San Jose Sharks (23-19-3, in the Pacific Division) vs. Washington Capitals (24-17-6, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n
Washington; Thursday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The San Jose Sharks visit the Washington Capitals after the Capitals knocked off the Montreal Canadiens 3-2 in overtime.<\/p>\n
Washington is 24-17-6 overall and 14-8-3 in home games. The Capitals have committed 183 total penalties (3.9 per game) to rank eighth in the league.<\/p>\n
San Jose has a 23-19-3 record overall and a 10-10-0 record in road games. The Sharks have a 12-4-2 record in games decided by a goal.<\/p>\n
Thursday’s game is the second time these teams square off this season. The Capitals won 7-1 in the previous meeting. Alexander Ovechkin led the Capitals with two goals.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Ovechkin has scored 20 goals with 20 assists for the Capitals. Connor McMichael has two goals and seven assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Macklin Celebrini has 24 goals and 46 assists for the Sharks. Pavol has scored six goals over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Capitals: 5-4-1, averaging 3.6 goals, 6.3 assists, 4.5 penalties and 11.6 penalty minutes while giving up 2.9 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Sharks: 6-4-0, averaging 3.7 goals, 5.7 assists, 3.7 penalties and 8.5 penalty minutes while giving up 4.2 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Capitals: None listed.<\/p>\n
Sharks: None listed.<\/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":"San Jose Sharks (23-19-3, in the Pacific Division) vs. Washington Capitals (24-17-6, in the Metropolitan Division) Washington; Thursday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[68148,847,1489,88,90,89,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-133173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-68148","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-nhl-hockey","11":"tag-san-jose","12":"tag-san-jose-headlines","13":"tag-san-jose-news","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133173","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=133173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133173\/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=133173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}