Bruins come to Washington to finish a preseason home and home series
9/18 Boston (1-0-1) at Washington (0-1-1)
TV: NBC Sports Washington Radio: Caps radio 24/7
Last game: Washington lost in shootout 2-1
Goal: Brett Connolly Pheonix Copley-21 saves on 22 shots / Vitek Vanececk 12 saves on 12 shots
So, so beautiful.#ALLCAPS pic.twitter.com/ji3z0nZysr
— Washington Capitals (@Capitals) September 17, 2018
Braden Holtby will start between the pipes Tuesday night at Capital One Arena in DC. The veteran players for the game will be Nick Backstrom, T.J Oshie, Matt Niskanen, Dmitry Orlov, and of course Braden Holtby. Expect the dominant first line of Alex Ovechkin, Evgeny Kuznetsov and Tom Wilson to play Thursday night.
Capitals roster for preseason game two:
Forwards
15 Jayson Megna
19 Nicklas Backstrom
24 Riley Barber
26 Nic Dowd
45 Axel Jonsson-Fjallby
49 Max Krammerer
63 Shane Gersich
67 Riley Sutter
71 Kody Clark
72 Travis Boyd
77 T.J. Oshie
87 Liam O’Brien
Defense
2 Matt Niskanen
9 Dmitry Orlov
21 Lucas Johansen
27 Alexander Alexeyev
36 Conner Hobbs
38 Colby Williams
42 Martin Fehervary
Goaltenders
30 Ilya Samsonov (expected to play the second half of the game)
70 Braden Holtby (Starter Tuesday night against the Bruins.
