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Washington Capitals<\/a> (39-30-9, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> (32-31-14, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n

Toronto; Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Toronto Maple Leafs host the Washington Capitals after Matthew Knies<\/a>‘ two-goal game against the Los Angeles Kings<\/a> in the Maple Leafs’ 7-6 overtime loss.<\/p>\n

Toronto is 32-31-14 overall and 18-12-8 at home. The Maple Leafs have given up 271 goals while scoring 241 for a -30 scoring differential.<\/p>\n

Washington is 39-30-9 overall and 15-19-4 on the road. The Capitals have gone 17-7-1 when they serve fewer penalty minutes than their opponent.<\/p>\n

The matchup Wednesday is the third time these teams play this season. The Capitals won 4-0 in the last meeting. Jakob Chychrun<\/a> led the Capitals with two goals.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: John Tavares<\/a> has 30 goals and 38 assists for the Maple Leafs. Knies has six goals and one assist over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Chychrun has 25 goals and 34 assists for the Capitals. Pierre-Luc Dubois<\/a> has one goal and nine assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Maple Leafs: 4-4-2, averaging 3.1 goals, 4.4 assists, 5.4 penalties and 15.3 penalty minutes while giving up 3.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n

Capitals: 6-3-1, averaging 3.5 goals, six assists, 4.8 penalties and 14.3 penalty minutes while giving up 3.5 goals per game.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Maple Leafs: Oliver Ekman-Larsson<\/a>: day to day (lower body), Chris Tanev<\/a>: out for season (abdomen), Auston Matthews<\/a>: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n

Capitals: None listed.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington Capitals (39-30-9, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Toronto Maple Leafs (32-31-14, in the Atlantic Division) Toronto; Wednesday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5126],"tags":[532,3651,56683,5,284,611,186,1760,240,5303,793,145,5304,5302,797,285,4,782,4863,31,109],"class_list":{"0":"post-545174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-kings","8":"tag-auston-matthews","9":"tag-chris-tanev","10":"tag-event_preview","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-jakob-chychrun","13":"tag-john-tavares","14":"tag-kings","15":"tag-la","16":"tag-la-kings","17":"tag-lakings","18":"tag-los-angeles","19":"tag-los-angeles-kings","20":"tag-losangeles","21":"tag-losangeleskings","22":"tag-matthew-knies","23":"tag-national-hockey-league","24":"tag-nhl","25":"tag-oliver-ekman-larsson","26":"tag-pierre-luc-dubois","27":"tag-toronto-maple-leafs","28":"tag-washington-capitals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116362477149761087","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545174","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=545174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}