Final: Capitals 3, Bruins 2 (OT) - Oshie wins it

The Bruins will open the 2021 Stanley Cup Playoffs with Game 1 against the Capitals on Saturday night. Puck drop is set for 7:15 p.m. Follow along for updates from Saturday's game. 

WHO: Bruins vs.Capitals
WHEN: 7:15 p.m.
WHERE: Capital One Arena
TV: NBC
RADIO: 98.5-FM The Sports Hub
LIVE BOX SCORE: NHL.com

LIVE COVERAGE:

Oshie wins it in OT. 

Overtime is underway. 

On to overtime. 

Nice stop by Rask on Eller. 

No dice. 

Taylor Hall draws yet another penalty. Bruins to the power play.

Annnnd Lauzon is back on the bench. 

Jeremy Lauzon to the room. 

Third period is a go. 

End Second: 2-2 game. 

Ritchie deflects one home. 2-2 game. 

Realllll close. 

Lauzon continues to chat with Wilson. 

No penalty on Ritchie there. Good Orr impression. 

Bergeron back on the ice. 

Bruins make the kill. 

NBC Broadcast: Bergeron down the tunnel. 

And now Lauzon heads to the sin bin. 

Capitals take a 2-1 lead. 

Bad miss from Carlson there - but good to see DeBrusk hustling back to try and disrupt the shot.

Bad miss by Carlson - but a good backchecking effort. 

Vanecek out of the game, per Caps PR.

Second period is a go. 

End First: 1-1 game. 

Would think that'd be delay of game, but. 

Hall tripped up. Bruins heading back on the power play. Make that three drawn penalties in four periods for Hall. 

Oshie briefly exits, but he's back on the bench. 

Vanecek exits the game due to injury. Anderson in net. 

DeBrusk ties it.

No dice on the power play. 

Delay of Game on Carlson. 

Wilson opens the scoring. Tough break for McAvoy. 

DeBrusk needs to get that one on net. 

Krejci taking a beating in the early going here. Ovechkin sure seems healthy. 

Game 1 is a go. 

LINEUPS

BOSTON

Brad Marchand -- Patrice Bergeron -- David Pastrnak
Taylor Hall -- David Krejci -- Craig Smith
Nick Ritchie -- Sean Kuraly -- Charlie Coyle
Jake DeBrusk -- Curtis Lazar -- Chris Wagner

Matt Grzelcyk -- Charlie McAvoy
Mike Reilly -- Brandon Carlo
Jeremy Lauzon -- Kevan Miller

Tuukka Rask
Jeremy Swayman

Scratched: Anton Blidh, Trent Frederic, Karson Kuhlman, John Moore, Jarred Tinordi, Urho Vaakanainen, Connor Clifton, Jaroslav Halak

Injured: Ondrej Kase (upper body), Jakub Zboril (upper body)

WASHINGTON

Alex Ovechkin -- Nicklas Backstrom -- Anthony Mantha
Conor Sheary -- Lars Eller -- Michael Raffl
Daniel Sprong -- T.J. Oshie -- Tom Wilson
Carl Hagelin -- Nic Dowd -- Garnet Hathaway

Dmitry Orlov -- John Carlson
Brenden Dillon -- Justin Schultz
Nick Jensen -- Zdeno Chara

Vitek Vanecek
Craig Anderson

Scratched: Philippe Maillet, Trevor van Riemsdyk

Injured: None

COVID-19 protocol: Evgeny Kuznetsov, Ilya Samsonov

PREGAME NOTES

For our full preview of Bruins/Capitals – click here.

No major changes to the Bruins lineup from what we saw down the final stretch of the regular season, with Charlie Coyle cleared to play after suffering an upper-body injury back on May 7. Tuukka Rask will start in net, while the fourth line will feature Curtis Lazar centering Jake DeBrusk and Chris Wagner. 

Teams that win Game 1 are 490-222 (68.8 percent) winning a best-of-7 NHL playoff series, including 7-1 in the first round last season. 

The Capitals' expected starter in net, Vitek Vanecek, will make his NHL playoff debut tonight. Vanecek was 4-3-0 with a 2.86 GAA and .905 save percentage against the Bruins during the regular season.

John Carlson will play for Washington after missing the final two regular-season games with a lower-body injury, and forward T.J. Oshie will be a game-time decision after sitting out the regular-season finale against Boston on Tuesday because of a lower-body injury.

Center Evgeny Kuznetsov and goalie Ilya Samsonov remain in NHL COVID-19 protocol and it's unclear when either will be able to play. Forwards Alex Ovechkin and Nicklas Backstrom each returned from a lower-body injury Tuesday.