Happy Week 2, Capitals fans! The Washington Capitals are facing the Vancouver Canucks tonight, the first of two matchups between these teams this season. Bruce Boudreau enters tonight’s game one victory shy of 600 career NHL wins, but also with a healthy fear of Alex Ovechkin (spoiler alert: this was entirely justified). The Canucks have dropped their first two games of the season, losing to both the Oilers and Flyers, and the Capitals are coming off their first win of the season on Saturday night.
The Caps emerged for warmups like this:
Capitals lines in warmups vs Vancouver:
Ovechkin-Strome-Brown
Mantha-Kuznetsov-Oshie
Johansson-Eller-Protas
Sheary-Dowd-Hathaway
Fehervary-Carlson
Orlov-Jensen
Gustafsson-TvR
Kuemper (vs Demko)— Samantha Pell (@SamanthaJPell) October 17, 2022Despite some uncertainty about Evgeny Kuznetsov’s gametime status this morning, he is in the lineup tonight centering the second line.