GOLDEN KNIGHTS (28-16-14) at CAPITALS (30-23-7)
7 p.m. ET; SCRIPPS, MNMT, NHLN, SNP, SNW, TVAS
Golden Knights projected lineup
Ivan Barbashev — Jack Eichel — Mark Stone
Pavel Dorofeyev — Mitch Marner — Reilly Smith
Braeden Bowman –Tomas Hertl — Keegan Kolesar
Brandon Saad — Colton Sissons — Alexander Holtz
Jeremy Lauzon — Shea Theodore
Noah Hanifin — Rasmus Andersson
Brayden McNabb — Kaedan Korczak
Akira Schmid
Adin Hill
Scratched: Cole Reinhardt, Ben Hutton
Injured: Carter Hart (lower body), Brett Howden (lower body), William Karlsson (lower body), Jonas Rondbjerg (lower body)
Capitals projected lineup
Alex Ovechkin — Dylan Strome — Aliaksei Protas
Connor McMichael — Pierre-Luc Dubois — Tom Wilson
Anthony Beauvillier — Justin Sourdif — Ryan Leonard
Brandon Duhaime — Nic Dowd — Ethen Frank
Martin Fehervary — Trevor van Riemsdyk
Jakob Chychrun — Matt Roy
Declan Chisholm — Rasmus Sandin
Logan Thompson
Charie Lindgren
Scratched: Dylan McIlrath, Hendrix Lapierre
Injured: John Carlson (lower body)
Status report
Five Golden Knights players who participated at the Olympics — Eichel and Hanifin for Team USA and Stone, Marner and Theodore for Team Canada — are expected to play after missing a 6-4 win at the Los Angeles Kings on Wednesday. … Vegas assigned forwards Tanner Laczynski and Kai Uchacz and defenseman Dylan Coghlan to Henderson of the American Hockey League on Thursday. … Wilson, who played for Team Canada at the Olympics, will play after missing a 3-1 win against the Philadelphia Flyers on Wednesday because of an illness. … Carlson is day to day and will miss his second straight game; he was injured in a 4-2 win against the Nashville Predators on Feb. 5 in the Capitals’ final game before the Olympic break.
