Pregame Notes: Washington Capitals vs. Montreal Canadians

 Hello everyone its finally here! Opening night of the 2014-2015 Washington Capitals season. New head coach Barry Trotz makes his debut as the Caps kickoff their 40th anniversary season. The Montreal Canadians come into town playing back to back nights as they opened up in Toranto last night winning 4-3.

Tonight's Lineup:

Ovechkin-Backstrom-Fehr
Chimera-Laich-Ward
Johansson-Burakovsky-Brouwer
O'Brien-Kuznetsov-Brown

Orpik-Carlson
Alzner-Niskanen
Hillen-Schmidt

Holtby
Peters


Scratches: Mike Green (DTD), Michael Latta (Healthy), John Erskine (Healthy), Tom Wilson (IR), Jay Beagle (IR), Aaron Volpatti (LTIR), Dmitri Orlov (LTIR).


What to Watch:

*Liam O'Brien will make is NHL debut tonight on the 4th line with fellow rookies Chris Brown and Evgeny Kuznetsov. These three played well together in the final preseason game against Carolina last Sunday.

*Andre Burakovsky is also making his NHL debut tonight centering a line with Marcus Johansson and Troy Brouwer. Burakovsky at times was the Caps best player during the preseason, we will see if that carries over tonight.

*Carey Price played last night so we are expected to see Dustin Tokarski tonight against the Caps. I read that on Twitter last night and haven't heard any different.

*Mike Green is still banged up so we found out not too long ago that Nate Schmidt will get the call in Green's spot tonight. Not a serious injury but its been nagging him since the preseason game at home against Boston.

*How will the new defensemen Brooks Orpik and Matt Niskanen impact the Caps tonight? It will be fun to see them make their debuts tonight as well.

*Penalty Kill will need to be solid tonight, the Canadians have P.K. Subban at the point, it will be important to keep him from getting too much space.

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