Projected Lineups for the Capitals vs Wild – 3/27/25

The Washington Capitals take on the Minnesota Wild at the Xcel Energy Center tonight. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.

CAPITALS (47-15-9) at WILD (40-27-5)

7:30 p.m. ET; Disney+, MNMT, HULU, ESPN+, TVAS-D, SNP, SNE

Capitals projected lineup

Aliaksei Protas — Dylan Strome — Alex Ovechkin
Connor McMichael — Pierre-Luc Dubois — Tom Wilson
Andrew Mangiapane — Lars Eller — Taylor Raddysh
Brandon Duhaime — Nic Dowd — Anthony Beauvillier

Rasmus Sandin — John Carlson
Jakob Chychrun — Trevor van Riemsdyk
Martin Fehervary — Matt Roy

Charlie Lindgren
Logan Thompson

Scratched: Dylan McIlrath, Alex Alexeyev, Ethen Frank

Injured: Sonny Milano (upper body)

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Wild projected lineup

Mats Zuccarello — Marco Rossi — Matt Boldy
Marcus Johansson — Frederick Gaudreau — Gustav Nyquist
Marcus Foligno — Ryan Hartman — Vinnie Hinostroza
Yakov Trenin — Devin Shore — Justin Brazeau

Jake Middleton — Brock Faber
Jonas Brodin — Jared Spurgeon
Jon Merrill — Zach Bogosian

Filip Gustavsson
Marc-Andre Fleury

Scratched: Cameron Crotty, Brendan Gaunce

Injured: Kirill Kaprizov (lower body), Joel Eriksson Ek (lower body), Declan Chisholm (lower body)

Status report:

Foligno is expected to return after missing five games with an upper-body injury. … Chisholm, a defenseman, skated Thursday but will miss his second straight game. … Forwards Kaprizov and Eriksson Ek each was on the ice ahead of the Wild morning skate for the first time since each was injured; Kaprizov has missed 22 games, Eriksson Ek 15.

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