Arena: Verizon Center
Time: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 7:00 PM ET
League: NHL – United States of America

Last 10 matches: Anaheim 7-3-0, Washington 9-1-0
Anaheim center Saku Koivu returned Tuesday after missing four games with a knee injury. Fellow Finnish Olympian Teemu Selanne (broken jaw) is still out, as is forward Joffrey Lupul (back surgery). … Caps goalie Semyon Varlamov is out with a groin injury, while defenseman Brian Pother (unspecified) is day-to-day. Despite the big lead, Theodore was lifted after two periods, and the Caps say he’s say-to-day with a lower-body injury.Anaheim’s Bobby Ryan has 4 goals and 4 assists in eight games, Ryan Getzlaf has a goal and 3 assists in five games. … In the case of the Capitals, almost everyone is hot. But the hottest player is probably Semin, who has 13 points during a seven-game points streak. Ovechkin had a nine-game points streak before being blanked on Tuesday. Defenseman John Erskine scored Tuesday his first in 110 games.
The Ducks, who lost 2-1 at Atlanta on Tuesday, get the next shot at slowing down the NHL’s version of a runaway train. The Caps torched the York Islanders 7-2 on Long Island Tuesday night for their seventh win in a row. They’ve averaging five goals a game during that span and they lit the light seven times against the Islanders without getting a point from top gun Alex Ovechkin.
Anaheim is 6-4-0 all-time in Washington and all 10 of the games have been decided in regulation. However, the Ducks are 3-8-0 in their last 11 road games. … Washington, which leads the NHL with 3.81 goals per game, has scored at least four in 10 of the past 11 games (10-1-0) a run that started the night Ovechkin was named captain after Chris Clark was traded. The Caps had an 0-for-13 run on the penalty kill ended on Tuesday. We will post live score and results of this match, as soon as posible.