Overview
- Puck drop is 7:00 p.m. ET at Capital One Arena for Washington’s first game in three weeks against Philadelphia.
- The Capitals sit on 65 points, tied for ninth in the East, with a league-low 23 games remaining to make up ground.
- Tom Wilson and Logan Thompson rejoin the lineup after earning Olympic silver with Canada, and Martin Fehervary returns from Slovakia’s fourth-place run with four assists.
- Logan Thompson is expected to start in goal, with projected lineups listing him alongside Charlie Lindgren as the tandem and Alex Ovechkin atop the first line.
- Washington opens a three-games-in-four-nights stretch against a Flyers team that slid into the break with three wins in 15 outings.