New York Islanders (30-20-5, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Washington Capitals (27-22-7, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n
Washington; Monday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Capitals host the New York Islanders after the Capitals beat the Carolina Hurricanes 4-3 in overtime.<\/p>\n
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Washington has gone 27-22-7 overall with a 10-3-2 record against the Metropolitan Division. The Capitals have a 24-8-3 record when scoring three or more goals.<\/p>\n
New York is 10-5-2 against the Metropolitan Division and 30-20-5 overall. The Islanders have gone 13-4-2 in games they score at least one power-play goal.<\/p>\n
The teams meet Monday for the fourth time this season. The Capitals won 4-1 in the previous matchup. Tom Wilson led the Capitals with two goals.<\/p>\n
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TOP PERFORMERS: Wilson has 22 goals and 25 assists for the Capitals. Dylan Strome has six goals and five assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Mathew Barzal has 14 goals and 32 assists for the Islanders. Jean-Gabriel Pageau has scored five goals with two assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Capitals: 4-5-1, averaging 2.8 goals, 5.5 assists, 4.4 penalties and 11.2 penalty minutes while giving up 3.5 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Islanders: 5-5-0, averaging 2.6 goals, 4.8 assists, 3.2 penalties and 6.4 penalty minutes while giving up 2.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Capitals: None listed.<\/p>\n
Islanders: 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":"New York Islanders (30-20-5, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Washington Capitals (27-22-7, in the Metropolitan Division) Washington; Monday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5110],"tags":[191,29,282,5,122,8563,1951,2218,3328,159,5190,5189,4,1560,4937,280,190,109],"class_list":{"0":"post-439642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-islanders","8":"tag-capitals","9":"tag-carolina-hurricanes","10":"tag-dylan-strome","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-islanders","13":"tag-jean-gabriel-pageau","14":"tag-mathew-barzal","15":"tag-metropolitan-division","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-islanders","18":"tag-newyork","19":"tag-newyorkislanders","20":"tag-nhl","21":"tag-the-capitals","22":"tag-the-islanders","23":"tag-tom-wilson","24":"tag-washington","25":"tag-washington-capitals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115994835407503280","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439642","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=439642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439642\/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=439642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}