Pregame Notes: Washington Capitals vs. San Jose Sharks

 The Caps return home tonight to take on Western Conference foe San Jose. The Caps are coming off a solid 4-0 win in Boston on Saturday. While the Sharks are 2-0-0 and have shutout the Kings and the Jets. Here is what the lineup will look like for the Caps tonight.

Forwards: 

Ovechkin-Backtrom-Fehr
Johansson-Burakovsky-Brouwer
Chimera-Laich-Ward
O'Brien-Kuznetsov-Latta

Defense and Goalies:

Orpik-Carslon
Alzner-Niskanen
Schmidt-Green

Holtby
Peters


What to Watch:

*Braden Holtby will face off against Antti Niemi. The Sharks have yet to give up a goal this season and Braden Holtby has only given up 1 goal in the first two games this season.

*Michael Latta appears to be in again tonight, Chris Brown I believe is dealing with a upper body injury that's not serious but enough to keep Latta in the lineup again.

*The Caps penalty kill has been perfect so far, tonight they will face a challenge with the Sharks. Sharks have Patrick Marleau and Joe Thornton as well as other talented forwards.

*Former Caps defensemen Scott Hannan is expected to play his 1,000 career game tonight.

*It will be interesting to see if the Caps new and improved defense will do against a team that I still consider a Western power.

*The Hershey Bears earned their first win under Troy Mann last night beating the Norfolk Admirals 5-2. The Bears got two goals from Kris Newbury, Stan Galiev, Chris Conner, and Joel Broda added goals as well. Pheonix Copley made his AHL debut and won his first game.

*Gametime 7 p.m. on CSN, Capitals Pregame live on at 6:30