Caps goalie Thompson to miss at least 2 games

ARLINGTON, Va. -- Washington Capitals goaltender Logan Thompson is expected to miss astatine slightest a mates of games due to the fact that of injury, manager Spencer Carbery said Friday.

"I won't telephone him day-to-day," Carbery said.

Thompson near the Capitals' crippled astatine Carolina connected Wednesday nighttime aft the archetypal play with what the squad called an upper-body injury. It was not precisely wide erstwhile helium got hurt, but Thompson took a puck disconnected the disguise that knocked it disconnected his caput during his 20 minutes of enactment successful the mediate of allowing 3 goals connected 12 shots.

Charlie Lindgren is expected to enarthrosis the load successful the lack of Thompson, who is having arguably the champion play of his NHL vocation with a 31-6-6 record, 2.49 goals-against mean and .910 prevention percentage. The 28-year-old signed a six-year, $35.1 cardinal declaration hold successful precocious January.

Lindgren, 31, who carried Washington into the playoffs past year, alternated starts with Thompson for the archetypal fractional of this play earlier efficaciously becoming the backup. He has started 33 games, going 17-12-3 with a 2.66 GAA and an .899 prevention percentage.

Although the Capitals recalled goalie Hunter Shepard from Hershey of the American Hockey League to backup, Lindgren figures to commencement not lone Friday nighttime against Chicago but Sunday astatine the New York Islanders, arsenic well.

"I deliberation it's a large accidental for Chucky," Carbery said. "An accidental similar this to travel up, helium tin present instrumentality the reins for a bit. ... It's a bully accidental for him to drawstring immoderate starts unneurotic and play well."