Carolina Hurricanes (33-15-5, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Washington Capitals (26-22-7, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n
Washington; Saturday, 5 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Carolina Hurricanes visit the Washington Capitals after Shayne Gostisbehere scored two goals in the Hurricanes’ 5-4 win over the Utah Mammoth.<\/p>\n
Washington has a 26-22-7 record overall and a 9-3-2 record in Metropolitan Division games. The Capitals have a 9-3-0 record when they commit fewer penalties than their opponent.<\/p>\n
Carolina is 33-15-5 overall with an 11-3-0 record against the Metropolitan Division. The Hurricanes have given up 151 goals while scoring 181 for a +30 scoring differential.<\/p>\n
Saturday’s game is the third time these teams match up this season. The Hurricanes won the previous matchup 3-2 in a shootout.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Tom Wilson has scored 22 goals with 24 assists for the Capitals. John Carlson has nine assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Andrei Svechnikov has 20 goals and 26 assists for the Hurricanes. Sebastian Aho has nine assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Capitals: 3-6-1, averaging 2.6 goals, 5.2 assists, 4.8 penalties and 12 penalty minutes while giving up 3.5 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Hurricanes: 7-1-2, averaging 3.8 goals, 6.6 assists, 3.7 penalties and 10.4 penalty minutes while giving up 2.2 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Capitals: None listed.<\/p>\n
Hurricanes: 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":"Carolina Hurricanes (33-15-5, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Washington Capitals (26-22-7, in the Metropolitan Division) Washington; Saturday, 5…\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":[53557,301,191,5,4,292,43,190,109,5222],"class_list":{"0":"post-436115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-capitals","8":"tag-53557","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\/115983754488866425","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436115","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=436115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436115\/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=436115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}