Per Katie Carrera, here are the lines and pairings from this morning’s skate, highlighted by Martin Erat‘s return to the lineup, with Braden Holtby getting the start tonight:
Marcus Johansson – Nicklas Backstrom – Alex Ovechkin
Martin Erat – Mike Ribeiro – Troy Brouwer
Jason Chimera – Mathieu Perreault – Eric Fehr
Aaron Volpatti – Matt Hendricks – Jay Beagle
That leaves Jeff Schultz and Wojtek Wolski as healthy scratches and Brooks Laich, Joel Ward and Tom Poti out with injury (though Poti sounds close to being available to return to the lineup).