The Caps look to bounce back tonight in Columbus as they take on John Torterella's Blue Jackets. The Caps 9 game winning streak ended on Thursday in Carolina. Here is the lineup for tonight's game.
Forwards:
Ovechkin-Backstrom-Oshie
Burakovsky-Kuznetsov-Williams
Chimera-Johansson-Wilson
Laich-Latta-Sill
Defense and Goalies:
Alzner-Niskanen
Schmidt-Orlov
Chorney-Ness
Holtby
Grubauer
Other Notes:
*Aaron Ness will make his Caps debut tonight as John Carlson remains out with a injury. Ness will play on the third defense pairing with Taylor Chroney.
*Jay Beagle had successful surgery on his wrist today and it is looking like a 6 week time frame for him to be back at practice then hopefully soon after he will be back in the lineup.
*With Beagle out Barry Trotz is going to try Marcus Johansson at the third line center spot tonight with Jason Chimera and Tom Wilson.
*Zach Sill will remain in the lineup as he will move to wing with Latta and Laich. I think Sill has shown some spark in his couple games so far with the big club. Hopefully he will bring some toughness to the 4th line.
*Ander Burakovsky will now find himself on the 2nd line, this could be good for Burkie's confidence as he was able to score against the Sabres on Wednesday.
*Overall I think this is a big game tonight. The injury bug is hitting the Caps so far in 2016, hopefully with Braden Holtby back in the net the Caps can get back on track tonight.
Gametime 7:00 p.m on CSN
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