Jay Beagle was absent from practice once more, not skating with his teammates as he continues to attempt to rehab a knee injury that he suffered in the late stages of the Caps' loss in game five. In addition, Dale Hunter would not even divulge whether or not Beagle will travel with the team to New York. That means that Jeff Halpern remained in Hunter's top four line combinations. They were as follows: Ovechkin-Laich-Johansson, Chimera-Backstrom-Semin, Ward-Hendricks-Brouwer, and Knuble-Halpern-Aucoin. Mathieu Perreault and Mattias Sjogren stayed out as the two extra forwards.
The much-maligned defensive pairings also stayed the same, with Jeff Schultz paired alongside Dennis Wideman and Dmitry Orlov and John Erskine on the outside looking in.
New dad Braden Holtby talked about his son, Benjamin Hunter Holtby, saying that Hunter is his mom's maiden name. Contrary to popular belief, and perhaps disappointingly, Holtby did not name his son after his current head coach.
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