The Washington Capitals take on the Minnesota Wild tonight at Capital One Arena. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.
WILD (23-11-4) at CAPITALS (25-10-2)
7 p.m. ET; FDSNWIX, FDSNNO, MNMT
Wild projected lineup
Matt Boldy — Marco Rossi — Mats Zuccarello
Marcus Johansson — Joel Eriksson Ek — Ryan Hartman
Marcus Foligno — Frederick Gaudreau — Yakov Trenin
Devin Shore — Marat Khusnutdinov — Ben Jones
Jonas Brodin — Brock Faber
Declan Chisholm — Zach Bogosian
Jon Merrill — Travis Dermott
Marc-Andre Fleury
Filip Gustavsson
Scratched: Brendan Gaunce, Carson Lambos
Injured: Jake Middleton (upper body), Jakub Lauko (upper body), Kirill Kaprizov (lower body), Jared Spurgeon (lower body)
Status report
Spurgeon, a defenseman, left a 5-3 win against the Nashville Predators on Tuesday following a hit by Predators forward Zachary L’Heureux, who received a match penalty on the play for slew-footing. … Kaprizov, a forward who has missed three games, was placed on injured reserve Wednesday. … Gaunce, a forward, a Lambos, a defenseman, each was recalled from Iowa of the American Hockey League on Wednesday.
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Capitals projected lineup
Aliaksei Protas — Dylan Strome — Alex Ovechkin
Connor McMichael — Pierre-Luc Dubois — Tom Wilson
Andrew Mangiapane — Lars Eller — Ivan Miroshnichenko
Brandon Duhaime — Nic Dowd — Taylor Raddysh
Rasmus Sandin — John Carlson
Martin Fehervary — Matt Roy
Jakob Chychrun — Trevor van Riemsdyk
Charlie Lindgren
Logan Thompson
Scratched: Dylan McIlrath, Alexander Alexeyev, Jakub Vrana
Injured: Sonny Milano (upper body)
Status report
Fehervary said he will play; he left a 3-1 win against the Boston Bruins on Tuesday after being hit in the face by Wilson’s stick.
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