The Caps and Islanders meet again in a early evening start time. The Islanders got a overtime powerplay goal by John Tavares to beat the Caps 3-2 on Wednesday night. With it being a 5 p.m start time today I'm pretty sure there will not be a morning skate. I will update the lineup when I can but here are a few notes for today.
What to watch:
*Alex Ovechkin scored twice in the loss the other night. Both were on powerplays where the Islanders left him wide open. The Caps need to work hard in the Isles zone to draw some penalties.
*The Islanders will try to agitate the Caps into taking dumb penalties, but the Caps did a good job on Wednesday to not playing into that. Biggest example is when Anders Lee attacked Tom Wilson, Lee got the extra penalty and the Caps scored on the powerplay.
*I expect Braden Holtby to play tonight but we will have to wait and see because the Caps are playing back to backs again this weekend with a trip to Toronto for tomorrow night.
*Jack Hillen should be back in the lineup tonight after playing for Mike Green on Wednesday. I haven't heard any update on Green's status.
*The Caps need more production from the center position, not Nick Backstrom he's doing just fine. However, Andre Burakovsky, Jay Beagle, and Evgeny Kuznetsov need to get going.
*The Islanders are very strong forchecking, the Caps have to get puck out of their zone quick. Have to try not to defend the whole shift.
*Jaro Halak I would think would be in net again for the Islanders.
*Gametime 5 p.m on CSN, Caps Pregame live on at 4:30
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