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Washington Capitals at St. Louis Blues

Apr 2, 2018 · Scottrade Center

Team Goals Shots
Washington Capitals 4 34
St. Louis Blues 2 36

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
03:38 STL Vladimir Tarasenko (32) Kyle Brodziak (19), Alex Pietrangelo (38) 0 - 1
2nd Period
00:51 WSH Nicklas Backstrom (20) Brett Connolly (11) 1 - 1
02:39 WSH Alex Chiasson (9) Jakub Jerabek (6) 2 - 1
07:54 WSH Andre Burakovsky (11) Nicklas Backstrom (47), Brooks Orpik (10) 3 - 1
11:38 STL Patrik Berglund (14) Kyle Brodziak (20), Robert Bortuzzo (8) 3 - 2
3rd Period
18:29 WSH Alex Ovechkin (46) PP Evgeny Kuznetsov (54), Nicklas Backstrom (48) 4 - 2

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
16:24 WSH Dmitry Orlov Tripping 2
2nd Period
03:47 STL Jaden Schwartz Holding 2
19:50 WSH Matt Niskanen High sticking 2
3rd Period
08:51 WSH Jakub Vrana Tripping 2
10:48 WSH Dmitry Orlov Tripping 2
17:53 STL Kyle Brodziak Slashing 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Washington Capitals 58 45 34 4 3.8 43.6
St. Louis Blues 79 54 36 2 2.7 56.4

How the game went

505101520Start2nd3rdSt. Louis Blues 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 St. Louis Blues had taken more, and below it and blue while Washington Capitals had.

Expected goals

Washington Capitals: 3.8 expected, 4 scored · St. Louis Blues: 2.7 expected, 2 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndWSH goal, 0:51 of 2nd, a 17% chanceWSH goal, 2:39 of 2nd, a 12% chanceWSH goal, 7:54 of 2nd, a 10% chanceWSH goal, 18:29 of 3rd, a 41% chanceSTL goal, 3:38 of 1st, a 6% chanceSTL goal, 11:38 of 2nd, a 3% chanceWSH 3.8STL 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
St. Louis Blues

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 Wilson11:3233.322.00-2
Nicklas Backstrom · Brett Connolly · Andre Burakovsky10:3957.170.52-0
Lars Eller · Devante Smith-Pelly · Shane Gersich9:0052.678.70-0
Alex Chiasson · Chandler Stephenson · Jakub Vrana5:4138.566.31-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Matt Niskanen · Dmitry Orlov18:2927.931.01-2
John Carlson · Michal Kempny13:5341.764.20-0
Brooks Orpik · Jakub Jerabek11:1169.266.92-0

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 2 3 2 0 3 0 18:10 0.29 14-14 0.56-0.35
8 Alex Ovechkin L 1 0 1 -2 0 5 1 16:56 0.07 16-24 0.54-1.45
28 Andre Burakovsky L 1 0 1 2 0 3 0 15:14 0.18 16-13 0.66-0.33
48 Alex Chiasson R 1 0 1 1 0 3 0 11:51 0.13 9-13 0.32-0.21
20 Brett Connolly R 0 1 1 2 0 2 0 12:43 0.17 13-9 0.54-0.21
28 Jakub Jerabek D 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 13:07 0.01 21-8 0.81-0.39
44 Brooks Orpik D 0 1 1 2 0 2 2 18:54 0.02 18-8 0.78-0.39
92 Evgeny Kuznetsov C 0 1 1 -2 0 1 0 16:55 0.16 16-26 0.71-1.48
6 Michal Kempny D 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 17:54 0.04 15-23 0.57-0.36
9 Dmitry Orlov D 0 0 0 -1 4 1 0 22:58 0.02 15-32 0.68-1.49
9 Chandler Stephenson C 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 11:32 7-11 0.30-0.25
15 Matt Niskanen D 0 0 0 -1 2 0 1 22:45 12-33 0.66-1.51
19 Jakub Vrana L 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 10:03 0.09 6-12 0.28-0.25
20 Lars Eller C 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 17:29 0.08 12-13 0.64-0.17
25 Devante Smith-Pelly R 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 14:30 0.43 12-13 0.55-0.29
43 Tom Wilson R 0 0 0 -2 0 5 6 19:18 0.41 13-27 0.58-1.50
63 Shane Gersich L 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 10:03 0.01 10-10 0.44-0.14
74 John Carlson D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 22:26 0.01 15-21 0.57-0.31
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
70 Braden Holtby W 36 34 2 59:12 2.72 +0.72

St. Louis Blues

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Brayden Schenn · Vladimir Tarasenko · Jaden Schwartz12:4560.055.20-1
Alexander Steen · Kyle Brodziak · Patrik Berglund11:1859.362.70-2
Vladimir Sobotka · Dmitrij Jaskin · Tage Thompson8:3955.017.40-0
Chris Thorburn · Oskar Sundqvist · Ivan Barbashev3:2514.335.20-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Alex Pietrangelo · Joel Edmundson18:2053.559.81-0
Chris Butler · Robert Bortuzzo12:2865.646.41-0
Colton Parayko · Vince Dunn11:1053.843.20-2

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

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
28 Kyle Brodziak C 0 2 2 0 2 1 1 15:52 0.24 22-15 1.01-0.73
10 Patrik Berglund C 1 0 1 0 0 5 1 16:45 0.54 22-13 1.02-0.67
91 Vladimir Tarasenko R 1 0 1 1 0 3 2 21:16 0.37 22-14 0.90-0.63
7 Alex Pietrangelo D 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 29:55 0.07 25-24 1.34-1.03
41 Robert Bortuzzo D 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 14:24 0.04 21-11 0.48-0.56
6 Joel Edmundson D 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 20:57 0.02 24-20 1.32-0.86
10 Brayden Schenn C 0 0 0 -1 0 4 0 22:58 0.46 22-12 0.86-0.60
17 Vladimir Sobotka C 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 16:33 0.07 18-13 0.28-0.58
20 Alexander Steen L 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 21:43 0.05 19-13 0.93-0.57
22 Chris Thorburn R 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 05:18 0.01 4-7 0.13-0.14
25 Chris Butler D 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 14:57 23-12 0.55-0.58
29 Vince Dunn D 0 0 0 -3 0 0 1 17:06 0.06 16-13 0.39-0.53
49 Ivan Barbashev L 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 08:03 0.04 6-11 0.28-0.34
55 Colton Parayko D 0 0 0 -2 0 4 1 17:07 0.12 15-16 0.35-0.51
70 Oskar Sundqvist C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 07:27 0.08 3-10 0.10-0.29
71 Jaden Schwartz L 0 0 0 -1 2 4 0 21:45 0.33 19-14 0.75-0.63
72 Tage Thompson C 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 12:38 0.06 14-10 0.14-0.39
93 Dmitrij Jaskin R 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 14:11 0.11 15-12 0.25-0.53
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
34 Jake Allen L 33 30 3 58:29 2.47 -0.53