Projected Lineups for the Red Wings vs Capitals – 3/18/25

The Detroit Red Wings take on the Washington Capitals at Capital One Arena tonight. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.

RED WINGS (32-29-6) at CAPITALS (44-15-8)

7 p.m. ET; FDSNDET, MNMT, SN360, TVAS

Red Wings projected lineup

Elmer Soderblom — Dylan Larkin — Lucas Raymond
Alex DeBrincat — Marco Kasper — Patrick Kane
Jonatan Berggren — J.T. Compher — Vladimir Tarasenko
Tyler Motte — Michael Rasmussen — Craig Smith

Ben Chiarot — Moritz Seider
Simon Edvinsson — Albert Johansson
Erik Gustafsson — Justin Holl

Petr Mrazek
Cam Talbot

Scratched: William Lagesson, Alex Lyon, Dominik Shine

Injured: Jeff Petry (undisclosed), Andrew Copp (upper body)

Status report

DeBrincat is expected to play his 600th NHL game.

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Capitals projected lineup

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

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

Logan Thompson
Charlie Lindgren

Scratched: Dylan McIlrath, Alex Alexeyev, Ethen Frank

Injured: Sonny Milano (upper body)

Status report

Forwards Strome and Frank, each of whom missed practice Monday because of illness, skated Tuesday. … Thompson will make his second straight start. Coach Spencer Carbery said he no will longer rotate goalies and will make decisions on a game-by-game basis.

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