Pittsburgh Penguins (41-23-16, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Washington Capitals (41-30-9, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n
Washington; Sunday, 3 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Capitals -161, Penguins +136; over\/under is 6.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Capitals host the Pittsburgh Penguins after Ryan Leonard’s two-goal game against the Pittsburgh Penguins in the Capitals’ 6-3 win.<\/p>\n Washington is 15-7-2 against the Metropolitan Division and 41-30-9 overall. The Capitals are 17-7-1 in games their opponents commit more penalties.<\/p>\n Pittsburgh has gone 41-23-16 overall with a 13-3-9 record in Metropolitan Division games. The Penguins have allowed 248 goals while scoring 285 for a +37 scoring differential.<\/p>\n Sunday’s game is the third meeting between these teams this season. The Capitals won the last meeting 6-3. Leonard scored two goals in the victory.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Jakob Chychrun has 25 goals and 34 assists for the Capitals. Alexander Ovechkin has seven goals and three assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Anthony Mantha has 32 goals and 30 assists for the Penguins. Rickard Rakell has scored 10 goals and added three assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Capitals: 6-3-1, averaging 3.9 goals, 6.9 assists, 4.6 penalties and 13.9 penalty minutes while giving up 3.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n Penguins: 6-4-0, averaging 4.6 goals, eight assists, 3.5 penalties and 8.2 penalty minutes while giving up 3.4 goals per game.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Capitals: Rasmus Sandin: day to day (leg), Pierre-Luc Dubois: day to day (upper-body), Charlie Lindgren: day to day (upper body).<\/p>\n Penguins: Erik Karlsson: day to day (lower body), Ben Kindel: day to day (upper body), Filip Hallander: out (leg), Blake Lizotte: out (upper-body), Bryan Rust: day to day (lower body), Evgeni Malkin: day to day (upper body), Sidney Crosby: day to day (lower body), Connor Dewar: out (lower body), Caleb Jones: out for season (shoulder), Kris Letang: day to day (upper body), Parker Wotherspoon: day to day (upper body).<\/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":"Pittsburgh Penguins (41-23-16, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Washington Capitals (41-30-9, in the Metropolitan Division) Washington; Sunday, 3…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73877,1165,1484,73,75,74,726],"class_list":["post-163781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-73877","tag-article","tag-nhl-hockey","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}