After getting into the second half of Wednesday’s 6-0 win over the Chicago Blackhawks in his preseason debut, Washington Capitals goaltender Braden Holtby will play the full 60-minutes at the St. Louis Blues tonight (8 PM ET, can be seen on NBC Sports Washington). On the other side, goaltender Ville Husso will do the same for his team. More news from St. Louis can be found below as the Capitals look to improve to 5-0-0 in the preseason.

The Capitals brought all 34 remaining players on the training camp roster on the road trip to Chicago and St. Louis. The following are the Capitals lines for tonight’s tilt:

Capitals’ Lines at Blues

Capitals lines tonight vs Blues

Hagelin-Eller-Stephenson
Malenstyn-Dowd-Leipsic
Gersich-Kuznetsov-Boyd
O’Brien-Sgarbossa-Pinho

Orlov-Jensen
Djoos-Gudas
Fehervary-Lewington

Holtby and Vanecek listed as the goalies.

— Samantha Pell (@SamanthaJPell) September 27, 2019

Remaining Battles
Defensemen Martin Fehervary and Tyler Lewington are expected to play against the Blues, and they’re the only two defensemen from Wednesday’s game who are slated to be in Friday night’s lineup as well. Up front, Brendan Leipsic, Liam O’Brien and Chandler Stephenson played in Chicago and they are also scheduled to suit up in St. Louis.

The Capitals game notes for Friday night’s tilt game be found here.

Blues’ Lines vs. Capitals
Blues defenseman Justin Faulk will make his team debut on Friday night after St. Louis acquired him along with a fifth-round pick in the 2021 NHL Draft from the Carolina Hurricanes in exchange for defenseman Joel Edmundson, forward prospect Dominik Bokk, and a seventh-round pick in the 2021 NHL Draft on September 24.

#stlblues game lines for tonight:

Schwartz-Schenn-Tarasenko
Barbashev-Bozak-Steen
Sanford-Walker-Nolan
MacEachern-Olsen-Poganski

Faulk-Pietrangelo
Bouwmeester-Reinke
Mikkola-Borgman

Husso
Wilcox

— Lou Korac (@lkorac10) September 27, 2019

Forward Nathan Walker, who was placed on waivers by the Blues earlier this week and signed a two-year, two-way contract with the team as an unrestricted free agent on July 1, will face his former team for the first time on Friday night.

NEXT ROSTER CUTS
According to Mike Vogel, The Capitals will likely make their next, and possibly final round of roster cuts when they return from the road trip on Saturday, and before the team departs for their matinee game with the Hurricanes in Raleigh Sunday afternoon.

The current training camp roster:

NHL News Bites

• The Winnipeg Jets signed RFA F Patrik Laine to a two-year contract that carries a cap hit of $6.75 million.
• Tampa Bay Lightning F Cedric Paquette was fined $2.5K by the NHL Department of Player Safety for high-sticking Florida Panthers F Frank Vatrano.
• The Capitals final training camp practice at MedStar Capitals Iceplex is set for Saturday.

Capitals Today

Braden Holtby will go the distance tonight in his first start of the 2019 Preseason

He caught up with @VogsCaps before #CapsBlues in St. Louis#ALLCAPS pic.twitter.com/5cMnTv6HCj

— Washington Capitals (@Capitals) September 27, 2019

By Harrison Brown