{"id":542343,"date":"2026-04-05T16:43:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T16:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/542343\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T16:43:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T16:43:06","slug":"lines-notes-how-to-watch-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/542343\/","title":{"rendered":"Lines, Notes, & How to Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Capitals (39-29-9) finish off their weekend set of back-to-backs. They will visit the New York Rangers (32-26-9) at Madison Square Garden on Easter Sunday.<\/p>\n

The puck drops at 7:00 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n

In addition to the game being shown on ESPN, you can also watch Capitals-Rangers on Disney Channel, Disney XD, and Disney+. There will be an alternate \u201cInside Out Classic\u201d animated telecast with characters from the Disney\/Pixar film Inside Out.<\/p>\n

The Capitals began the back-to-back on a high note, with a 6-2 home victory over Buffalo on Saturday. Washington opened the game with three goals against a Sabres team that already clinched their first playoff berth since 2011.<\/p>\n

The Capitals also got help from other teams to keep their playoff hopes alive with five games left. The team is now one point behind the second Wild Card spot in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n

The Capitals\u2019 three first-period goals ended Buffalo netminder Alex Lyon\u2019s night early. That\u2019s when Rasmus Dahlin and Beck Malenstyn cut the Sabres\u2019 deficit to 3-2.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, Aliaksei Protas, Ryan Leonard, and Tom Wilson added three more goals to seal it for the Capitals. Logan Thompson also made his 10th consecutive start, stopping 37 of 39 shots that went his way.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Rangers have underachieved this season under new head coach Mike Sullivan. While they enter Sunday\u2019s game in last place in the East, New York has gone 4-1-0 in their last five games.<\/p>\n

The last time the Capitals visited Madison Square Garden was back on Oct. 12, also the second half of a set of back-to-backs. Washington won 1-0 thanks to 35 saves from Charlie Lindgren and a second-period goal from Anthony Beauvillier.<\/p>\n

Expected Capitals Lines<\/p>\n

Forwards<\/p>\n

Aliaksei Protas \u2013 Dylan Strome \u2013 Alex Ovechkin<\/p>\n

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 Ethen Frank<\/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

Charlie Lindgren<\/p>\n

Logan Thompson<\/p>\n

Expected Rangers Lines<\/p>\n

Forwards<\/p>\n

Gabe Perreault \u2013 Mika Zibanejad \u2013 Alexis Lafreniere <\/p>\n

Tye Kartye \u2013 J.T. Miller \u2013 Conor Sheary <\/p>\n

Will Cuylle \u2013 Vincent Trocheck \u2013 Jonny Brodzinski<\/p>\n

Adam Sykora \u2013 Noah Laba \u2013 Jaroslav Chmelar<\/p>\n

Defensemen<\/p>\n

Vladislav Gavrikov \u2013 Adam Fox<\/p>\n

Drew Fortescue \u2013 Braden Schneider<\/p>\n

Matthew Robertson \u2013 Will Borgen<\/p>\n

Goalies<\/p>\n

Igor Shesterkin<\/p>\n

Jonathan Quick<\/p>\n

How to Watch<\/p>\n

TV: ESPN, Disney Channel, Disney XD, Disney+<\/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 (39-29-9) finish off their weekend set of back-to-backs. They will visit the New York Rangers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542344,"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-542343","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\/116353107541890523","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542343","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=542343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}