First of all this Washington Capitals lineup will look vastly different. A ton of roster moves were made. The Capitals recalled Mike Sgarbossa, Beck Malenstyn, Tyler Lewington, and Ilya Samsonov from the Hershey Bears. Vitek Vanecek was brought back to the Bears.
We all knew that Carl Hagelin and Nic Dowd were injured but we didn’t know that Nicklas Backstrom suffered an injury on Monday night’s game. All three have upper body injuries and are ruled out tonight. Hagelin will go on long term injured reserve and Dowd on IR.