{"id":294708,"date":"2026-09-26T22:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T22:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/294708\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T22:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T22:48:10","slug":"open-thread-washington-capitals-final-preseason-game-against-philadelphia-flyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/294708\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread: Washington Capitals final preseason game against Philadelphia Flyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/headline-open-thread-2024.jpg\" class=\"above-the-fold wp-post-image\" alt=\"RMNB Open Thread\"  decoding=\"async\"  fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ud83d\udcf7: RMNB\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"team\" title=\"View Washington Capitals news and roster\" href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/team\/washington-capitals\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Capitals<\/a> are ready to wrap up their 2026 preseason with one final game on the road against the <a class=\"team\" title=\"View Philadelphia Flyers news and roster\" href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/team\/philadelphia-flyers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Flyers<\/a> at Xfinity Mobile Arena.<\/p>\n<p>After icing what was almost their complete Opening Night lineup against the <a class=\"team\" title=\"View Boston Bruins news and roster\" href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/team\/boston-bruins\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Bruins<\/a> on Friday, the Capitals will <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2026\/09\/26\/capitals-flyers-roster-preseason-final-game\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">take on the Flyers with a lineup chock-full of prospects and AHL regulars<\/a>. <a class=\"player\" title=\"View Ethen Frank&#039;s stats, bio, and status\" href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/player\/ethen-frank\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ethen Frank<\/a>, who is on the bubble of the team\u2019s roster, will be the only player to play in both games.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"player\" title=\"View Charlie Lindgren&#039;s stats, bio, and status\" href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/player\/charlie-lindgren\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Lindgren<\/a> will get the start in net for the Capitals and play the entirety of the game. He will be backed up by former Flyers goalie <a class=\"player\" title=\"View Cal Petersen&#039;s stats, bio, and status\" href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/player\/cal-petersen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cal Petersen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Monumental Sports Network will broadcast the game. Puck drop is set for 5 pm.<\/p>\n<p>Projected Capitals lines<\/p>\n<p>Miroshnichenko\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Niederbach\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Parascak\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Comment below. The thread will close shortly after the game ends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udcf7: RMNB The Washington Capitals are ready to wrap up their 2026 preseason with one final game on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-294708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}