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New Jersey Devils<\/a> (14-6, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Washington Capitals<\/a> (10-7, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n

Washington; Saturday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The New Jersey Devils face the Washington Capitals for a matchup within the Metropolitan Division Saturday.<\/p>\n

Washington has a 5-1-0 record in Metropolitan Division games and a 10-7 record overall. The Capitals have gone 5-1-0 in games decided by a goal.<\/p>\n

New Jersey is 14-6 overall and 3-2-0 against the Metropolitan Division. The Devils have a 9-4-0 record in games they serve fewer penalty minutes than their opponents.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s game is the third time these teams meet this season. The Devils won the previous matchup 5-2.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Boone Jenner<\/a> has scored six goals with one assist for the Capitals. Alex Tuch<\/a> has six goals and one assist over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jack Hughes<\/a> has 10 goals and 17 assists for the Devils. Connor Brown<\/a> has scored four goals and added two assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Capitals: 6-4-0, averaging 3.4 goals, six assists, 3.7 penalties and 9.3 penalty minutes while giving up 3.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n

Devils: 8-2-0, averaging 3.9 goals, 6.3 assists, 2.7 penalties and 6.8 penalty minutes while giving up 2.5 goals per game.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Capitals: Rasmus Sandin<\/a>: out (knee), Patrick Thomas<\/a>: out (upper-body), Vincent Desharnais: out (abdomen).<\/p>\n

Devils: Johnathan Kovacevic: out (undisclosed), Brett Pesce<\/a>: day to day (illness), Anthony Mantha<\/a>: out (neck), Seamus Casey: out (knee).<\/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":"New Jersey Devils (14-6, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Washington Capitals (10-7, in the Metropolitan Division) Washington; Saturday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5114],"tags":[6452,10448,5390,2866,191,957,56683,5,1272,285,151,4,35533,4603,190,109,5222],"class_list":["post-710547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-washington-capitals","tag-alex-tuch","tag-anthony-mantha","tag-boone-jenner","tag-brett-pesce","tag-capitals","tag-connor-brown","tag-event_preview","tag-hockey","tag-jack-hughes","tag-national-hockey-league","tag-new-jersey-devils","tag-nhl","tag-patrick-thomas","tag-rasmus-sandin","tag-washington","tag-washington-capitals","tag-washingtoncapitals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117609179616382427","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710547","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=710547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710547\/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=710547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}