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Tampa Bay Lightning at Washington Capitals

Eastern Conference Finals, Game 4 · May 17, 2018 · Verizon Center

Team Goals Shots
Tampa Bay Lightning 4 20
Washington Capitals 2 38

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
04:28 WSH Dmitry Orlov (2) T.J. Oshie (7), Matt Niskanen (6) 0 - 1
05:38 TBL Brayden Point (7) Yanni Gourde (5), Tyler Johnson (5) 1 - 1
08:32 TBL Steven Stamkos (7) PP Brayden Point (9), J.T. Miller (6) 2 - 1
2nd Period
05:18 WSH Evgeny Kuznetsov (10) Alex Ovechkin (10), Tom Wilson (7) 2 - 2
3rd Period
11:57 TBL Alex Killorn (5) Ondrej Palat (6), Mikhail Sergachev (3) 3 - 2
19:58 TBL Anthony Cirelli (2) Unassisted 4 - 2

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
07:27 WSH Lars Eller Holding 2
11:20 TBL Yanni Gourde Interference 2
14:31 TBL Victor Hedman Slashing 2
17:56 TBL Nikita Kucherov Hooking 2
2nd Period
07:08 TBL Victor Hedman Tripping 2
3rd Period
09:51 WSH Lars Eller Hooking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Tampa Bay Lightning 45 27 20 4 2.3 46.4
Washington Capitals 65 49 38 2 3.2 53.6

How the game went

051015202530Start2nd3rdWashington 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: 3.2 expected, 2 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndTBL goal, 5:38 of 1st, a 15% chanceTBL goal, 8:32 of 1st, a 12% chanceTBL goal, 11:57 of 3rd, a 11% chanceTBL goal, 19:58 of 3rd, a 40% chanceWSH goal, 4:28 of 1st, a 4% chanceWSH goal, 5:18 of 2nd, a 5% chanceWSH 3.2TBL 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
Steven Stamkos · Ondrej Palat · Nikita Kucherov10:1863.667.80-0
Tyler Johnson · Yanni Gourde · Brayden Point10:1027.350.21-2
Chris Kunitz · Ryan Callahan · Cedric Paquette8:5264.356.60-0
Alex Killorn · J.T. Miller · Anthony Cirelli8:2060.014.50-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Anton Stralman · Ryan McDonagh13:1043.837.90-0
Dan Girardi · Victor Hedman12:0556.550.70-0
Braydon Coburn · Mikhail Sergachev6:4555.676.51-0

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
21 Brayden Point C 1 1 2 -1 0 2 0 16:24 0.37 6-17 0.68-0.69
17 Alex Killorn L 1 0 1 2 0 2 1 12:02 0.12 8-4 0.13-0.16
71 Anthony Cirelli C 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 13:49 7-7 0.03-0.39
91 Steven Stamkos C 1 0 1 0 0 4 1 16:18 0.66 16-16 0.76-0.83
10 J.T. Miller C 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 13:14 6-7 0.03-0.60
37 Yanni Gourde C 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 13:15 0.03 9-19 0.80-0.75
81 Ondrej Palat L 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 14:33 15-9 0.74-0.32
90 Tyler Johnson C 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 18:45 0.12 8-20 0.80-0.91
98 Mikhail Sergachev D 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 10:08 6-8 0.29-0.44
5 Dan Girardi D 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 22:10 0.02 17-15 0.83-0.79
13 Cedric Paquette C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 14:52 9-5 0.14-0.11
14 Chris Kunitz L 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 11:20 0.02 10-8 0.24-0.19
24 Ryan Callahan R 0 0 0 1 0 1 6 14:37 0.02 10-8 0.24-0.19
27 Ryan McDonagh D 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 24:06 0.04 13-17 0.47-0.62
45 Braydon Coburn D 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 14:16 0.23 9-9 0.51-0.25
77 Victor Hedman D 0 0 0 -1 4 1 0 26:16 0.01 21-24 0.94-1.36
86 Anton Stralman D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 20:35 0.08 11-19 0.25-0.75
86 Nikita Kucherov R 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 15:23 0.19 14-13 0.64-0.76
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
88 Andrei Vasilevskiy W 38 36 2 59:57 3.38 +1.38

Washington Capitals

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Alex Ovechkin · Evgeny Kuznetsov · Tom Wilson12:0647.657.51-0
Nicklas Backstrom · Brett Connolly · Chandler Stephenson10:1766.794.00-0
T.J. Oshie · Lars Eller · Jakub Vrana10:0954.549.71-0
Jay Beagle · Devante Smith-Pelly · Andre Burakovsky5:1316.70.00-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Matt Niskanen · Dmitry Orlov18:3867.679.91-0
John Carlson · Michal Kempny11:4750.026.60-1
Brooks Orpik · Christian Djoos9:2736.852.01-0

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
9 Dmitry Orlov D 1 0 1 0 0 3 1 22:54 0.06 26-13 1.42-0.45
92 Evgeny Kuznetsov C 1 0 1 0 0 4 0 22:50 0.51 13-12 0.50-0.32
8 Alex Ovechkin L 0 1 1 0 0 3 4 23:44 0.65 12-11 0.48-0.30
15 Matt Niskanen D 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 24:18 0.34 26-13 1.42-0.34
43 Tom Wilson R 0 1 1 0 0 1 5 16:36 0.08 13-13 0.50-0.43
77 T.J. Oshie R 0 1 1 -1 0 4 4 20:05 0.41 13-14 0.50-1.00
6 Michal Kempny D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 13:53 0.06 11-12 0.25-0.54
9 Chandler Stephenson C 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 15:30 0.20 15-9 0.80-0.23
19 Nicklas Backstrom C 0 0 0 -1 0 4 1 18:51 0.18 11-5 0.79-0.05
19 Jakub Vrana L 0 0 0 1 0 3 1 12:42 0.15 16-10 0.64-0.50
20 Lars Eller C 0 0 0 -1 4 2 0 17:56 0.20 17-14 0.72-1.00
20 Brett Connolly R 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 14:44 0.25 14-5 0.95-0.05
25 Devante Smith-Pelly R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 6 08:42 3-8 0.00-0.33
28 Andre Burakovsky L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 08:30 0.01 4-5 0.17-0.17
44 Brooks Orpik D 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 15:14 9-15 0.41-0.74
44 Christian Djoos D 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 10:08 0.03 7-12 0.34-0.32
74 John Carlson D 0 0 0 -3 0 4 0 23:24 0.13 11-13 0.20-1.03
83 Jay Beagle C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 09:27 4-11 0.01-0.73
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
70 Braden Holtby L 19 16 3 57:27 1.98 -1.02