Washington Capitals (42-30-9, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Columbus Blue Jackets (40-29-12, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n
Columbus, Ohio; Tuesday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Capitals are looking to keep a three-game win streak alive when they take on the Columbus Blue Jackets.<\/p>\n
Columbus has an 11-10-4 record in Metropolitan Division games and a 40-29-12 record overall. The Blue Jackets have a -4 scoring differential, with 245 total goals scored and 249 conceded.<\/p>\n
Washington is 42-30-9 overall and 16-7-2 against the Metropolitan Division. The Capitals are ninth in league play with 315 total penalties (averaging 3.9 per game).<\/p>\n
The teams square off Tuesday for the fourth time this season. The Capitals won the previous matchup 2-0.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Adam Fantilli has 24 goals and 35 assists for the Blue Jackets. Charlie Coyle has three goals over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Jakob Chychrun has 25 goals and 34 assists for the Capitals. Alexander Ovechkin has six goals and four assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Blue Jackets: 2-7-1, averaging two goals, 3.4 assists, 3.1 penalties and 6.8 penalty minutes while giving up 3.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Capitals: 7-3-0, averaging four goals, 7.1 assists, 4.6 penalties and 13.9 penalty minutes while giving up 3.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Blue Jackets: Brendan Smith: out (knee), Mathieu Olivier: out (upper body), Dmitri Voronkov: out (hand), Damon Severson: out for season (shoulder).<\/p>\n
Capitals: Rasmus Sandin: day to day (leg), 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 (42-30-9, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Columbus Blue Jackets (40-29-12, in the Metropolitan Division) Columbus, Ohio;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5108],"tags":[62530,301,3644,5180,897,230,5179,5,4,292,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-551728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-columbus-blue-jackets","8":"tag-62530","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-blue-jackets","11":"tag-bluejackets","12":"tag-columbus","13":"tag-columbus-blue-jackets","14":"tag-columbusbluejackets","15":"tag-hockey","16":"tag-nhl","17":"tag-nhl-hockey","18":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116396890754008742","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551728","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=551728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551728\/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=551728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}