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Washington Capitals at San Jose Sharks

Mar 10, 2018 · SAP Center at San Jose

Team Goals Shots
Washington Capitals 2 26
San Jose Sharks 0 24

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
2nd Period
18:32 WSH Nicklas Backstrom (17) Brett Connolly (9), John Carlson (42) 1 - 0
3rd Period
18:11 WSH Lars Eller (15) Dmitry Orlov (17), Matt Niskanen (20) 2 - 0

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
09:58 WSH Tom Wilson Interference 2
2nd Period
11:36 WSH Tom Wilson Clipping 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Washington Capitals 56 36 26 2 2.5 53.9
San Jose Sharks 54 40 24 0 2.1 46.1

How the game went

10505Start2nd3rdSan Jose Sharks 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 San Jose Sharks had taken more, and below it and blue while Washington Capitals had.

Expected goals

Washington Capitals: 2.5 expected, 2 scored · San Jose Sharks: 2.1 expected, 0 scored

00.511.52Start2nd3rdEndWSH goal, 18:32 of 2nd, a 5% chanceWSH goal, 18:11 of 3rd, a 54% chanceWSH 2.5SJS 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

Washington Capitals
San Jose Sharks

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 Wilson15:3152.664.30-0
Nicklas Backstrom · Brett Connolly · Andre Burakovsky11:0652.923.31-0
T.J. Oshie · Lars Eller · Jakub Vrana10:5061.973.60-0
Jay Beagle · Travis Boyd · Chandler Stephenson5:5022.222.70-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Matt Niskanen · Dmitry Orlov20:2154.358.90-0
John Carlson · Michal Kempny18:2756.854.51-0
Brooks Orpik · Jakub Jerabek13:3140.049.50-0

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
19 Nicklas Backstrom C 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 16:33 0.07 12-11 0.24-0.40
20 Lars Eller C 1 0 1 1 0 5 1 17:04 0.46 16-14 0.84-0.46
9 Dmitry Orlov D 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 24:22 22-16 0.63-0.39
15 Matt Niskanen D 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 23:39 0.11 19-16 0.55-0.39
20 Brett Connolly R 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 13:28 10-9 0.10-0.37
74 John Carlson D 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 22:40 26-16 0.84-0.58
6 Michal Kempny D 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 18:34 21-16 0.69-0.58
8 Alex Ovechkin L 0 0 0 0 0 6 2 16:54 0.45 24-18 0.83-0.37
9 Chandler Stephenson C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10:39 5-7 0.10-0.35
19 Jakub Vrana L 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 12:38 0.22 14-8 0.83-0.30
28 Andre Burakovsky L 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 13:06 0.04 9-9 0.10-0.34
28 Jakub Jerabek D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 13:41 0.01 10-15 0.55-0.56
43 Tom Wilson R 0 0 0 1 4 1 3 19:09 0.10 21-18 0.67-0.37
44 Brooks Orpik D 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 17:04 12-15 0.62-0.56
72 Travis Boyd C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 06:54 6-7 0.19-0.35
77 T.J. Oshie R 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 17:04 0.21 17-12 0.98-0.43
83 Jay Beagle C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 12:26 0.10 10-10 0.27-0.46
92 Evgeny Kuznetsov C 0 0 0 1 0 3 1 20:05 0.17 21-18 0.67-0.37
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
31 Philipp Grubauer 24 24 0 60:00 2.13 +2.13

San Jose Sharks

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Eric Fehr · Marcus Sorensen · Barclay Goodrow9:2655.054.30-0
Joe Pavelski · Logan Couture · Evander Kane6:1587.5100.00-0
Joe Pavelski · Evander Kane · Joonas Donskoi4:5936.459.30-0
Logan Couture · Mikkel Boedker · Tomas Hertl4:2925.07.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Marc-Edouard Vlasic · Justin Braun14:4748.355.20-1
Brenden Dillon · Dylan DeMelo10:0757.167.20-0
Brent Burns · Joakim Ryan8:1535.336.60-0

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
2 Dylan DeMelo D 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 17:13 0.06 13-14 0.50-0.54
5 Brenden Dillon D 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 20:40 0.08 21-20 0.79-0.61
11 Chris Tierney C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 15:37 0.12 10-22 0.38-1.01
16 Joe Pavelski C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 21:01 0.12 16-14 0.49-0.50
20 Marcus Sorensen L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11:42 12-15 0.47-0.48
21 Eric Fehr C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 10:40 0.20 13-10 0.47-0.33
23 Barclay Goodrow C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 11:40 0.03 13-13 0.47-0.48
28 Timo Meier R 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 16:07 0.33 14-22 0.45-0.70
33 Joakim Ryan D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10:40 8-12 0.35-0.70
39 Logan Couture C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 18:22 0.09 16-14 0.37-0.33
44 Marc-Edouard Vlasic D 0 0 0 -2 0 5 0 22:05 0.08 19-21 0.39-0.52
48 Tomas Hertl C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 14:23 0.10 6-8 0.11-0.31
61 Justin Braun D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 19:19 0.02 15-19 0.37-0.65
62 Kevin Labanc R 0 0 0 -2 0 0 1 13:09 0.13 9-12 0.39-0.53
72 Joonas Donskoi R 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 18:12 0.34 12-15 0.38-0.40
84 Brent Burns D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 26:01 0.07 18-24 0.66-0.88
89 Mikkel Boedker L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 13:08 0.22 5-9 0.11-0.36
91 Evander Kane L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 6 21:30 0.08 15-11 0.49-0.40
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
31 Martin Jones 25 24 1 58:31 1.98 +0.98