Capitals at Blue Jackets preview

CAPITALS (16-9-3) at BLUE JACKETS (16-10-2)
7 p.m. ET; FS-O, NBCSWA, NHL.TV

The Capitals lead the Blue Jackets by one point, 35-34.
The forward can tie Ryan Johansen's Blue Jackets record. Johansen's streak was from Dec. 18, 2014 to Jan. 17, 2015.
Atkinson has 20 points (13 goals, seven assists) during his streak, which began Nov. 10, one day after he missed the Blue Jackets' 2-1 win at Washington because of illness.
Capitals forward Alex Ovechkin has nine goals and five assists during a 10-game point streak. It's his first point streak of at least 10 games since Jan. 27-Feb. 18, 2009.
Ovechkin needs one power-play goal to pass to Mario Lemieux and tie Brendan Shanahan (237) for sixth place on the NHL all-time list.

Players to watch

Capitals forward Nicklas Backstrom has nine points (four goals, five assists) in his past five games.
Blue Jackets defenseman Seth Jones has seven points (three goals, four assists) in a five-game point streak.

They said it

"It's very similar to how we've felt against teams that knocked us out in the past. I think they have a little bit of that burning inside of them." -- Capitals coach Todd Reirden on their first game in Columbus since clinching the 2018 Stanley Cup Playoffs Eastern Conference First Round in Game 6 on April 23.
"We're one and two, It's a division game against a very good team. It's going to be a challenge to get two points."-- Blue Jackets forward Boone Jenner

Capitals projected lineup

Alex Ovechkin -- Nicklas Backstrom -- Andre Burakovsky
Jakub Vrana -- Evgeny Kuznetsov -- Brett Connolly
Chandler Stephenson -- Lars Eller -- Devante Smith-Pelly
Dmitrij Jaskin -- Nic Dowd -- Travis Boyd
Michal Kempny -- John Carlson
Dmitry Orlov -- Matt Niskanen
Jonas Siegenthaler -- Madison Bowey
Braden Holtby
Pheonix Copley
Scratched: Christian Djoos, Riley Barber
Injured: T.J. Oshie (concussion), Brooks Orpik (lower body), Tom Wilson (upper body)

Blue Jackets projected lineup

Artemi Panarin -- Pierre-Luc Dubois -- Cam Atkinson
Nick Foligno -- Boone Jenner -- Josh Anderson
Brandon Dubinsky -- Alex Wennberg -- Anthony Duclair
Oliver Bjorkstrand -- Riley Nash -- Markus Hannikainen
Ryan Murray -- Seth Jones
Markus Nutivaara -- David Savard
Zach Werenski -- Scott Harrington
Sergei Bobrovsky
Joonas Korpisalo
Scratched: Lukas Sedlak
Injured: None

Status report

Wilson will miss a second straight game. … Bowey goes in for Djoos. … Werenski was dropped from playing with Jones. … Duclair, scratched the past four games, replaces Sedlak and goes to the third line, with Bjorkstrand moving to the fourth.

Stat pack

Kuznetsov has five points (one goal, four assists) in his past four games. … Panarin has 13 points (two goals, 11 assists) in his past nine games.