Washington Capitals (17-9-2, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Anaheim Ducks (16-10-1, in the Pacific Division)<\/p>\n
Anaheim, California; Friday, 10 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Capitals visit the Anaheim Ducks after Alexander Ovechkin scored two goals in the Capitals\u2019 7-1 win against the San Jose Sharks.<\/p>\n
Anaheim has a 9-4-0 record at home and a 16-10-1 record overall. The Ducks are seventh in league play serving 10.2 penalty minutes per game.<\/p>\n
Washington has gone 8-4-1 in road games and 17-9-2 overall. The Capitals are ninth in league play with 108 total penalties (averaging 3.9 per game).<\/p>\n
The teams meet Friday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Leo Carlsson has scored 14 goals with 22 assists for the Ducks. Beckett Sennecke has one goal and seven assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
John Carlson has six goals and 17 assists for the Capitals. Ovechkin has scored nine goals with six assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Ducks: 5-5-0, averaging 2.8 goals, five assists, 3.7 penalties and 8.7 penalty minutes while giving up 3.2 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Capitals: 9-1-0, averaging 4.7 goals, 7.4 assists, 3.1 penalties and 6.8 penalty minutes while giving up 2.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Ducks: None listed.<\/p>\n
Capitals: 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":"Washington Capitals (17-9-2, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Anaheim Ducks (16-10-1, in the Pacific Division) Anaheim, California; Friday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[47688,163,824,165,164,7,47689,27996,47007,1716,404,1489,98,127,8319],"class_list":["post-84503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-alexander-ovechkin","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-ducks","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-california","tag-dc-wire","tag-district-of-columbia","tag-john-carlson","tag-leo-carlsson","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-hockey","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-sports","tag-washington-capitals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84503","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=84503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}