Charlie Lindgren will not take the ice with the Washington Capitals for Game 2 against the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday night.
The Capitals announced shortly before the game that Lindgren would be unavailable to back up Logan Thompson due to personal family reasons. Mitchell Gibson, recalled from the AHL’s Hershey Bears last week, will take Lindgren’s spot on the bench.
Lindgren has played backup to Thompson in all six games of the postseason thus far, seeing just 6:37 of action in a losing effort to the Montreal Canadiens in Game 3 of the first round.
The 31-year-old netminder and his wife, Mikkayla, announced in December that they were expecting their first child.
Gibson has been a backup at the NHL level previously for one game, signing an amateur tryout contract with the Capitals in 2023 after Lindgren came down with an illness. Darcy Kuemper finished the April 2 game against the New York Rangers without issue, leaving Gibson on the bench.
The 2018 fourth-round pick spent most of the 2024-25 campaign with the ECHL’s South Carolina Stingrays, where he posted a 12-1-o record, a 1.75 goals-against average, and a .933 save percentage.
