A surprise for the second-to-last game of the regular season: forward Nicklas Backstrom and defender John Carlson are out.

Both have lower-body injuries, and both are listed as day-to-day.

Carlson and Backstrom join Ovechkin on Washington’s injured list.

From the Caps:

#Caps John Carlson (lower body), Alex Ovechkin (lower body) and Nicklas Backstrom (lower body) will not play tonight and are listed as day-to-day.

— CapitalsPR (@CapitalsPR) May 8, 2021

The Caps will be running eleven forwards tonight. Garret Pillon will make his debut. Here are the lines from Samantha “Overtime” Pell:

Capitals lines vs Flyers (11F/6D)

Sheary-Eller-Wilson
Sprong-Oshie-Mantha
Raffl-Pilon
Hagelin-Dowd-Hathaway

Orlov-Schultz
Dillon-TvR
Chara-Jensen

Anderson

— Samantha Pell (@SamanthaJPell) May 8, 2021

RMNB Coverage of Caps vs Flyers

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