Purchase tickets via Ticketmaster<\/a><\/p>\nSeattle Kraken News & Notes<\/p>\n
The Kraken visit the Washington Capitals on Sunday with their forward group thinned. Seattle announced that forward Jacob Melanson has been diagnosed with a vascular aneurysm and is out indefinitely. Defenseman Ryan Lindgren, meanwhile, is expected to miss four to six weeks, according to the league\u2019s status report issued earlier in the week. Lindgren had already drawn attention early in the season, taking a five-minute fighting major against Edmonton\u2019s Trent Frederic in the opening period of the Kraken\u2019s game in Alberta. <\/p>\n
Seattle dropped a 3-1 decision at Edmonton on Oct. 3, outshot 25-20 and credited with 13 hits to the Oilers\u2019 31. Bobby McMann scored the lone goal on the power play in the second period, assisted by Jordan Eberle and Chandler Stephenson, and Philipp Grubauer stopped 22 of 24. The Kraken blocked 18 shots. <\/p>\n
Washington Capitals News & Notes<\/p>\n
Alex Ovechkin told his teammates last week that his 22nd NHL season will be his last, a decision he confirmed publicly days later. The announcement added weight to Washington\u2019s home opener, which the Capitals won over the Pittsburgh Penguins on October 7. Tom Wilson recorded three points in that game, the last home opener of Ovechkin\u2019s career. The captain\u2019s farewell season follows an offseason in which the Capitals acquired Alex Tuch from Buffalo in a sign-and-trade and signed him to an eight-year extension.<\/p>\n
Defenseman Matt Roy left the October 3 game against Tampa Bay with a lower-body injury and was ruled out Friday, while Ryan Leonard has been moved to a checking line. <\/p>\n
Seattle Kraken Projected Lines<\/p>\n
Line 1: Jared McCann \u2013 Matty Beniers \u2013 Mackie Samoskevich<\/p>\n
Line 2: Bobby McMann \u2013 Chandler Stephenson \u2013 Jordan Eberle<\/p>\n
Line 3: Kaapo Kakko \u2013 Berkly Catton \u2013 Shane Wright<\/p>\n
Line 4: Ben Meyers \u2013 Frederick Gaudreau \u2013 Ryan Winterton<\/p>\n
Pair 1: Vince Dunn \u2013 Adam Larsson<\/p>\n
Pair 2: Ryker Evans \u2013 Brandon Montour<\/p>\n
Pair 3: Joshua Mahura \u2013 Ville Ottavainen<\/p>\n
Goaltenders: Philipp Grubauer \u2013 Joey Daccord<\/p>\n
Seattle Kraken Special Teams<\/p>\n
Power play, First unit: Kaapo Kakko \u2013 Shane Wright \u2013 Berkly Catton \u2013 Matty Beniers \u2013 Brandon Montour<\/p>\n
Power play, Second unit: Jordan Eberle \u2013 Bobby McMann \u2013 Jared McCann \u2013 Chandler Stephenson \u2013 Vince Dunn<\/p>\n
Penalty kill, First unit: Frederick Gaudreau \u2013 Ryan Winterton \u2013 Ryker Evans \u2013 Adam Larsson<\/p>\n
Penalty kill, Second unit: Chandler Stephenson \u2013 Matty Beniers \u2013 Vince Dunn \u2013 Brandon Montour<\/p>\n
Washington Capitals Projected Lines<\/p>\n
Line 1: Alex Tuch \u2013 Pierre-Luc Dubois \u2013 Tom Wilson<\/p>\n
Line 2: Alex Ovechkin \u2013 Dylan Strome \u2013 Anthony Beauvillier<\/p>\n
Line 3: Aliaksei Protas \u2013 Ilya Protas \u2013 Jordan Kyrou<\/p>\n
Line 4: Boone Jenner \u2013 Justin Sourdif \u2013 Ryan Leonard<\/p>\n
Pair 1: Jakob Chychrun \u2013 Timothy Liljegren<\/p>\n
Pair 2: Martin Fehervary \u2013 Vincent Desharnais<\/p>\n
Pair 3: Cole Hutson \u2013 Dylan McIlrath<\/p>\n
Goaltenders: Logan Thompson \u2013 Charlie Lindgren<\/p>\n
Washington Capitals Special Teams<\/p>\n
Power play, First unit: Tom Wilson \u2013 Dylan Strome \u2013 Pierre-Luc Dubois \u2013 Alex Ovechkin \u2013 Jakob Chychrun<\/p>\n
Power play, Second unit: Alex Tuch \u2013 Ilya Protas \u2013 Ryan Leonard \u2013 Cole Hutson \u2013 Jordan Kyrou<\/p>\n
Penalty kill, First unit: Aliaksei Protas \u2013 Tom Wilson \u2013 Martin Fehervary \u2013 Vincent Desharnais<\/p>\n
Penalty kill, Second unit: Boone Jenner \u2013 Alex Tuch \u2013 Jakob Chychrun \u2013 Timothy Liljegren<\/p>\n
Players To Watch<\/p>\n
Ben Meyers \u2014 Seattle Kraken<\/p>\n
Meyers put up a goal and two assists last time out on three shots, and he did it in just 13:37 of ice time. That is production squeezed out of fourth-line minutes, so if the Kraken reward him with a longer leash tonight, he is a cheap fantasy add and a live option in the anytime-scorer market.<\/p>\n
Alex Tuch \u2014 Washington Capitals<\/p>\n
Box Score Junkie has Tuch at 62.8 shot attempts for per 60 through the 2026-27 season to date, by far the busiest rate among Washington\u2019s tracked skaters, and he has three goals on 1.9 expected, a plus-1.1 finishing edge. The volume alone makes him the sensible shots-on-goal prop here.<\/p>\n
Injury Report<\/p>\n
Seattle Kraken<\/p>\n
Jacob Melanson (RW) \u2014 Injured Reserve, Chest, expected back Tuesday, December 1<\/p>\n
Ryan Lindgren (D) \u2014 Injured Reserve, Upper Body, expected back Thursday, November 19<\/p>\n
Jake O\u2019Brien (C) \u2014 Injured Reserve, Lower Body, expected back Saturday, October 24<\/p>\n
Washington Capitals<\/p>\n
Pierre-Luc Dubois (LW) \u2014 Day-To-Day, Illness, expected back Sunday, October 11<\/p>\n
Matt Roy (D) \u2014 Day-To-Day, Lower Body, expected back Sunday, October 11<\/p>\n
Patrick Thomas (C) \u2014 Injured Reserve, Upper Body, expected back Saturday, October 24<\/p>\n
Rasmus Sandin (D) \u2014 Injured Reserve, Knee, expected back Saturday, December 26<\/p>\n
Next Up<\/p>\n
Seattle Kraken: visit the Philadelphia Flyers on Tuesday, October 13.<\/p>\n
Washington Capitals: visit the Carolina Hurricanes on Tuesday, October 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seattle Kraken visit the Washington Capitals at Capital One Arena on Sunday, October 11, 2026, with puck…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[73000,426,6452,10934,3819,5805,4461,5,5236,43661,6208,4188,3714,7603,4,5573,6764,516,3191,2686,234,5318,280,109],"class_list":["post-684171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-seattle-kraken","tag-2026-27-nhl-regular-season","tag-alex-ovechkin","tag-alex-tuch","tag-ben-meyers","tag-bobby-mcmann","tag-capital-one-arena","tag-chandler-stephenson","tag-hockey","tag-injury-report","tag-jacob-melanson","tag-jordan-eberle","tag-kraken","tag-line-combinations","tag-matt-roy","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-game-preview","tag-philipp-grubauer","tag-ryan-leonard","tag-ryan-lindgren","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-kraken","tag-seattlekraken","tag-tom-wilson","tag-washington-capitals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117422134702281170","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684171","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=684171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}