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Washington Capitals<\/a> (7-4, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Nashville Predators<\/a> (4-3-5, in the Central Division)<\/p>\n Nashville, Tennessee; Thursday, 8 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n LINE: Predators -111, Capitals -111; over\/under is 6.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Capitals visit the Nashville Predators after Alex Tuch’s<\/a> two-goal game against the Philadelphia Flyers<\/a> in the Capitals’ 5-2 win.<\/p>\n Nashville is 3-2-2 at home and 4-3-5 overall. The Predators are 3-1-0 in games they have fewer penalties than their opponent.<\/p>\n Washington has a 7-4 record overall and a 1-2-0 record in road games. The Capitals are 3-1-0 in games their opponents serve more penalty minutes.<\/p>\n Thursday’s game is the first time these teams meet this season.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Predators: William Trudeau<\/a>: out (upper body).<\/p>\n Capitals: Rasmus Sandin<\/a>: out (knee), Patrick Thomas<\/a>: out (upper-body), Vincent Desharnais: out (abdomen).<\/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":"Associated Press Washington Capitals (7-4, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Nashville Predators (4-3-5, in the Central Division) Nashville,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5119],"tags":[6452,56683,5,2409,231,5281,285,4,35533,2410,4603,109,21661],"class_list":["post-698278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nashville-predators","tag-alex-tuch","tag-event_preview","tag-hockey","tag-nashville","tag-nashville-predators","tag-nashvillepredators","tag-national-hockey-league","tag-nhl","tag-patrick-thomas","tag-predators","tag-rasmus-sandin","tag-washington-capitals","tag-william-trudeau"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117523548976588787","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698278","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=698278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}