GDT: 10/01/09 Washington Capitals at Boston Bruins. TD Garden. 7PM

[bottleCAPS]

WASHINGTON CAPITALS (0-0-0) Boston Bruins (0-0-0)
TV: CSN-DC,SPSO (HD), WATCH ONLINE

For information on tonight's game follow Senior Caps writer Mike Vogel's preview.

For supplementary coverage you can check out Tarik El-Bashir's blog from the Washington Post HERE.



The Capitals were 2-1-1 last season vs Boston.



N/A




Washington Capitals
Left wing Tomas Fleischmann is out.
Right wing Eric Fehr is out.

Boston Bruins
Center David Krejci is questionable.




Washington Forwards
8-Ovechkin, 19-Backstrom, 28-Semin
21-Laich, 9-Morrison, 22-Knuble
53-Laing, 39-Steckel, 17-Clark
34-Kane, 15-Gordon, 10-Bradley

Washington Defensemen
26-Morrisonn, 52-Green
3-Poti, 23-Jurcina
4-Erskine, 2-Pothier

Goaltenders
60-Theodore, 40-Varlamov


Boston Forwards
16-Sturm, 91-Savard, 73-Ryder
17-Lucic, 46-Krejci, 12-Kobasew
27-Begin, 37-Bergeron, 26-Wheeler
22-Thornton, 60-Sobotka, 28-Recchi

Boston Defensemen
33-Chara, 6-Wideman
45-Stuart, 21-Ference
53-Morris, 48-Hunwick

Goaltenders
30-Thomas, 40-Rask

*note: Lineups are subject to change, starting goalies marked with italics.


Importance of this Game:
Five Nylander Heads.




LETS GO CAPS!


sources are www.capitals.nhl.com & www.nhl.com

[tim]

I am so ready for the season to start. It's go time.

[Maryland17]

Anyone else going to be in attendance for the game?

Looking forward to it! Though I could only pony up enough $ for balcony.

[The Viking Fury]

I'll miss the first part of this game because of my kickball league.


Yes... kickball. Sponsored by Grand Central in Adams Morgan. Gotta love it.

[txpd]

Jurcina is really a scratch?

[CapitalsCup2010]

So...I'm already getting screwed by Directv/Versus on Game 1?!?!


F this BS.

[Whopper88]

If Sloan is a scratch why was he not put on waivers instead of Bourque and sent to the minors? Then they would not have to bring up Kane? This does not make sense. Sorry if this was answered in another thread.

[EroCaps]

Originally Posted by Whopper88

If Sloan is a scratch why was he not put on waivers instead of Bourque and sent to the minors? Then they would not have to bring up Kane? This does not make sense. Sorry if this was answered in another thread.

It doesn't make sense.

It boils down to the Caps having some kind of blindspot for below-average defensemen.

God forbid they lose Sloan, Pothier, Schultz or Morrisonn.

[sk84fun_dc]

While Sloan could very easily be a healthy scratch for the opener, isn't this just Bottle's guess at this time? It doesn't match the combos from today's practice from what I recall. I haven't been online to read any beat writer or Vogel updates this afternoon/tonight though.

[Chimaera]

i see shades of Atlanta.

or they dominate and get destroyed on Saturday.

[init2winit]

Originally Posted by sk84fun_dc

While Sloan could very easily be a healthy scratch for the opener, isn't this just Bottle's guess at this time? It doesn't match the combos from today's practice from what I recall. I haven't been online to read any beat writer or Vogel updates this afternoon/tonight though.

Yeah, if I recall correctly it was a Schultz-Sloan pairing at practice today. Green-Mo, Poti-Juice, and Pots-Erskine.

[RandyHolt]

Whats the over under on how many block shots Laing will have this year? And how long until he gets injured lol. I hope he is smart enough to use an old school heavy duty 550 gauge twig on the PK and the most oversized pads possible. Full cage.

I dont like that 3rd LSC line. Thats gonna be ugly unless Clarks flying around. I'd rather see a checking line of Kane Steckel Bradley. Laing Gordo Clark on 4. Let Clark earn his way back over Bradley who earned a promo last spring.

[strungout]

4-3 Caps!

[bottleCAPS]

Originally Posted by strungout

4-3 Caps!

that's the spirit!

[raygunpk]

Is Theodore going to be starting most of the Caps games?

[HSHS]

WTheck is going on with the Sat game? I don't see that on DTV either?!

[CapitalsCup2010]

I'm going with an impressive 5-2 Caps win.

[HSHS]

and Tues game is on Vs too!

Great! Swell!

[Langway]

Originally Posted by HSHS

WTheck is going on with the Sat game? I don't see that on DTV either?!

Might have something to do with it being on HNIC?

(Corrected the start time.)

[LetsGoBears]

Karma bites us in the ass 4-2 Bruins.

[usiel]

Originally Posted by LetsGoBears

Karma bites us in the ass 4-2 Bruins.

I can see it now if the Caps lose its all because of 'BourqueGate'.

[LetsGoBears]

Originally Posted by usiel

I can see it now if the Caps lose its all because of 'BourqueGate'.

[WcRoenick97]

3-1 Caps. Theodore impresses.

[txpd]

Originally Posted by RandyHolt

Whats the over under on how many block shots Laing will have this year? And how long until he gets injured lol. I hope he is smart enough to use an old school heavy duty 550 gauge twig on the PK and the most oversized pads possible. Full cage.

I dont like that 3rd LSC line. Thats gonna be ugly unless Clarks flying around. I'd rather see a checking line of Kane Steckel Bradley. Laing Gordo Clark on 4. Let Clark earn his way back over Bradley who earned a promo last spring.

Laing and Steckel are tug boats. I am not sure how either of them keep up with Clark. Back to Bourque, he was fast enough to skate with Clark. Now what?

Clark is the only guy in the bottom 6 with any finish at all.

[HSHS]

Originally Posted by usiel

I can see it now if the Caps lose its all because of 'BourqueGate'.

5-6 Bruins!