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Tampa Bay Lightning at Washington Capitals

Eastern Conference Finals, Game 3 · May 15, 2018 · Verizon Center

Team Goals Shots
Tampa Bay Lightning 4 23
Washington Capitals 2 38

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
13:53 TBL Steven Stamkos (6) PP Victor Hedman (9), Brayden Point (8) 1 - 0
2nd Period
01:50 TBL Nikita Kucherov (7) PP Victor Hedman (10), Steven Stamkos (9) 2 - 0
03:37 TBL Victor Hedman (1) Nikita Kucherov (9), Ondrej Palat (5) 3 - 0
10:31 WSH Brett Connolly (4) Chandler Stephenson (4), Matt Niskanen (5) 3 - 1
16:03 TBL Brayden Point (6) Tyler Johnson (4), Braydon Coburn (2) 4 - 1
3rd Period
16:58 WSH Evgeny Kuznetsov (9) T.J. Oshie (6), Lars Eller (7) 4 - 2

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
08:58 TBL Anton Stralman Boarding 2
12:57 WSH Braden Holtby Tripping 2
2nd Period
01:34 WSH Lars Eller Closing hand on puck 2
06:44 WSH Lars Eller Slashing 2
13:20 TBL Ryan Callahan Roughing 2
3rd Period
04:01 TBL Alex Killorn Interference 2
07:01 TBL Steven Stamkos Roughing 2
07:01 WSH Lars Eller Cross checking 2
07:17 WSH Michal Kempny Cross checking 2
12:03 WSH Evgeny Kuznetsov High sticking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Tampa Bay Lightning 47 40 23 4 2.3 46.8
Washington Capitals 69 51 38 2 2.6 53.2

How the game went

505101520Start2nd3rdWashington Capitals aheadTampa Bay Lightning 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 Tampa Bay Lightning had.

Expected goals

Tampa Bay Lightning: 2.3 expected, 4 scored · Washington Capitals: 2.6 expected, 2 scored

012Start2nd3rdEndTBL goal, 13:53 of 1st, a 5% chanceTBL goal, 1:50 of 2nd, a 5% chanceTBL goal, 3:37 of 2nd, a 7% chanceTBL goal, 16:03 of 2nd, a 19% chanceWSH goal, 10:31 of 2nd, a 3% chanceWSH goal, 16:58 of 3rd, a 4% chanceWSH 2.6TBL 2.3

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

Tampa Bay Lightning
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.

Tampa Bay Lightning

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Tyler Johnson · Yanni Gourde · Brayden Point10:4048.055.31-0
Alex Killorn · J.T. Miller · Anthony Cirelli8:5640.052.90-0
Steven Stamkos · Ondrej Palat · Nikita Kucherov8:3858.371.61-0
Chris Kunitz · Ryan Callahan · Cedric Paquette7:2537.525.50-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Anton Stralman · Ryan McDonagh13:1040.038.80-0
Dan Girardi · Victor Hedman9:5363.264.71-0
Braydon Coburn · Mikhail Sergachev4:2250.085.91-0

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
77 Victor Hedman D 1 2 3 -1 0 2 0 25:08 0.10 12-16 0.52-0.54
21 Brayden Point C 1 1 2 1 0 4 0 21:18 0.59 16-17 0.68-0.58
86 Nikita Kucherov R 1 1 2 0 0 6 0 16:20 0.30 11-8 0.45-0.27
91 Steven Stamkos C 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 16:54 0.26 9-6 0.44-0.17
45 Braydon Coburn D 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 12:47 10-16 0.56-0.50
81 Ondrej Palat L 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 13:55 0.21 8-7 0.30-0.14
90 Tyler Johnson C 0 1 1 1 0 1 2 15:38 0.15 12-15 0.56-0.49
5 Dan Girardi D 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 18:29 0.05 16-12 0.64-0.38
10 J.T. Miller C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 15:04 0.10 7-12 0.44-0.44
13 Cedric Paquette C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 12:06 3-8 0.03-0.16
14 Chris Kunitz L 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 09:33 4-7 0.13-0.13
17 Alex Killorn L 0 0 0 -1 2 2 3 13:33 0.03 10-11 0.48-0.45
24 Ryan Callahan R 0 0 0 0 2 1 5 13:36 0.09 6-9 0.16-0.26
27 Ryan McDonagh D 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 24:33 0.04 16-17 0.57-0.52
37 Yanni Gourde C 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 16:28 17-16 0.76-0.58
71 Anthony Cirelli C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 12:12 0.33 8-10 0.45-0.41
86 Anton Stralman D 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 24:23 0.01 11-19 0.42-0.70
98 Mikhail Sergachev D 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 10:03 9-4 0.53-0.06
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
88 Andrei Vasilevskiy W 38 36 2 60:00 2.68 +0.68

Washington Capitals

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Alex Ovechkin · Evgeny Kuznetsov · Tom Wilson12:0069.268.50-0
T.J. Oshie · Lars Eller · Jakub Vrana9:4250.031.50-0
Jay Beagle · Alex Chiasson · Devante Smith-Pelly7:0136.410.90-0
Brett Connolly · Chandler Stephenson · Andre Burakovsky5:0946.738.21-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Matt Niskanen · Dmitry Orlov14:3436.026.31-2
John Carlson · Michal Kempny14:1548.343.70-0
Brooks Orpik · Christian Djoos8:2977.884.10-0

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 Brett Connolly R 1 0 1 1 0 4 5 11:52 0.33 8-8 0.31-0.43
92 Evgeny Kuznetsov C 1 0 1 1 2 12 0 24:52 0.72 20-8 0.70-0.27
9 Chandler Stephenson C 0 1 1 -1 0 0 0 10:13 8-12 0.34-0.57
15 Matt Niskanen D 0 1 1 -1 0 0 2 21:24 0.03 10-17 0.34-0.78
20 Lars Eller C 0 1 1 1 6 1 3 21:37 0.42 8-10 0.20-0.46
77 T.J. Oshie R 0 1 1 1 0 2 3 21:15 0.05 11-9 0.36-0.44
6 Michal Kempny D 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 16:53 15-15 0.60-0.75
8 Alex Ovechkin L 0 0 0 0 0 9 2 25:36 0.42 20-12 0.70-0.39
9 Dmitry Orlov D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 3 21:29 0.06 12-17 0.34-0.80
19 Jakub Vrana L 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 13:54 0.15 11-9 0.34-0.44
25 Devante Smith-Pelly R 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 08:48 0.02 4-7 0.04-0.33
28 Andre Burakovsky L 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 07:26 8-8 0.31-0.43
43 Tom Wilson R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 4 16:24 0.10 18-11 0.58-0.37
44 Brooks Orpik D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 16:02 17-5 0.46-0.07
44 Christian Djoos D 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 09:04 0.19 14-4 0.35-0.07
48 Alex Chiasson R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 09:07 5-9 0.10-0.38
74 John Carlson D 0 0 0 1 0 3 1 26:22 0.08 16-16 0.62-0.78
83 Jay Beagle C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11:37 5-8 0.08-0.35
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
70 Braden Holtby L 23 19 4 56:53 2.37 -1.63