Preview: Capitals Return From Road Trip, See Seattle On Friday

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The Washington Capitals wrap up their regular-season collection with the Seattle Kraken on Friday simply eight days after falling at Local weather Pledge Area by a rating of 3-2 in additional time regardless of main 2-0 after the primary interval. Motion from Capital One Area will be seen on NBC Sports activities Washington+ in-market or ESPN+ out-of-market beginning at 7 PM ET

SCHEDULE

Seattle: begin four-game Southeast street journey after going 1-2-0 on a three-game homestand

Washington: return residence from a season-long six-game street journey (3-2-1) however proceed a stretch the place they play eight of 9 away from residence

RECORDS

Seattle: 15-7-3/.660 factors proportion – second in Pacific Division, tied for second in Western Convention; 8-1-1 on street, fifth in NHL

Washington: 12-12-4/.500 factors proportion – sixth in Metropolitan Division, twelfth in Jap Convention in factors; 7-4-1 at residence, sixteenth

HOW EACH TEAM IS DOING

Seattle: outscored 9-3 in two straight regulation losses after going 7-0-1 of their earlier eight, together with seven wins in a row, and 10-3-2 of their earlier 15

Washington: 5-2-1 of their final eight since dropping 9 of their earlier 11 (2-6-3)

TEAM LEADERS

Seattle

• C Jarred McCann (12 targets)
• LW Andre Burakovsky (17 assists, 26 factors)
• D Adam Larsson (23:44 TOI/recreation)

Notes: Burakovsky, 27, has 5 targets and 11 factors over his final seven video games and 14 assists and 21 factors in his final 19; McCann, 26, has 5 targets in his final 5 and 7 targets and 9 factors in his final 9; RW Jordan Eberle has 14 assists and 20 factors in his final 20; Rookie C Matty Beniers gone scoreless in his final two after scoring six targets and 12 factors over a six-game point-streak; D Justin Schultz (who spent the final two seasons in Washington) has gone scoreless in his final three after scoring two targets and 10 factors over a six-game point-streak; D Vince Dunn has two targets, six factors, and a +9 score in his final seven; LW Jaden Schwartz has only one objective (which got here vs. Washington) in his final 5; LW Brandon Tanev has gone scoreless in six straight

Washington

Notes: Ovechkin, 37, has seven targets and 6 multi-point video games in his final 10 (11 factors) after a two-goal outing in Washington’s 4-1 win over the Philadelphia Flyers on Wednesday; Kuznetsov, 30, has 4 assists over a three-game help streak, together with two in Philadelphia; Carlson has three targets and 5 factors in his final six; C Dylan Strome has a objective and 4 factors over a three-game level streak and two targets and 10 factors over his final 11; LW Conor Sheary has two targets and 4 factors in his final 4 and three targets in his final two vs. Seattle; LW Anthony Mantha has gone scoreless in eight of his final 10 (objective, three factors); RW T.J. Oshie has targets in back-to-back video games

KEY TEAM STATS

Targets-per-game:                 SEA – 3.60 (fifth)              WSH – 2.79 (twenty seventh)

Targets-against per recreation:   SEA – 3.16 (18th)             WSH – 3.00 (T-Eleventh)

Energy Play:                          SEA – 25% (tenth)            WSH – 21.2% (T-Twenty second)

Penalty Kill:                         SEA – 68.3% (thirtieth)        WSH – 80.3% (ninth)

Photographs-per-game:                 SEA – 29.4 (twenty eighth)           WSH – 30.4 (T-Twentieth)

Photographs-against per recreation:   SEA – 27 (third)                  WSH – 30.9 (Eleventh)

Faceoff-winning %:            SEA – 44.4% (thirty first)          WSH – 48.4% (Twenty second)

5v5 Corsi-for %:                  SEA – 52.31% (ninth)         WSH – 50.24% (fifteenth)

5v5 x Targets-For %:             SEA – 53.16% (T-Seventh)     WSH – 49.17% (Twentieth)

5v5 SCF %:                           SEA – 50.85% (fifteenth)      WSH – 50.76% (T-Seventeenth)

5v5 Capturing %:                  SEA – 10.1% (2nd)          WSH – 7.38% (twenty fifth)

5v5 Save %:                          SEA – .913 (nineteenth)            WSH – .9212 (Eleventh)

5v5 PDO:                              SEA – 1.015 (T-Seventh)        WSH – .995 (18th)

EXPECTED STARTING GOALTENDERS

Seattle: Philipp Grubauer, 30 — 2-2-1, .868 save proportion, 3.40 goals-against common in seven video games this season; 3-1-1, .919 save proportion, 2.62 goals-against common in 5 profession video games vs. workforce he gained the Stanley Cup with in 2018, together with a 21-save efficiency (.913 save proportion) within the Emerald Metropolis final week

Washington: Charlie Lindgren, 28 — 4-3-2, .902 save proportion, 3.07 goals-against common in 10 video games this season; first profession begin vs. Seattle

INJURIES/ILLNESSES

Seattle

• G Chris Driedger (knee, will miss twenty sixth straight recreation, out indefinitely)
• RW Joonas Donskoi (upper-body, twenty sixth, indefinite)
• LW Jaden Schwartz (undisclosed, first, day-to-day)

Washington

• G Darcy Kuemper ((lower-body, third, day-to-day)
• D Martin Fehervary (lower-body, third, day-to-day)
• RW Connor Brown (ACL, twenty fifth, indefinite)
• D Dmitry Orlov (lower-body, sixteenth, day-to-day)
• LW Carl Hagelin (hip, twenty ninth, indefinite)
• RW Tom Wilson (ACL, twenty ninth, indefinite)
• C Nicklas Backstrom (hip, twenty ninth, indefinite)
• LW Beck Malenstyn (finger, 18th, week-to-week)

PROJECTED LINEUPS

Seattle

Karson Kuhlman — Alexander Wennberg — Burakovsky
McCann — Beniers — Eberle
Yanni Gourde — Ryan Donato — Oliver Bjorkstrand
Brandon Tanev — Morgan Geekie — Daniel Sprong

Dunn — Adam Larsson
Jamie Oleksiak — Schultz
Carson Soucy — Will Borgen

Grubauer
Martin Jones

Scratched: D Cale Fleury

Washington

Ovechkin — Strome — Sheary
Sonny Milano — Kuznetsov — Oshie
Marcus Johansson — Lars Eller — Mantha
Aliaksei Protas — Nic Dowd — Garnet Hathaway

Erik Gustafsson — Carlson
Trevor Van Riemsdyk — Nick Jensen
Alexander Alexeyev — Matt Irwin

Lindgren
Hunter Shepard

Scratched: LW Joe Snively, RW Nicolas Aube-Kubel

By Harrison Brown