Sabres at Capitals

SABRES (5-4-2) AT CAPITALS (5-2-4)

Sabres projected lineup
Jeff Skinner -- Tage Thompson -- Rasmus Asplund
Drake Caggiula -- Dylan Cozens -- Vinnie Hinostroza
Zemgus Girgensons -- Cody Eakin -- Kyle Okposo
Anders Bjork -- Arttu Ruotsalainen -- John Hayden
Rasmus Dahlin -- Will Butcher
Jacob Bryson -- Colin Miller
Robert Hagg -- Mark Pysyk
Dustin Tokarski
Aaron Dell
Scratched: Christian Wolanin
Injured: Craig Anderson (upper body), Victor Olofsson (undisclosed), Alex Tuch (shoulder), Casey Mittelstadt (upper body), Henri Jokiharju (lower body)
Capitals projected lineup
Alex Ovechkin -- Evgeny Kuznetsov -- Tom Wilson
Conor Sheary -- Lars Eller -- Daniel Sprong
Carl Hagelin -- Nic Dowd -- Garnet Hathaway
Axel Jonsson-Fjallby
-- Connor McMichael -- Brett Leason
Martin Fehervary -- John Carlson
Dmitry Orlov -- Nick Jensen
Trevor van Riemsdyk -- Justin Schultz
Vitek Vanecek
Ilya Samsonov
Scratched: Dennis Cholowski, Matt Irwin, Hendrix Lapierre
Injured: Nicklas Backstrom (hip), T.J. Oshie (lower body), Anthony Mantha (upper body)
Status report
The Sabres held an optional morning skate. Coach Don Granato did not name a starting goalie. Anderson, a goalie, and Olofsson, a forward, remain day to day and did not travel to Washington. … Jonsson-Fjallby, who was recalled from Hershey of the American Hockey League on Sunday, will make his NHL debut. He becomes the fourth Capitals rookie to make his NHL debut this season after forwards Lapierre, Leason and
Aliaksei Protas
.