Per Mike Vogel, Roman Hamrlik will replace Tom Poti (who had a brutal miscommunication with tonight’s starter, Michal Neuvirth, on Tuesday night, and is apparently day-to-day with an upper-body injury) in the lineup as the Caps get ready to face the Pens. Here are tonight’s expected line combinations and defensive pairings:
Marcus Johansson – Nicklas Backstrom – Troy Brouwer
Wojtek Wolski – Mike Ribeiro – Alex Ovechkin
Jason Chimera – Joey Crabb – Joel Ward
Matt Hendricks – Jay Beagle – Eric Fehr
That leaves Poti and Mathieu Perreault as scratches, Brooks Laich and Jack Hillen out with injuries, and John Erskine still suspended.