Projected Lineups for the Rangers vs Capitals – Game 3

The New York Rangers take on the Washington Capitals at Capital One Arena tonight for Game 3 of their first round series. Here are the projected/expected lineups, sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents and others.

(1M) RANGERS at (2WC) CAPITALS

Eastern Conference First Round, Game 3

7 p.m. ET; MAX, MNMT, truTV, MSGSN, TNT, MSG, SN360, TVAS

New York leads best-of-7 series, 2-0

Rangers projected lineup

Chris Kreider — Mika Zibanejad — Jack Roslovic

Artemi Panarin — Vincent Trocheck — Alexis Lafreniere

Will Cuylle — Alex Wennberg — Kaapo Kakko

Jimmy Vesey — Barclay Goodrow — Matt Rempe

Ryan Lindgren — Adam Fox

K’Andre Miller — Braden Schneider

Erik Gustafsson — Jacob Trouba

Igor Shesterkin

Jonathan Quick

Scratched: Zac Jones, Jonny Brodzinski, Chad Ruhwedel, Filip Chytil, Louis Domingue, Adam Edstrom

Injured: Blake Wheeler (lower body)

Status report

• Wennberg took part in an optional morning skate Friday and said he will play after not practicing Thursday for maintenance.

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Capitals projected lineup

Alex Ovechkin — Connor McMichael — T.J. Oshie

Aliaksei Protas — Dylan Strome — Tom Wilson

Max Pacioretty — Hendrix Lapierre — Sonny Milano

Beck Malenstyn — Nic Dowd — Ivan Miroshnichenko

Martin Fehervary — John Carlson

Lucas Johansen — Trevor van Riemsdyk

Alexander Alexeyev — Dylan McIlrath

Charlie Lindgren

Darcy Kuemper

Scratched: Michael Sgarbossa, Nicolas Aube-Kubel, Hardy Haman Aktell

Injured: Rasmus Sandin (upper body), Nick Jensen (upper body), Vincent Iorio (upper body)

Status report

• Milano skated Friday and will play after taking a maintenance day Thursday.
• Defensemen Sandin and Jensen each took part in the morning skate in a regular jersey Friday and coach Spencer Carbery did not rule out either’s return after missing the first two games.
• Miroshnichenko will make his NHL playoff debut.

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