Tonight's starting lineups according to NHL.COM:
CAPITALS
Alex Ovechkin - Nicklas Backstrom - Troy Brouwer
Cody Eakin - Marcus Johansson - Mike Knuble
Jason Chimera - Brooks Laich - Joel Ward
Matt Hendricks - Jeff Halpern - Mathieu Perreault
Karl Alzner - John Carlson
John Erskine - Dennis Wideman
Jeff Schultz - Dmitry Orlov
Michal Neuvirth
Tomas Vokoun
PANTHERS
Tomas Fleischmann - Stephen Weiss - Kris Versteeg
Marco Sturm - Mike Santorelli - Jack Skille
Shawn Matthias - Tomas Kopecky - Sean Bergenheim
Evgenii Dadnov - Tim Kennedy - Bracken Kearns
Jason Garrison - Brian Campbell
Dmitry Kulikov - Mike Weaver
Ed Jovanovski - Erik Gudbranson
Jose Theodore
Scott Clemmensen
Tomas Vokoun will sit in favor of backup goaltender Michal Neuvirth.
Vokoun had flown home to Florida on Sunday ahead of his teammates to be with his wife and two daughters. He had left them in Florida after signing with Washington so they would not have to change schools.