Washington Capitals (39-29-9, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. New York Rangers (32-36-9, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n
New York; Sunday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Capitals -115, Rangers -105; over\/under is 6<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The New York Rangers host the Washington Capitals after Gabriel Perreault’s hat trick against the Detroit Red Wings in the Rangers’ 4-1 win.<\/p>\n New York has gone 32-36-9 overall with a 9-13-3 record against the Metropolitan Division. The Rangers have given up 236 goals while scoring 218 for a -18 scoring differential.<\/p>\n Washington has gone 39-29-9 overall with a 14-6-2 record against the Metropolitan Division. The Capitals have gone 17-7-1 in games their opponents serve more penalty minutes.<\/p>\n The teams match up Sunday for the fourth time this season. The Capitals won 6-3 in the last matchup. Tom Wilson led the Capitals with two goals.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Alexis Lafreniere has 22 goals and 30 assists for the Rangers. Mika Zibanejad has six goals and three assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Alexander Ovechkin has 31 goals and 30 assists for the Capitals. Wilson has five goals and two assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Rangers: 4-5-1, averaging 3.1 goals, 5.3 assists, 4.2 penalties and 10 penalty minutes while giving up 2.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n Capitals: 6-2-2, averaging 3.6 goals, six assists, 4.7 penalties and 13.2 penalty minutes while giving up 2.9 goals per game.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Rangers: Matt Rempe: out for season (thumb), Urho Vaakanainen: out (upper-body).<\/p>\n Capitals: 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":"Washington Capitals (39-29-9, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. New York Rangers (32-36-9, in the Metropolitan Division) New York;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5114],"tags":[61924,301,191,5,4,292,43,190,109,5222],"class_list":{"0":"post-541865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-capitals","8":"tag-61924","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-capitals","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-nhl-hockey","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-washington","16":"tag-washington-capitals","17":"tag-washingtoncapitals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116351649193497567","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541865","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=541865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541865\/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=541865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}