Nashville Predators (26-23-7, in the Central Division) vs. Washington Capitals (28-23-7, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n
Washington; Thursday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Capitals -185, Predators +153; over\/under is 6.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Capitals host the Nashville Predators in a non-conference matchup.<\/p>\n Washington has a 28-23-7 record overall and a 16-10-3 record in home games. The Capitals rank sixth in the league with 228 total penalties (averaging 3.9 per game).<\/p>\n Nashville is 26-23-7 overall and 11-11-4 on the road. The Predators have given up 194 goals while scoring 164 for a -30 scoring differential.<\/p>\n The teams square off Thursday for the second time this season. The Predators won 3-2 in the last matchup.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Tom Wilson has 22 goals and 26 assists for the Capitals. Dylan Strome has five goals and four assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Ryan O’Reilly has 20 goals and 36 assists for the Predators. Steven Stamkos has scored eight goals with five assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Capitals: 4-5-1, averaging 2.9 goals, 5.5 assists, 4.2 penalties and 10.8 penalty minutes while giving up 3.4 goals per game.<\/p>\n Predators: 4-3-3, averaging 3.8 goals, 6.6 assists, 2.9 penalties and 6.9 penalty minutes while giving up 4.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Capitals: None listed.<\/p>\n Predators: None listed.<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nashville Predators (26-23-7, in the Central Division) vs. Washington Capitals (28-23-7, in the Metropolitan Division) Washington; Thursday, 7…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5119],"tags":[54269,301,5,2409,231,5281,4,292,2410,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-446967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nashville-predators","8":"tag-54269","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-nashville","12":"tag-nashville-predators","13":"tag-nashvillepredators","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-nhl-hockey","16":"tag-predators","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116018109868660558","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446967","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=446967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446967\/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=446967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}