Good afternoon folks. The Caps and the Columbus Blue Jackets both come into today’s game on small winning streaks. Only one of those streaks can last.
The Caps lineup is going to look a little different after the injury craziness against Detroit.
Columbus is still a bad team that has John Tortorella behind their bench, riding great special teams and a former Vezina Trophy winning goalie. Lets hope the Caps can grab all the points like they weren’t able to do last week in Columbus.
Puck drop is at 12:30 on CSN and your various streaming outlets.
| Team | Record | Possession | PDO | Power Play | Penalty Kill |
| Columbus Blue Jackets | 9-4-2 | 47.76% | 103.3 | 29.3% | 84.8% |
| Washington Capitals | 11-4-2 | 53.88% | 102.7 | 13.7% | 84.6% |
Projected Lines
Paul Carey is up from Hershey, Eller and Oshie are out. The bottom 6 is a guess from the media.
Ovechkin – Kuznetsov – Burakovsky
Johansson – Backstrom – Williams
Winnik – Beagle – Wilson
Carey – Sanford – Connolly
Alzner – Niskanen
Orlov – Carlson
Orpik – Chorney
Holtby
Storylines
- IT’S IAN’S BIRTHDAY. Go tweet him music videos to celebrate.
- Jakub Vrana scored again for the Bears, but Hershey drops a game against Wilkes-Barre/Scranton.
- Evgeny Kuznetsov and Alex Ovechkin pulled each other around on a sled at the Capitals family skate.
- TJ Oshie is week-to-week and Lars Eller is day-to-day, both with upper body injuries.
- Verizon Center usher gets a massage near the end of the tense game against Detroit.
- Jay Beagle provided the only tally needed to win against the Red Wings and Tom Wilson was really happy about it.
Drawing Pokemon
If you like Pokemon and you like cartooning, this video is for you.
Alex Ovechkin
If I ever need to get excited for a Caps game this is my go-to watch pregame. Living legend.
Headline photo by Alex Brandon
