John Carlson will play in his 1,000th NHL game against his hometown team and the Capitals will also get some reinforcement in the shape of Sonny Milano’s return from injury. Milano has been out of the team’s lineup for the past two games with an upper-body injury he suffered against the Winnipeg Jets.

Head coach Spencer Carbery shared the latter news with the media at his pregame presser after the Capitals’ optional morning skate.

“Sonny will go in the lineup,” Carbery said. “He’s good to go.”

Milano had been skating on a line with Hendrix Lapierre and Max Pacioretty before getting taken out of action. Carbery expressed that reuniting that trio would be how they’d start against Boston.

“Yeah, that’s a good option for us,” he said. “I think that’s the way that we’ll start. We’ll look at some other things of moving [Mike Sgarbossa] to the wing. [Milano] coming in gives us a little bit of a different look and we can go back to some things that were working for us five-on-five and line combination-wise.”

Nicolas Aube-Kubel will come out of the lineup so that Milano can make his return. NAK was recently benched in a win over the Detroit Red Wings after allowing Alex DeBrincat to get inside position on him in front of the Capitals’ net to score an easy goal. He skated just 4:20 of ice time in that game.