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Washington Capitals at Vegas Golden Knights

Stanley Cup Final, Game 1 · May 28, 2018 · T-Mobile Arena

Team Goals Shots
Washington Capitals 4 28
Vegas Golden Knights 6 34

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
07:15 VGK Colin Miller (3) PP Erik Haula (5) 0 - 1
14:41 WSH Brett Connolly (5) Michal Kempny (2), Andre Burakovsky (1) 1 - 1
15:23 WSH Nicklas Backstrom (5) T.J. Oshie (9), Jakub Vrana (5) 2 - 1
18:19 VGK William Karlsson (7) Reilly Smith (15), Deryk Engelland (1) 2 - 2
2nd Period
03:21 VGK Reilly Smith (3) Deryk Engelland (2), Jonathan Marchessault (11) 2 - 3
08:29 WSH John Carlson (4) T.J. Oshie (10), Nicklas Backstrom (13) 3 - 3
3rd Period
01:10 WSH Tom Wilson (4) Alex Ovechkin (11), Evgeny Kuznetsov (14) 4 - 3
02:41 VGK Ryan Reaves (2) Unassisted 4 - 4
09:44 VGK Tomas Nosek (2) Shea Theodore (6), Pierre-Edouard Bellemare (2) 4 - 5
19:57 VGK Tomas Nosek (3) David Perron (8) 4 - 6

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
05:53 WSH Andre Burakovsky Boarding 2
2nd Period
13:55 VGK Team Too many men on the ice 2
3rd Period
05:53 WSH Tom Wilson Interference 2
05:53 VGK David Perron Cross checking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Washington Capitals 68 51 28 4 3.1 49.2
Vegas Golden Knights 67 49 34 6 3.2 50.8

How the game went

2024681012Start2nd3rdVegas Golden Knights 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 Vegas Golden Knights had taken more, and below it and blue while Washington Capitals had.

Expected goals

Washington Capitals: 3.1 expected, 4 scored · Vegas Golden Knights: 3.2 expected, 6 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndWSH goal, 14:41 of 1st, a 11% chanceWSH goal, 15:23 of 1st, a 12% chanceWSH goal, 8:29 of 2nd, a 9% chanceWSH goal, 1:10 of 3rd, a 14% chanceVGK goal, 7:15 of 1st, a 5% chanceVGK goal, 18:19 of 1st, a 26% chanceVGK goal, 3:21 of 2nd, a 27% chanceVGK goal, 2:41 of 3rd, a 15% chanceVGK goal, 9:44 of 3rd, a 9% chanceVGK goal, 19:57 of 3rd, a 60% chanceVGK 3.2WSH 3.1

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
Vegas Golden Knights

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 Wilson13:5650.064.01-0
T.J. Oshie · Nicklas Backstrom · Jakub Vrana13:5458.664.12-0
Lars Eller · Brett Connolly · Andre Burakovsky9:2364.054.91-1
Jay Beagle · Devante Smith-Pelly · Chandler Stephenson8:5821.45.70-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Matt Niskanen · Dmitry Orlov21:2150.058.02-0
John Carlson · Michal Kempny17:5159.562.01-2
Brooks Orpik · Christian Djoos8:1835.339.00-1

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
19 Nicklas Backstrom C 1 1 2 1 0 1 2 19:39 0.18 20-16 1.39-0.80
77 T.J. Oshie R 0 2 2 0 0 3 1 19:30 0.40 21-16 1.30-0.98
20 Brett Connolly R 1 0 1 0 0 3 0 11:00 0.42 17-13 0.52-0.48
43 Tom Wilson R 1 0 1 0 2 2 9 17:25 0.34 14-17 0.88-0.51
74 John Carlson D 1 0 1 -1 0 3 1 24:55 0.20 30-26 1.50-1.22
6 Michal Kempny D 0 1 1 -1 0 1 1 20:10 0.04 26-18 1.38-0.85
8 Alex Ovechkin L 0 1 1 0 0 2 4 19:09 0.39 15-18 0.89-0.63
19 Jakub Vrana L 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 14:21 0.44 17-16 1.22-0.99
28 Andre Burakovsky L 0 1 1 -1 2 0 1 13:53 0.07 23-11 0.60-0.35
92 Evgeny Kuznetsov C 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 19:26 0.26 15-17 0.89-0.60
9 Dmitry Orlov D 0 0 0 2 0 5 1 24:14 0.14 23-23 1.03-0.84
9 Chandler Stephenson C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 10:23 0.06 4-12 0.09-0.41
15 Matt Niskanen D 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 24:08 0.01 23-26 1.03-1.07
20 Lars Eller C 0 0 0 -3 0 1 2 15:22 0.03 21-19 0.49-0.77
25 Devante Smith-Pelly R 0 0 0 -2 0 0 3 10:04 0.01 4-14 0.09-0.51
44 Brooks Orpik D 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 12:08 9-14 0.37-0.44
44 Christian Djoos D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 09:03 0.01 7-13 0.28-0.45
83 Jay Beagle C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 1 13:36 0.02 6-16 0.02-0.50
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
70 Braden Holtby L 33 28 5 58:12 2.68 -2.32

Vegas Golden Knights

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Reilly Smith · William Karlsson · Jonathan Marchessault14:2663.648.92-2
Ryan Reaves · Pierre-Edouard Bellemare · Tomas Nosek8:5477.394.12-0
James Neal · Erik Haula · Alex Tuch8:1238.924.50-1
David Perron · Cody Eakin · Ryan Carpenter7:0635.315.20-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Deryk Engelland · Shea Theodore17:0963.561.94-2
Brayden McNabb · Nate Schmidt16:4942.430.10-1
Luca Sbisa · Colin Miller15:1230.821.00-1

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

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
92 Tomas Nosek L 2 0 2 3 0 3 3 12:22 0.24 22-8 1.03-0.19
19 Reilly Smith R 1 1 2 0 0 2 5 20:34 0.44 25-16 1.11-1.25
5 Deryk Engelland D 0 2 2 2 0 5 2 20:50 0.07 35-19 1.74-0.96
6 Colin Miller D 1 0 1 -1 0 2 2 17:15 0.07 10-19 0.15-0.61
71 William Karlsson C 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 20:36 0.29 24-18 1.09-1.36
75 Ryan Reaves R 1 0 1 2 0 3 3 09:46 0.49 17-8 0.90-0.21
27 Shea Theodore D 0 1 1 2 0 1 0 21:52 0.08 33-22 1.56-1.12
41 Pierre-Edouard Bellemare L 0 1 1 3 0 1 0 11:58 0.09 18-6 0.90-0.09
56 Erik Haula L 0 1 1 -1 0 0 1 13:46 10-18 0.31-0.79
57 David Perron L 0 1 1 0 2 3 0 14:32 0.24 11-20 0.46-1.03
81 Jonathan Marchessault R 0 1 1 0 0 5 1 17:42 0.30 22-13 0.93-0.99
3 Brayden McNabb D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 21:12 0.02 15-21 0.63-1.23
20 Cody Eakin C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 13:25 7-17 0.09-0.55
22 Ryan Carpenter C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 13:46 0.04 9-18 0.18-0.55
55 Luca Sbisa D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 3 16:45 0.04 10-18 0.24-0.54
81 James Neal L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 14:03 0.00 10-17 0.30-0.79
88 Nate Schmidt D 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 21:08 0.02 19-19 0.63-1.14
89 Alex Tuch R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 14:28 0.11 8-18 0.16-0.59
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
29 Marc-Andre Fleury W 28 24 4 60:00 3.20 -0.80