Per Alex Prewitt, the Caps will go with the status quo – right down to putting Andre Burakovsky in the pressbox – as they get set to face the Lightning. Here’s a look at the probable lines and D pairings patrolling the ice in front of Braden Holtby tonight:
Alex Ovechkin – Nicklas Backstrom – Tom Wilson
Marcus Johansson – Evgeny Kuznetsov – Troy Brouwer
Brooks Laich – Eric Fehr – Joel Ward
Jason Chimera – Michael Latta – Jay Beagle
That leaves Justin Peters backing up Holtby, Burakovsky out as a healthy scratch, Mike Green still on the shelf for at least one more game and Dmitry Orlov and John Erskine out with longer-term injuries (with Aaron Volpatti en route to Hershey for some conditioning).