New York Rangers (18-16-4, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Washington Capitals (19-12-5, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n
Washington; Tuesday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Capitals host the New York Rangers after Ethen Frank’s two-goal game against the Detroit Red Wings in the Capitals’ 3-2 overtime loss.<\/p>\n
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Washington is 19-12-5 overall with a 7-2-2 record in Metropolitan Division play. The Capitals have gone 7-3-0 when they serve fewer penalty minutes than their opponent.<\/p>\n
New York has an 18-16-4 record overall and a 4-4-0 record in Metropolitan Division play. The Rangers have a 7-1-1 record when scoring a power-play goal.<\/p>\n
Tuesday’s game is the second meeting between these teams this season. The Capitals won the last matchup 1-0.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Tom Wilson has 17 goals and 17 assists for the Capitals. Aliaksei Protas has five goals and one assist over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
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Mika Zibanejad has 12 goals and 15 assists for the Rangers. Jonathan Tanner Miller has three goals and five assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Capitals: 4-3-3, averaging 2.6 goals, 4.6 assists, 3.5 penalties and 7.8 penalty minutes while giving up 2.4 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Rangers: 4-4-2, averaging 2.1 goals, 3.6 assists, 3.3 penalties and 7.2 penalty minutes while giving up 2.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Capitals: None listed.<\/p>\n
Rangers: 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":"New York Rangers (18-16-4, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Washington Capitals (19-12-5, in the Metropolitan Division) Washington; Tuesday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5114],"tags":[396,191,93,7982,5,2218,160,35,4,3650,36,1560,280,190,109,5222],"class_list":{"0":"post-369365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-capitals","8":"tag-aliaksei-protas","9":"tag-capitals","10":"tag-detroit-red-wings","11":"tag-ethen-frank","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-metropolitan-division","14":"tag-mika-zibanejad","15":"tag-new-york-rangers","16":"tag-nhl","17":"tag-penalty-minutes","18":"tag-rangers","19":"tag-the-capitals","20":"tag-tom-wilson","21":"tag-washington","22":"tag-washington-capitals","23":"tag-washingtoncapitals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115762861515722835","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369365","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=369365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369365\/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=369365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}