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Montréal Canadiens at Washington Capitals

Dec 26, 2015 · Verizon Center

Team Goals Shots
Montréal Canadiens 1 30
Washington Capitals 3 33

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
06:45 WSH Evgeny Kuznetsov (11) Nate Schmidt (4), Marcus Johansson (13) 0 - 1
2nd Period
01:30 WSH Jay Beagle (5) Tom Wilson (7), Jason Chimera (10) 0 - 2
01:54 MTL Daniel Carr (4) Andrei Markov (18), Alex Galchenyuk (16) 1 - 2
3rd Period
11:15 WSH Jason Chimera (10) Tom Wilson (8), Nate Schmidt (5) 1 - 3

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
03:26 MTL Jeff Petry Tripping 2
12:12 MTL Jarred Tinordi Fighting 5
12:12 WSH Tom Wilson Fighting 5
13:26 MTL Daniel Carr Interference 2
18:23 WSH Nate Schmidt Delaying game puck over glass 2
2nd Period
17:39 WSH Nicklas Backstrom Slashing 2
3rd Period
05:55 WSH Brooks Laich Interference 2
05:55 MTL Paul Byron Embellishment 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Montréal Canadiens 61 42 30 1 1.9 51.5
Washington Capitals 52 39 33 3 2.5 48.5

How the game went

108642024Start2nd3rdWashington Capitals aheadMontréal Canadiens 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 Washington Capitals had taken more, and below it and blue while Montréal Canadiens had.

Expected goals

Montréal Canadiens: 1.9 expected, 1 scored · Washington Capitals: 2.5 expected, 3 scored

00.511.52Start2nd3rdEndMTL goal, 1:54 of 2nd, a 30% chanceWSH goal, 6:45 of 1st, a 6% chanceWSH goal, 1:30 of 2nd, a 4% chanceWSH goal, 11:15 of 3rd, a 16% chanceWSH 2.5MTL 1.9

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

Montréal Canadiens
Washington Capitals

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.

Montréal Canadiens

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
David Desharnais · Max Pacioretty · Dale Weise12:0560.062.40-0
Tomas Plekanec · Tomas Fleischmann · Brian Flynn8:3939.114.70-2
Lars Eller · Alex Galchenyuk · Daniel Carr7:5966.770.71-1
Torrey Mitchell · Paul Byron · Devante Smith-Pelly5:1840.013.50-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Andrei Markov · Jeff Petry12:1359.140.30-0
P.K. Subban · Nathan Beaulieu11:5935.014.50-0
Alexei Emelin · Jarred Tinordi5:2643.831.70-0

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
28 Daniel Carr L 1 0 1 0 2 2 1 13:56 0.44 14-9 0.67-0.64
47 Alex Galchenyuk C 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 17:19 0.18 13-9 0.62-0.33
79 Andrei Markov D 0 1 1 1 0 2 2 26:15 0.08 26-16 0.83-1.01
2 Jeff Petry D 0 0 0 -2 2 2 2 23:38 0.03 22-17 0.46-0.62
12 Tomas Fleischmann L 0 0 0 -2 0 3 1 17:34 0.14 14-18 0.20-0.98
14 Tomas Plekanec C 0 0 0 -2 0 3 0 16:23 0.08 15-18 0.21-0.98
20 Lars Eller C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14:33 0.07 11-7 0.57-0.29
22 Dale Weise R 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 16:38 0.18 18-11 0.47-0.28
25 Alexei Emelin D 0 0 0 -3 0 1 2 15:32 0.01 14-20 0.44-0.98
25 Devante Smith-Pelly R 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 08:37 7-8 0.09-0.42
25 Jarred Tinordi D 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 06:19 8-9 0.25-0.48
28 Nathan Beaulieu D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 18:04 11-15 0.11-0.66
32 Brian Flynn C 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 12:09 0.07 10-16 0.15-0.86
41 Paul Byron L 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 12:22 0.02 9-14 0.13-0.61
51 David Desharnais C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 16:50 0.16 16-10 0.44-0.26
67 Max Pacioretty L 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 18:55 0.32 18-13 0.43-0.65
71 Torrey Mitchell C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 11:52 8-11 0.19-0.81
76 P.K. Subban D 0 0 0 1 0 3 3 29:24 0.10 21-19 0.68-0.98
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Mike Condon 33 30 3 57:40 2.43 -0.57

Washington Capitals

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Alex Ovechkin · T.J. Oshie · Nicklas Backstrom10:5847.643.70-0
Justin Williams · Marcus Johansson · Evgeny Kuznetsov10:0535.031.41-1
Jason Chimera · Jay Beagle · Tom Wilson7:5147.479.32-0
Brooks Laich · Michael Latta · Andre Burakovsky7:0442.977.40-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Matt Niskanen · Karl Alzner16:3645.252.00-0
John Carlson · Nate Schmidt15:5947.473.21-0
Taylor Chorney · Dmitry Orlov9:2247.449.61-1

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
20 Jason Chimera L 1 1 2 2 0 4 1 15:14 0.56 15-12 1.14-0.19
43 Tom Wilson R 0 2 2 2 5 1 4 13:39 0.09 12-12 0.73-0.18
88 Nate Schmidt D 0 2 2 2 2 0 1 20:15 20-21 0.90-0.35
83 Jay Beagle C 1 0 1 2 0 3 1 15:02 0.23 12-16 0.74-0.17
92 Evgeny Kuznetsov C 1 0 1 0 0 5 1 16:45 0.32 16-14 0.98-0.76
90 Marcus Johansson L 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 16:39 0.09 10-14 0.37-0.67
8 Alex Ovechkin L 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 19:17 0.18 15-16 0.71-0.42
9 Dmitry Orlov D 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 10:47 10-11 0.60-0.67
14 Justin Williams R 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 15:13 0.12 12-16 0.75-0.82
15 Matt Niskanen D 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 26:17 0.06 19-19 0.91-0.46
19 Nicklas Backstrom C 0 0 0 0 2 3 1 17:45 0.17 12-15 0.27-0.36
25 Brooks Laich C 0 0 0 0 2 3 2 11:28 0.35 10-9 0.51-0.11
27 Karl Alzner D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 22:25 0.01 14-18 0.38-0.35
28 Andre Burakovsky L 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 10:55 0.09 12-10 0.55-0.12
44 Taylor Chorney D 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 11:06 11-10 0.73-0.59
46 Michael Latta C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 09:09 8-8 0.37-0.11
74 John Carlson D 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 25:11 0.07 20-23 0.86-0.37
77 T.J. Oshie R 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 16:53 0.13 12-11 0.34-0.26
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
70 Braden Holtby 30 29 1 60:00 1.83 +0.83