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Bruins Vs. Capitals: Tonight's Starting Lineups

Via Katie Carrera of Capitals Insider and Fluto Shinzawa at Bruins Blog, below are tonight's respective starting lineups for the Washington Capitals and Boston Bruins.

Forwards

Ovechkin-Backstrom-Knuble
Laich-Fleischmann-Semin
Chimera-Johansson-Fehr
King-Steckel-Hendricks

Defense
Schultz-Alzner
Erskine-Carlson
Sloan-Poti

Goal
Neuvirth
Varlamov

Milan Lucic-David Krejci-Nathan Horton
Jordan Caron-Patrice Bergeron-Blake Wheeler
Mark Recchi-Tyler Seguin-Michael Ryder
Brad Marchand-Gregory Campbell-Shawn Thornton

Zdeno Chara-Johnny Boychuk
Mark Stuart-Dennis Seidenberg
Andrew Ference-Matt Hunwick

Tim Thomas
Tuukka Rask

Bruce Boudreau will go with Michal Neuvirth in goal for the sixth consecutive game. According to Carrera, If Neuvirth plays a complete game, he will be the first goaltender in Capitals history to play every minute of the first six games. On the other side, Tim Thomas will start for the Bruins. The 2009 Vezina Trophy winner is 2-0 with a .50 GAA and .984 SV%.