The Caps are back home again tonight to take on the struggling Columbus Blue Jackets. The Caps will look to make it 3 in a row. Here's the lines from this morning's skate, so expect the lineup to look like this.
Forwards:
Ovechkin-Backstrom-Beagle
Johansson-Burakovsky-Brouwer
Chimera-Fehr-Ward
O'Brien-Kuznetsov-Latta
Defense and Goalies:
Orpik-Carlson
Alzner-Niskanen
Schmidt-Green
Holtby
Peters
What to Watch:
*With the injury to Tom Wilson which I consider day-to-day Jay Beagle will take his turn with the top line.
*Braden Holtby will be back in net for the first time since his great performance against Chicago last Friday.
*Eric Fehr once again will center Jason Chimera and Joel Ward. Fehr scored in the win over Carolina on Saturday.
*It is important tonight for the Caps to jump on the Blue Jackets right away. Columbus has not had a good start to the year. This is a big chance for the Caps to start a winning streak before a tough weekend ahead at home against New Jersey and then in St. Louis the night after.
* I need to see more from Evgeny Kuznetsov, he isn't going to get a lot of ice time on the 4th line but he needs to make that and his powerplay time count. Michael Latta will move over to RW tonight so that Kuz can stay at center.
*I would like to say Happy Veterans Day in the USA today. I also would like to thank all men and women of our military for their service.
*Gametime 7 p.m. on CSN
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