The game between the Washington Capitals and Chicago Blackhawks will take place at Capital One Arena on Thursday, March 23 at 7:00 PM ET.
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The Washington Capitals will welcome the Chicago Blackhawks to Capital One Arena for an NHL game on Thursday. The Washington Capitals lost 6-7 in their last game over the Blue Jackets. Nick Jensen had two goals and T.J. Oshie and Sonny Milano also scored for the Capitals, who have lost three in a row and six of their past eight games.
“Any time you’re scoring six goals and losing, it’s going to be a rough night,” Jensen said. “You’ve got to keep reiterating defense and working at it and finding what is going wrong. There obviously is something going wrong, so we got to find those and make defense a priority.” Columbus got two goals from Adam Boqvist and one each from Eric Robinson, Emil Bemstrom and Jenner. Daniil Tarasov made 31 saves, and Roslovic completed the comeback with 2:17 left in 3-on-3 OT.
“We’ve been hit on the chin a lot this year,” Roslovic said. “It’s something that will be good for us going down the road as to learning how to grind through that adversity and it’s something that we can learn from tonight, to be able to find wins.”
The Chicago Blackhawks on the other hand lost 5-0 against the Avalanche in their last game. Alex Stalock stopped 27 shots for Chicago, which has dropped two straight. “I thought he was good,” coach Luke Richardson said of Stalock. “In the first period he made that big save on (Nathan) MacKinnon to keep it at 1-0.” Colorado star Cale Makar was scratched, but he is considered day to day with an undisclosed injury.
His absence meant the Avs played without three of their top six defensemen. Josh Manson (lower body) has missed three weeks, and Erik Johnson (broken ankle) hasn’t played since Feb. 11. MacDermid replaced Makar in the lineup and took advantage when his goal at 2:45 of the first period ricocheted off the knee of Blackhawks defenseman Ian Mitchell and by Stalock.
Malgin made it 2-0 at 6:17 of the second, and Rantanen’s power-play goal midway through the period gave Colorado a three-goal lead. “I think the first two periods we actually had some good chances,” Chicago defenseman Caleb Jones said. “They obviously had a couple there and got one on the power play, but they’re a good team and keep coming at you.”
Nick Jensen – Sonny Milano – T. J. Oshie
Tom Wilson – Nicklas Bäckström – Nic Dowd
Martin Fehérváry – Charlie Lindgren – Alexander Ovechkin
Aliaksei Protas – Rasmus Sandin
Conor Sheary – Dylan Strome
Alexander Alexeyev – Gabriel Carlsson
Matt Irwin – Evgeny Kuznetsov
Anthony Mantha
Craig Smith
Joey Anderson – Andreas Athanasiou – Jason Dickinson
MacKenzie Entwistle – Mike Hardman – Tyler Johnson
Caleb Jones – Seth Jones – Boris Katchouk
Jujhar Khaira – Philipp Kurashev
Ian Mitchell – Connor Murphy
Taylor Raddysh – Lukas Reichel
Buddy Robinson – Alex Stalock
Jarred Tinordi
Nikita Zaitsev
Washington Capitals: Trevor van Riemsdyk, Darcy Kuemper, John Carlson , Carl Hagelin, Connor Brown
Chicago Blackhawks: Austin Wagner, Colin Blackwell, Petr Mrazek, Andreas Englund, Jonathan Toews, Reese Johnson, Anders Bjork, Cole Guttman
The game between the Washington Capitals and Chicago Blackhawks will take place at Capital One Arena on Thursday, March 23 at 7:00 PM ET.
The match between the Washington Capitals and Chicago Blackhawks will be telecast live on NBC Sports Chicago, NBC Sports Washington.
| Country | Channel | Date and Time |
| United States | NBC Sports Chicago, NBC Sports Washington. | March 23 (7:00 PM ET) |
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