The Caps are on the road this week, first a stop in Glendale to try to avenge an early season loss to the Coyotes. The Caps are 7-7-3 on the season and are on a 2 game losing streak. Here is what the lineup will be tonight.
Forwards:
Ovechkin-Backstrom-Wilson
Johansson-Burakkovsky-Brouwer
Chimera-Beagle-Ward
Brown-Kuznetsov-Fehr
Defense and Goalies:
Orpik-Carlson
Alzner-Niskanen
Schmidt-Green
Holtby
Peters
What to watch:
*Braden Holtby will be back in net tonight for the first time since last Friday's 1-0 loss to the Devil's where he basically gave the only goal to them. With no back to back games this week it looks like Braden can get some work in this week. The Coyotes will have Mike Smith in tonight.
*Eric Fehr is back in the lineup and will play RW with Evgeny Kuznetsov and Chris Brown. Looks like Trotz is trying a new look with Michael Latta going to be a scratch and Liam O'Brien still banged up.
*Jay Beagle will be the next to try to center the Chimera-Ward duo. Beagle has played on every line this season it seems.
*Tom Wilson was the best player on the ice Saturday in St. Louis according to Barry Trotz. We will see how he does tonight in his 2nd game back from a minor injury.
*Shane Doan played well when the Coyotes where in DC, the Caps will have to keep him off the score sheet tonight.
*The Caps powerplay needs to score, in St. Louis they didn't get much of a chance. However, it was not good against New Jersey so the Caps need to play in the Coyotes zone and draw some penalties.
*Gametime 9 p.m on CSN, NO Capitals Pregame tonight with College Basketball on before the game.
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