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Washington Capitals (21-14-5, 47 pts) at Ottawa Senators (18-15-5, 41 pts)<\/p>\n
Venue: Canadian Tire Centre
Date: Thursday, January 1
Time: 1:00 pm EST
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Radio:\u00a0Capitals 24\/7 \/ TSN 1200<\/p>\n
Purchase tickets via Ticketmaster<\/a><\/p>\n Washington Capitals News & Notes:<\/p>\n The Capitals picked up a 6-3 win over the Rangers yesterday. They\u2019re 2-2-1 in their last five games, averaging 3.6 goals per game while allowing 4.3 goals per game. <\/p>\n Ottawa Senators News & Notes:<\/p>\n The Senators dropped their third straight on Monday with a 4-1 loss to the Blue Jackets. They finished December going 6-6-1, averaging 3.5 goals per game while allowing 3.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n Washington Capitals Projected Lines:<\/p>\n Ovechkin-Strome-Protas Sandin-Carlson Thompson Buy Washington Hockey Gear Below! Ottawa Senators Projected Lines:<\/p>\n Tkachuk-Stutzle-Zetterlund Sanderson-Zub Merilainen Buy Ottawa Hockey Merchandise Below! Players To Watch:<\/p>\n Washington Capitals<\/p>\n Ryan Leonard had an assist on the Capitals lone goal in their loss to Ottawa back in October.<\/p>\n Ottawa Senators<\/p>\n Dylan Cozens had two goals and an assist in the Senators 7-1 win over the Capitals back on October 25th.<\/p>\n Injury Report:<\/p>\n Washington Capitals<\/p>\n F\u00a0Pierre-Luc Dubois<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR<\/p>\n Ottawa Senators<\/p>\n C\u00a0Lars Eller<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR Next Game:<\/p>\n \tDiscover more from Inside The Rink<\/p>\n Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AP Photo\/Nick Wass Washington Capitals (21-14-5, 47 pts) at Ottawa Senators (18-15-5, 41 pts) Venue: Canadian Tire CentreDate:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5104],"tags":[2216,2804,5,4810,539,2218,4,5573,72,25,5157,4863,73,109],"class_list":{"0":"post-384751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ottawa-senators","8":"tag-atlantic-division","9":"tag-dylan-cozens","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-lars-eller","12":"tag-linus-ullmark","13":"tag-metropolitan-division","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-nhl-game-preview","16":"tag-ottawa","17":"tag-ottawa-senators","18":"tag-ottawasenators","19":"tag-pierre-luc-dubois","20":"tag-senators","21":"tag-washington-capitals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115819630136095464","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384751","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=384751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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