Dallas Stars (25-10-8, in the Central Division) vs. Washington Capitals (22-15-6, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n
Washington; Wednesday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Capitals -140, Stars +118; over\/under is 6.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Capitals host the Dallas Stars after Justin Sourdif’s hat trick against the Anaheim Ducks in the Capitals’ 7-4 win.<\/p>\n Washington is 22-15-6 overall and 13-7-3 in home games. The Capitals have a 9-9-6 record in games their opponents serve fewer penalty minutes.<\/p>\n Dallas has a 13-4-5 record on the road and a 25-10-8 record overall. The Stars have gone 13-1-4 when they serve fewer penalty minutes than their opponent.<\/p>\n Wednesday’s game is the second meeting between these teams this season. The Stars won the last meeting 1-0.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Tom Wilson has scored 22 goals with 20 assists for the Capitals. Ryan Leonard has four goals and eight assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Jason Robertson has 25 goals and 27 assists for the Stars. Wyatt Johnston has scored seven goals and added five assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Capitals: 4-4-2, averaging 3.6 goals, 6.4 assists, 3.8 penalties and nine penalty minutes while giving up 3.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n Stars: 4-3-3, averaging 3.8 goals, 6.3 assists, 3.5 penalties and 7.2 penalty minutes while giving up 3.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Capitals: None listed.<\/p>\n Stars: None listed.<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Stars (25-10-8, in the Central Division) vs. Washington Capitals (22-15-6, in the Metropolitan Division) Washington; Wednesday, 7…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[64667,163,165,164,847,1489,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-123542","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-64667","9":"tag-anaheim","10":"tag-anaheim-headlines","11":"tag-anaheim-news","12":"tag-article","13":"tag-nhl-hockey","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}