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Washington Capitals center Nic Dowd suffered an upper-body injury in Tuesday's 6-2 victory over New Jersey. He exited the action after the first period, finishing with 6:20 of ice time.

The Capitals will close out their first half of the year with one last game before the 4 Nations break, this time against Utah.

Duhaime’s line with center Nic Dowd and Andrew Mangiapane on the right wing is listed on the Washington Capitals’ lineup card in the fourth spot, but they don’t consider it the fourth line.

Nic Dowd asked Dylan Strome if he should get off the ice. Early in the third period of Tuesday night’s game against the Florida Panthers at Capital One Arena, Dowd — the Washington Capitals ...