Per Mike Vogel, Eric Fehr and Jay Beagle are on the mend – or at least healthy enough to play in a playoff game – and will draw back into the lineup tonight for Game 1. Because of that, the bottom six get a shuffle while the top six remain the same from the end of the regular season. With that in mind, here’s a look at tonight’s lines and defensive pairings… with Braden Holtby, of course, between the pipes to kick things off:
Alex Ovechkin – Evgeny Kuznetsov – Joel Ward
Marcus Johansson – Nicklas Backstrom – Troy Brouwer
Brooks Laich – Eric Fehr – Jay Beagle
Curtis Glencross – Michael Latta – Jason Chimera
That leaves Justin Peters backing up Holtby, Andre Burakovsky out as a healthy scratch, and Tom Wilson, Dmitry Orlov and John Erskine remaining out with injuries.