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Washington Capitals at Boston Bruins

Jan 5, 2016 · TD Garden

Team Goals Shots
Washington Capitals 3 29
Boston Bruins 2 27

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
15:01 WSH Andre Burakovsky (4) Evgeny Kuznetsov (24), Aaron Ness (1) 1 - 0
2nd Period
12:40 WSH Evgeny Kuznetsov (13) PP Nicklas Backstrom (24), Matt Niskanen (15) 2 - 0
15:26 BOS Loui Eriksson (14) Brett Connolly (9), Patrice Bergeron (22) 2 - 1
3rd Period
10:41 WSH Marcus Johansson (10) Dmitry Orlov (11), Nate Schmidt (6) 3 - 1
11:52 BOS Patrice Bergeron (15) PP Ryan Spooner (18), Torey Krug (17) 3 - 2

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
01:36 WSH Karl Alzner Interference 2
05:56 WSH Jason Chimera Roughing 2
09:13 BOS Patrice Bergeron Interference 2
2nd Period
06:52 BOS Joonas Kemppainen Hooking 2
07:40 WSH T.J. Oshie Interference 2
11:36 BOS Zdeno Chara Delaying game puck over glass 2
3rd Period
11:13 WSH Matt Niskanen Holding 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Washington Capitals 55 39 29 3 2.0 53.7
Boston Bruins 52 36 27 2 1.3 46.3

How the game went

10505Start2nd3rdBoston 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: 2.0 expected, 3 scored · Boston Bruins: 1.3 expected, 2 scored

00.511.5Start2nd3rdEndWSH goal, 15:01 of 1st, a 5% chanceWSH goal, 12:40 of 2nd, a 6% chanceWSH goal, 10:41 of 3rd, a 31% chanceBOS goal, 15:26 of 2nd, a 6% chanceBOS goal, 11:52 of 3rd, a 4% chanceWSH 2.0BOS 1.3

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
Justin Williams · Evgeny Kuznetsov · Andre Burakovsky14:4570.087.01-0
Alex Ovechkin · T.J. Oshie · Nicklas Backstrom11:0833.339.80-0
Jason Chimera · Marcus Johansson · Tom Wilson7:5557.958.31-0
Brooks Laich · Zach Sill · Stanislav Galiev4:2250.039.50-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Matt Niskanen · Karl Alzner16:4430.030.20-1
Dmitry Orlov · Nate Schmidt14:4775.091.71-0
Taylor Chorney · Aaron Ness10:4772.763.31-0

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
92 Evgeny Kuznetsov C 1 1 2 1 0 4 0 20:41 0.16 15-6 0.37-0.05
28 Andre Burakovsky L 1 0 1 1 0 3 3 16:56 0.22 15-8 0.42-0.07
90 Marcus Johansson L 1 0 1 1 0 3 0 12:12 0.45 15-9 0.57-0.34
9 Dmitry Orlov D 0 1 1 1 0 1 3 20:06 0.09 19-9 0.78-0.07
15 Matt Niskanen D 0 1 1 -1 2 3 1 27:19 0.14 9-24 0.28-0.66
19 Nicklas Backstrom C 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 18:08 0.01 8-15 0.30-0.41
42 Aaron Ness D 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 12:55 0.01 16-8 0.31-0.18
88 Nate Schmidt D 0 1 1 1 0 3 1 18:43 0.11 18-6 0.77-0.07
8 Alex Ovechkin L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 19:09 0.36 11-15 0.31-0.47
14 Justin Williams R 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 19:50 16-8 0.39-0.07
20 Jason Chimera L 0 0 0 1 2 1 2 14:33 0.07 13-11 0.54-0.33
23 Zach Sill C 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 07:57 0.01 5-5 0.07-0.05
25 Brooks Laich C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 09:28 0.05 7-6 0.19-0.10
27 Karl Alzner D 0 0 0 -1 2 1 2 21:23 0.02 9-22 0.28-0.64
43 Tom Wilson R 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 13:42 0.01 16-11 0.57-0.33
44 Taylor Chorney D 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 15:46 16-8 0.31-0.20
49 Stanislav Galiev R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 05:42 3-4 0.02-0.10
77 T.J. Oshie R 0 0 0 0 2 3 4 18:51 0.25 9-15 0.39-0.41
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
70 Braden Holtby W 27 25 2 60:00 1.30 -0.70

Boston Bruins

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Loui Eriksson · Patrice Bergeron · Brett Connolly11:3263.643.11-0
Matt Beleskey · Landon Ferraro · Ryan Spooner11:1655.655.70-1
Jimmy Hayes · Frank Vatrano · Joonas Kemppainen8:2735.346.40-0
Max Talbot · Zac Rinaldo · Tyler Randell4:3166.776.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Zdeno Chara · Kevan Miller9:2666.751.50-0
Kevan Miller · Torey Krug6:3060.024.70-0
Zdeno Chara · Dennis Seidenberg6:1853.842.11-0

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
37 Patrice Bergeron C 1 1 2 1 2 2 1 20:22 0.13 16-14 0.30-0.40
21 Loui Eriksson L 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 20:09 0.06 14-10 0.26-0.36
15 Ryan Spooner C 0 1 1 -1 0 4 1 19:49 0.31 11-8 0.38-0.28
20 Brett Connolly R 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 16:58 0.04 16-12 0.26-0.39
47 Torey Krug D 0 1 1 -1 0 6 1 25:24 0.18 11-21 0.43-0.84
4 Dennis Seidenberg D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 4 20:13 14-23 0.23-0.80
6 Colin Miller D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 17:01 0.07 6-12 0.14-0.12
10 Jimmy Hayes R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 13:20 0.02 8-14 0.14-0.48
25 Max Talbot C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 3 08:36 0.09 4-7 0.11-0.49
33 Zdeno Chara D 0 0 0 1 2 3 2 27:16 0.13 23-13 0.46-0.45
36 Zac Rinaldo C 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 07:29 4-5 0.11-0.06
39 Matt Beleskey L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 5 19:38 0.01 13-9 0.39-0.30
41 Landon Ferraro C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 17:27 0.14 11-11 0.39-0.31
41 Joonas Kemppainen C 0 0 0 -1 2 1 0 14:25 0.05 6-21 0.12-0.66
54 Adam McQuaid D 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 08:49 0.02 5-11 0.27-0.27
64 Tyler Randell R 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 05:48 4-4 0.11-0.08
77 Frank Vatrano R 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 12:40 0.03 7-17 0.14-0.31
86 Kevan Miller D 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 21:17 0.04 17-8 0.30-0.27
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
40 Tuukka Rask L 29 26 3 58:15 1.92 -1.08