Flyers at Capitals

FLYERS (7-8-4) AT CAPITALS (7-10-3)

Flyers projected lineup
Joel Farabee -- Morgan Frost -- Owen Tippett
Kevin Hayes -- Noah Cates -- Zack MacEwen
Jackson Cates -- Patrick Brown -- Tanner Laczynski
Nicolas Deslauriers -- Lukas Sedlak -- Kieffer Bellows
Ivan Provorov -- Tony DeAngelo
Travis Sanheim -- Justin Braun
Nick Seeler -- Rasmus Ristolainen
Felix Sandstrom
Carter Hart
Scratched: Max Willman
Injured:Sean Couturier (back), Cam Atkinson (upper body), James van Riemsdyk (finger), Wade Allison (hip/oblique), Travis Konecny (upper body), Scott Laughton (upper body)
Capitals projected lineup
Alex Ovechkin -- Dylan Strome -- Conor Sheary
Sonny Milano -- Evgeny Kuznetsov -- T.J. Oshie
Marcus Johansson -- Lars Eller -- Anthony Mantha
Aliaksei Protas -- Nic Dowd -- Garnet Hathaway
Erik Gustafsson -- John Carlson
Martin Fehervary -- Nick Jensen
Matt Irwin -- Trevor van Riemsdyk
Darcy Kuemper
Charlie Lindgren
Scratched:Joe Snively, Alexander Alexeyev, Nicolas Aube-Kubel
Injured:Nicklas Backstrom (hip surgery), Connor Brown (torn ACL), Carl Hagelin (hip surgery), Tom Wilson (torn ACL), Beck Malenstyn (upper body), Dmitry Orlov (lower body)
Status report
The Flyers did not hold a morning skate. … Laughton was placed on injured reserve Tuesday and the forward is expected to be out two weeks. He was injured during the third period of a 5-4 shootout loss to the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday. ... Konecny will miss his third straight game. The forward is expected to be out another 10-14 days. ... Jackson Cates was recalled from Lehigh Valley of the American Hockey League on Tuesday. He'll play his first NHL game since Oct. 19. … Oshie took part in the morning skate and could play after missing the past 11 games because of a lower-body injury. … Orlov skated on a fourth pair during the morning skate and the defenseman is expected to miss his eighth straight game.