{"id":281361,"date":"2025-11-13T23:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T23:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/281361\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T23:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T23:21:12","slug":"line-combinations-stats-storylines-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/281361\/","title":{"rendered":"Line Combinations, Stats, Storylines To Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sam<\/p>\n

Coming off a convincing win in Carolina, the Washington Capitals want to show that they can maintain that consistency. It won’t be easy though as they pay a visit to the defending Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers.<\/p>\n

Here’s everything to know before puck drop at 7 p.m. in Florida, as both teams look to improve on matching so-so records to start the campaign.<\/p>\n

The Capitals appeared to find their spark offensively against the Hurricanes, while the defense figured things out, too. Those lines are expected to remain together.<\/p>\n

Logan Thompson will start.<\/p>\n

Here are the combinations:<\/p>\n

Alex Ovechkin-Dylan Strome-Anthony Beauvillier<\/p>\n

Aliaksei Protas-Connor McMichael-Tom Wilson<\/p>\n

Hendrix Lapierre-Justin Sourdif-Ryan Leonard<\/p>\n

Brandon Duhaime-Nic Dowd-Ethen Frank<\/p>\n

Martin Fehervary-John Carlson<\/p>\n

Jakob Chychrun-Matt Roy<\/p>\n

Rasmus Sandin-Declan Chisholm<\/p>\n

Logan Thompson<\/p>\n

Charlie Lindgren<\/p>\n

– Brandon Duhaime has goals in back-to-back games, while he, Ethen Frank and Nic Dowd have opened the scoring in both of its last two outings.<\/p>\n

– Dylan Strome has two goals and four points in his last three games. He is one point away from 400 in his NHL career.<\/p>\n

– John Carlson is riding a four-game point streak, with six points over that span, as he looks to be getting some of his offensive spark back.<\/p>\n

– Alex Ovechkin scored his 901st career NHL goal back on Tuesday as he and his “Strovillier” top line prove to be one of the best in the league at 5-on-5.<\/p>\n

– Logan Thompson leads all NHL goaltenders with at least six games played in save percentage (.935) and GAA (1.56).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coming off a convincing win in Carolina, the Washington Capitals want to show that they can maintain that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-281361","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}