Pregame Notes: Washington Capitals at. Edmonton Oilers

 The Caps will open their 3 game western Canada trip here in less then an hour. Here is was the lineup will look like tonight.

Forwards:

Ovechkin-Backstrom-Brouwer
Johansson-Burakovsky-Beagle
Chimera-Fehr-Ward
O'Brien-Kuznetsov-Latta

Defense and Goalies:

Orpik-Carlson
Alzner-Niskanen
Schmidt-Green

Holtby
Peters


What to Watch:

*Jay Beagle will make his season debut tonight on the 2nd line with Andre Burakovsky and Marcus Johansson. Beagle is in for Brooks Laich who is in DC after getting banged up against Florida this past weekend.

*Braden Holtby will be back in net tonight. Though I do believe the goalies will split the back to back games this weekend in Calgary and Vancouver.

*John Erskine will be on IR as he had a neck surgery today to fix an injury that happened a while ago.

*The Caps are playing a team in Edmonton who is coming off their first win of the year, we will see if the Caps can get to a fast start.

*Michael Latta will be back in the lineup tonight as he has been switching back and forth with Chris Brown.

*Gametime 9:30 on CSN, Capitals Pregame Central on at 9:00