Overview
- Puck drop is 7:30 p.m. ET at Capital One Arena with coverage on TNT, truTV, HBO Max and Monumental Sports Network.
- St. Louis arrives off a 3–2 win over Edmonton that ended a seven-game skid, highlighted by Robert Thomas’s return, Dalibor Dvorsky’s first NHL goal and Pius Suter’s late winner.
- Washington enters on a four-game losing streak after recent defeats to Ottawa, Dallas, the Islanders and a shootout loss to Buffalo.
- Alex Ovechkin has two goals through 12 games and remains at 899 career goals heading into the matchup.
- Projected starters are Logan Thompson for the Capitals and Jordan Binnington for the Blues, with special teams a key factor given Washington’s struggling penalty kill near 75% and St. Louis’s power play near 25%.