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The Washington Capitals (38-28-9) take a quick trip up I-95 on Thursday night. They head to Newark to face the New Jersey Devils (38-34-2) at Prudential Center. <\/p>\n

The puck drops at 7:30 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n

The Capitals will play the first of seven games in the month of April. The team currently sits in 12th place in the East, but three points out of a playoff berth.<\/p>\n

The Capitals enter Thursday with a three-game winning streak, their third of such since late January. However, Washington will have to win out with seven games left if they want to reach the playoffs.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, the Capitals closed the month of March with a 6-4 victory over Philadelphia. Alex Ovechkin and Tom Wilson both reached milestones as they each recorded two goals.<\/p>\n

Ovechkin\u2019s first tally gave him his 20th 30-goal season of his career, as he now has 928 total. Meanwhile, Wilson was playing in his 900th NHL game as his two tallies made his night even more memorable.<\/p>\n

The Capitals also came through on the power play twice, thanks to Jakob Chychrun and Ryan Leonard. Pierre-Luc Dubois also finished the night with three assists, including two on the man advantage.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, New Jersey dropped its first two games after the Olympic break, but have since gone 10-5-0. The Devils are averaging 3.73 goals per game, the fourth-best rate in the NHL.<\/p>\n

New Jersey center Jack Hughes has been on a roll since winning the gold for Team USA in Milan. He has 27 points (10 goals, 17 assists) since the break, ranking him fourth in the NHL.<\/p>\n

Expected Capitals Lines<\/p>\n

Forwards<\/p>\n

Alex Ovechkin \u2013 Dylan Strome \u2013 Connor McMichael<\/p>\n

Hendrix Lapierre \u2013 Pierre-Luc Dubois \u2013 Tom Wilson<\/p>\n

Anthony Beauvillier \u2013 Justin Sourdif \u2013 Ryan Leonard<\/p>\n

Brandon Duhaime \u2013 David Kampf \u2013 Ivan Miroshnichenko<\/p>\n

Defensemen<\/p>\n

Martin Fehervary \u2013 Rasmus Sandin<\/p>\n

Jakob Chychrun \u2013 Trevor van Riemsdyk<\/p>\n

Cole Hutson \u2013 Matt Roy<\/p>\n

Goalies<\/p>\n

Logan Thompson<\/p>\n

Charlie Lindgren<\/p>\n

Expected Devils Lines<\/p>\n

Forwards<\/p>\n

Timo Meier \u2013 Nico Hischier \u2013 Dawson Mercer<\/p>\n

Jesper Bratt \u2013 Jack Hughes \u2013 Connor Brown<\/p>\n

Lenni Hameenaho \u2013 Cody Class \u2013 Nick Bjugstad <\/p>\n

Evgenii Dadonov \u2013 Paul Cotter \u2013 Maxim Tsyplakov<\/p>\n

Defensemen<\/p>\n

Jonas Siegenthaler \u2013 Dougie Hamilton<\/p>\n

Luke Hughes \u2013 Johnathan Kovacevic<\/p>\n

Brenden Dillon \u2013 Simon Nemec<\/p>\n

Goalies<\/p>\n

Jacob Markstrom <\/p>\n

Jake Allen<\/p>\n

How to Watch<\/p>\n

TV: ESPN+, Hulu<\/p>\n

Radio: 106.7 The Fan\/Caps Radio Network<\/p>\n

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\t\tHarry Lichtman is an award-winning journalist who covers the Washington Capitals for Sportsnaut. He also contributes to the sites … More about Harry Lichtman<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Capitals (38-28-9) take a quick trip up I-95 on Thursday night. They head to Newark to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5114],"tags":[191,5,4,190,109,5222],"class_list":{"0":"post-537312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-capitals","8":"tag-capitals","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-washington","12":"tag-washington-capitals","13":"tag-washingtoncapitals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116337299119021400","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537312","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=537312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}