Per Mike Vogel, the Caps will make just one change ahead of tonight’s winner-take-all Game 7 against the Islanders, with recent healthy scratch Curtis Glencross drawing into the lineup. With that in mind, here are tonight’s likely lines and defensive pairings… with Braden Holtby doing what he does best between the pipes:
Alex Ovechkin – Nicklas Backstrom – Joel Ward
Marcus Johansson – Evgeny Kuznetsov – Jason Chimera
Andre Burakovsky – Jay Beagle – Troy Brouwer
Curtis Glencross – Brooks Laich – Tom Wilson
That leaves Philipp Grubauer backing up Holtby, Michael Latta on the sidelines as a healthy scratch, and Eric Fehr, Dmitry Orlov and John Erskine remaining out with injuries.