""I'm excited to see him tonight and get out there and get a game under his belt, and start to get some of those game reps, game touches," Carbery said."
""With [Opening Night] a week away, I think this is a good time. It gives him a couple of opportunities to get into games and a few practice days to get ramped up for Wednesday.""
""Is it the end-all, be-all for him to play two exhibition games? No," Carbery said then. "But the ideal world is he gets two games before the start of the year.""
Alex Ovechkin will play his first preseason game Thursday against the Boston Bruins after missing four exhibition games due to a lower-body injury sustained on the first day of training camp. Capitals head coach Spencer Carbery views the appearance as an opportunity for Ovechkin to get game reps and ideally get two preseason games before Opening Night on October 8. Sonny Milano, rehabbing an upper-body injury, is expected to play and leads the preseason with four goals and six points. The home matchup at Capital One Arena presents chances for bubble players to make an impression on management.
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