Washington Capitals (40-30-9, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Pittsburgh Penguins (41-22-16, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh; Saturday, 3 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Pittsburgh Penguins aim to keep a three-game win streak alive when they host the Washington Capitals.<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh is 41-22-16 overall and 13-2-9 against the Metropolitan Division. The Penguins are 41-6-9 when scoring at least three goals.<\/p>\n
Washington is 40-30-9 overall with a 14-7-2 record in Metropolitan Division games. The Capitals have a 16-7-1 record in games they have fewer penalties than their opponent.<\/p>\n
Saturday\u2019s game is the second time these teams square off this season. The Penguins won 5-3 in the last meeting. Sidney Crosby led the Penguins with two goals.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Bryan Rust has scored 29 goals with 36 assists for the Penguins. Rickard Rakell has 10 goals and three assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Alexander Ovechkin has 31 goals and 30 assists for the Capitals. Ryan Leonard has scored four goals with three assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Penguins: 6-4-0, averaging 4.4 goals, 7.7 assists, four penalties and 9.2 penalty minutes while giving up 3.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Capitals: 6-3-1, averaging 3.5 goals, 6.3 assists, 4.8 penalties and 14.3 penalty minutes while giving up 3.4 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Penguins: Filip Hallander: out (leg), Blake Lizotte: out (upper-body), Connor Dewar: day to day (lower body), Caleb Jones: out for season (shoulder).<\/p>\n
Capitals: Charlie Lindgren: day to day (upper body).<\/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 (40-30-9, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Pittsburgh Penguins (41-22-16, in the Metropolitan Division) Pittsburgh; Saturday, 3…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5114],"tags":[278,8194,2215,3282,191,908,6770,37676,288,1939,2522,5,4,292,2139,562,100,5782,516,768,43,190,109,5222],"class_list":{"0":"post-549525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-capitals","8":"tag-alexander-ovechkin","9":"tag-blake-lizotte","10":"tag-bryan-rust","11":"tag-caleb-jones","12":"tag-capitals","13":"tag-charlie-lindgren","14":"tag-connor-dewar","15":"tag-data-skrive","16":"tag-dc-wire","17":"tag-district-of-columbia","18":"tag-filip-hallander","19":"tag-hockey","20":"tag-nhl","21":"tag-nhl-hockey","22":"tag-pa-state-wire","23":"tag-pennsylvania","24":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","25":"tag-rickard-rakell","26":"tag-ryan-leonard","27":"tag-sidney-crosby","28":"tag-sports","29":"tag-washington","30":"tag-washington-capitals","31":"tag-washingtoncapitals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116380363876485101","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549525","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=549525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549525\/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=549525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}