Time for the second round of Late Night Caps Hockey this week, folks! The Washington Capitals face off against the Arizona Coyotes at Gila River Arena tonight to cap off a five-game road trip. These two teams have not seen each other since October 29 when Ilya Samsonov blanked the Coyotes, so this is the first time Johan Larsson is facing his former team since the trade deadline.
The Capitals’ lines in warmups looked a little something like this:
Capitals lines in Arizona:
Ovechkin-Kuznetsov-Wilson
Johansson-Backstrom-Sheary
Mantha-Eller-Oshie
Larsson-Dowd-Hathaway
Fehervary-Carlson
Orlov-Jensen
TvR-Schultz
Vanecek— Samantha Pell (@SamanthaJPell) April 23, 2022Vitek Vanecek got tonight’s assignment in net, after Samsonov started the Capitals’ last two games.