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The Washington Capitals and Carolina Hurricanes clash for the second time this season and the first of two this week on Tuesday with the 2022 NHL Stadium Series at Carter-Finley Stadium in Raleigh looming on Saturday. Carolina crunched Washington in a shootout by a score of 3-2 on October 31 at PNC Arena the first time that these teams met but Washington is 5-1-1 in their last seven against them. Action from Capital One Arena can be seen on NBC Sports Washington in-market or ESPN+ out-of-market starting at 7 PM ET.

SCHEDULE

Carolina: make lone trip outside of Raleigh in a span of seven games before opening a five-game homestand following a 6-2 loss to the New York Rangers on Saturday

Washington: continue three-game homestand and stretch where they play six of seven at Capital One Arena after opening it with a 4-1 loss to the San Jose Sharks on Sunday

RECORDS

Carolina: 34-10-8/.731 points percentage – first in Metropolitan Division, second in Eastern Conference, NHL; 17-4-6 on road (second in NHL)

Washington: 28-21-6/.564 points percentage – fourth in Metropolitan Division (fifth in points percentage), seventh in Eastern Conference (eighth); 14-9-3 at home (15th)

HOW EACH TEAM IS DOING

Carolina: seven-game winning-streak ended on Saturday

Washington: has won three of last five but lost eight of last 14

TEAM LEADERS

Carolina

• C Sebastian Aho (23 goals)
• D Brent Burns (27 assists, 23:21 TOI/game)
• C Martin Necas (47 points)

Notes: Necas, 24, saw five-game point- (three goals, six points) and three-game assist-streaks (three) end vs. New York; Aho, 25, had six-game goal-scoring streak (nine) conclude on Saturday; Burns, 37, had seven-game point-streak (four goals, eight points) end in Saturday’s loss; RW Andrei Svechnikov has six assists in his last five games, including four over a three-game streak; C Jordan Staal’s three-game point-streak (two goals, three points) ended vs. New York; LW Teuvo Teravainen has two goals, three points over three-game point-streak and seven assists, 10 points in last 12; C Seth Jarvis has just one goal in his last seven, including no points in his last three; D Brady Skjei has one assist, -4 rating in last eight; C Jesperi Kotkaniemi has one goal, five points in last five, including four points over three-game streak

Washington

• LW Alex Ovechkin (32 goals, 54 points)
• C Evgeny Kuznetsov (36 assists)
• D Dmitry Orlov (22:42 TOI/game) — excluding D John Carlson

Notes: Ovechkin, 37, has been held scoreless in five of his last seven games (two goals), including four straight; Kuznetsov, 30, has six assists, eight points in his last nine; Orlov, 31, has only two assists in his last seven; C Dylan Strome has been held scoreless in five straight; LW Conor Sheary has just two assists, three points in last 15; C Lars Eller has just one assist in his last 15; LW Anthony Mantha has just one assist in his last nine, including none in his last four; LW Marcus Johansson’s four-game point-streak (one goal, four points) and stretch where he had points in six of previous seven (two goals, six points) ended on Sunday; D Erik Gustafsson has three assists in his last three; D Nick Jensen tallied a -6 rating in last 16 games; LW Sonny Milano has just two assists, three points in last 13, including none over last four; D Trevor Van Riemsdyk has two goals, three points in last three; RW Garnet Hathaway has two goals in his last three

KEY TEAM STATS

Goals-per-game:                 CAR – 3.31 (T-11th)      WSH – 3.05 (20th)

Goals-against per game:   CAR – 2.69 (7th)           WSH – 2.82 (11th)

Power Play:                          CAR – 19.8% (22nd)    WSH – 20.2% (19th)

Penalty Kill:                         CAR – 81.5% (8th)       WSH – 81.8% (7th)

Shots-per-game:                 CAR – 34.9 (3rd)          WSH – 31.5 (17th)

Shots-against per game:   CAR – 26.9 (1st)            WSH – 30.2 (T-9th)

Faceoff-winning %:           CAR – 53.2% (4th)        WSH – 49.5% (T-18th)

5v5 Corsi-for %:                 CAR – 59.85% (1st)       WSH – 50.91% (16th)

5v5 x Goals-For %:            CAR – 60.03% (1st)      WSH – 51.2% (16th)

5v5 SCF %:                          CAR – 59.61% (1st)       WSH – 51.02% (16th)

5v5 Shooting %:                 CAR – 7.87% (24th)      WSH – 8.17% (20th)

5v5 Save %:                         CAR – .9163 (18th)       WSH – .918 (14th)

5v5 PDO:                             CAR – .995 (T-22nd)   WSH – 1 (T-16th)

EXPECTED STARTING GOALTENDERS

Carolina: Frederik Andersen, 33 — 11-4-0, .895 save percentage, 2.65 goals-against average (T-16th in NHL) in 16 games this season; 7-4-2, .907 save percentage, 2.79 goals-against average, two shutouts in 13 career regular-season games vs. Washington, including a 18-save (.900 save percentage) performance in October

Washington: Darcy Kuemper, 32 — 16-14-4, .916 save percentage (T-13th), 2.57 goals-against average (T-14th), five shutouts (T-1st) in 35 games; 1-2-1, .897 save percentage, 3.44 goals-against average in five career games against Carolina, including a 35-save (.943) outing in the first meeting with them this season

🗣 DARCY KUEMPER WITH HIS 30th CAREER @pepsi SHUTOUT ‼️

With tonight’s 27-save performance, Kuemper now leads the league in shutouts on the season with five under his belt. pic.twitter.com/VERa6ZnXAL

— NHL (@NHL) January 20, 2023

INJURIES/ILLNESSES

Carolina

• LW Max Pacioretty (Achilles, will miss eighth straight game, out indefinitely)
• RW Ondrej Kase (concussion, 52nd, indefinite)
• D Jake Gardiner (hip/back, 53rd, week-to-week)

Washington

• Carlson (upper-body, 20th, indefinite)
• RW Connor Brown (ACL, 52nd, indefinite)
• LW Carl Hagelin (hip, 56th, indefinite)
• C Nic Dowd (lower-body, 10th, indefinite)
• RW Tom Wilson (lower-body, sixth, day-to-day)

PROJECTED LINEUPS

Carolina

Teravainen — Aho — Jarvis
Svechnikov — Kotkaniemi — Necas
Jordan Martinook — Staal — Jesper Fast
Stefan Noesen — Paul Stastny — Derek Stepan

Jaccob Slavin — Burns
Skjei — Brett Pesce
Calvin De Haan — Jalen Chatfield

Andersen
Antti Raanta

Scratched: D Dylan Coghlan

Washington

Ovechkin — Strome — Nicolas Aube-Kubel
Sheary — Kuznetsov — T.J. Oshie
Johansson — Nicklas Backstrom — Milano
Mantha — Eller — Hathaway

Gustafsson — Van Riemsdyk
Orlov — Jensen
Matt Irwin — Martin Fehervary

Kuemper
Charlie Lindgren

Scratched: D Alexander Alexeyev, C Aliaksei Protas

By Harrison Brown