December 22 vs Kings at Capital One ArenaTime: 5:00TV: Monumental SportsRadio: 106.7 FM, Caps Radio 24/7Washington Capitals 22-8-2PP% 20.4(18th) PK% 84.2(6th) Faceoff% 50.2(18th)Los Angeles Kings 19-9-5PP% 14.9(28th) PK% 82.5(8th) Faceoff% 51.5(12th)Caps anticipated lines:Mangiapane
88 - Strome(A)
17 - Wilson(A)
43McMichael
24 - Dubois
80 - Protas
21Vrana
13 - Lapierre
29 - Raddysh
16Duhaime
22 - Dowd
26 - Miroshnichenko
63Sandin
38 - Carlson(A)
74Fehervary
42 - Roy
3Chychrun
6 - van Riemsdyk
57Thompson
48Lindgren
79 - backup
PP1: Strome, Wilson, McMichael, Chychrun, Carlson
PP2: Dubois, Raddysh, Mangiapane, Vrana, Sandin
scratched:
Rybinski
58Alexeyev
27McIlrath
52IR:
Ovechkin(C)
8 - lower body
Eller
20 - illness
LTIR:
Milano
15 - upper body
Backstrom
19 - hip - season
Oshie
77 - lower back - season
Kings anticipated lines:Turcotte 15 - Kopitar(C) 11 - Kempe(A) 9
Fiala 22 - Danault 24 - Laferriere 14
Foegele 37 - Byfield 55 - Jeannot 10
Burroughs 7 - Helenius 79 - Thomas 26
Anderson(A) 44 - Gavrikov 84
Edmundson 6 - Clarke 92
Moverare 43 - Spence 21
Rittich 31
Kuemper 35 - backup
tonight’s zebras:Jean Hebert 15, Kendrick Nicholson 30
Libor Suchanek 60, Jonathan Deschamps 80
https://scoutingtherefs.com/2024/12/46705/todays-nhl-referees-and-linespersons-12-22-24/https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/skate-shavings-news-and-notes-from-caps-morning-skate-x0021https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/caps-spend-sunday-with-the-kingsscoring summary1st period:Protas(13) from Dubois and McMichael at 10:20
2nd period:Fiala PPG from Kempe and Clarke at 4:10
Vrana(6) PPG from Dubois at 14:18
3rd period:..