Rangers at Capitals

RANGERS (5-7-3) at CAPITALS (8-4-3)

Rangers projected lineup
Chris Kreider -- Mika Zibanejad -- Pavel Buchnevich
Artemi Panarin -- Ryan Strome -- Julien Gauthier
Alexis Lafreniere
-- Kevin Rooney -- Colin Blackwell
Brendan Lemieux -- Brett Howden -- Phillip Di Giuseppe
Ryan Lindgren -- Adam Fox
K'Andre Miller -- Brendan Smith
Libor Hajek
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Anthony Bitetto
Igor Shesterkin
Alexandar Georgiev
Injured: Jack Johnson (lower body), Jacob Trouba (broken thumb)
COVID-19 protocol: Filip Chytil, Kaapo Kakko
Capitals projected lineup
Alex Ovechkin -- Evgeny Kuznetsov -- T.J. Oshie
Jakub Vrana -- Nicklas Backstrom -- Tom Wilson
Conor Sheary -- Lars Eller -- Richard Panik
Carl Hagelin -- Nic Dowd -- Garnet Hathaway
Brenden Dillon -- John Carlson
Zdeno Chara -- Justin Schultz
Dmitry Orlov -- Nick Jensen
Vitek Vanecek
Craig Anderson
Scratched:Daniel Sprong, Jonas Siegenthaler, Trevor van Riemsdyk
Injured:Brian Pinho (undisclosed)
Status report
The Rangers did not practice Friday. … Kakko entered COVID-19 protocol Saturday and will not play, MSG Network reported. ... Miller, who has missed the past two games because of an upper-body injury, will be a game-time decision. … Anderson was recalled from the taxi squad and will back up Vanecek. ... Goalie Ilya Samsonov was recalled from Hershey of the American Hockey League and assigned to the taxi squad.