Tuesday Quick Hits...

Caps pre-season continues at Verizon tonight against the Bruins ... could be an interesting game...

As of right now it looks like the lineup will be
Forwards
Ovechkin-Perreault-Knuble
Laich-Johansson-Semin
Chimera-Eakin- Bradley
King-Steckel-B. Gordon

Defense
Alzner, Carlson, Green, Nycholat, Poti, Sloan

Goal
Varlamov
Sabourin.





So from what I could determine even after yesterday's assignments of Francois Bouchard, Sean Collins, Grant McNeill, and Zach Miskovic to Hershey,and the waiving of Brian Willsie and Kyle Greentree presumably so they can be sent to Hershey, the Caps Roster still has 34 players on it as of this AM:

No. Name Pos Ht Wt Born
27 Karl Alzner D 6-2 209 9/24/1988
20 Keith Aucoin C 5-9 187 11/6/1978
19 Nicklas Backstrom C 6-1 210 11/23/1987
83 Jay Beagle C 6-1 208 10/16/1985
10 Matt Bradley RW 6-3 201 6/13/1978
74 John Carlson D 6-2 218 1/10/1990
25 Jason Chimera LW 6-2 216 5/2/1979
50 Cody Eakin C 5-11 187 5/24/1991
4 John Erskine D 6-4 216 6/26/1980
44 Brian Fahey D 6-1 213 3/2/1981
16 Eric Fehr RW 6-4 212 9/7/1985
14 Tomas Fleischmann LW 6-1 190 5/16/1984
63 Andrew Gordon RW 6-0 195 12/13/1985
15 Boyd Gordon C 6-0 201 10/19/1983
52 Mike Green D 6-2 208 10/12/1985
26 Matt Hendricks C 6-0 215 6/17/1981
90 Marcus Johansson C 5-11 189 10/6/1990
61 Andrew Joudrey C 5-11 191 7/15/1984
17 D.J. King LW 6-2 228 6/27/1984
22 Mike Knuble RW 6-3 230 7/4/1972
21 Brooks Laich LW 6-2 210 6/23/1983
46 Patrick McNeill D 6-0 195 3/17/1987
30 Michal Neuvirth G 6-1 197 3/23/1988
23 Lawrence Nycholat D 6-0 197 5/7/1979
8 Alex Ovechkin LW 6-2 220 9/17/1985
85 Mathieu Perreault C 5-9 166 1/5/1988
42 Steve Pinizzotto RW 6-1 200 4/26/1984
3 Tom Poti D 6-3 210 3/22/1977
35 Dany Sabourin G 6-4 200 9/2/1980
55 Jeff Schultz D 6-6 221 2/25/1986
28 Alexander Semin RW 6-2 205 3/3/1984
89 Tyler Sloan D 6-3 205 3/15/1981
39 Dave Steckel C 6-5 222 3/15/1982
1 Semyon Varlamov G 6-1 183 4/27/1988.

Then this came across my twitter feeds from Katie Carrera's tweets: "Keith Aucoin will be placed on waivers today and assigned to Hershey if he is not claimed. #Caps"

By my count that then drops them to 33 so I can't figure out who I'm tracking as still with the Caps that is not given Bruce Boudreau's quote re: why Fleischmann is being scratched tonight since he is "hurting":
"It's preseason, there's no sense [playing when] we've got 31 guys here. If you're hurting a little bit there's no sense playing."


Also the Capitals have signed Matt Hendricks has signed a one-year deal, terms were undisclosed...

Bizarre tidbit of the day: Wade Redden is now a member of the Hartford Wolfpack...

Now back to the Capitals...

LETS GO CAPS!!!