Detroit Red Wings (19-13-3, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Washington Capitals (19-11-4, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n
Washington; Saturday, 12:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Capitals host the Detroit Red Wings after Jakob Chychrun’s two-goal game against the Toronto Maple Leafs in the Capitals’ 4-0 win.<\/p>\n
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Washington has gone 11-5-2 at home and 19-11-4 overall. The Capitals have a 7-7-4 record in games their opponents serve fewer penalty minutes.<\/p>\n
Detroit has a 9-6-2 record in road games and a 19-13-3 record overall. The Red Wings are 8-2-1 in games decided by a single goal.<\/p>\n
Saturday’s game is the first time these teams match up this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Alexander Ovechkin has 14 goals and 17 assists for the Capitals. Chychrun has five goals and one assist over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
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Dylan Larkin has 17 goals and 16 assists for the Red Wings. Alex DeBrincat has eight goals and five assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Capitals: 6-2-2, averaging three goals, five assists, 3.3 penalties and 7.4 penalty minutes while giving up two goals per game.<\/p>\n
Red Wings: 6-2-2, averaging 3.3 goals, 5.3 assists, 3.1 penalties and 6.5 penalty minutes while giving up 2.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Capitals: None listed.<\/p>\n
Red Wings: None listed.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detroit Red Wings (19-13-3, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Washington Capitals (19-11-4, in the Metropolitan Division) Washington; Saturday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5101],"tags":[6017,278,2216,191,599,93,5137,595,5,284,2218,4,3650,3358,5138,1560,31,109],"class_list":{"0":"post-364004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-red-wings","8":"tag-alex-debrincat","9":"tag-alexander-ovechkin","10":"tag-atlantic-division","11":"tag-capitals","12":"tag-detroit","13":"tag-detroit-red-wings","14":"tag-detroitredwings","15":"tag-dylan-larkin","16":"tag-hockey","17":"tag-jakob-chychrun","18":"tag-metropolitan-division","19":"tag-nhl","20":"tag-penalty-minutes","21":"tag-red-wings","22":"tag-redwings","23":"tag-the-capitals","24":"tag-toronto-maple-leafs","25":"tag-washington-capitals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115745866696418804","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}