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Colorado Avalanche at Washington Capitals

Dec 12, 2017 · Capital One Arena

Team Goals Shots
Colorado Avalanche 2 24
Washington Capitals 5 27

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
05:25 WSH Jakub Vrana (9) Evgeny Kuznetsov (22), Madison Bowey (6) 0 - 1
2nd Period
04:13 COL Colin Wilson (3) Matt Nieto (5), Mark Barberio (5) 1 - 1
17:42 WSH John Carlson (3) Unassisted 1 - 2
3rd Period
05:15 WSH Brett Connolly (6) Madison Bowey (7), Evgeny Kuznetsov (23) 1 - 3
16:19 WSH Matt Niskanen (2) Evgeny Kuznetsov (24), Andre Burakovsky (4) 1 - 4
18:57 COL Tyson Jost (2) Mikko Rantanen (16), Carl Soderberg (9) 2 - 4
19:15 WSH Devante Smith-Pelly (5) Chandler Stephenson (7), Jay Beagle (7) 2 - 5

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
20:00 WSH John Carlson Tripping 2
2nd Period
08:39 WSH John Carlson Delaying game puck over glass 2
18:52 WSH Evgeny Kuznetsov Slashing 2
3rd Period
15:06 WSH Chandler Stephenson Boarding 2
15:31 COL Nathan MacKinnon Holding 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Colorado Avalanche 56 34 24 2 2.0 52.0
Washington Capitals 55 42 27 5 3.6 48.0

How the game went

420246Start2nd3rdWashington Capitals aheadColorado Avalanche 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 Colorado Avalanche had.

Expected goals

Colorado Avalanche: 2.0 expected, 2 scored · Washington Capitals: 3.6 expected, 5 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndCOL goal, 4:13 of 2nd, a 8% chanceCOL goal, 18:57 of 3rd, a 8% chanceWSH goal, 5:25 of 1st, a 6% chanceWSH goal, 17:42 of 2nd, a 3% chanceWSH goal, 5:15 of 3rd, a 6% chanceWSH goal, 16:19 of 3rd, a 13% chanceWSH goal, 19:15 of 3rd, a 52% chanceWSH 3.6COL 2.0

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

Colorado Avalanche
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.

Colorado Avalanche

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Gabriel Landeskog · Nathan MacKinnon · Mikko Rantanen10:4941.731.70-2
Blake Comeau · Carl Soderberg · Matt Nieto4:4550.068.70-0
Sven Andrighetto · J.T. Compher · Tyson Jost4:1955.646.80-0
Colin Wilson · Sven Andrighetto · J.T. Compher2:5990.087.90-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Tyson Barrie · Patrik Nemeth8:1428.611.10-1
Erik Johnson · Samuel Girard7:2758.385.20-1
Erik Johnson · Nikita Zadorov7:0171.464.90-0

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
17 Tyson Jost C 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 13:22 0.08 11-9 0.49-0.40
22 Colin Wilson C 1 0 1 1 0 3 0 15:19 0.18 16-14 0.58-1.01
34 Carl Soderberg C 0 1 1 0 0 2 2 17:37 0.08 15-14 0.41-0.84
44 Mark Barberio D 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 13:42 10-12 0.33-0.72
83 Matt Nieto L 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 11:50 0.08 6-8 0.25-0.29
96 Mikko Rantanen R 0 1 1 -2 0 3 0 20:45 0.15 16-17 0.47-0.91
2 Patrik Nemeth D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 16:05 21-13 0.50-0.98
6 Erik Johnson D 0 0 0 -3 0 2 2 23:15 0.16 26-17 1.03-0.41
8 Tyson Barrie D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 21:32 0.10 8-16 0.17-1.15
10 Sven Andrighetto R 0 0 0 -1 0 4 1 17:12 0.48 24-11 0.77-0.54
15 Blake Comeau L 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 16:16 0.02 14-10 0.71-0.35
29 Nathan MacKinnon C 0 0 0 -3 2 3 0 21:00 0.19 11-19 0.38-1.20
37 J.T. Compher L 0 0 0 -2 0 2 0 19:29 0.19 20-13 0.59-0.32
49 Samuel Girard D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 12:30 0.07 16-15 0.71-0.35
54 Anton Lindholm D 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 09:42 4-13 0.16-0.85
57 Gabriel Bourque L 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 11:40 0.14 8-13 0.29-0.64
91 Nikita Zadorov D 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 16:45 0.07 19-10 0.64-0.49
92 Gabriel Landeskog L 0 0 0 -3 0 0 0 20:11 15-16 0.38-0.92
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
40 Semyon Varlamov 26 22 4 59:48 3.18 -0.82

Washington Capitals

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Alex Ovechkin · Nicklas Backstrom · Tom Wilson13:0150.051.31-0
Alex Chiasson · Evgeny Kuznetsov · Jakub Vrana11:2426.917.11-1
Jay Beagle · Devante Smith-Pelly · Chandler Stephenson10:2857.984.50-0
Lars Eller · Brett Connolly · Andre Burakovsky9:5965.075.20-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Matt Niskanen · Dmitry Orlov19:1955.273.11-1
John Carlson · Christian Djoos15:4145.969.11-0
Brooks Orpik · Madison Bowey12:0242.316.70-1

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
92 Evgeny Kuznetsov C 0 3 3 2 2 0 0 14:10 10-20 0.14-0.64
4 Madison Bowey D 0 2 2 0 0 2 1 14:36 0.07 11-15 0.14-0.69
15 Matt Niskanen D 1 0 1 2 0 2 2 25:05 0.14 17-13 1.15-0.42
19 Jakub Vrana L 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 13:00 0.10 9-21 0.13-0.64
20 Brett Connolly R 1 0 1 0 0 1 2 10:39 0.06 13-7 0.81-0.27
25 Devante Smith-Pelly R 1 0 1 1 0 3 4 14:24 0.21 12-11 0.93-0.29
74 John Carlson D 1 0 1 2 4 2 0 21:10 0.14 20-24 1.19-0.66
9 Chandler Stephenson C 0 1 1 1 2 0 0 14:27 13-11 0.95-0.34
28 Andre Burakovsky L 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 11:42 0.07 16-8 0.83-0.30
83 Jay Beagle C 0 1 1 1 0 4 2 15:26 0.67 12-12 0.91-0.28
8 Alex Ovechkin L 0 0 0 2 0 2 3 15:18 0.11 13-12 0.58-0.49
9 Dmitry Orlov D 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 23:39 16-13 1.15-0.42
19 Nicklas Backstrom C 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 15:51 0.23 12-12 0.59-0.47
20 Lars Eller C 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 15:15 0.67 14-9 0.83-0.42
43 Tom Wilson R 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 17:42 0.19 13-13 0.58-0.54
44 Brooks Orpik D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 19:16 0.04 15-19 0.15-0.83
44 Christian Djoos D 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 16:25 0.28 17-20 1.17-0.52
48 Alex Chiasson R 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 14:18 0.14 7-20 0.13-0.64
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
70 Braden Holtby 24 22 2 59:37 2.01 +0.01