Per Katie Carrera, Brooks Laich will miss this evening’s game with a turkey hangover lower-body injury and will be replaced in the lineup by Jay Beagle, so expect the following lines and pairs in front of Michal Neuvirth in net (update: Neuvirth was injured in warm-ups, so Braden Holtby will start):
Marcus Johansson – Nicklas Backstrom – Alex Ovechkin
Eric Fehr – Mikhail Grabovski – Troy Brouwer
Jason Chimera – Jay Beagle – Joel Ward
Aaron Volpatti – Michael Latta – Tom Wilson
That leaves Steve Oleksy as a healthy scratch, Laich, John Erskine and Jack Hillen out with injury, and Martin Erat in purgatory.