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The Capitals returned to Kettler Capitals Iceplex Monday morning for their game day skate prior to Game 6 tonight. Puck drop is just after 8:00 pm.
Head coach Barry Trotz has once again made a few tweaks to the starting lineup and subsequent forward lines. Most notable, he has reinstated Andre Burakovsky, who was benched for Game 5. Burakovsky is now on the third line with Brett Connolly and centered by Lars Eller. The top line remains unchanged. Jakub Vrana moves up from the third line to the second line while Chandler Stephenson moves down to the fourth line.
Caps this morning:
Ovechkin-Kuznetsov-Wilson
Vrana-Backstrom-Oshie
Burakovsky-Eller-Connolly
Stephenson-Beagle-DSPOrlov-Niskanen
Kempny-Carlson
Orpik-DjoosHoltby
Grubauer— Tom Gulitti (@TomGulittiNHL) May 21, 2018
Alex Chiasson, who was Burakovsky’s replacement in Game 5, looks to be the healthy scratch for Burakovsky’s Return. The defensive pairs remain the same for Game 6.
Burakovsky led the team in final stretches this morning at the end of practice.
Burakovsky, who’s back in the lineup after sitting out Game 5 as a healthy scratch, is leading the team stretch. #ALLCAPS pic.twitter.com/a3FXHsbqfu
— Tarik El-Bashir⌨🎙🏒 (@TarikNBCS) May 21, 2018
Game 6 is set for 8:00 pm tonight. You can read our game preview right here.
“Right now, for me to help the team…is to just simply my game.” — Andre Burakovsky on returning to the lineup tonight after being scratched Saturday. #Caps #ALLCAPS pic.twitter.com/v1hvjxmcBB
— Tarik El-Bashir⌨🎙🏒 (@TarikNBCS) May 21, 2018
Caps head coach Barry Trotz left an odd little nugget for the media at the end of practice.
More Trotz: “What you saw today (lines at morning skate) probably won’t stay that way…” Interesting.
— Brian McNally (@bmcnally14) May 21, 2018
The things Trotz says and the things he does don’t always rhyme…I often get the impression that he’d rather walk through fire drenched in gas than hold a press conference to discuss his stratagems…then again, that’s probably just as true of any other coach in any other sport as well…
Go Caps!
Cliff
Hang in there Cliff! #RockTheRed
I think we’ll take this one tonight…
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