Per Mike Vogel, Braden Holtby will start yet again (shocker), and Barry Trotz is expected to throw the same line combos and defensive pairings out there versus Detroit, so expect it to look a little something like this:
Alex Ovechkin – Nicklas Backstrom – Andre Burakovsky
Marcus Johansson – Evgeny Kuznetsov – Troy Brouwer
Brooks Laich – Eric Fehr – Joel Ward
Jason Chimera – Jay Beagle – Tom Wilson
That leaves Pheonix Copley (recalled while Justin Peters gets some work in Hershey) backing up Holtby, Michael Latta and Steve Oleksy (up briefly for Nate Schmidt) as healthy scratches, and Dmitry Orlov, John Erskine and Aaron Volpatti still on the IR.