The Caps are back home for a quick two game home stand starting tonight against the Columbus Blue Jackets. The Caps are on a three game winning streak and will now look to extend it. Here's what the lineup should look like based on the morning skate.
Forwards:
Ovechkin-Backstrom-Wilson
Johansson-Kuznetsov-Brouwer
Laich-Fehr-Ward
Chimera-Latta-Beagle
Defense and Goalies:
Orpik-Carlson
Alzner-Niskanen
Schmidt-Green
Holtby
Peters
What to Watch:
*Mike Green just confirmed that he will be back in the lineup tonight. Green has been out since the Buffalo game on Nov. 22nd with a upper body injury.
*Congratulations to Karl Alzner and his wife Mandi on the birth of their first child. Stella Raay Alzner was born at 7:22 pm. According to twitter Alzner was singing Big Poppa in the locker room before the morning skate. Very nice Karl!
*Andre Burakovsky will be a healthy scratch yet again for the Caps tonight. The youngster has hit the rookie wall but with some practice time should benefit him. Hopefully when he gets back into the lineup he can get going.
*The Caps had their best effort of the season on Tuesday, hopefully they can continue to do that because this is a chance for the Caps to get a solid winning streak going.
*Matt Niskanen has played well on the powerplay and it will be interesting to see if Mike Green gets powerplay time right away tonight or will they ease him back in.
*Brooks Laich looks like he has his legs back, the Caps have done really well this season with Laich in the lineup. I would like to see if he can continue to have a big impact.
*Braden Holtby will be back in net once again tonight. Holtby has had a big work load this month with there not being a lot of back to backs this month. However, it seems the more work he gets the better he plays.
*Gametime 7 pm on CSN
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