It has been 363 days since the Capitals played a hockey game in front of live fans, but that streak ended tonight with about 3,000 Philly fans attending tonight’s game at Wells Fargo Center. Well, 3,000 Philly fans plus one Gritty.
The Capitals will be without the services of Tom Wilson for seven games while he serves his suspension, which he will not appeal, for boarding Boston’s Brandon Carlo. While this is definitely unfortunate for the Caps, especially for their special teams, it does mean that Daniel Sprong will get some extended time in the lineup. Here were the Capitals updated lines for tonight:
Capitals lines vs PHI:
Ovechkin-Backstrom-Oshie
Vrana-Kuznetsov-Sprong
Sheary-Eller-Panik
Hagelin-Dowd-Hathaway
Dillon-Carlson
Orlov-Schultz
Chara-Jensen
Samsonov— Samantha Pell (@SamanthaJPell) March 7, 2021The Capitals and Flyers have only seen each other once this season, a rarity during this division-only time, in a lopsided 7-4 Flyers’ win on Super Bowl Sunday that featured both Vitek Vanecek and Craig Anderson for the Caps and a Scott Laughton hatty for Philly.