The Washington Capitals (36-28-9) conclude their final multi-game road trip of the 2025-26 season. They will visit the Vegas Golden Knights (32-26-15) at T-Mobile Arena on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
The puck drops at 10:30 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n
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The Capitals began the road trip with a 3-0 loss to St. Louis on Tuesday. They looked to be heading towards back-to-back setbacks when they trailed 3-1 to Utah on Thursday.<\/p>\n
However, the Capitals roared back with two goals from Alex Ovechkin in the second period, followed by four more in the third. Washington ended up leaving Utah with an impressive 7-4 victory.<\/p>\n
Ovechkin recorded his 34th career hat trick when he sealed the game with an empty-netter in the final minute. Ivan Miroshnichenko also scored twice for his first multi-goal game of his NHL career.<\/p>\n
Utah forward Brandon Tanev shoved Matt Roy head-first into the boards with an intent to injure. This led to Tom Wilson giving Tanev a piece of his mind. However, Wilson was given a double minor for roughing, while Tanev was given just a minor penalty for boarding.<\/p>\n
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Later in the game, Brandon Duhaime dropped the gloves with Tanev after Ovechkin\u2019s second goal tied the game at 3-3. Then, Wilson got involved in another fight as he and Lawson Crouse went at it.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Vegas currently sits in third place in the Pacific Division standings. However, the Golden Knights head into Saturday\u2019s game 1-4-1 in their last six games.<\/p>\n
The Capitals took the last meeting against Vegas with a 3-2 victory at home. Pierre-Luc Dubois finished with a pair of goals, while Logan Thompson recorded 24 saves against his former team.<\/p>\n
Expected Capitals Lines<\/p>\n
Forwards<\/p>\n
Aliaksei Protas \u2013 Dylan Strome \u2013 Alex Ovechkin<\/p>\n
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Connor McMichael \u2013 Pierre-Luc Dubois \u2013 Tom Wilson<\/p>\n
Anthony Beauvillier \u2013 Justin Sourdif \u2013 Ryan Leonard<\/p>\n
Brandon Duhaime \u2013 Hendrix Lapierre \u2013 Ivan Miroshnichenko<\/p>\n
Defensemen<\/p>\n
Jakob Chychrun \u2013 Trevor van Riemsdyk<\/p>\n
Martin Fehervary \u2013 Rasmus Sandin<\/p>\n
Cole Hutson \u2013 Matt Roy<\/p>\n
Goalies<\/p>\n
Logan Thompson<\/p>\n
Charlie Lindgren<\/p>\n
Expected Golden Knights Lines<\/p>\n
Forwards<\/p>\n
Ivan Barbashev \u2013 Jack Eichel \u2013 Mark Stone<\/p>\n
Mitch Marner \u2013 Tomas Hertl \u2013 Pavel Dorofeyev<\/p>\n
Reilly Smtih \u2013 Brett Howden \u2013 Colton Sissons<\/p>\n
Cole Smith \u2013 Nic Dowd \u2013 Keegan Kolesar<\/p>\n
Defensemen<\/p>\n
Brayden McNabb \u2013 Shea Theodore<\/p>\n
Noah Hanifin \u2013 Kaedan Korczak<\/p>\n
Jeremy Lauzon \u2013 Rasmus Andersson<\/p>\n
Goalies<\/p>\n
Adin Hill<\/p>\n
Akira Schmid<\/p>\n
How to Watch<\/p>\n
TV: Monumental Sports Network<\/p>\n
Radio: 106.7 The Fan\/Caps Radio Network<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Capitals (36-28-9) conclude their final multi-game road trip of the 2025-26 season. They will visit the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5129],"tags":[1042,2831,426,396,4806,1600,1826,1598,1741,908,9560,17763,7950,1601,282,149,5317,9904,5,1259,9905,1041,284,9247,15094,3701,3710,8423,907,1040,5926,7603,533,4,4864,2833,2880,4863,3327,4603,516,9,534,1560,280,1261,30241,74,39,5316,109],"class_list":["post-527687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vegas-golden-knights","tag-adin-hill","tag-akira-schmid","tag-alex-ovechkin","tag-aliaksei-protas","tag-anthony-beauvillier","tag-brandon-duhaime","tag-brandon-tanev","tag-brayden-mcnabb","tag-brett-howden","tag-charlie-lindgren","tag-cole-hutson","tag-cole-smith","tag-colton-sissons","tag-connor-mcmichael","tag-dylan-strome","tag-golden-knights","tag-goldenknights","tag-hendrix-lapierre","tag-hockey","tag-ivan-barbashev","tag-ivan-miroshnichenko","tag-jack-eichel","tag-jakob-chychrun","tag-jeremy-lauzon","tag-justin-sourdif","tag-kaedan-korczak","tag-keegan-kolesar","tag-lawson-crouse","tag-logan-thompson","tag-mark-stone","tag-martin-fehervary","tag-matt-roy","tag-mitch-marner","tag-nhl","tag-nic-dowd","tag-noah-hanifin","tag-pavel-dorofeyev","tag-pierre-luc-dubois","tag-rasmus-andersson","tag-rasmus-sandin","tag-ryan-leonard","tag-shea-theodore","tag-st-louis","tag-the-capitals","tag-tom-wilson","tag-tomas-hertl","tag-trevor-van-riemsdyk","tag-vegas","tag-vegas-golden-knights","tag-vegasgoldenknights","tag-washington-capitals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}