Washington Capitals (25-22-7, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Detroit Red Wings (32-17-5, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n
Detroit; Thursday, 7:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Detroit Red Wings take on the Washington Capitals in Eastern Conference play.<\/p>\n
Detroit has a 32-17-5 record overall and an 18-9-1 record in home games. The Red Wings have a 27-3-4 record when scoring at least three goals.<\/p>\n
Washington has an 11-12-4 record in road games and a 25-22-7 record overall. The Capitals are seventh in the league with 215 total penalties (averaging 4.0 per game).<\/p>\n
Thursday’s game is the third meeting between these teams this season. The Red Wings won 3-2 in overtime in the previous matchup.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Lucas Raymond has scored 18 goals with 40 assists for the Red Wings. Alex DeBrincat has six goals and five assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
John Carlson has nine goals and 34 assists for the Capitals. Tom Wilson has scored five goals and added seven assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Red Wings: 7-2-1, averaging 3.2 goals, 5.3 assists, 2.6 penalties and 5.2 penalty minutes while giving up 1.9 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Capitals: 3-6-1, averaging 2.8 goals, 5.4 assists, 4.8 penalties and 12 penalty minutes while giving up 3.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Red Wings: 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington Capitals (25-22-7, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Detroit Red Wings (32-17-5, in the Atlantic Division) Detroit; Thursday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5114],"tags":[53320,301,191,5,4,292,43,190,109,5222],"class_list":{"0":"post-432490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-capitals","8":"tag-53320","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-capitals","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-nhl-hockey","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-washington","16":"tag-washington-capitals","17":"tag-washingtoncapitals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115972850711942528","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432490","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=432490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}