The Washington Capitals are finally back home after a putrid six-game road streak. Now they’ll play the Metropolitan Division-leading Carolina Hurricanes without many of their star players back at home.

The Capitals will be without Pierre-Luc Dubois, Connor McMichael, Matt Roy, Logan Thompson, and Charlie Lindgren due to injury. (Yes, both of their starting goaltenders. Martin Fehervary will also miss the game due to personal reasons.

The Capitals called up forward Bogdan Trineyev and Garin Bjorklund from AHL Hershey to give themselves some relief before puck drop.

Clay Stevenson will get the start and oppose Frederik Andersen in net.

Coming into the game, the Capitals are six points out of third place in the Metropolitan Division and eight points out of the second wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference.

Puck drop for today’s game is scheduled for a little after 5:00 pm. Today’s game is on Monumental Sports Network. Joe Beninati, TJ Oshie, and Craig Laughlin have the call.

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Washington Capitals

Ovechkin

Strome

Beauvillier

Carolina Hurricanes

Carrier

Jankowski

Kotkaniemi

Tunnel shenanigans

1st Period

Puck is dropped. Frank-Dowd-Leonard and Chisholm-McIlrath get the start.

Ethen Frank with a rush down the ice, but misses the top right corner. the puck bounces off the glass and out of play.

Hurricanes with a 4-on-2 break but Clay Stevenson makes a sturdy save off his right shoulder.

Hendrix Lapierre draws the first penalty of the game, a hooking penalty on Taylor Hall at 2:21. Capitals to the power play.

Huge Ovi one-timer turned away by Andersen.

Hurricanes kill the power play.

Capitals give up another bad odd-man break. Stevenson making multiple saves down low.

Capitals second line with some nice work in the offensive zone, getting a few shots on goal.

TJ Oshie struggling to say Aliaksei Protas’s name which is especially funny considering they were teammates.

— Ian Oland (@ianoland) January 31, 2026

Hurricanes are beginning to hem it in the zone.

Jankowski scores down low on a layup after Kotkaniemi flips the puck high into air to Carrier near the crease.

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1-0 Carolina Hurricanes

Goal: Mark Jankowski (5). Assists: W. Carrier (6), J. Kotkaniemi (7). Time: 13:27

Justin Sourdif with a waltz right down main street, and he wildly misses the net with his slot shot. That would have been a big goal.

Sourdif with consecutive turnovers.

Now John Carlson with a bad, bad, bad defensive zone turnover to Aho. That’s another goal.

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2-0 Carolina Hurricanes

Goal: Sebastian Aho (18). Unassisted. Time: 17:51

Sourdif in the corner gets hit, another turnover. Tough period for him.

At intermission: The Hurricanes lead 2-0. The Capitals are throwing a lot of rubber at the net — they lead in shots, 19 to 13 — but not scoring: their tale all season long.

Intermission time!
A cute little ice resurfacer going to side to side like Scooby Doo

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