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New Jersey Devils at Washington Capitals

Dec 30, 2017 · Capital One Arena

Team Goals Shots
New Jersey Devils 2 27
Washington Capitals 5 35

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
02:26 WSH Tom Wilson (6) Christian Djoos (5), John Carlson (26) 0 - 1
11:09 WSH Christian Djoos (3) Nicklas Backstrom (22), Alex Ovechkin (15) 0 - 2
17:35 NJD John Moore (6) Travis Zajac (1), Marcus Johansson (4) 1 - 2
2nd Period
07:01 WSH John Carlson (4) PP Nicklas Backstrom (23), Alex Ovechkin (16) 1 - 3
3rd Period
04:25 WSH Matt Niskanen (3) Devante Smith-Pelly (7), Alex Ovechkin (17) 1 - 4
09:00 NJD Travis Zajac (3) Marcus Johansson (5), Sami Vatanen (6) 2 - 4
19:19 WSH Nicklas Backstrom (8) John Carlson (27) 2 - 5

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
03:52 WSH Brooks Orpik Hooking 2
2nd Period
05:34 NJD Pavel Zacha Holding 2
15:49 WSH T.J. Oshie High sticking 2
3rd Period
11:57 NJD Damon Severson Tripping 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
New Jersey Devils 60 41 27 2 2.1 47.2
Washington Capitals 67 45 35 5 4.0 52.8

How the game went

20246810Start2nd3rdWashington Capitals aheadNew Jersey Devils 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 New Jersey Devils had.

Expected goals

New Jersey Devils: 2.1 expected, 2 scored · Washington Capitals: 4.0 expected, 5 scored

01234Start2nd3rdEndNJD goal, 17:35 of 1st, a 6% chanceNJD goal, 9:00 of 3rd, a 8% chanceWSH goal, 2:26 of 1st, a 12% chanceWSH goal, 11:09 of 1st, a 8% chanceWSH goal, 7:01 of 2nd, a 4% chanceWSH goal, 4:25 of 3rd, a 6% chanceWSH goal, 19:19 of 3rd, a 50% chanceWSH 4.0NJD 2.1

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

New Jersey Devils
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.

New Jersey Devils

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Travis Zajac · Marcus Johansson · Kyle Palmieri12:3254.557.22-1
Taylor Hall · Jesper Bratt · Nico Hischier11:3645.838.90-0
Stefan Noesen · Miles Wood · Pavel Zacha8:5268.271.80-0
Brian Boyle · Brian Gibbons · Blake Coleman6:4950.064.20-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Andy Greene · Steven Santini15:0243.830.60-0
John Moore · Sami Vatanen13:3045.242.92-1
Damon Severson · Will Butcher12:3061.545.90-2

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
14 Travis Zajac C 1 1 2 1 0 1 0 18:56 0.08 14-17 0.59-1.33
90 Marcus Johansson L 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 17:24 0.21 15-17 0.61-1.15
27 John Moore D 1 0 1 1 0 3 2 19:21 0.14 16-22 0.53-0.76
45 Sami Vatanen D 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 21:04 0.05 16-22 0.65-1.05
4 Andy Greene D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 19:24 16-20 0.59-1.21
4 Will Butcher D 0 0 0 -3 0 2 0 17:41 0.06 18-12 0.57-0.79
11 Brian Boyle C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 12:41 0.38 7-6 0.29-0.22
11 Stefan Noesen R 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 12:31 0.06 17-11 0.57-0.29
11 Miles Wood L 0 0 0 -2 0 2 1 13:52 0.15 17-16 0.57-0.73
13 Nico Hischier C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 17:27 0.19 13-21 0.33-0.98
16 Steven Santini D 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 20:22 0.07 16-20 0.56-1.28
18 Pavel Zacha C 0 0 0 -1 2 3 3 12:15 0.32 16-11 0.54-0.38
20 Blake Coleman L 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 11:47 0.03 7-7 0.29-0.22
21 Kyle Palmieri C 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 18:49 0.20 14-16 0.62-0.93
29 Brian Gibbons C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 11:14 0.05 5-9 0.25-0.26
63 Jesper Bratt L 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 15:52 13-20 0.29-1.34
71 Taylor Hall L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 18:30 0.12 12-19 0.30-1.09
78 Damon Severson D 0 0 0 -2 2 1 0 18:11 0.02 18-14 0.61-0.60
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Cory Schneider L 34 30 4 59:12 3.58 -0.42

Washington Capitals

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Alex Ovechkin · Nicklas Backstrom · Devante Smith-Pelly13:3159.572.31-1
Jay Beagle · Alex Chiasson · Chandler Stephenson12:1437.538.60-0
Lars Eller · Brett Connolly · Tom Wilson9:0061.551.31-1
T.J. Oshie · Evgeny Kuznetsov · Jakub Vrana7:2133.340.30-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Matt Niskanen · Dmitry Orlov17:3554.569.01-0
John Carlson · Christian Djoos13:4261.874.01-1
Brooks Orpik · Taylor Chorney12:3034.831.90-1

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
19 Nicklas Backstrom C 1 2 3 1 0 3 1 19:48 0.10 26-18 1.86-0.62
74 John Carlson D 1 2 3 1 0 4 0 25:58 0.16 28-18 1.46-0.65
8 Alex Ovechkin L 0 3 3 1 0 6 0 20:00 0.72 30-16 2.03-0.62
44 Christian Djoos D 1 1 2 1 0 4 0 15:02 0.47 22-15 1.45-0.50
15 Matt Niskanen D 1 0 1 2 0 1 2 22:11 0.06 19-17 1.05-0.46
43 Tom Wilson R 1 0 1 0 0 3 3 14:38 0.25 14-10 0.50-0.41
25 Devante Smith-Pelly R 0 1 1 1 0 4 3 16:25 0.76 26-19 1.68-0.73
9 Dmitry Orlov D 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 21:27 0.03 21-16 1.15-0.44
9 Chandler Stephenson C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 14:39 0.08 9-14 0.34-0.51
19 Jakub Vrana L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10:38 6-14 0.18-0.36
20 Lars Eller C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 15:18 0.11 15-6 0.54-0.26
20 Brett Connolly R 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 10:48 0.13 8-5 0.26-0.25
44 Brooks Orpik D 0 0 0 0 2 2 3 19:08 0.13 14-19 0.44-0.82
44 Taylor Chorney D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 13:25 9-15 0.42-0.64
48 Alex Chiasson R 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 14:52 0.45 8-10 0.52-0.38
77 T.J. Oshie R 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 12:10 7-12 0.20-0.26
83 Jay Beagle C 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 15:28 7-12 0.25-0.49
92 Evgeny Kuznetsov C 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 14:05 0.06 11-14 0.29-0.38
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
70 Braden Holtby W 27 25 2 60:00 2.15 +0.15