The Caps are in Montreal to take on the Canadians for their 5th of 8 preseason games. Here is who is expected to play, note I am not sure who will be a scratch on the list of forwards.
Forwards:
8 Alex Ovechkin
16 Eric Fehr
19 Nick Backstrom
21 Brooks Laich
23 Chris Conner
24 Kris Newbury
25 Jason Chimera
42 Joel Ward
65 Andre Burakovsky
67 Chris Brown
79 Nathan Walker
83 Jay Beagle
87 Liam O'Brien
90 Marcus Johansson
Defensemen:
2 Matt Niskanen
27 Karl Alzner
44 Brooks Orpik
61 Steve Olesky
74 John Carlson
88 Nate Schmidt
Goalies:
35 Justin Peters
70 Braden Holtby
What to Watch:
* For the first time this preseason Matt Niskanen and Brooks Orpik will be on the lineup together tonight. Will be interesting to see who plays with who on the back end.
*Also Holtby and Peters will team up for the first time, will Trotz start giving goalies full games or will they split again.
*Big game for Andre Burakovsky as the 2nd line center job is wide open, though I heard that Barry Trotz is moving Brooks Laich to center.
*Game is not on TV so I will do my best during the post game notes and look on Twitter to see how the game went.
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