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Pittsburgh Penguins at Washington Capitals

2nd Round, Game 2 · Apr 29, 2018 · Verizon Center

Team Goals Shots
Pittsburgh Penguins 1 33
Washington Capitals 4 32

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
01:26 WSH Alex Ovechkin (7) Unassisted 0 - 1
14:54 WSH Jakub Vrana (1) PP Lars Eller (1), Braden Holtby (1) 0 - 2
2nd Period
02:08 WSH Brett Connolly (1) Lars Eller (2) 0 - 3
13:04 PIT Kris Letang (2) Justin Schultz (4), Jake Guentzel (10) 1 - 3
3rd Period
19:53 WSH Nicklas Backstrom (3) Tom Wilson (4), Lars Eller (3) 1 - 4

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
06:57 WSH Evgeny Kuznetsov Tripping 2
12:59 PIT Sidney Crosby Hooking 2
2nd Period
11:14 PIT Patric Hornqvist Roughing 2
11:14 WSH Dmitry Orlov Roughing 2
3rd Period
05:38 WSH T.J. Oshie Interference 2
11:37 PIT Kris Letang Holding 2
14:48 PIT Derick Brassard Tripping 2
16:19 WSH Evgeny Kuznetsov Slashing 2
18:17 PIT Patric Hornqvist Roughing 2
18:17 WSH Devante Smith-Pelly Roughing 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Pittsburgh Penguins 75 44 33 1 2.5 54.9
Washington Capitals 69 45 32 4 3.5 45.1

How the game went

10505101520Start2nd3rdWashington 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: 2.5 expected, 1 scored · Washington Capitals: 3.5 expected, 4 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndPIT goal, 13:04 of 2nd, a 3% chanceWSH goal, 1:26 of 1st, a 3% chanceWSH goal, 14:54 of 1st, a 15% chanceWSH goal, 2:08 of 2nd, a 7% chanceWSH goal, 19:53 of 3rd, a 65% chanceWSH 3.5PIT 2.5

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 Guentzel14:3952.559.90-1
Phil Kessel · Riley Sheahan · Bryan Rust6:2750.013.30-0
Derick Brassard · Conor Sheary · Dominik Simon4:0466.759.90-1
Tom Kuhnhackl · Carter Rowney · Zachary Aston-Reese3:5261.573.60-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Justin Schultz · Olli Maatta10:0841.738.30-0
Justin Schultz · Jamie Oleksiak8:0552.058.20-0
Kris Letang · Jamie Oleksiak6:4953.334.10-1

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

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
58 Kris Letang D 1 0 1 -2 2 5 1 26:21 0.09 26-20 0.76-0.59
4 Justin Schultz D 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 27:24 0.08 27-29 1.05-1.35
59 Jake Guentzel C 0 1 1 -1 0 2 2 22:32 0.22 25-19 0.97-0.65
2 Brian Dumoulin D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 08:59 0.04 10-10 0.60-0.29
3 Olli Maatta D 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 22:20 0.05 22-17 0.61-0.70
4 Jamie Oleksiak D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 7 20:51 0.02 26-21 0.71-0.66
5 Chad Ruhwedel D 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 11:08 0.04 13-5 0.18-0.18
8 Phil Kessel R 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 18:31 0.07 10-15 0.26-0.50
8 Riley Sheahan C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 18:25 0.11 13-12 0.19-0.48
14 Tom Kuhnhackl R 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 09:11 0.08 13-7 0.42-0.31
17 Bryan Rust R 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 14:22 10-11 0.06-0.61
27 Zachary Aston-Reese L 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 07:35 0.45 15-7 0.52-0.17
37 Carter Rowney C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 06:18 0.09 8-5 0.42-0.15
43 Conor Sheary L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 13:06 0.08 18-11 0.39-0.45
51 Dominik Simon C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 10:00 0.03 10-11 0.33-0.35
61 Derick Brassard C 0 0 0 -1 2 1 0 14:08 0.10 16-13 0.39-0.44
70 Patric Hornqvist R 0 0 0 -1 4 4 5 19:29 0.44 23-21 0.97-0.70
87 Sidney Crosby C 0 0 0 -1 2 3 2 23:37 0.50 25-21 0.97-0.81
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
30 Matt Murray L 31 28 3 57:48 2.68 -0.32

Washington Capitals

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
T.J. Oshie · Nicklas Backstrom · Chandler Stephenson11:4550.046.50-0
Alex Ovechkin · Evgeny Kuznetsov · Tom Wilson10:2457.179.71-0
Lars Eller · Devante Smith-Pelly · Brett Connolly7:2452.638.41-0
Jay Beagle · Alex Chiasson · Jakub Vrana4:0026.722.80-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Matt Niskanen · Dmitry Orlov17:3051.356.10-0
John Carlson · Michal Kempny14:4138.940.31-0
Brooks Orpik · Christian Djoos9:0152.053.21-0

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
20 Lars Eller C 0 3 3 2 0 0 1 13:12 0.20 12-12 0.54-0.66
8 Alex Ovechkin L 1 0 1 1 0 4 4 18:28 0.26 16-16 0.61-0.30
19 Nicklas Backstrom C 1 0 1 0 0 2 1 22:35 0.13 18-19 0.57-0.46
19 Jakub Vrana L 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 07:38 0.29 4-16 0.15-0.55
20 Brett Connolly R 1 0 1 1 0 3 1 10:24 0.23 10-10 0.37-0.64
43 Tom Wilson R 0 1 1 2 0 2 7 16:27 0.28 19-18 0.78-0.21
6 Michal Kempny D 0 0 0 1 0 4 1 17:36 0.15 15-26 0.50-0.84
9 Dmitry Orlov D 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 22:17 0.07 22-22 0.80-0.61
9 Chandler Stephenson C 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 18:34 0.18 21-15 0.74-0.46
15 Matt Niskanen D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 2 23:31 0.07 21-23 0.76-0.74
25 Devante Smith-Pelly R 0 0 0 1 2 2 4 11:03 0.04 10-13 0.37-0.63
44 Brooks Orpik D 0 0 0 2 0 1 3 16:00 0.01 16-15 0.63-0.51
44 Christian Djoos D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 10:30 13-14 0.58-0.51
48 Alex Chiasson R 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 08:03 0.31 6-12 0.16-0.65
74 John Carlson D 0 0 0 2 0 3 3 25:09 0.11 15-24 0.49-0.71
77 T.J. Oshie R 0 0 0 -1 2 1 3 21:15 0.08 16-25 0.56-0.50
83 Jay Beagle C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10:11 5-16 0.16-0.54
92 Evgeny Kuznetsov C 0 0 0 1 4 0 0 19:07 0.13 16-14 0.61-0.29
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
70 Braden Holtby W 33 32 1 60:00 2.60 +1.60