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Washington Capitals at Pittsburgh Penguins

Feb 2, 2018 · PPG Paints Arena

Team Goals Shots
Washington Capitals 4 33
Pittsburgh Penguins 7 39

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
02:11 PIT Phil Kessel (22) Riley Sheahan (13), Jake Guentzel (11) 0 - 1
15:50 PIT Carl Hagelin (5) Unassisted 0 - 2
18:10 WSH Alex Ovechkin (31) Christian Djoos (8) 1 - 2
2nd Period
00:26 PIT Patric Hornqvist (16) PP Sidney Crosby (40), Evgeni Malkin (30) 1 - 3
03:08 WSH Dmitry Orlov (7) Lars Eller (16), Matt Niskanen (11) 2 - 3
11:57 WSH Evgeny Kuznetsov (14) Tom Wilson (15), Alex Ovechkin (24) 3 - 3
3rd Period
01:01 PIT Evgeni Malkin (27) Phil Kessel (39), Olli Maatta (16) 3 - 4
01:50 WSH Alex Ovechkin (32) Evgeny Kuznetsov (34), Dmitry Orlov (11) 4 - 4
06:08 PIT Bryan Rust (7) PP Kris Letang (27), Riley Sheahan (14) 4 - 5
07:59 PIT Phil Kessel (23) Evgeni Malkin (31), Carl Hagelin (11) 4 - 6
10:00 PIT Evgeni Malkin (28) PP Sidney Crosby (41), Jake Guentzel (12) 4 - 7

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
03:32 PIT Sidney Crosby Tripping 2
19:27 WSH Chandler Stephenson Tripping 2
2nd Period
12:17 WSH Tom Wilson Roughing 2
19:40 WSH T.J. Oshie Cross checking 2
19:40 PIT Kris Letang Roughing 2
3rd Period
04:50 WSH Nicklas Backstrom High sticking 2
09:05 WSH Madison Bowey Tripping 2
11:44 PIT Evgeni Malkin Tripping 2
17:08 PIT Carl Hagelin Hooking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Washington Capitals 54 40 33 4 2.7 48.4
Pittsburgh Penguins 64 53 39 7 5.2 51.6

How the game went

051015Start2nd3rdPittsburgh Penguins 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 Pittsburgh Penguins had taken more, and below it and blue while Washington Capitals had.

Expected goals

Washington Capitals: 2.7 expected, 4 scored · Pittsburgh Penguins: 5.2 expected, 7 scored

024Start2nd3rdEndWSH goal, 18:10 of 1st, a 15% chanceWSH goal, 3:08 of 2nd, a 4% chanceWSH goal, 11:57 of 2nd, a 23% chanceWSH goal, 1:50 of 3rd, a 5% chancePIT goal, 2:11 of 1st, a 8% chancePIT goal, 15:50 of 1st, a 14% chancePIT goal, 0:26 of 2nd, a 17% chancePIT goal, 1:01 of 3rd, a 27% chancePIT goal, 6:08 of 3rd, a 34% chancePIT goal, 7:59 of 3rd, a 9% chancePIT goal, 10:00 of 3rd, a 14% chancePIT 5.2WSH 2.7

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
Pittsburgh Penguins

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
Alex Ovechkin · Evgeny Kuznetsov · Tom Wilson12:5056.550.32-1
T.J. Oshie · Nicklas Backstrom · Andre Burakovsky10:2655.641.80-0
Lars Eller · Brett Connolly · Chandler Stephenson7:5535.747.01-1
Jay Beagle · Alex Chiasson · Devante Smith-Pelly7:3033.355.30-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Matt Niskanen · Dmitry Orlov18:2953.341.52-2
Brooks Orpik · Madison Bowey13:0435.730.70-0
John Carlson · Christian Djoos11:5157.155.02-1

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

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
8 Alex Ovechkin L 2 1 3 2 0 5 2 19:51 0.43 14-10 0.67-0.62
9 Dmitry Orlov D 1 1 2 0 0 2 2 23:27 0.05 17-14 0.50-0.55
92 Evgeny Kuznetsov C 1 1 2 2 0 4 1 17:58 0.53 16-13 0.73-0.73
15 Matt Niskanen D 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 23:04 0.01 17-15 0.39-0.58
20 Lars Eller C 0 1 1 -1 0 2 2 16:44 0.18 9-17 0.43-1.05
43 Tom Wilson R 0 1 1 1 2 1 1 15:36 0.17 18-15 0.81-0.75
44 Christian Djoos D 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 13:27 0.10 16-12 0.92-0.75
4 Madison Bowey D 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 14:06 0.04 10-18 0.58-1.31
9 Chandler Stephenson C 0 0 0 -1 2 1 0 12:29 0.10 6-9 0.26-0.29
19 Nicklas Backstrom C 0 0 0 -1 2 4 2 16:33 0.44 16-13 0.73-1.11
20 Brett Connolly R 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 13:29 0.09 8-14 0.33-0.93
25 Devante Smith-Pelly R 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 10:00 7-12 0.31-0.36
28 Andre Burakovsky L 0 0 0 -1 0 4 1 18:41 0.25 19-18 0.81-1.77
44 Brooks Orpik D 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 18:52 13-23 0.69-1.73
48 Alex Chiasson R 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 08:33 0.10 3-7 0.19-0.24
74 John Carlson D 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 21:43 0.07 19-16 1.13-1.14
77 T.J. Oshie R 0 0 0 0 2 0 5 16:21 16-13 0.78-1.11
83 Jay Beagle C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 11:54 0.09 6-6 0.26-0.15
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
70 Braden Holtby L 33 27 6 47:59 4.19 -1.81
31 Philipp Grubauer 6 5 1 12:01 0.72 -0.28

Pittsburgh Penguins

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Sidney Crosby · Bryan Rust · Dominik Simon10:3768.275.00-1
Evgeni Malkin · Patric Hornqvist · Carl Hagelin7:0445.553.81-1
Phil Kessel · Riley Sheahan · Jake Guentzel7:0152.473.51-0
Ryan Reaves · Tom Kuhnhackl · Carter Rowney3:1333.326.30-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Kris Letang · Brian Dumoulin16:1065.477.21-1
Justin Schultz · Olli Maatta13:4757.150.50-0
Ian Cole · Jamie Oleksiak12:4634.655.82-0

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
71 Evgeni Malkin C 2 2 4 2 2 5 1 19:05 0.66 13-12 0.88-0.67
8 Phil Kessel R 2 1 3 2 0 4 0 17:44 0.48 13-17 1.02-0.51
62 Carl Hagelin L 1 1 2 0 2 2 1 14:08 0.23 7-11 0.67-0.66
8 Riley Sheahan C 0 2 2 -1 0 2 0 16:35 0.18 11-18 0.92-0.85
59 Jake Guentzel C 0 2 2 1 0 4 1 13:42 0.80 16-16 0.99-0.80
87 Sidney Crosby C 0 2 2 -1 2 4 0 22:21 0.53 23-12 1.28-0.33
17 Bryan Rust R 1 0 1 -1 0 5 0 16:41 0.83 20-10 1.03-0.63
70 Patric Hornqvist R 1 0 1 0 0 3 1 12:07 0.53 7-6 0.61-0.45
3 Olli Maatta D 0 1 1 1 0 2 7 15:47 0.02 21-15 1.05-0.93
58 Kris Letang D 0 1 1 -2 2 2 3 24:02 0.11 19-12 1.42-0.65
2 Brian Dumoulin D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 1 21:00 0.03 18-12 1.37-0.50
4 Justin Schultz D 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 18:33 0.05 20-15 0.94-0.93
4 Jamie Oleksiak D 0 0 0 1 0 1 4 19:15 0.10 11-19 0.72-0.53
14 Tom Kuhnhackl R 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 13:11 0.08 9-11 0.33-0.47
28 Ian Cole D 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 16:59 0.01 9-20 0.56-0.72
37 Carter Rowney C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 09:05 0.04 2-5 0.05-0.19
51 Dominik Simon C 0 0 0 -2 0 0 3 13:53 18-11 1.02-0.47
75 Ryan Reaves R 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 07:52 0.09 8-8 0.29-0.24
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
30 Matt Murray W 33 29 4 60:00 2.71 -1.29