The Capitals have swept the Bruins during the last three seasons. That 9-0-0 record will be challenged as the Caps return to the road for a Saturday night date against the big bad Bs, who are not big anymore but are also not really bad anymore either.

The game starts is on NBCSNDCR+L=J. It starts at 7 PM, and I, Peter (hi), will be assembling your recap. Please be gentle with me.

Record	5-3-3	6-6-1
Shot Attempt %	52.3%	47.7%
PDO	99.2	102.5
Power Play	29.1%	19.5%
Penalty Kill	80.6%	74.5%

Projected Lines

By way of the intrepid Isabelle Khurshudyan‏ of WaPo, the lines are changed not at all from their victory over Long Island, but…. well scroll down.

Vrana – Backstrom – Oshie
Ovechkin – Kuznetsov – DSP
Stephenson – Eller – Wilson
Walker – Beagle – Chiasson

Djoos – Carlson
Orpik – Bowey
Orlov – Chorney

Holtby

Here’s this:

Trotz just said there would "possibly" be a change and it's "game-time" decision, but certainly seems O'Brien is playing. Walker took rushes

— Isabelle Khurshudyan (@ikhurshudyan) November 4, 2017

So maybe Walker is out and LOB is in?

We were all wrong about Brad Marchand

Old-school tweet:

Brad Marchand is the Sean Avery of hockey.

— RMNB (@russianmachine) June 13, 2013

Whoops. Our bad. We all thought that Marchand was a pest whose only skills were in instigating and diving. Nope, turns out he’s a genuine top-tier offensive forward, and boy do we feel silly.

He’s still a diver.

Storylines

• The Caps beat the Isles, but it was ugly. That’s about as bad as you can play while winning.
• Tom Wilson hit someone.
• Maybe Ovi’s best ever other winger, Viktor Kozlov, is now coach of a KHL team — for now at least.
• Only 300 comments on this story about Alex Ovechkin not sticking to sports.
• The great Kerry Fraser has been diagnosed with an untreatable form of leukemia.
• Big hit to Caps goalie depth: Ilya Samsonov has suffered an apparent concussion in the K. Meanwhile, Vitek Vanecek is rehabbing in South Carolina.
• Bs lines, courtesy of the Boston Globe’s Fluto Shinzawa:

Corrected forwards:

Marchand-Bergeron-Pastrnak
Heinen-Szwarz-Bjork
DeBrusk-Nash-Schaller
Beleskey-Kuraly-Czarnik

— Fluto Shinzawa (@FlutoShinzawa) November 2, 2017

Defense:

Chara-McAvoy
Krug-Carlo
Postma-Miller

— Fluto Shinzawa (@FlutoShinzawa) November 2, 2017

Here’s another old-school tweet

.@MichelleDBeadle @_Happy_Gilmore Zdeno Chára teaching a young boy to read at a local boston community center. pic.twitter.com/IPhcGAyU7b

— アンソニー (@OmegaLevel_) June 6, 2013

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