{"id":220131,"date":"2025-10-12T22:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T22:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/220131\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T22:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T22:32:07","slug":"capitals-working-through-a-few-things-with-lineup-against-rangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/220131\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitals \u2018working through a few things\u2019 with lineup against Rangers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Capitals will wrap up a New York-based back-to-back on Sunday night as they face off against the New York Rangers. The Caps took down the New York Islanders 4-2 on Saturday night, while the Rangers also were in action, beating the Pittsburgh Penguins 6-1.<\/p>\n

Head coach Spencer Carbery met with traveling media shortly before puck drop and revealed that the Capitals\u2019 lineup against the Rangers is still undecided. The team didn\u2019t suffer any obvious injuries in their win against the Islanders, but players like Matt Roy<\/a> and captain Alex Ovechkin<\/a> were banged up during training camp.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, we\u2019re working through a few things,\u201d Carbery said<\/a>. \u201cWon\u2019t know yet, but yeah, you\u2019ll see at warmup.\u201d<\/p>\n

While there may be some questions with the club\u2019s skaters, the Capitals\u2019 starting goaltender will definitely be Charlie Lindgren. The 31-year-old backstop gets his first start of the season after Logan Thompson went 1-1 in the first two games of the year.<\/p>\n

Carbery stated earlier this month<\/a> that Thompson would take on more of the number-one starter role during the 2025-26 campaign, likely lessening Lindgren\u2019s workload from the 39 games he appeared in last year.<\/p>\n

Lindgren started one game against the Rangers last season, making 15 saves in a 3-2 overtime win on March 5. In his career against the Rangers, Lindgren is 3-1 with a 1.48 goals-against average, a .943 save percentage, and one shutout.<\/p>\n

The Rangers are 2-1 to begin the season under new head coach Mike Sullivan. Igor Shesterkin made 18 saves against the Penguins on Saturday, so backup Jonathan Quick has drawn Sunday\u2019s assignment against the Capitals.<\/p>\n

Last year, the Capitals swept their season series with the Rangers, 3-0, including winning their lone road game.<\/p>\n

Puck drop at Madison Square Garden is set for 7 pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Capitals will wrap up a New York-based back-to-back on Sunday night as they face off against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-220131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}