Capitals’ Braden Holtby to start Game 4 after scare

The Capitals hold a 3-0 lead in this best-of-seven series. Laughton, 21, was eventually taken off the ice on a stretcher.

The Flyers said there were never any plans to issue bracelets again before Game 4 on Wednesday night.

The Washington Capitals star netminder will be at his usual post on Wednesday night when the Caps attempt to eliminate the Philadelphia Flyers from the 2016 Stanley Cup playoffs.

Especially in the playoffs, National Hockey League teams are rarely snubbed the way the Flyers were treated, and it was alarming to see it happen. “All three games are tight games and could’ve gone either way”. He benched No. 1 goalie Steve Mason for Neuvirth and moved Brayden Schenn to the top line and demoted Jake Voracek. It’d be a damn shame if this fun season – which, we must remind you is already a success no matter how tonight goes – ended in a sweep, particularly after the embarrassment that was Game 3. Mason was ridiculed around Philly for allowing Jason Chimera’s 101-foot tip-in for a goal in Game 2.

“Ready for Game 4“.

“I mean, they’re always talking a lot, so it’s always nice to shut their mouth with a couple goals”, Andre Burakovsky added.

That was it for the Capitals. While the Caps can work around his absence, Trotz had mostly relied on four defensemen up to that point of the series, playing third-pairing defensemen Orlov and Nate Schmidt sparingly.

After the first two games, both losses, the Flyers didn’t think change was necessary. It would be in the course of two periods that things would go from bad to worse.

A win tonight by the Capitals would end the series, Washington would become the first team to advance to the next round.

Laughton’s head, neck and back all appeared to hit the boards and he lay largely motionless on the ice for minutes afterwards.

Laughton was face-down on the ice for several minutes and was tended to by team trainer Jim McCrossin and two staff doctors. With the Flyers suddenly disinterested in sitting in the penalty box, the Caps were forced to play five-on-five hockey, something they’ve said works to their advantage. He was taken to Jefferson University Hospital for precautionary reasons.

In 64 games this season, Gostisbehere registered totals of 17 goals and 29 assists.

Holtby, the goaltender who has stopped 91 of Philadelphia’s 93 shots through three games of the first-round playoff series, left practice Tuesday with an apparent left leg injury after a collision with a teammate. After starting off the night with a attractive tribute to the late Ed Snider, owner of the Flyers, and an early goal, the night quickly went south for the home team.

It was an incredibly scary scene, one that brought an otherwise raucous Wells Fargo Center to silence.

ABOUT THE CAPITALS: Brooks Orpik has been ruled out of Wednesday’s contest by Trotz after the defenseman suffered an upper-body injury on a hit from Philadelphia fourth-liner Ryan White.