After a sloppy and somewhat disappointing overtime loss Tuesday night, the Caps headed to Columbus for their first meeting of the season with their Metro division rivals, the Blue Jackets. With some shuffled lines and without Nic Dowd, who stayed back with his family to celebrate the birth of his second child (congrats, Dowder!!), they looked to get back on track against a spiraling Jackets team missing plenty of big pieces of their own.
Here’s how the Capitals lined up tonight:
#Caps' lines/pairs in Columbus:
8-Ovechkin, 92-Kuznetsov, 73-Sheary
15-Milano, 17-Strome, 77-Oshie
90-Johansson, 20-Eller, 96-Aube-Kubel
39-Mantha, 59-Protas, 21-Hathaway
56-Gustafsson, 57-van Riemsdyk
9-Orlov, 3-Jensen
27-Alexeyev, 42-Fehervary
Kuemper vs.