Overview
- Puck drop is 7 p.m. ET at Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia in the clubs’ first matchup of the season.
- Washington enters at 28-22-7 with an 11-3-2 mark in Metropolitan Division play after a three-game surge.
- Philadelphia is 24-20-10 with a 5-5-4 divisional record and a minus-16 goal differential after a rough January.
- Sportsnaut reports Clay Stevenson is in line for a second straight start for Washington with Logan Thompson and Charlie Lindgren injured.
- Expected lines from Sportsnaut include Beauvillier–Strome–Ovechkin atop Washington’s forward group and Stevenson or Garin Bjorklund in goal, with Dan Vladar or Samuel Ersson listed for Philadelphia.