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Washington Capitals at New York Islanders

Dec 29, 2014 · Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Team Goals Shots
Washington Capitals 3 26
New York Islanders 4 39

Decided in overtime.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
08:15 NYI Anders Lee (8) Thomas Hickey (10), Ryan Strome (16) 0 - 1
2nd Period
10:06 NYI Lubomir Visnovsky (3) PP Frans Nielsen (12), Mikhail Grabovski (8) 0 - 2
3rd Period
01:41 NYI Calvin de Haan (1) SH John Tavares (17), Nikolay Kulemin (8) 0 - 3
04:40 WSH Eric Fehr (10) Brooks Laich (4), Jack Hillen (2) 1 - 3
06:29 WSH Nicklas Backstrom (12) Alex Ovechkin (13), Mike Green (14) 2 - 3
17:19 WSH Alex Ovechkin (17) Nicklas Backstrom (26) 3 - 3
Overtime
02:53 NYI Johnny Boychuk (3) PP Ryan Strome (17), Kyle Okposo (24) 3 - 4

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
03:57 NYI Anders Lee Hooking 2
04:14 WSH Alex Ovechkin Holding the stick 2
15:58 NYI Brock Nelson High sticking 2
2nd Period
00:48 NYI John Tavares Hooking 2
09:15 WSH Tom Wilson Holding the stick 2
10:55 WSH Jack Hillen Holding 2
19:46 NYI Brock Nelson Interference 2
3rd Period
07:06 WSH Matt Niskanen High sticking 2
12:40 WSH Brooks Orpik Roughing 2
18:56 WSH Evgeny Kuznetsov High sticking double minor 4

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Washington Capitals 49 34 26 3 3.1 46.0
New York Islanders 77 63 39 4 6.1 54.0

How the game went

0510152025Start2nd3rdOTNew York Islanders 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 New York Islanders had taken more, and below it and blue while Washington Capitals had.

Expected goals

Washington Capitals: 3.1 expected, 3 scored · New York Islanders: 6.1 expected, 4 scored

0246Start2nd3rdOTWSH goal, 4:40 of 3rd, a 30% chanceWSH goal, 6:29 of 3rd, a 14% chanceWSH goal, 17:19 of 3rd, a 12% chanceNYI goal, 8:15 of 1st, a 9% chanceNYI goal, 10:06 of 2nd, a 24% chanceNYI goal, 1:41 of 3rd, a 7% chanceNYI goal, 2:53 of overtime, a 11% chanceNYI 6.1WSH 3.1

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
New York Islanders

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
Alex Ovechkin · Nicklas Backstrom · Tom Wilson6:1729.429.10-0
Troy Brouwer · Marcus Johansson · Evgeny Kuznetsov6:1545.534.20-0
Joel Ward · Brooks Laich · Eric Fehr6:1261.578.31-1
Jason Chimera · Eric Fehr · Jay Beagle3:2660.033.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Matt Niskanen · Karl Alzner10:2742.15.90-0
Brooks Orpik · John Carlson10:2634.829.00-0
Mike Green · Jack Hillen7:4555.071.61-0

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
8 Alex Ovechkin L 1 1 2 2 2 6 5 18:59 0.59 13-21 0.70-1.72
19 Nicklas Backstrom C 1 1 2 2 0 2 1 18:40 0.15 10-20 0.57-1.64
21 Eric Fehr C 1 0 1 0 0 2 2 15:02 0.41 16-13 1.02-0.76
25 Brooks Laich C 0 1 1 0 0 4 1 17:49 0.97 13-9 1.55-0.34
27 Mike Green D 0 1 1 0 0 2 4 19:52 0.09 14-13 1.23-0.61
38 Jack Hillen D 0 1 1 1 2 0 1 13:22 15-15 1.46-0.63
15 Matt Niskanen D 0 0 0 -1 2 1 3 23:47 0.00 11-15 0.28-1.30
20 Jason Chimera L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13:09 0.08 8-15 0.20-1.44
27 Karl Alzner D 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 21:42 0.02 16-19 0.72-1.38
36 Troy Brouwer R 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 15:37 8-8 0.18-0.39
42 Joel Ward R 0 0 0 -1 0 2 3 18:53 0.14 12-10 1.43-0.26
43 Tom Wilson R 0 0 0 0 2 3 6 11:12 0.19 9-15 0.50-0.97
44 Brooks Orpik D 0 0 0 0 2 1 4 18:25 0.01 11-17 0.58-1.29
46 Michael Latta C 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 08:15 6-4 0.71-0.14
74 John Carlson D 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 24:13 0.05 13-16 0.86-1.21
83 Jay Beagle C 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 13:20 0.10 9-8 0.42-0.75
90 Marcus Johansson L 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 13:37 0.14 8-7 0.16-0.27
92 Evgeny Kuznetsov C 0 0 0 -1 4 1 0 12:57 0.14 8-10 0.26-0.60
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
70 Braden Holtby OTL 39 35 4 62:46 6.01 +2.01

New York Islanders

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Kyle Okposo · Josh Bailey · John Tavares11:1046.235.20-1
Mikhail Grabovski · Nikolay Kulemin · Brock Nelson8:5663.286.00-0
Cal Clutterbuck · Matt Martin · Casey Cizikas8:2650.041.60-1
Frans Nielsen · Anders Lee · Ryan Strome7:5262.578.61-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Travis Hamonic · Calvin de Haan14:0570.470.20-2
Johnny Boychuk · Nick Leddy13:2851.656.20-0
Lubomir Visnovsky · Thomas Hickey13:2247.840.61-1

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
22 Ryan Strome C 0 2 2 0 0 3 1 17:35 0.57 14-9 1.05-0.19
11 Lubomir Visnovsky D 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 20:18 0.34 12-14 0.84-1.14
44 Calvin de Haan D 1 0 1 -1 0 1 5 18:49 0.08 19-10 1.15-0.59
55 Johnny Boychuk D 1 0 1 0 0 3 2 25:09 0.32 16-18 1.16-0.94
72 Anders Lee L 1 0 1 0 2 7 2 13:29 0.76 13-6 0.93-0.19
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 1 1 -1 0 3 2 20:32 0.58 12-15 0.72-1.40
42 Thomas Hickey D 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 17:12 0.03 11-12 0.71-1.04
81 Frans Nielsen C 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 16:14 0.28 10-6 0.68-0.19
84 Mikhail Grabovski C 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 14:18 0.29 13-8 0.90-0.13
86 Nikolay Kulemin L 0 1 1 1 0 2 3 14:16 0.19 13-8 0.79-0.15
91 John Tavares C 0 1 1 0 2 2 0 21:46 0.62 13-16 0.84-1.32
4 Nick Leddy D 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 19:35 0.37 16-15 1.16-0.90
11 Brock Nelson C 0 0 0 0 4 4 1 16:41 0.80 16-11 1.02-0.15
12 Josh Bailey R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 3 14:07 0.23 13-16 0.73-1.42
15 Cal Clutterbuck R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 7 11:23 8-8 0.59-0.83
17 Matt Martin L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 5 09:52 0.27 8-8 0.59-0.83
52 Travis Hamonic D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 7 19:46 0.13 20-11 1.27-0.53
53 Casey Cizikas C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 6 12:30 0.19 8-9 0.59-0.91
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
41 Jaroslav Halak W 26 23 3 62:53 3.06 +0.06