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Ryan Leonard and Charlie Lindgren both have upper body injuries and both are "going to be out," Spencer Carbery said after the game here in Anaheim

Justin Sourdif was in pain after an awkward collision on the boards and couldn't get his leg up to slide over the bench on his way off the ice. Dove headfirst and had to get hauled over by Nic Dowd. Rough night for the Caps' forwards physically

Ryan Leonard is out for the rest of tonight's game with an upper body injury

Beckett Sennecke with two points tonight (1G, 1A) and the 19-year-old leads all rookies with 22 points (8G, 14 assists) for the season.

Tom Wilson has 6 goals in his past 7 games and leads the Capitals with 17 for the season.

The Capitals score first for the League-leading 21st time in 29 games this season, including 10th time in last 11 games. 15-4-1 in first 20 times scoring first this season.

Justin Sourdif took line rushes and there's no extra forward on the ice for warmups, so it appears that he will play tonight in Anaheim

Capitals announce that Charlie Lindgren won't dress tonight in Anaheim because of an upper-body injury. Parker Milner was signed as a PTO to back up Logan Thompson tonight. Milner was on the trip as a practice goalie.

About 6 months before the Devils drafted Scott Gomez he attended a Devils game with the U.S. World Jr. team and was invited into GM Lou Lamoriello's office. On a dare, he added his name to a list of their top prospects on the wall. That and more Gomez stories in here:

Scott Gomez was inspired, like many of his generation, by the 1996 U.S. World Cup team and later got to play alongside many of those players at 2004 World Cup. He'll join them in the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame when he's inducted next week.

Scott Gomez’s skill, swagger leads to U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame induction. www.nhl.com/news/scott-g...

Most goals in 2025 calendar year: Two Bruins, two guys in their 21st NHL seasons and a guy who should make the U.S. Olympic team.

The Capitals have played more games than everyone near them, including three more than the Hurricanes, but now have the most points in the Eastern Conference:

Capitals win their sixth in a row, and ninth in 10 games.

Ryan Leonard (2G, 2A) became the first Capitals rookie to record a four-point game since Nicklas Backstrom on March 3, 2008. #NHLStats

Charlie Lindgren with his second career assist on Ryan Leonard's second goal of the game.

Matt Roy with three primary assists tonight for the Capitals.

Fourth point of the game for Ryan Leonard (2G, 2A). vs. his good friend Will Smith's team. I'm sure that will come up at some point.

Per #NHLStats, this is the 13th game in which Alex Ovechkin has scored against two different goalies. That's tied for third most in NHL history. 1. Mario Lemieux 21 2. Brett Hull 16 3. (ties) Alex Ovechkin 13 Wayne Gretzky 13 Joe Nieuwendyk 13 Pat Lafontaine 13 Phil Esposito 13

This is Alex Ovechkin's 181st multi-goal game. Only Wayne Gretzky had more with 189. Brett Hull is third with 158.

This is the play in the second period last night when Justin Sourdif appeared to be injured.

Capitals score first for the League-leading 20th time in 28 games this season. They were 14-4-1 in first 19.

So, John Carlson (upper body) and Justin Sourdif (lower body) out tonight for Capitals tonight in San Jose, per Capitals.

Lines for the Caps in warmups here in San Jose: Beauvillier-Strome-Ovechkin Protas-McMichael-Wilson Leonard-Dowd-Frank Duhaime-Lapierre-Milano Fehervary-Carlson Chychrun-Roy Sandin-TvR Sourdif being out (I've asked for an update) shuffles the forward lines. Lindgren in goal

Sourdif was limping after getting tangled up in the second period yesterday and missed some shifts late in second and early in third, but was able to finish the game.

“Have your pen ready in warmups,” Spencer Carbery says of the Caps’ lineup tonight in San Jose. Sounds like there will be several changes but no indication on any details.

Capitals activated Nic Dowd (upper body) from IR and reassigned Bogdan Trineyev to Hershey (AHL). Capitals at Sharks tonight

Justin Sourdif was 12-5 (71%) on draws tonight, including 6-2 vs. Anze Kopitar. He was 7-1 on D-zone face-offs.

Alex Ovechkin leading way has Capitals line up to shake Anze Kopitar's hand after their final regular season game against him. Did similar last season in Minnesota with Marc-Andre Fleury.

That second assist of the night was Alex Ovechkin's 800th road point (463 goals, 337 assists) in 760 games.

Alex Ovechkin has points in five straight games (2G, 4A)

Tom Wilson up to 16 goals on the season. He's scored 6 of the Capitals' 13 goals on the PP this season.

Johnston, Hagel and Wilson named NHL 3 Stars of the Week: www.nhl.com/news/topic/3...

Three-point game for Tom Wilson (2G, 1A) Two for Alex Ovechkin (1G, 1A) 30 saves for Logan Thompson. Capitals have won 4 in a row and 7 of 8.

Wilson now has 14 career goals against the Islanders (in 53 games), tying for his most against any opponent with the Penguins (14 in 47 games) #NHLStats

At the moment, there are four players in the NHL who have scored more goals this season than Tom Wilson's 15: Nate MacKinnon 20 Morgan Geekie 20 Kirill Kaprizov 17 Sidney Crosby 16

Islanders announce Kyle Palmieri will have surgery to repair an ACL tear in his left knee. He is out 6-8 months. Big blow for them and bad break for Kyle. Feel bad for him.

The Metro Division is tight from top to bottom. Six of the eight teams won today and the other two each got a point. NJD 33 pts (W) CAR 32 pts (W) WSH 30 pts (W) PIT 29 pts (W) PHI 29 pts (W) NYI 29 pts (SOL) NYR 28 pts (W) CBJ 27 (OTL)

After the Capitals were so good at comebacks last season, today was their first win after trailing through two periods this season (1-6-1).

Capitals score four straight to defeat Leafs 4-2 They've won 6 of 7.

Wilson hits empty net from long range with 1.3 left to make it 4-2. Nuggets.

Big glove save by Thompson on Knies from slot with 32.6 left.

Woll off for extra attacker with 1:38 left. Capitals ice puck. Faceoff coming up in their end with 1:29 left. Leaf call timeout.

Chychrun extends point streak to 10 games (7G, 6A) to tie the club record for longest point streak by a defenseman: 10 by Al Iafrate (1992-93) and Robert Picard (1978-79).

Chychrun one-timer gives Caps 3-2 lead with 3:56 left.

Ovechkin sets up Beauvillier for tap-in for the tying goal in front with 6:44 left. 2-2

Frank has been with McMichael and Leonard last few times through.

Good blocker sae by Woll on Ovechkin off slap shot on right circle face-off play.

Ovechkin giveaway inside Leafs blue line to Tavares, but Thompson bails him out with glove save on Tavares on resulting breakaway. Ovechkin skates back to Thompson to thank (or apologize to?) him