Tonight's lineup: Caps at Bruins
Unlike Tuesday night, the Capitals will face a rather seasoned Bruins lineup tonight at TD Garden as Boston has dressed most of its NHL regulars for the final contest before the Bruins head overseas to open the regular season as part of the NHL Premiere in Prague.
Nicklas Backstrom is wearing the captain's "C" while Matt Bradley and David Steckel have the "A". Based on warm ups, here are the Capitals lines and defensive pairings for the game:
Forwards
Johansson-Backstrom-Fehr
Chimera-Perreault-A.Gordon
Hendricks-B.Gordon-Bradley
Steckel-Beagle-Pinizzotto
Defense
Schultz-Carlson
Erskine-Alzner
Sloan-Fahey
Goal
Sabourin
Holtby
*The goaltenders are expected to split the game.
By
Katie Carrera
| September 29, 2010; 6:41 PM ET
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Thanks for the updates, Katie! You're picking up where Tarik left off.
Posted by: Terptwin | September 29, 2010 6:49 PM | Report abuse
interesting to see that Marcus is on the wing with Nicky
Posted by: casser | September 29, 2010 6:54 PM | Report abuse
It will be interesting to see how these guys do facing most of an playoff team from last year.
Posted by: icehammer97 | September 29, 2010 6:56 PM | Report abuse
See the game here http://video.bruins.nhl.com/videocenter/console?id=76525&catid=616
Posted by: icehammer97 | September 29, 2010 7:03 PM | Report abuse
for those of you who want to watch it online...go to
http://bruins.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=538995&cmpid=rss-News%20in%20English
yo have to sign up for the free bruins notice thingy...but it only takes about 5seconds and the live stream works!
Posted by: capscoach | September 29, 2010 7:05 PM | Report abuse
so the caps are not being subtle about their declaration that they are a tougher team...took them 2 secs t drop the gloves...Hendricks had some good jabs.
Posted by: capscoach | September 29, 2010 7:21 PM | Report abuse
Chimera to Backie...BEAUTIFUL!
Posted by: capscoach | September 29, 2010 7:25 PM | Report abuse
Is anyone else have trouble with the game stream being unstable?
Posted by: fanohock1 | September 29, 2010 7:41 PM | Report abuse
@fanohock1 I had a little trouble with it in the middle of the period but that was it. The sound has been in and out but I don't care much.
Posted by: icehammer97 | September 29, 2010 7:43 PM | Report abuse
the little tykes skating during the 1st intermission was cute... heh... missed the goal, what happened? Anyone? Bueller?
Posted by: FrankM73 | September 29, 2010 7:45 PM | Report abuse
Thanks hammer. I guess it's my ISP because it buffers and pauses every 10 seconds or so.
Posted by: fanohock1 | September 29, 2010 7:49 PM | Report abuse
I like Carlson's aggressiveness on the PK!
Posted by: FrankM73 | September 29, 2010 8:04 PM | Report abuse
Schultz with a late point drive for a goal... sweet!
Posted by: FrankM73 | September 29, 2010 8:27 PM | Report abuse
#FrankM73
Except Backstrom is getting credit for the goal that everyone thought was Schultz. That's what it says on the Caps website.
Posted by: CapsFan75 | September 29, 2010 8:39 PM | Report abuse
Looks like Thornton was sporting a nice shiner from last night
Posted by: hkyfan20110 | September 29, 2010 8:40 PM | Report abuse
Hendricks is now officially a member of the MacDonald clan. He fought Campbell!
(The Caps fight for the honor of Clan MacDonald.)
Posted by: CapsFan75 | September 29, 2010 8:43 PM | Report abuse
AGordon for the gift goal... woohoo!
Posted by: FrankM73 | September 29, 2010 8:51 PM | Report abuse
Nice follow up from A Gordon 3-0
Posted by: hkyfan20110 | September 29, 2010 8:52 PM | Report abuse
The Caps call-ups and juniors taking it to Tim Thomas and Chara, hahahahahaahaha
Posted by: JIMALLCAPS1 | September 29, 2010 8:56 PM | Report abuse
I was a little worried after the second period penalty trouble. This is a great way to turn it around.
Posted by: hkyfan20110 | September 29, 2010 8:58 PM | Report abuse
Final in Boston, Caps-4, Bruins-1
Posted by: JMinVA | September 29, 2010 9:22 PM | Report abuse
Great game tonight. I was right behind the caps bench. The team seemed to be much quicker than the bruins. A lot of quick cycling with the puck. Perreault and Gordan were especially active. btw - games stats are way off. the shots where extremely undercounted on the caps side. Even with the almost solid eight penalty minutes in the 2nd period, the Caps "unoffically" well out shot the bruins.
Posted by: snappytommy1 | September 29, 2010 10:38 PM | Report abuse
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