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Minnesota Wild at Washington Capitals

Feb 26, 2016 · Verizon Center

Team Goals Shots
Minnesota Wild 2 32
Washington Capitals 3 27

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
19:18 MIN Mikko Koivu (13) PP Ryan Suter (32), Jason Pominville (19) 1 - 0
2nd Period
00:49 WSH Brooks Orpik (3) Nicklas Backstrom (38), Alex Ovechkin (18) 1 - 1
05:05 MIN Nino Niederreiter (12) Ryan Suter (33), Jason Pominville (20) 2 - 1
3rd Period
04:35 WSH Alex Ovechkin (40) PP Matt Niskanen (22), Nicklas Backstrom (39) 2 - 2
14:56 WSH Dmitry Orlov (7) Andre Burakovsky (17), Evgeny Kuznetsov (45) 2 - 3

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
05:54 WSH Brooks Orpik Holding the stick 2
12:50 WSH Matt Niskanen Roughing 2
17:44 WSH Tom Wilson Tripping 2
3rd Period
04:06 MIN Darcy Kuemper Delaying game 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Minnesota Wild 64 45 32 2 1.6 52.8
Washington Capitals 52 36 27 3 1.9 47.2

How the game went

201510505Start2nd3rdWashington Capitals aheadMinnesota Wild 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 Minnesota Wild had.

Expected goals

Minnesota Wild: 1.6 expected, 2 scored · Washington Capitals: 1.9 expected, 3 scored

00.511.5Start2nd3rdEndMIN goal, 19:18 of 1st, a 6% chanceMIN goal, 5:05 of 2nd, a 14% chanceWSH goal, 0:49 of 2nd, a 9% chanceWSH goal, 4:35 of 3rd, a 5% chanceWSH goal, 14:56 of 3rd, a 1% chanceWSH 1.9MIN 1.6

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

Minnesota Wild
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.

Minnesota Wild

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mikko Koivu · Ryan Carter · Charlie Coyle13:0050.053.20-0
Jason Pominville · Erik Haula · Nino Niederreiter12:0646.234.51-1
Thomas Vanek · Chris Porter · Mikael Granlund8:0743.535.30-0
Jarret Stoll · Jordan Schroeder · Justin Fontaine7:1472.760.40-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Ryan Suter · Jared Spurgeon20:2061.860.51-1
Marco Scandella · Mathew Dumba13:0240.749.80-0
Nate Prosser · Mike Reilly8:1357.942.10-0

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 Ryan Suter D 0 2 2 -1 0 2 1 28:02 0.04 28-16 0.72-0.55
29 Jason Pominville R 0 2 2 0 0 2 0 16:54 0.04 15-15 0.33-0.58
9 Mikko Koivu C 1 0 1 -1 0 2 1 21:56 0.15 16-18 0.47-0.53
62 Nino Niederreiter R 1 0 1 -1 0 4 0 17:09 0.28 19-17 0.47-0.69
3 Charlie Coyle C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 21:07 13-16 0.39-0.47
6 Marco Scandella D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 21:25 0.17 21-28 0.45-0.92
6 Mike Reilly D 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 12:14 0.03 12-10 0.31-0.51
7 Chris Porter L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 09:57 0.05 13-13 0.35-0.63
14 Jordan Schroeder C 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 08:44 0.05 8-5 0.11-0.10
14 Justin Fontaine R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 09:00 10-3 0.17-0.07
18 Ryan Carter L 0 0 0 0 0 3 6 15:01 0.29 12-12 0.39-0.34
19 Jarret Stoll C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 10:03 0.02 14-4 0.24-0.10
24 Mathew Dumba D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 18:09 0.02 15-18 0.32-0.38
26 Thomas Vanek L 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 17:51 0.04 19-18 0.54-0.74
39 Nate Prosser D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 14:45 0.02 17-17 0.42-0.92
46 Jared Spurgeon D 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 25:25 0.07 21-13 0.65-0.43
56 Erik Haula L 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 14:27 0.02 13-14 0.31-0.57
64 Mikael Granlund C 0 0 0 0 0 7 1 18:50 0.34 19-18 0.54-0.74
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Darcy Kuemper L 27 24 3 58:32 1.87 -1.13

Washington Capitals

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Alex Ovechkin · T.J. Oshie · Nicklas Backstrom14:2863.079.21-0
Justin Williams · Evgeny Kuznetsov · Andre Burakovsky12:1160.072.11-1
Jason Chimera · Marcus Johansson · Tom Wilson12:0738.544.90-0
Brooks Laich · Mike Richards · Stanislav Galiev3:4942.962.10-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Brooks Orpik · Dmitry Orlov17:3754.173.92-0
Matt Niskanen · Karl Alzner16:5758.152.80-0
Taylor Chorney · Nate Schmidt10:2324.029.60-1

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
8 Alex Ovechkin L 1 1 2 1 0 4 3 19:13 0.27 18-18 0.52-0.28
19 Nicklas Backstrom C 0 2 2 1 0 0 3 19:16 17-18 0.52-0.28
9 Dmitry Orlov D 1 0 1 2 0 1 2 20:44 0.01 22-18 1.00-0.39
44 Brooks Orpik D 1 0 1 2 2 1 8 24:44 0.09 24-24 1.09-0.44
15 Matt Niskanen D 0 1 1 0 2 3 5 22:23 0.15 19-14 0.52-0.54
28 Andre Burakovsky L 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 16:07 0.22 19-16 0.99-0.47
92 Evgeny Kuznetsov C 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 16:32 0.32 20-17 1.01-0.62
10 Mike Richards C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 08:46 3-6 0.07-0.22
14 Justin Williams R 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 15:22 0.31 18-13 0.99-0.38
20 Jason Chimera L 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 15:43 0.01 10-19 0.25-0.64
25 Brooks Laich C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 06:25 0.07 3-4 0.07-0.04
27 Karl Alzner D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 21:06 0.02 18-13 0.52-0.47
43 Tom Wilson R 0 0 0 0 2 1 5 16:04 0.09 12-19 0.25-0.58
44 Taylor Chorney D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 14:11 8-25 0.30-0.50
49 Stanislav Galiev R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 06:27 4-6 0.09-0.10
77 T.J. Oshie R 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 18:42 0.16 17-10 0.52-0.14
88 Nate Schmidt D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 16:41 0.02 11-21 0.27-0.61
90 Marcus Johansson L 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 16:00 0.15 12-24 0.27-0.46
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
70 Braden Holtby W 32 30 2 60:00 1.60 -0.40