Pierre-Luc Dubois had surgery on Friday to address injuries to his abdominal and adductor muscles, the Caps announced this morning. He’s expected to miss three to four months.

Logan Thompson took responsibility for Tampa’s third goal. He said it looked like Hagel sort of fanned on it, so he made a mental mistake and got handcuffed on the shot. This was the first time this year he’s given up more than two goals.

John Carlson ties the game at 2-2. Slapshot from above the circle off the zone entry went under Vasilevskiy's arm, he thought he had it squeezed, and it dropped and trickled past the goal line. Hilarious goal but they all count the same

Logan Thompson just headed toward the bench with no weight on his left leg after getting bowled over inside his net. But everyone can stand down on their concern, it's just his skate blade. Getting it fixed now

Predictable storyline for the Caps, at this point. They were by far the better team at five-on-five in the first period, but gave up a goal on the penalty kill and couldn't score on the power play

2-1 Tampa. Hedman's point shot clips off the inside of Jake Guentzel's knee at the net front and goes in

1-1. Way too easy for Tampa on the rush against the Sourdif line, Lapierre loses a trailing Emil Lilleberg and he has a slam-dunk look from the low slot

1-0 Capitals. Ethen Frank makes a good play into the zone, finds Brandon Duhaime from behind the net and Florida Man Brandon Duhaime finds a tiny window over Vasilevskiy.

Lines for the Caps in Tampa, with Justin Sourdif at center and Ethen Frank back in: Beauvillier-Strome-Ovechkin Protas-McMichael-Wilson Lapierre-Sourdif-Leonard Duhaime-Dowd-Frank Fehervary-Carlson Chychrun-Roy Sandin-TvR

Now that he’s feeling much better, Ethen Frank agrees that his collision with Mikko Rantanen in Dallas — can’t even call it a hit from Rantanen, Frank just ran into him and went down — was funny. “I found out the hard way why they call him Moose,” Frank told me.

Spencer Carbery says Sonny Milano will come out of the lineup tonight for the Caps and that they’ll have some roster moves to make this afternoon. Appeared based on the skate that Ethen Frank will draw in; he needs to be activated from IR to play. Logan Thompson in net.

The jersey was for Malkin. Ovechkin and Malkin swapped jerseys after the game. So Crosby just came to say hi, it seems

Alex Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby just met up outside the visitor’s dressing room here in Pittsburgh. Exchanged a hug and looked like Ovechkin is giving a jersey to Crosby.

Bryan Rust puts Pittsburgh back on top with a power play goal. Special teams have been the Caps' undoing tonight

Charlie Lindgren has been slow to get up from the butterfly a few times tonight and just had a conversation with head trainer Jason Serbus before he left the ice

Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. Tom Wilson ties this game at 3 with 3.6 seconds left in the second period.

Or maybe not a momentum killer for the Caps. Rasmus Sandin gets his first goal in a long, long time and it's 3-2 again. This one will count

No goal. Play was offside. Back to 3-1, and a momentum killer for the Caps.

Pittsburgh is challenging for offside

My goodness. 3-2. Ryan Leonard off the backhand, a really slick passing sequence between him and Lapierre. The Caps are somehow in the fight in this one after a brutal first period

3-1. Dylan Strome with a ridiculous shot to give the Caps a moment of life

Old friend Anthony Mantha makes it 3-0, and then the Caps take yet another penalty. This is really ugly

2-0. Crosby again. Lindgren spills a Karlsson shot from his glove, Trevor van Riemsdyk can't get to it and Crosby bangs it in on the power play. The Caps have just three shots

Alex Ovechkin gets a standing ovation from the Penguins crowd as he’s honored at the first TV timeout for reaching 900 career goals last night. The respect they have for him here is really cool to see

Sidney Crosby, of course. 1-0 Penguins early after Connor McMichael went off for hooking just 1:05 into the game

Lines for the Caps in Pittsburgh: Beauvillier-Strome-Ovechkin Protas-McMichael-Wilson Milano-Lapierre-Leonard Duhaime-Dowd-Sourdif Fehervary-Carlson Chychrun-Roy Sandin-TvR Lindgren

PITTSBURGH —

After Alex Ovechkin’s latest milestone, Caps get right back to work

Charlie Lindgren in goal tonight for the Caps, as expected. Spencer Carbery said he expects the lineup to be status quo, but that they are "working through some things" so it's a touch up in the air.

Alex Ovechkin scores his 900th and the Capitals snap out of their funk (via @baileyannej.bsky.social)

Tom Wilson makes it 6-1. Two goals for him in front of Canada's management, too

Alexey Toropchenko scores shorthanded to break up Thompson's bid for a shutout.

I Love It is a great goal song but would be way better if they could play the explicit version in the arena

And another one for Anthony Beauvillier, against Joel Hofer who is in the game after Binnington got pulled. What a ridiculous shot. 5-0

4-0 Capitals. John Carlson with a beauty from the slot

Big, clean hit on Nic Dowd by Colton Parayko and then Brandon Duhaime drops the gloves with Brayden Schenn. Duhaime is a pretty good fighter, but that decision will not go in his favor

Now it's 3-0. Anthony Beauvillier with, frankly, a very similar look to Ovechkin's. Turning backhander off the right side of the ice into a wide open net

2-0 Capitals. There it is, goal No. 900 for Alex Ovechkin

It's a power play goal! For the Washington Capitals! What a world. Tom Wilson gets a tip on a point shot from John Carlson. 1-0 Caps

With Canadian Olympic hopefuls Logan Thompson and Jordan Binnington each starting tonight for their respective teams, Team Canada GM Don Sweeney is expected to be at Capital One Arena to watch.

Rasmus Sandin is back in the lineup for the Caps tonight after missing five games with an upper body injury. Logan Thompson starts in goal against the Blues

What's wrong with Alex Ovechkin? Let's talk about it — on TikTok tiktok.com/t/ZTMgkAWre/

Clarification from Spencer Carbery today that the Caps’ don’t expect Pierre-Luc Dubois’ lower body injury to be season-ending. No update yet if he’ll need surgery. Rasmus Sandin (upper body) is on track to play tomorrow against St. Louis

Alex Ovechkin has two goals in 12 games. The Caps are on their first four-game winless streak since the spring of 2024. On Ovechkin’s slow start, the Caps’ scuffling power play and the efforts to fix all of the above: www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

Pierre-Luc Dubois (lower body) is going to be out for an “extended period of time,” Spencer Carbery says. Dubois is still being evaluated, they’re not saying yet if he’ll need surgery. But will be out for a while.

Rasmus Sandin is on the ice for the Caps’ practice in a regular jersey. Ethen Frank is wearing the non-contact baby blue. No sign of Pierre-Luc Dubois (lower body)

"Let's go Blue Jays" chant here at the KeyBank Center in Buffalo

And they do give it to Milano. His first goal in more than 18 months (last time he scored was two goals against Tampa in April 2024)

Byram gets two for roughing and Leonard gets two for embellishment. Feels fair, Leonard definitely played it up a little, but he also definitely got hit in the face. Goal stands

3-3. Matt Roy ties it with less than a minute left in the second, perhaps with a tip from Milano (?), and then Hendrix Lapierre gets involved in a scrum after Byram takes down Leonard at the net front