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Pittsburgh Penguins at Washington Capitals

2nd Round, Game 1 · Apr 26, 2018 · Verizon Center

Team Goals Shots
Pittsburgh Penguins 3 25
Washington Capitals 2 34

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
00:17 WSH Evgeny Kuznetsov (5) Alex Ovechkin (4), Tom Wilson (2) 0 - 1
3rd Period
00:28 WSH Alex Ovechkin (6) Tom Wilson (3), Dmitry Orlov (3) 0 - 2
02:59 PIT Patric Hornqvist (3) Justin Schultz (3), Jake Guentzel (8) 1 - 2
05:20 PIT Sidney Crosby (7) Jake Guentzel (9), Patric Hornqvist (5) 2 - 2
07:48 PIT Jake Guentzel (7) Sidney Crosby (8) 3 - 2

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
2nd Period
02:56 WSH Tom Wilson Interference 2
3rd Period
09:40 WSH Chandler Stephenson High sticking 2
10:12 PIT Jake Guentzel High sticking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Pittsburgh Penguins 50 34 25 3 1.5 41.8
Washington Capitals 72 50 34 2 2.8 58.2

How the game went

05101520Start2nd3rdWashington Capitals aheadPittsburgh Penguins 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 Washington Capitals had taken more, and below it and blue while Pittsburgh Penguins had.

Expected goals

Pittsburgh Penguins: 1.5 expected, 3 scored · Washington Capitals: 2.8 expected, 2 scored

012Start2nd3rdEndPIT goal, 2:59 of 3rd, a 5% chancePIT goal, 5:20 of 3rd, a 5% chancePIT goal, 7:48 of 3rd, a 5% chanceWSH goal, 0:17 of 1st, a 10% chanceWSH goal, 0:28 of 3rd, a 5% chanceWSH 2.8PIT 1.5

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

Pittsburgh Penguins
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.

Pittsburgh Penguins

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Sidney Crosby · Patric Hornqvist · Jake Guentzel14:5342.155.13-2
Phil Kessel · Riley Sheahan · Dominik Simon11:0948.333.00-0
Derick Brassard · Bryan Rust · Conor Sheary10:0564.747.10-0
Tom Kuhnhackl · Carter Rowney · Zachary Aston-Reese6:130.00.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Kris Letang · Brian Dumoulin15:2342.945.51-2
Justin Schultz · Olli Maatta13:0053.650.22-0
Jamie Oleksiak · Chad Ruhwedel5:2760.039.90-0

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
59 Jake Guentzel C 1 2 3 1 2 3 2 19:00 0.22 17-25 0.66-0.68
70 Patric Hornqvist R 1 1 2 1 0 2 1 17:24 0.14 17-22 0.66-0.53
87 Sidney Crosby C 1 1 2 1 0 3 1 19:25 0.25 17-22 0.65-0.53
4 Justin Schultz D 0 1 1 2 0 1 0 22:05 0.05 19-26 0.56-0.79
2 Brian Dumoulin D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 24:20 0.07 17-23 0.63-0.58
3 Olli Maatta D 0 0 0 2 0 2 4 23:32 0.08 16-27 0.55-1.26
4 Jamie Oleksiak D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 09:24 0.01 13-13 0.22-0.41
5 Chad Ruhwedel D 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 14:08 0.04 14-15 0.30-0.67
8 Phil Kessel R 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 18:42 0.02 17-22 0.46-1.20
8 Riley Sheahan C 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 19:15 0.14 17-23 0.50-1.22
14 Tom Kuhnhackl R 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 09:20 0-10 0.00-0.18
17 Bryan Rust R 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 17:07 14-11 0.29-0.42
27 Zachary Aston-Reese L 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 06:40 0-7 0.00-0.15
37 Carter Rowney C 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 12:18 0-14 0.00-0.38
43 Conor Sheary L 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 14:01 0.12 12-10 0.27-0.35
51 Dominik Simon C 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 12:16 0.18 15-15 0.44-0.90
58 Kris Letang D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 25:01 0.02 13-24 0.53-0.94
61 Derick Brassard C 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 14:02 0.19 12-11 0.24-0.42
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
30 Matt Murray 34 32 2 60:00 2.90 +0.90

Washington Capitals

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
T.J. Oshie · Nicklas Backstrom · Chandler Stephenson15:5950.062.30-1
Alex Ovechkin · Evgeny Kuznetsov · Tom Wilson13:0761.161.82-2
Lars Eller · Devante Smith-Pelly · Brett Connolly11:2363.267.40-0
Jay Beagle · Alex Chiasson · Jakub Vrana5:2669.263.40-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
John Carlson · Michal Kempny19:3060.071.70-0
Matt Niskanen · Dmitry Orlov16:5444.746.22-3
Brooks Orpik · Christian Djoos11:4771.466.60-0

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
8 Alex Ovechkin L 1 1 2 0 0 3 3 18:39 0.35 24-16 0.70-0.46
43 Tom Wilson R 0 2 2 0 2 1 4 15:26 0.08 23-18 0.69-0.55
92 Evgeny Kuznetsov C 1 0 1 0 0 6 1 19:49 0.36 26-20 0.92-0.58
9 Dmitry Orlov D 0 1 1 -1 0 1 4 21:18 0.09 19-22 0.68-0.72
6 Michal Kempny D 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 20:41 0.09 28-18 1.25-0.49
9 Chandler Stephenson C 0 0 0 -1 2 0 5 18:59 14-17 0.69-0.44
15 Matt Niskanen D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 3 22:14 0.06 18-21 0.61-0.72
19 Nicklas Backstrom C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 20:29 0.36 16-13 0.58-0.37
19 Jakub Vrana L 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 05:52 10-4 0.23-0.12
20 Lars Eller C 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 16:21 0.05 13-8 0.61-0.31
20 Brett Connolly R 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 13:17 0.29 15-7 0.71-0.29
25 Devante Smith-Pelly R 0 0 0 0 0 2 7 13:51 0.24 14-8 0.71-0.31
44 Brooks Orpik D 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 16:05 0.02 19-6 0.39-0.18
44 Christian Djoos D 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 12:08 0.08 15-6 0.37-0.18
48 Alex Chiasson R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 06:22 0.13 10-4 0.23-0.12
74 John Carlson D 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 25:50 0.16 29-19 1.34-0.49
77 T.J. Oshie R 0 0 0 -1 0 2 5 21:18 0.40 17-16 0.70-0.41
83 Jay Beagle C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 09:10 10-7 0.22-0.23
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
70 Braden Holtby 25 22 3 58:11 1.61 -1.39