Washington Capitals (23-16-6, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Nashville Predators (20-20-4, in the Central Division)<\/p>\n
Nashville, Tennessee; Sunday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Nashville Predators host the Washington Capitals in a non-conference matchup.<\/p>\n
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Nashville is 11-10-2 in home games and 20-20-4 overall. The Predators are 10th in NHL play with 171 total penalties (averaging 3.9 per game).<\/p>\n
Washington has a 10-8-3 record on the road and a 23-16-6 record overall. The Capitals have scored 148 total goals (3.3 per game) to rank eighth in league play.<\/p>\n
Sunday’s game is the first meeting between these teams this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Ryan O’Reilly has 13 goals and 24 assists for the Predators. Steven Stamkos has five goals and four assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
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Dylan Strome has 10 goals and 23 assists for the Capitals. Justin Sourdif has six goals and four assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Predators: 6-4-0, averaging 2.3 goals, 4.1 assists, 3.5 penalties and 8.4 penalty minutes while giving up 2.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Capitals: 4-4-2, averaging 3.6 goals, 6.2 assists, 3.8 penalties and 9.3 penalty minutes while giving up 3.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Predators: 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 (23-16-6, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Nashville Predators (20-20-4, in the Central Division) Nashville, Tennessee; Sunday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5119],"tags":[1843,282,5,15094,2218,2409,231,5281,4,2410,1489,2415,1560,109],"class_list":{"0":"post-401457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nashville-predators","8":"tag-central-division","9":"tag-dylan-strome","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-justin-sourdif","12":"tag-metropolitan-division","13":"tag-nashville","14":"tag-nashville-predators","15":"tag-nashvillepredators","16":"tag-nhl","17":"tag-predators","18":"tag-steven-stamkos","19":"tag-tennessee","20":"tag-the-capitals","21":"tag-washington-capitals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115875891368831782","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401457","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=401457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401457\/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=401457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}