Buffalo Sabres (46-22-8, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Washington Capitals (38-29-9, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n
Washington; Saturday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Capitals host the Buffalo Sabres in Eastern Conference play.<\/p>\n
Washington has a 38-29-9 record overall and a 23-11-5 record on its home ice. The Capitals have gone 33-9-3 when scoring at least three goals.<\/p>\n
Buffalo has a 22-12-4 record on the road and a 46-22-8 record overall. The Sabres have committed 291 total penalties (3.8 per game) to rank 10th in league play.<\/p>\n
The teams meet Saturday for the third time this season. The Capitals won 2-1 in the previous meeting.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Alexander Ovechkin has 31 goals and 28 assists for the Capitals. Tom Wilson has four goals and two assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Rasmus Dahlin has 17 goals and 50 assists for the Sabres. Peyton Krebs has two goals and five assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Capitals: 6-2-2, averaging 3.2 goals, 5.3 assists, 4.3 penalties and 11.6 penalty minutes while giving up 2.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Sabres: 6-2-2, averaging three goals, 4.8 assists, 4.3 penalties and 10.8 penalty minutes while giving up 2.4 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Capitals: Aliaksei Protas: day to day (upper-body).<\/p>\n
Sabres: Jiri Kulich: out for season (ear), Sam Carrick: out (arm), Justin Danforth: out (lower body), Noah Ostlund: day to day (upper-body).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Associated Press Buffalo Sabres (46-22-8, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Washington Capitals (38-29-9, in the Metropolitan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5114],"tags":[191,5,4,190,109,5222],"class_list":{"0":"post-539640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-capitals","8":"tag-capitals","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-washington","12":"tag-washington-capitals","13":"tag-washingtoncapitals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116344231334256119","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539640","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=539640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}