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Washington Capitals at Boston Bruins

Dec 18, 2010 · TD Garden

Team Goals Shots
Washington Capitals 2 41
Boston Bruins 3 21

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
03:27 BOS Patrice Bergeron (1) Blake Wheeler (1), Adam McQuaid (1) 0 - 1
08:13 BOS Andrew Ference (1) Brad Marchand (1), David Krejci (1) 0 - 2
17:03 BOS Blake Wheeler (1) Patrice Bergeron (1), Johnny Boychuk (1) 0 - 3
2nd Period
02:18 WSH Matt Bradley (1) David Steckel (1), Matt Hendricks (1) 1 - 3
3rd Period
14:32 WSH Karl Alzner (1) John Carlson (1), Alex Ovechkin (1) 2 - 3

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
08:17 BOS Adam McQuaid Fighting 5
08:17 WSH Matt Bradley Fighting 5
2nd Period
05:23 BOS Brad Marchand High sticking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Washington Capitals 75 56 41 2 2.5 61.1
Boston Bruins 45 30 21 3 1.8 38.9

How the game went

302010010Start2nd3rdBoston Bruins aheadWashington Capitals ahead

The gap in shot attempts as the game went on: how many more one team had taken than the other. The line is above the middle and red while Boston Bruins had taken more, and below it and blue while Washington Capitals had.

Expected goals

Washington Capitals: 2.5 expected, 2 scored · Boston Bruins: 1.8 expected, 3 scored

012Start2nd3rdEndWSH goal, 2:18 of 2nd, a 9% chanceWSH goal, 14:32 of 3rd, a 3% chanceBOS goal, 3:27 of 1st, a 11% chanceBOS goal, 8:13 of 1st, a 4% chanceBOS goal, 17:03 of 1st, a 2% chanceWSH 2.5BOS 1.8

Each line climbs with every chance a team had: a small step for a shot from far out, a big one for a dangerous chance. A dot is a goal. Expected goals adds up how likely each shot was to go in, judged by where it was taken from, what kind of shot it was and whether it was a rebound. Blocked shots and the shootout are not counted. Before 2023-24 the NHL timed events less exactly, and differently from rink to rink, so expected goals for this season are rougher than for recent ones.

Where the attempts came from

Washington Capitals
Boston Bruins

There is a dot for each attempt, bigger for a better chance. "Show as heat map" shades the ice by where the attempts came from.

Washington Capitals

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mike Knuble · Alex Ovechkin · Nicklas Backstrom11:2331.630.50-1
Jason Chimera · Eric Fehr · Jay Beagle7:1640.052.40-0
Matt Bradley · Matt Hendricks · David Steckel6:5250.040.41-0
Brooks Laich · Andrew Gordon · Marcus Johansson6:4080.091.10-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Scott Hannan · Mike Green18:0952.654.71-2
Tom Poti · John Erskine15:4358.651.70-0
Karl Alzner · John Carlson15:2562.558.81-0

The forwards and the defencemen who were on the ice together most at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out.

Players

xG is the expected goals of a skater's own shots. CF-CA and xGF-xGA are the shot attempts and the expected goals for and against while he was on the ice at five-on-five. For a goalie, xGA is what the shots he faced were expected to produce, and the last column is how many of those he saved. What these numbers mean

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
22 Matt Bradley R 1 0 1 0 5 1 3 08:26 0.09 11-9 0.21-0.36
27 Karl Alzner D 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 17:09 0.08 22-12 0.44-0.29
8 Alex Ovechkin L 0 1 1 -1 0 7 6 23:54 0.41 27-16 0.87-0.60
15 Matt Hendricks C 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 09:43 0.06 11-13 0.21-0.55
20 David Steckel C 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 10:01 0.01 11-13 0.22-0.74
74 John Carlson D 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 17:55 0.06 23-13 0.43-0.34
3 Tom Poti D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 19:52 0.01 23-13 0.63-0.42
4 John Erskine D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 3 18:18 0.02 19-13 0.57-0.49
9 Mike Knuble R 0 0 0 -1 0 4 0 21:50 0.38 18-17 0.49-0.76
19 Nicklas Backstrom C 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 23:54 0.42 30-16 0.96-0.64
20 Jason Chimera L 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 13:29 0.01 9-11 0.28-0.39
21 Eric Fehr C 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 14:11 0.23 22-7 0.81-0.10
25 Brooks Laich C 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 19:27 0.19 24-7 0.85-0.19
27 Scott Hannan D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 18:21 0.03 21-18 0.95-0.79
27 Mike Green D 0 0 0 -2 0 3 4 25:59 0.30 30-19 1.35-0.90
44 Andrew Gordon R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 12:22 0.14 15-7 0.65-0.27
83 Jay Beagle C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 10:10 5-7 0.11-0.09
90 Marcus Johansson L 0 0 0 -1 0 3 3 15:40 0.10 24-9 0.92-0.15
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
30 Michal Neuvirth 21 18 3 59:19 1.77 -1.23

Boston Bruins

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Nathan Horton · David Krejci · Milan Lucic15:1533.349.20-0
Mark Recchi · Patrice Bergeron · Blake Wheeler13:3853.355.91-1
Marc Savard · Michael Ryder · Tyler Seguin10:0431.625.10-0
Shawn Thornton · Gregory Campbell · Brad Marchand6:0066.763.31-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Zdeno Chara · Johnny Boychuk20:0038.853.31-1
Dennis Seidenberg · Steven Kampfer13:4134.846.30-1
Andrew Ference · Adam McQuaid13:3440.739.42-0

The forwards and the defencemen who were on the ice together most at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out.

Players

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
17 Blake Wheeler R 1 1 2 1 0 2 1 15:44 0.24 17-15 0.73-0.62
37 Patrice Bergeron C 1 1 2 1 0 4 1 18:07 0.46 19-21 0.76-0.61
21 Andrew Ference D 1 0 1 2 0 2 3 21:40 0.05 17-18 0.60-0.72
46 David Krejci C 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 20:16 0.08 8-17 0.28-0.28
54 Adam McQuaid D 0 1 1 2 5 1 3 14:53 0.01 11-19 0.42-0.79
55 Johnny Boychuk D 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 23:21 0.03 21-31 0.77-0.63
63 Brad Marchand L 0 1 1 1 2 1 0 07:18 0.02 9-6 0.25-0.19
4 Dennis Seidenberg D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 3 19:14 8-21 0.35-0.65
8 Nathan Horton R 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 17:33 0.01 9-16 0.38-0.30
9 Gregory Campbell C 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 12:24 0.31 11-14 0.39-0.43
17 Michael Ryder R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 12:46 6-19 0.19-0.88
17 Milan Lucic L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 4 19:48 0.17 11-22 0.43-0.45
22 Shawn Thornton L 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 10:24 0.01 12-10 0.41-0.20
28 Mark Recchi R 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 19:27 0.16 18-23 0.65-0.76
33 Zdeno Chara D 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 24:11 0.02 19-32 0.67-0.89
44 Steven Kampfer D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 16:41 0.05 12-17 0.42-0.70
91 Marc Savard C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 12:12 0.01 6-22 0.19-0.99
91 Tyler Seguin C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 12:01 0.16 6-22 0.19-0.85
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
30 Tim Thomas 41 39 2 60:00 2.51 +0.51