Washington Capitals (21-14-5, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Ottawa Senators (18-15-5, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n
Ottawa, Ontario; Thursday, 1 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Ottawa Senators look to end a three-game slide when they play the Washington Capitals.<\/p>\n
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Ottawa has gone 8-7-3 in home games and 18-15-5 overall. The Senators have gone 3-7-1 when they serve more penalty minutes than their opponent.<\/p>\n
Washington is 21-14-5 overall and 9-7-3 in road games. The Capitals are 8-9-4 in games they have more penalties than their opponent.<\/p>\n
The teams match up Thursday for the second time this season. The Senators won 7-1 in the previous matchup. Dylan Cozens led the Senators with two goals.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Drake Batherson has 15 goals and 22 assists for the Senators. Tim Stutzle has eight goals and nine assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
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Dylan Strome has eight goals and 23 assists for the Capitals. Aliaksei Protas has scored five goals and added five assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Senators: 5-4-1, averaging 3.8 goals, 6.6 assists, 4.1 penalties and 11.8 penalty minutes while giving up 3.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Capitals: 3-5-2, averaging 2.7 goals, 4.9 assists, 3.4 penalties and 7.6 penalty minutes while giving up 3.5 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Senators: None listed.<\/p>\n
Capitals: 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":"Washington Capitals (21-14-5, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Ottawa Senators (18-15-5, in the Atlantic Division) Ottawa, Ontario; Thursday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5104],"tags":[396,2216,1744,2804,282,5,2218,4,72,25,5157,3650,73,1560,681,109],"class_list":{"0":"post-384631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ottawa-senators","8":"tag-aliaksei-protas","9":"tag-atlantic-division","10":"tag-drake-batherson","11":"tag-dylan-cozens","12":"tag-dylan-strome","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-metropolitan-division","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-ottawa","17":"tag-ottawa-senators","18":"tag-ottawasenators","19":"tag-penalty-minutes","20":"tag-senators","21":"tag-the-capitals","22":"tag-tim-stutzle","23":"tag-washington-capitals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115819260620640788","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384631","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=384631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384631\/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=384631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}