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Washington Capitals at Vegas Golden Knights

Dec 23, 2017 · T-Mobile Arena

Team Goals Shots
Washington Capitals 0 26
Vegas Golden Knights 3 28

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
02:37 VGK Alex Tuch (8) Brendan Leipsic (11), Cody Eakin (11) 0 - 1
07:39 VGK Oscar Lindberg (7) Tomas Nosek (4) 0 - 2
14:55 VGK William Karlsson (16) Reilly Smith (17), Jonathan Marchessault (20) 0 - 3

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
2nd Period
00:06 VGK Reilly Smith Tripping 2
04:24 VGK Cody Eakin Interference 2
16:42 WSH Team Too many men on the ice 2
19:24 WSH Alex Ovechkin Interference 2
3rd Period
02:10 VGK Brayden McNabb Holding 2
19:14 VGK Cody Eakin Holding 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Washington Capitals 63 38 26 0 2.3 55.3
Vegas Golden Knights 49 39 28 3 2.5 44.7

How the game went

151050510Start2nd3rdVegas Golden Knights 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 Vegas Golden Knights had taken more, and below it and blue while Washington Capitals had.

Expected goals

Washington Capitals: 2.3 expected, 0 scored · Vegas Golden Knights: 2.5 expected, 3 scored

012Start2nd3rdEndVGK goal, 2:37 of 1st, a 31% chanceVGK goal, 7:39 of 1st, a 7% chanceVGK goal, 14:55 of 1st, a 8% chanceVGK 2.5WSH 2.3

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
Vegas Golden Knights

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
Lars Eller · Brett Connolly · Andre Burakovsky9:2955.014.10-0
T.J. Oshie · Evgeny Kuznetsov · Jakub Vrana8:4758.340.30-0
Alex Ovechkin · Nicklas Backstrom · Tom Wilson6:2533.38.00-1
Jay Beagle · Devante Smith-Pelly · Chandler Stephenson4:1653.853.10-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Matt Niskanen · Dmitry Orlov20:2453.852.90-0
Brooks Orpik · Madison Bowey12:4260.954.10-0
John Carlson · Christian Djoos12:1060.037.40-2

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
4 Madison Bowey D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13:54 14-11 0.59-0.64
8 Alex Ovechkin L 0 0 0 -1 2 3 7 20:23 0.24 18-11 0.45-0.33
9 Dmitry Orlov D 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 24:15 0.13 22-18 0.79-0.68
9 Chandler Stephenson C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 12:27 0.03 12-9 0.69-0.59
15 Matt Niskanen D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 2 23:41 0.46 22-21 0.83-0.76
19 Nicklas Backstrom C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 17:28 0.12 16-8 0.40-0.25
19 Jakub Vrana L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13:19 9-10 0.57-0.57
20 Lars Eller C 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 15:42 0.03 15-12 0.17-0.65
20 Brett Connolly R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13:46 11-10 0.09-0.65
25 Devante Smith-Pelly R 0 0 0 -1 0 2 3 11:15 0.48 15-13 1.01-0.73
28 Andre Burakovsky L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 13:30 14-12 0.17-0.64
43 Tom Wilson R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 3 13:31 0.07 9-8 0.22-0.23
44 Brooks Orpik D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 3 17:20 0.02 15-12 0.65-0.58
44 Christian Djoos D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 1 12:40 0.04 15-11 0.43-0.84
74 John Carlson D 0 0 0 -2 0 2 0 22:32 0.03 16-11 0.46-0.76
77 T.J. Oshie R 0 0 0 -1 0 3 5 18:25 0.15 16-10 0.54-0.50
83 Jay Beagle C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 4 12:53 0.55 11-12 0.68-0.59
92 Evgeny Kuznetsov C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 19:04 10-11 0.62-0.65
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
70 Braden Holtby 28 25 3 59:54 2.57 -0.43

Vegas Golden Knights

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Reilly Smith · William Karlsson · Jonathan Marchessault12:1554.255.31-0
Cody Eakin · Brendan Leipsic · Alex Tuch11:2148.064.61-0
James Neal · David Perron · Erik Haula9:2536.838.20-0
Oscar Lindberg · Pierre-Edouard Bellemare · Tomas Nosek8:2225.058.91-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Brayden McNabb · Nate Schmidt14:3946.251.21-0
Jon Merrill · Colin Miller14:3251.780.31-0
Deryk Engelland · Shea Theodore13:2138.546.71-0

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
24 Oscar Lindberg L 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 12:14 0.07 5-13 0.23-0.16
71 William Karlsson C 1 0 1 1 0 2 2 15:35 0.18 13-11 0.42-0.34
89 Alex Tuch R 1 0 1 1 0 1 2 15:10 0.31 12-15 0.96-0.62
19 Reilly Smith R 0 1 1 1 2 1 1 16:55 0.04 17-13 0.48-0.40
20 Cody Eakin C 0 1 1 1 4 1 2 14:56 0.06 15-15 1.00-0.65
28 Brendan Leipsic L 0 1 1 1 0 5 0 12:43 0.51 13-14 0.99-0.56
81 Jonathan Marchessault R 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 17:02 0.26 16-11 0.49-0.34
92 Tomas Nosek L 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 12:12 4-12 0.23-0.16
3 Brayden McNabb D 0 0 0 1 2 2 1 20:25 0.05 13-17 0.50-0.53
4 Jon Merrill D 0 0 0 1 0 3 2 18:41 0.08 18-18 1.08-0.67
5 Deryk Engelland D 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 19:48 12-19 0.55-1.04
6 Colin Miller D 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 19:51 16-18 1.03-0.39
27 Shea Theodore D 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 17:54 0.01 13-16 0.64-0.61
41 Pierre-Edouard Bellemare L 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 14:40 0.20 4-13 0.23-0.16
56 Erik Haula L 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 15:13 0.36 10-13 0.45-0.72
57 David Perron L 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 14:50 0.37 8-13 0.43-0.78
81 James Neal L 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 14:36 0.03 9-13 0.48-0.72
88 Nate Schmidt D 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 20:29 12-16 0.46-0.49
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
29 Marc-Andre Fleury 26 26 0 60:00 2.39 +2.39