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Washington Capitals at New York Rangers

Mar 26, 2018 · Madison Square Garden

Team Goals Shots
Washington Capitals 4 33
New York Rangers 2 30

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
02:50 WSH T.J. Oshie (17) Nicklas Backstrom (43), Jakub Jerabek (5) 1 - 0
05:13 WSH Matt Niskanen (7) Evgeny Kuznetsov (51), Alex Ovechkin (38) 2 - 0
08:54 WSH Alex Ovechkin (45) PP John Carlson (49), Nicklas Backstrom (44) 3 - 0
16:39 WSH Evgeny Kuznetsov (24) SH Alex Chiasson (9) 4 - 0
2nd Period
13:16 NYR Lias Andersson (1) Jimmy Vesey (9) 4 - 1
3rd Period
04:26 NYR Mats Zuccarello (16) Filip Chytil (1), Rob O'Gara (3) 4 - 2

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
00:31 WSH Evgeny Kuznetsov Slashing 2
07:57 NYR Cody McLeod Hooking 2
14:43 WSH Michal Kempny Holding 2
2nd Period
00:42 WSH Matt Niskanen Holding 2
19:40 NYR Vladislav Namestnikov Hooking 2
3rd Period
08:04 NYR Marc Staal High sticking 2
16:20 WSH Brooks Orpik Interference 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Washington Capitals 47 38 33 4 3.2 41.4
New York Rangers 62 47 30 2 3.8 58.6

How the game went

105051015Start2nd3rdNew York Rangers 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 New York Rangers had taken more, and below it and blue while Washington Capitals had.

Expected goals

Washington Capitals: 3.2 expected, 4 scored · New York Rangers: 3.8 expected, 2 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndWSH goal, 2:50 of 1st, a 3% chanceWSH goal, 5:13 of 1st, a 12% chanceWSH goal, 8:54 of 1st, a 9% chanceWSH goal, 16:39 of 1st, a 21% chanceNYR goal, 13:16 of 2nd, a 12% chanceNYR goal, 4:26 of 3rd, a 18% chanceNYR 3.8WSH 3.2

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
New York Rangers

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
T.J. Oshie · Nicklas Backstrom · Andre Burakovsky12:1634.842.51-1
Alex Ovechkin · Evgeny Kuznetsov · Tom Wilson9:3953.344.11-0
Jay Beagle · Alex Chiasson · Chandler Stephenson8:2456.338.60-0
Lars Eller · Brett Connolly · Jakub Vrana7:5540.051.50-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Matt Niskanen · Dmitry Orlov16:3251.646.81-0
Brooks Orpik · Jakub Jerabek12:0441.254.30-0
John Carlson · Michal Kempny11:0730.425.90-2

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
8 Alex Ovechkin L 1 1 2 1 0 8 0 17:41 0.54 10-11 0.50-0.71
92 Evgeny Kuznetsov C 1 1 2 2 2 1 0 17:36 0.32 12-10 0.62-0.69
19 Nicklas Backstrom C 0 2 2 0 0 2 0 19:02 0.38 12-15 0.83-0.81
15 Matt Niskanen D 1 0 1 1 2 2 2 22:49 0.14 17-21 0.85-1.26
77 T.J. Oshie R 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 19:34 0.16 9-20 0.60-1.19
28 Jakub Jerabek D 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 13:47 0.04 10-12 0.63-0.54
48 Alex Chiasson R 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 10:11 9-9 0.45-0.89
74 John Carlson D 0 1 1 -1 0 3 0 21:15 0.22 10-16 0.72-1.24
6 Michal Kempny D 0 0 0 -1 2 1 0 15:42 0.02 10-22 0.53-1.69
9 Dmitry Orlov D 0 0 0 2 0 3 2 24:39 0.09 17-18 0.81-0.85
9 Chandler Stephenson C 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 12:09 0.25 9-7 0.45-0.72
19 Jakub Vrana L 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 08:53 0.06 7-10 0.42-0.35
20 Lars Eller C 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 16:10 0.31 6-18 0.37-0.73
20 Brett Connolly R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 3 11:16 6-13 0.37-0.55
28 Andre Burakovsky L 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 16:45 0.40 10-24 0.65-1.13
43 Tom Wilson R 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 14:30 0.08 8-9 0.44-0.62
44 Brooks Orpik D 0 0 0 0 2 0 5 17:00 9-11 0.75-0.52
83 Jay Beagle C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 13:27 0.18 9-9 0.45-0.84
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
31 Philipp Grubauer 30 28 2 59:34 3.84 +1.84

New York Rangers

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mats Zuccarello · Kevin Hayes · Filip Chytil11:4660.969.11-1
Chris Kreider · Jesper Fast · Mika Zibanejad9:4358.864.30-1
Ryan Spooner · Jimmy Vesey · Lias Andersson6:5575.074.91-0
Cody McLeod · Vladislav Namestnikov · Pavel Buchnevich6:4453.830.90-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Rob O'Gara · Brady Skjei14:0462.558.11-0
Marc Staal · Neal Pionk13:1936.446.41-1
Ryan Sproul · John Gilmour11:3170.869.80-1

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
17 Lias Andersson C 1 0 1 1 0 2 3 10:44 0.22 15-9 0.86-0.47
36 Mats Zuccarello R 1 0 1 -1 0 2 0 20:00 0.34 15-9 1.06-0.48
26 Jimmy Vesey L 0 1 1 0 0 5 0 13:07 0.56 13-7 0.73-0.31
46 Rob O'Gara D 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 18:19 0.18 23-12 1.39-0.84
72 Filip Chytil C 0 1 1 0 0 6 0 14:23 0.66 17-12 1.26-0.66
4 Neal Pionk D 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 23:20 0.04 11-17 0.70-0.83
7 Vladislav Namestnikov C 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 16:25 0.14 10-10 0.36-0.52
13 Kevin Hayes R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 21:10 0.47 16-13 1.09-0.67
15 Ryan Spooner C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 13:56 12-7 0.66-0.28
18 Marc Staal D 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 16:41 10-14 0.65-0.65
22 Chris Kreider L 0 0 0 -1 0 3 2 18:16 0.16 11-10 0.79-0.64
25 Ryan Sproul D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 16:59 19-7 1.12-0.42
55 Cody McLeod L 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 07:29 0.17 8-6 0.27-0.47
58 John Gilmour D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 3 14:29 0.02 17-10 0.98-0.60
71 Jesper Fast R 0 0 0 -1 0 4 1 15:36 0.55 14-8 0.94-0.48
76 Brady Skjei D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 23:02 0.09 23-12 1.30-0.84
89 Pavel Buchnevich L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 14:41 0.02 10-9 0.40-0.67
93 Mika Zibanejad C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 18:50 0.13 11-8 0.79-0.63
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
31 Ondrej Pavelec 27 26 1 48:42 2.57 +1.57
40 Alexandar Georgiev 6 3 3 08:54 0.69 -2.31