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Washington Capitals at Pittsburgh Penguins

Dec 14, 2015 · CONSOL Energy Center

Team Goals Shots
Washington Capitals 4 34
Pittsburgh Penguins 1 45

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
03:53 WSH Nicklas Backstrom (10) T.J. Oshie (7), Karl Alzner (7) 1 - 0
07:04 WSH John Carlson (5) Jason Chimera (8), Jay Beagle (5) 2 - 0
13:59 PIT Evgeni Malkin (14) Ben Lovejoy (4), Phil Kessel (9) 2 - 1
3rd Period
08:50 WSH T.J. Oshie (9) Nicklas Backstrom (16) 3 - 1
19:11 WSH T.J. Oshie (10) PP Nicklas Backstrom (17), John Carlson (18) 4 - 1

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
16:04 WSH T.J. Oshie Interference 2
18:56 PIT Brian Dumoulin Unsportsmanlike conduct 2
2nd Period
07:53 PIT Ian Cole Holding 2
17:25 WSH Taylor Chorney Fighting 5
17:25 PIT Nick Bonino Fighting 5
3rd Period
06:28 WSH Brooks Laich Hooking 2
17:50 PIT Olli Maatta Hooking 2
18:37 PIT Evgeni Malkin Tripping 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Washington Capitals 52 39 34 4 3.5 36.6
Pittsburgh Penguins 79 55 45 1 3.7 63.4

How the game went

0510152025Start2nd3rdPittsburgh Penguins 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 Pittsburgh Penguins had taken more, and below it and blue while Washington Capitals had.

Expected goals

Washington Capitals: 3.5 expected, 4 scored · Pittsburgh Penguins: 3.7 expected, 1 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndWSH goal, 3:53 of 1st, a 8% chanceWSH goal, 7:04 of 1st, a 29% chanceWSH goal, 8:50 of 3rd, a 4% chanceWSH goal, 19:11 of 3rd, a 54% chancePIT goal, 13:59 of 1st, a 10% chancePIT 3.7WSH 3.5

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
Pittsburgh Penguins

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 · T.J. Oshie · Nicklas Backstrom14:0138.730.72-1
Jason Chimera · Jay Beagle · Tom Wilson12:3436.734.81-0
Justin Williams · Marcus Johansson · Evgeny Kuznetsov11:1931.639.00-0
Brooks Laich · Stanislav Galiev · Andre Burakovsky5:3850.024.20-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Matt Niskanen · Karl Alzner19:2732.526.91-0
John Carlson · Nate Schmidt16:2935.342.01-0
Taylor Chorney · Dmitry Orlov9:4137.525.00-1

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

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
77 T.J. Oshie R 2 1 3 1 2 3 4 19:49 0.06 12-22 0.39-0.93
19 Nicklas Backstrom C 1 2 3 1 0 1 0 20:22 0.23 13-20 0.47-0.95
74 John Carlson D 1 1 2 1 0 8 1 24:51 0.65 14-25 0.69-0.89
20 Jason Chimera L 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 15:11 0.09 11-19 0.67-1.26
27 Karl Alzner D 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 23:00 15-28 0.63-1.59
83 Jay Beagle C 0 1 1 1 0 2 4 18:16 0.04 13-27 0.73-1.45
8 Alex Ovechkin L 0 0 0 1 0 5 4 20:21 0.26 13-22 0.47-0.96
9 Dmitry Orlov D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 12:19 0.11 9-13 0.39-0.76
14 Justin Williams R 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 15:26 0.14 6-13 0.25-0.39
15 Matt Niskanen D 0 0 0 2 0 2 3 24:13 0.05 15-29 0.68-1.58
25 Brooks Laich C 0 0 0 0 2 0 5 07:58 5-6 0.28-0.47
28 Andre Burakovsky L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 08:13 6-8 0.19-0.57
43 Tom Wilson R 0 0 0 1 0 1 8 17:57 0.06 13-25 0.73-1.47
44 Taylor Chorney D 0 0 0 -1 5 0 3 10:39 6-10 0.25-0.75
49 Stanislav Galiev R 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 07:12 0.22 6-4 0.36-0.43
88 Nate Schmidt D 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 20:10 0.09 15-23 0.80-0.87
90 Marcus Johansson L 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 16:22 0.55 7-13 0.39-0.39
92 Evgeny Kuznetsov C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 13:41 0.02 6-13 0.25-0.39
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
70 Braden Holtby 45 44 1 60:00 3.67 +2.67

Pittsburgh Penguins

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Evgeni Malkin · Phil Kessel · David Perron12:4069.266.11-1
Chris Kunitz · Sidney Crosby · Patric Hornqvist8:2060.070.70-0
Matt Cullen · Eric Fehr · Nick Bonino4:3950.054.50-0
Chris Kunitz · Sidney Crosby · Beau Bennett4:3344.451.20-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Ben Lovejoy · Brian Dumoulin15:0760.757.10-1
David Warsofsky · Olli Maatta13:2169.055.80-1
Ian Cole · Adam Clendening8:4850.081.00-0

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
71 Evgeni Malkin C 1 0 1 0 2 4 0 19:05 1.00 23-12 1.35-0.84
8 Phil Kessel R 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 17:01 0.09 20-8 1.32-0.66
21 Ben Lovejoy D 0 1 1 -1 0 1 1 21:40 0.04 19-14 0.86-0.71
2 Brian Dumoulin D 0 0 0 -1 2 1 2 26:11 0.04 30-15 1.14-0.65
3 Olli Maatta D 0 0 0 0 2 6 0 19:11 0.21 24-11 0.95-0.69
5 David Warsofsky D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 20:47 0.08 26-11 0.99-0.74
6 Adam Clendening D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 10:01 0.02 9-10 1.02-0.30
7 Matt Cullen C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 14:20 11-7 0.67-0.23
10 Daniel Sprong R 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 08:58 0.28 10-8 0.58-0.35
12 Nick Bonino C 0 0 0 0 5 2 3 15:59 0.08 12-5 0.53-0.33
14 Chris Kunitz L 0 0 0 -1 0 4 8 19:03 0.28 22-16 0.78-0.55
21 Eric Fehr C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 13:49 0.11 10-6 0.50-0.32
28 Ian Cole D 0 0 0 -1 2 4 0 18:40 0.13 20-13 1.47-0.36
57 David Perron L 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 15:48 0.18 21-9 1.35-0.69
61 Sergei Plotnikov L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 5 10:55 0.28 14-7 0.61-0.15
70 Patric Hornqvist R 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 16:22 0.51 22-11 0.97-0.31
78 Beau Bennett R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 3 05:46 0.04 7-5 0.24-0.15
87 Sidney Crosby C 0 0 0 -1 0 4 3 20:25 0.37 20-17 0.74-0.59
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
29 Marc-Andre Fleury 34 30 4 59:15 2.72 -1.28