Capitals center Nic Dowd will be out for “a bit" because of an undisclosed lower-body injury Laviolette said. ... Winger Anthony Mantha was a healthy scratch for Washington for the third time in five games, replaced by Nicolas Aube-Kubel.
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Capitals coach Peter Laviolette said after the bad start (7-10-3) that the Capitals had dug themselves such a deep hole they needed to start climbing out of it in December.
Red-hot Capitals hope January will be as kind as December
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