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Buffalo Sabres at Washington Capitals

Feb 24, 2018 · Capital One Arena

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 1 29
Washington Capitals 5 36

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
00:50 WSH Evgeny Kuznetsov (17) Brett Connolly (8), Dmitry Orlov (15) 0 - 1
2nd Period
13:20 WSH Andre Burakovsky (8) Evgeny Kuznetsov (40), Matt Niskanen (16) 0 - 2
3rd Period
00:14 BUF Sam Reinhart (14) Casey Nelson (5) 1 - 2
10:13 WSH Alex Ovechkin (37) PP John Carlson (37), Evgeny Kuznetsov (41) 1 - 3
17:48 WSH Lars Eller (14) Alex Chiasson (5), Matt Niskanen (17) 1 - 4
18:36 WSH Alex Ovechkin (38) John Carlson (38), Evgeny Kuznetsov (42) 1 - 5

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
03:51 WSH Brett Connolly Hooking 2
3rd Period
08:43 BUF Kyle Okposo Interference goalkeeper 2
14:16 WSH Andre Burakovsky Delaying game puck over glass 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 63 46 29 1 2.3 46.6
Washington Capitals 67 49 36 5 3.8 53.4

How the game went

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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 Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 2.3 expected, 1 scored · Washington Capitals: 3.8 expected, 5 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 0:14 of 3rd, a 9% chanceWSH goal, 0:50 of 1st, a 6% chanceWSH goal, 13:20 of 2nd, a 8% chanceWSH goal, 10:13 of 3rd, a 9% chanceWSH goal, 17:48 of 3rd, a 49% chanceWSH goal, 18:36 of 3rd, a 12% chanceWSH 3.8BUF 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

Buffalo Sabres
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.

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Benoit Pouliot · Ryan O'Reilly · Sam Reinhart13:4358.161.31-0
Kyle Okposo · Zemgus Girgensons · Evan Rodrigues13:0555.246.10-0
Jacob Josefson · Jordan Nolan · Nick Baptiste9:4446.714.30-0
Jason Pominville · Johan Larsson · Scott Wilson9:0825.04.00-3
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Nathan Beaulieu · Rasmus Ristolainen17:3544.242.80-2
Marco Scandella · Casey Nelson17:0348.636.11-0
Josh Gorges · Victor Antipin12:3152.253.00-0

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
13 Sam Reinhart C 1 0 1 0 0 3 0 17:29 0.30 18-14 0.66-0.42
8 Casey Nelson D 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 20:18 0.01 18-24 0.87-1.85
4 Josh Gorges D 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 14:33 0.01 13-14 0.28-0.31
6 Marco Scandella D 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 22:07 0.04 23-20 0.97-1.53
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 0 0 0 2 4 1 19:09 0.66 20-17 1.23-1.45
10 Jacob Josefson C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 11:24 0.01 7-12 0.05-0.43
13 Nick Baptiste R 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 11:42 0.15 9-9 0.06-0.28
17 Evan Rodrigues C 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 18:57 0.30 16-17 1.08-1.39
20 Scott Wilson C 0 0 0 -3 0 0 1 13:03 9-22 0.15-0.82
22 Johan Larsson L 0 0 0 -3 0 0 1 13:16 0.01 11-21 0.16-0.87
28 Nathan Beaulieu D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 1 19:36 0.01 20-28 0.80-1.07
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 14:58 0.28 17-16 1.11-1.41
29 Jason Pominville R 0 0 0 -4 0 0 0 11:56 10-19 0.05-0.76
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 -3 0 2 5 24:00 0.09 20-27 0.74-1.07
67 Benoit Pouliot L 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 17:29 0.09 20-15 0.67-0.51
71 Jordan Nolan C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11:59 9-11 0.06-0.42
90 Ryan O'Reilly C 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 20:08 0.30 19-16 0.70-0.57
93 Victor Antipin D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 16:34 0.02 16-13 0.32-0.40
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
90 Robin Lehner L 35 31 4 59:52 3.39 -0.61

Washington Capitals

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Alex Ovechkin · Nicklas Backstrom · Tom Wilson14:4645.553.20-1
T.J. Oshie · Evgeny Kuznetsov · Brett Connolly11:2252.465.31-0
Lars Eller · Chandler Stephenson · Andre Burakovsky10:3355.072.30-0
Jay Beagle · Alex Chiasson · Devante Smith-Pelly7:1861.559.50-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Matt Niskanen · Dmitry Orlov19:0046.755.11-1
John Carlson · Christian Djoos15:0371.970.12-0
Brooks Orpik · Michal Kempny14:4650.054.80-0

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
92 Evgeny Kuznetsov C 1 3 4 3 0 4 0 18:52 0.33 22-13 0.80-0.25
8 Alex Ovechkin L 2 0 2 0 0 11 0 18:53 1.57 23-24 1.81-1.44
15 Matt Niskanen D 0 2 2 1 0 1 1 23:58 0.07 22-25 0.82-0.67
74 John Carlson D 0 2 2 2 0 0 0 20:09 0.02 24-12 1.66-0.69
20 Lars Eller C 1 0 1 1 0 5 0 13:17 0.13 12-11 0.37-0.12
28 Andre Burakovsky L 1 0 1 1 2 4 0 13:32 0.22 14-10 0.42-0.12
9 Dmitry Orlov D 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 23:50 0.04 22-27 0.87-0.79
20 Brett Connolly R 0 1 1 1 2 1 0 15:05 0.16 18-13 0.61-0.24
48 Alex Chiasson R 0 1 1 2 0 1 1 09:38 0.19 15-5 0.56-0.17
6 Michal Kempny D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16:59 18-19 0.64-0.63
9 Chandler Stephenson C 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 14:09 0.08 12-11 0.38-0.12
19 Nicklas Backstrom C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 17:26 0.05 21-26 1.69-1.45
25 Devante Smith-Pelly R 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 09:50 0.15 9-5 0.31-0.17
43 Tom Wilson R 0 0 0 -1 0 3 6 18:46 0.25 20-25 1.64-1.44
44 Brooks Orpik D 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 19:21 17-18 0.64-0.52
44 Christian Djoos D 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 15:03 0.01 23-9 1.60-0.68
77 T.J. Oshie R 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 15:51 0.05 14-15 0.49-0.26
83 Jay Beagle C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 11:21 9-7 0.25-0.19
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
31 Philipp Grubauer W 29 28 1 60:00 2.33 +1.33