The Washington Capitals take on the Calgary Flames tonight. For more information on how to watch click here. Read on to learn more about the current state of the Caps depth chart.
For the first part of this exercise lets break down how the Caps lined up in the win over the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday.
Ovechkin-McMichael-Oshie
Miroshnichenko-Strome-Wilson
Pacioretty-Lapierre-Milano
Malenstyn-Dowd-Protas
Fehervary-Carlson
Sandin-Jensen
Alexeyev-TvR
Starting goalie: Charlie Lindgren
Backup goalie: Darcy Kuemper
Healthy scratches: NAK, Bear, Sgarbossa
The Caps will have an optional morning skate at raround 12:30 on the east coast and 10:30 a.m. over there on mountain time. It's a 6:30 start over there and an 8:30 start if you live in the DMV which isn't as bad as the 10:00 games.
Here is the Caps non roster players in the prospect system per Cap Friendly:
Forwards: Andrew Cristall, Pierrick Dube, Henry Rybinski, Bogdan Trineyev, Ryan Hofer, Ludwig Persson, Alexander Suzdalev, Joe Snively, Ethen Frank, Riley Sutter, Alex Limoges, Matthew Phillips, Zac Funk
Defense: Hardy Haman Aktell, Vincent Iorio, Dylan McIlrath, Chase Priskie, Lucas Johansen
Goalies: Mitchell Gibson, Clay Stevenson, Garin Bjorklund, Hunter Shepard
Now lets look at the roster of the South Carolina Stingrays, Washington's ECHL affiliate:
Forwards: Jack Adams, Ethan Strang, Austin Magera, Jonny Evans, Kameron Kielly, Ryan Leibold, Jackson Leppard, Kevin O'Neil, Tyson Empey, Jacob Hudson, Ian Mackey, Garet Hunt, Ivan Lodnia, Marko Reifenberger
Defense: Nick Leivermann, Benton Maass, Joshn Thrower, Bryce Montgomery, Michael Kim, Jon McDonald, Colin Swoyer, Spencer Meier, Connor Moore
Goalies: Reid Cooper, Garin Bjorklund, Mitchell Gibson
Yesterday's Caps practice was an optional but these are some other prospect names: Ryan Leonard and Ryan Chesley who are both in college but want to make that jump someday to the NHL. Leonard as we all know has tore it up with Boston College. Chesley suits up for the University of Minnesota.