October 17, 2015 3:12 pm

Photo by Amanda Bowen

The cure for anything that may be currently ailing you: It’s Saturday and Nick Backstrom is returning to the Caps lineup.

The Hurricanes are in town. They’ve played pretty well this season, but have had mediocre luck and terrible goaltending. Let’s hope tonight is not the night that the PDO gods decide to smile upon them.

Game time is 7 PM and ya crew at CSN has the coverage.

Team	Record	Possession	PDO	Power Play	Penalty Kill
Washington Capitals	2-1-0	48.6%	102.8	27.3%	77.8%
Carolina Hurricanes	1-3-0	56.8%	93	12.5%	88.9%

Projected Lineup

Per Katie Brown of NHL.com

Ovechkin – Kuznetsov – Oshie
Johansson – Backstrom – Williams
Chimera – Beagle – Wilson
Laich – Stephenson – Burakovsky

Orpik – Carlson
Alzner – Niskanen
Chorney – Orlov

Holtby

Pregame Song of the Day

This is the song that was in my head when I woke up.

Storylines

The first line sure is clicking, so Backstrom returns on the second line. If both of these lines click, the Caps top-six will be #elite.
Burakovsky moves back to the wing, on the fourth line. It’s only been three games, but he’s looked a little off so far. Hopefully the move back to the wing helps him.
The Schmidtuation appears unchanged at the moment. Deep breaths, everyone. It’s early, so a Code Red Schmidtuation is still a ways off.
Support the military, friends.
When is a hit worth a quarter of a goal?
Braden Holtby: Still really good at the whole being a goalie thing.
Chandler Stephenson is living the dream.