achilles
Backstrom
19 - hip - season
Preds anticipated lines:Forsberg 9 - O’Reilly 90 - Nyquist 14
Parssinen 75 - Novak 82 - Sherwood 44
Trenin 13 - Sissons 10 - Evangelista 77
Smith 36 - McCarron 47 - Tomasino 26
McDonagh 27 - Josi 59
Lauzon 3 - Carrier 45
Fabbro 57 - Schenn 2
Askarov 30
Saros 74 - backup
tonight’s zebras:Eric Furlatt 27, Beau Halkidis 48
Libor Suchanek 60, CJ Murray 68
https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/caps-host-preds-to-close-out-23scoring summary1st period:Evangelista from Fabbro and Novak at 2:44
Josi from Nyquist and O’Reilly at 6:55
Malenstyn(3) from Dowd(2) and van Riemsdyk(6) at 10:25
2nd period:Ovechkin(7) from Strome8) and Protas(15) at 14:59
3rd period:no goals
OT:no goals
SO:Kuznetsov ❎ Nyquist ✅
Ovechkin ❎ O’Reilly ✅
Caps lose 3-2