Per Mike Vogel, Brooks Laich is out of the lineup, and Evgeny Kuznetsov and Dustin Penner are swapping spots, so expect these forward lines and D-pairings in front of Jaroslav Halak (yet again):
Marcus Johansson – Nicklas Backstrom – Alex Ovechkin
Evgeny Kuznetsov – Casey Wellman – Troy Brouwer
Jason Chimera – Eric Fehr – Joel Ward
So that leaves Laich, John Erskine, Mikhail Grabovski and Aaron Volpatti out with injurie, and Braden Holtby backing up Halak.