Dylan Strome\u2019s status remains up in the air despite making the trip up to Buffalo with the Capitals.<\/p>\n
Head coach Spencer Carbery labeled Strome a game-time decision during his pregame press conference. Strome has missed two games and has been out of action since October 25, when he suffered a lower-body injury early in the Capitals\u2019 7-1 loss to the Ottawa Senators<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cHe will be a game-time decision,\u201d Carbery said<\/a>. \u201cHe\u2019ll warm up and we\u2019ll see where he\u2019s at.\u201d<\/p>\n The Capitals lost their other top centerman, Pierre-Luc Dubois, to a lower-body injury against the New York Islanders on Friday night<\/a>. In response, the club recalled forward Spencer Smallman from the AHL\u2019s Hershey Bears<\/a>. If Strome cannot go against the Sabres, Smallman, 29, will make his NHL debut.<\/p>\n Dubois did not join the rest of his teammates on their flight up to Buffalo, and Carbery listed the 27-year-old pivot as out day-to-day with his ailment.<\/p>\n \u201cDid not travel and I would call him day-to-day,\u201d Carbery said. \u201cHe\u2019s getting evaluated back home.\u201d<\/p>\n Charlie Lindgren will be in net for the Capitals for the first time since he gave up seven goals to the Senators a week ago. In three games this season, Lindgren is 1-2 with a 3.72 goals-against average, a .882 save percentage, and one shutout.<\/p>\n After starting the season 0-3, the Sabres have collected standings points in seven of their last eight games. They will be rested after last playing on Thursday night against the Boston Bruins, a 4-3 loss in overtime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dylan Strome\u2019s status remains up in the air despite making the trip up to Buffalo with the Capitals.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-266364","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\/266364","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=266364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}