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Washington Capitals at Vegas Golden Knights

Stanley Cup Final, Game 2 · May 30, 2018 · T-Mobile Arena

Team Goals Shots
Washington Capitals 3 26
Vegas Golden Knights 2 39

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
07:58 VGK James Neal (5) Luca Sbisa (3), Colin Miller (2) 0 - 1
17:27 WSH Lars Eller (6) Michal Kempny (3), Andre Burakovsky (2) 1 - 1
2nd Period
05:38 WSH Alex Ovechkin (13) PP Lars Eller (10), Nicklas Backstrom (14) 2 - 1
09:41 WSH Brooks Orpik (1) Lars Eller (11), Andre Burakovsky (3) 3 - 1
17:47 VGK Shea Theodore (3) PP Reilly Smith (16), William Karlsson (8) 3 - 2

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
16:43 WSH T.J. Oshie Roughing 2
16:43 VGK Deryk Engelland Roughing 2
2nd Period
02:04 WSH Brooks Orpik Illegal check to head 2
05:13 VGK Alex Tuch Cross checking 2
06:56 WSH Nicklas Backstrom Holding 2
06:56 VGK Erik Haula Holding 2
10:10 VGK Ryan Reaves Roughing 2
11:42 WSH Dmitry Orlov Hooking 2
17:27 WSH T.J. Oshie Interference 2
3rd Period
03:13 WSH Tom Wilson Interference 2
04:05 WSH Lars Eller Hooking 2
20:00 VGK Erik Haula Slashing 5
20:00 VGK Erik Haula Game misconduct 10

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Washington Capitals 44 36 26 3 1.9 44.2
Vegas Golden Knights 69 51 39 2 2.9 55.8

How the game went

0510152025Start2nd3rdVegas 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: 1.9 expected, 3 scored · Vegas Golden Knights: 2.9 expected, 2 scored

012Start2nd3rdEndWSH goal, 17:27 of 1st, a 12% chanceWSH goal, 5:38 of 2nd, a 11% chanceWSH goal, 9:41 of 2nd, a 5% chanceVGK goal, 7:58 of 1st, a 5% chanceVGK goal, 17:47 of 2nd, a 3% chanceVGK 2.9WSH 1.9

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 · Nicklas Backstrom · Tom Wilson7:3235.76.00-0
T.J. Oshie · Lars Eller · Jakub Vrana5:4862.588.70-0
Jay Beagle · Devante Smith-Pelly · Chandler Stephenson5:3650.044.90-0
Lars Eller · Brett Connolly · Andre Burakovsky4:3244.429.51-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Matt Niskanen · Dmitry Orlov16:3841.254.70-0
John Carlson · Michal Kempny11:2963.663.20-0
Brooks Orpik · Christian Djoos8:1352.649.01-0

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

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
20 Lars Eller C 1 2 3 1 2 1 6 18:37 0.14 16-15 0.71-0.66
28 Andre Burakovsky L 0 2 2 1 0 0 1 10:54 7-9 0.09-0.26
8 Alex Ovechkin L 1 0 1 0 0 3 5 17:16 0.23 7-15 0.07-0.41
44 Brooks Orpik D 1 0 1 1 2 3 6 19:13 0.08 10-15 0.31-0.68
6 Michal Kempny D 0 1 1 0 0 2 2 16:54 0.07 14-11 0.28-0.28
19 Nicklas Backstrom C 0 1 1 0 2 3 2 19:46 0.16 13-19 0.44-0.55
9 Dmitry Orlov D 0 0 0 -1 2 1 0 22:10 0.01 14-23 0.79-0.76
9 Chandler Stephenson C 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 14:52 0.04 6-8 0.18-0.63
15 Matt Niskanen D 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 27:13 0.06 14-23 0.79-0.80
19 Jakub Vrana L 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 12:56 0.61 18-13 1.02-0.24
20 Brett Connolly R 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 07:31 7-8 0.08-0.63
25 Devante Smith-Pelly R 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 10:49 7-9 0.20-0.29
43 Tom Wilson R 0 0 0 0 2 0 6 17:51 9-13 0.10-0.43
44 Christian Djoos D 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 09:07 0.00 10-10 0.31-0.34
74 John Carlson D 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 24:04 0.05 14-15 0.28-0.44
77 T.J. Oshie R 0 0 0 0 4 3 0 18:43 0.27 16-18 1.00-0.32
83 Jay Beagle C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 15:30 0.12 6-13 0.20-0.35
92 Evgeny Kuznetsov C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 04:26 2-3 0.05-0.07
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
70 Braden Holtby W 39 37 2 60:00 3.06 +1.06

Vegas Golden Knights

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Reilly Smith · William Karlsson · Jonathan Marchessault10:3568.826.50-0
James Neal · David Perron · Erik Haula9:3752.950.31-0
Cody Eakin · Ryan Carpenter · Alex Tuch8:3246.255.20-0
Ryan Reaves · Pierre-Edouard Bellemare · Tomas Nosek4:4450.075.50-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Brayden McNabb · Nate Schmidt15:1052.256.00-0
Deryk Engelland · Shea Theodore12:2653.643.60-1
Luca Sbisa · Colin Miller11:1358.871.61-0

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
27 Shea Theodore D 1 0 1 -2 0 2 0 22:04 0.08 18-16 0.72-0.93
81 James Neal L 1 0 1 1 0 3 4 17:07 0.15 14-9 0.30-0.20
6 Colin Miller D 0 1 1 0 0 4 1 19:51 0.29 13-7 0.28-0.10
19 Reilly Smith R 0 1 1 0 0 3 4 20:27 0.37 15-6 0.22-0.38
55 Luca Sbisa D 0 1 1 1 0 0 4 13:15 14-11 0.48-0.14
71 William Karlsson C 0 1 1 0 0 2 2 22:46 0.14 16-13 0.23-0.72
3 Brayden McNabb D 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 20:47 0.04 15-15 0.60-0.39
5 Deryk Engelland D 0 0 0 -1 2 3 1 18:01 0.05 20-16 0.71-0.89
20 Cody Eakin C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 14:36 0.00 12-10 0.34-0.35
22 Ryan Carpenter C 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 12:53 0.26 11-8 0.32-0.20
41 Pierre-Edouard Bellemare L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 07:34 0.16 9-7 0.81-0.13
56 Erik Haula L 0 0 0 0 17 1 1 15:11 0.13 11-8 0.25-0.17
57 David Perron L 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 15:52 0.04 10-9 0.18-0.19
75 Ryan Reaves R 0 0 0 0 2 1 3 06:56 0.12 11-11 0.85-0.43
81 Jonathan Marchessault R 0 0 0 -2 0 9 2 20:50 0.60 18-11 0.68-0.57
88 Nate Schmidt D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 22:48 0.02 15-11 0.41-0.31
89 Alex Tuch R 0 0 0 -1 2 4 3 16:31 0.35 9-12 0.31-0.37
92 Tomas Nosek L 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 08:05 0.14 9-10 0.45-0.42
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
29 Marc-Andre Fleury L 26 23 3 58:01 1.93 -1.07