Arena: Verizon Center
Time: 10 March, 2010 at 7:00 PM ET
League: NHL – United States of America

Last 10 matches: Carolina 8-2-0; Washington 6-1-3
Carolina goalie Cam Ward has missed nine straight games with an upper body injury. Washington is without defenseman Milan Jurcina, who is sidelined indefinitely after having sports hernia surgery.These Southeast Division rivals will get reacquainted with each other over the next 15 days as they play three times to finish out their season series. Despite being sellers at the deadline, Carolina is trying to climb out of the Southeast Division cellar for the first time this season and perhaps even get into the playoff race. Washington looks firmly entrenched as the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference with a 13-point lead over Pittsburgh. This will also be the first time Scott Walker and Joe Corvo face their former team since being traded by Carolina last week.
Caps goalie Jose Theodore, who is likely to start Wednesday, is 12-0-2 in his last 14 appearances with a 2.38 goals-against average and a .929 save percentage. He has stopped 53 of 54 shots since the Olympic break. Carolina forward Brandon Sutter has points in six straight games (4-4-8).
Ovechkin rang up 10 shots on goal against Dallas to give him 307 for the season. He now has five straight 300-shot seasons and is the only active player with more than four 300-shot seasons. Phil Esposito (seven) and Brett Hull (six) are the only players that have had more than five 300-shot seasons. The stat was first tracked in 1967-68. We will post information about results of this match..