Washington Capitals 2008-2009 ongoing thread

[skinsfan_nn]

CAPS have a 5:00 showdown with the closest team in the South East to them the Panthers. BIG GAME!

Have to show them who the dominate team in the SouthEast/East for that matter is. We need to win this game and get some separation from the Panthers they trial the CAPS by 11 points in the SE.

Posted at 3:34 PM ET, 02/15/2009
Today's Lineup

Less than 24 hours after last night's 5-1 throttling of the Lightning in Tampa, the Caps are back at it - but with several changes to the lineup. Jose Theodore will start in goal. Jay Beagle, Milan Jurcina and Karl Alzner are back in. Michael Nylander, John Erskine and Staffan Kronwall are out (healthy), and Viktor Kozlov will miss his fifth game with a groin muscle pull.

Here's how they should line up:

Forwards
Ovechkin-Backstrom-Semin
Fleischmann-Fedorov-Fehr
Laich-Steckel-Gordon
Brashear-Beagle-Bradley

Defensemen
Morrisonn-Green
Alzner-Poti
Schultz-Jurcina

Green can tie the franchise record for consecutive games with a goal tonight (the record is nine). Bruce Boudreau, meantime, thinks this game is really important from a psychological standpoint. The Caps have a 11-point lead on the Panthers.

"They're catching us [but] we can really do a number on them if we beat them," he said. "And we just want to establish dominance over a team. We haven't done it. We're 1-1 against these guys. [But] it's very big, psychologically, to win these games.

GO CAPS!!!!!