Utah Mammoth (31-25-4, in the Central Division) vs. Washington Capitals (31-24-7, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n
Washington; Tuesday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Capitals host the Utah Mammoth after Alexander Ovechkin\u2019s two-goal game against the Montreal Canadiens in the Capitals\u2019 6-2 loss.<\/p>\n
Washington has gone 19-10-3 at home and 31-24-7 overall. The Capitals rank sixth in league play with 241 total penalties (averaging 3.9 per game).<\/p>\n
Utah has a 13-15-2 record on the road and a 31-25-4 record overall. The Mammoth have a +23 scoring differential, with 190 total goals scored and 167 allowed.<\/p>\n
The teams meet Tuesday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Ovechkin has 24 goals and 26 assists for the Capitals. Jakob Chychrun has four goals and eight assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Clayton Keller has 18 goals and 40 assists for the Mammoth. Nick Schmaltz has scored five goals with four assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Capitals: 6-3-1, averaging 3.1 goals, 5.4 assists, 3.7 penalties and 8.8 penalty minutes while giving up three goals per game.<\/p>\n
Mammoth: 5-5-0, averaging 3.2 goals, 5.1 assists, 4.7 penalties and 11.8 penalty minutes while giving up 2.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Capitals: None listed.<\/p>\n
Mammoth: 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":"Utah Mammoth (31-25-4, in the Central Division) vs. Washington Capitals (31-24-7, in the Metropolitan Division) Washington; Tuesday, 7…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[278,1518,37676,288,1939,5,284,21,4,292,5619,43,1256,51,5290,232,3154,5291,5289,109],"class_list":["post-480564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-utah-hockey-club","tag-alexander-ovechkin","tag-clayton-keller","tag-data-skrive","tag-dc-wire","tag-district-of-columbia","tag-hockey","tag-jakob-chychrun","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-hockey","tag-nick-schmaltz","tag-sports","tag-ut-state-wire","tag-utah","tag-utah-hc","tag-utah-hockey-club","tag-utah-mammoth","tag-utahhc","tag-utahhockeyclub","tag-washington-capitals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116158857464640515","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480564","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=480564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}