Washington Capitals (35-27-9, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. St. Louis Blues (28-30-11, in the Central Division)<\/p>\n
St. Louis; Tuesday, 8 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The St. Louis Blues and the Washington Capitals meet in a non-conference matchup.<\/p>\n
St. Louis has gone 15-12-7 in home games and 28-30-11 overall. The Blues have a 22-9-5 record in games they score three or more goals.<\/p>\n
Washington has a 13-16-4 record on the road and a 35-27-9 record overall. The Capitals have allowed 202 goals while scoring 219 for a +17 scoring differential.<\/p>\n
Tuesday\u2019s game is the second meeting between these teams this season. The Capitals won the previous meeting 6-1. Tom Wilson scored two goals in the win.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Robert Thomas has scored 16 goals with 30 assists for the Blues. Justin Faulk has nine assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Jakob Chychrun has 23 goals and 28 assists for the Capitals. Ryan Leonard has five goals and one assist over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Blues: 7-1-2, averaging 2.8 goals, 5.2 assists, 3.8 penalties and 9.5 penalty minutes while giving up 1.7 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Capitals: 4-4-2, averaging 2.5 goals, 3.6 assists, 3.2 penalties and 6.4 penalty minutes while giving up 2.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Blues: Tyler Tucker: out (lower-body).<\/p>\n
Capitals: Ethen Frank: day to day (lower-body), David Kampf: day to day (not injury related).<\/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 (35-27-9, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. St. Louis Blues (28-30-11, in the Central Division) St. Louis;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5114],"tags":[191,37676,3818,288,1939,7982,5,284,1821,14863,1282,4,292,1482,516,43,84,280,1822,190,109,5222],"class_list":["post-518175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-washington-capitals","tag-capitals","tag-data-skrive","tag-david-kampf","tag-dc-wire","tag-district-of-columbia","tag-ethen-frank","tag-hockey","tag-jakob-chychrun","tag-justin-faulk","tag-missouri","tag-mo-state-wire","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-hockey","tag-robert-thomas","tag-ryan-leonard","tag-sports","tag-st-louis-blues","tag-tom-wilson","tag-tyler-tucker","tag-washington","tag-washington-capitals","tag-washingtoncapitals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116277636475470053","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518175","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=518175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518175\/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=518175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}