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Forward Aliaksei Protas<\/a> could return from a lower-body injury when the Capitals visit the Chicago Blackhawks on Friday (8 p.m. ET; CHSN, MNMT2, NHLN, SNP, TVAS), but forward Tom Wilson<\/a> is likely to miss his third straight game with a lower-body injury. Protas was a full participant in practice Thursday after missing the past three games. Wilson, who was injured in the first period of a 3-2 shootout loss to Chicago on Saturday, skated in a noncontact jersey before practice. “I think that would be longshot for him to play tomorrow,” Capitals coach Spencer Carbery said of Wilson. “‘Pro’ practiced today, so we’ll talk to [head athletic trainer Jason Serbus] on him and see where he’s at for tomorrow, but ‘Willie’ (is) further away.” \u2026 Carbery did not have any information on the status of forward Justin Sourdif<\/a> and defenseman Jakob Chychrun<\/a>, who each left practice early. Sourdif was bleeding from the nose when he left after colliding with Connor McMichael during a drill. It was unclear what happened to Chychrun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington Capitals Forward Aliaksei Protas could return from a lower-body injury when the Capitals visit the Chicago Blackhawks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-396812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396812","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=396812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}