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Vegas Golden Knights at Washington Capitals

Stanley Cup Final, Game 3 · Jun 2, 2018 · Verizon Center

Team Goals Shots
Vegas Golden Knights 1 22
Washington Capitals 3 26

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
2nd Period
01:10 WSH Alex Ovechkin (1) John Carlson (14), Evgeny Kuznetsov (15) 0 - 1
12:50 WSH Evgeny Kuznetsov (12) Jay Beagle (5), T.J. Oshie (11) 0 - 2
3rd Period
03:29 VGK Tomas Nosek (4) Pierre-Edouard Bellemare (3) 1 - 2
13:53 WSH Devante Smith-Pelly (5) Jay Beagle (6) 1 - 3

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
05:04 WSH Devante Smith-Pelly Interference goalkeeper 2
11:21 VGK Reilly Smith Holding 2
2nd Period
09:55 VGK Erik Haula Hooking 2
18:34 WSH Devante Smith-Pelly Tripping 2
19:38 VGK Marc-Andre Fleury Tripping 2
3rd Period
07:35 VGK Deryk Engelland Tripping 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Vegas Golden Knights 62 36 22 1 1.8 53.9
Washington Capitals 58 49 26 3 4.1 46.1

How the game went

10505Start2nd3rdWashington Capitals aheadVegas Golden Knights 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 Vegas Golden Knights had.

Expected goals

Vegas Golden Knights: 1.8 expected, 1 scored · Washington Capitals: 4.1 expected, 3 scored

01234Start2nd3rdEndVGK goal, 3:29 of 3rd, a 9% chanceWSH goal, 1:10 of 2nd, a 19% chanceWSH goal, 12:50 of 2nd, a 7% chanceWSH goal, 13:53 of 3rd, a 11% chanceWSH 4.1VGK 1.8

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

Vegas Golden Knights
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.

Vegas Golden Knights

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Reilly Smith · William Karlsson · Jonathan Marchessault10:5372.256.40-0
Cody Eakin · Ryan Carpenter · Alex Tuch10:4747.157.50-0
James Neal · David Perron · Erik Haula9:4434.610.90-3
Ryan Reaves · Pierre-Edouard Bellemare · Tomas Nosek6:4061.564.21-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Brayden McNabb · Nate Schmidt12:4953.617.50-1
Luca Sbisa · Colin Miller12:2957.138.00-0
Deryk Engelland · Shea Theodore11:2250.054.91-1

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
92 Tomas Nosek L 1 0 1 1 0 2 2 11:03 0.12 8-6 0.14-0.08
41 Pierre-Edouard Bellemare L 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 09:55 0.03 9-6 0.16-0.08
3 Brayden McNabb D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 4 20:49 0.02 17-17 0.38-1.32
5 Deryk Engelland D 0 0 0 0 2 3 4 20:29 0.08 14-13 0.40-0.45
6 Colin Miller D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 20:30 0.08 18-12 0.27-0.44
19 Reilly Smith R 0 0 0 0 2 0 4 18:59 0.07 15-8 0.27-0.38
20 Cody Eakin C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 16:22 0.15 12-11 0.35-0.21
22 Ryan Carpenter C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 15:28 12-10 0.18-0.16
27 Shea Theodore D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 18:21 0.06 16-15 0.38-0.51
55 Luca Sbisa D 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 16:36 0.02 11-8 0.30-0.30
56 Erik Haula L 0 0 0 -3 2 2 2 14:17 0.16 14-17 0.25-1.52
57 David Perron L 0 0 0 -3 0 0 0 13:20 9-19 0.19-1.60
71 William Karlsson C 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 20:35 15-7 0.31-0.33
75 Ryan Reaves R 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 08:32 8-5 0.14-0.08
81 James Neal L 0 0 0 -3 0 0 1 13:48 0.03 11-18 0.23-1.57
81 Jonathan Marchessault R 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 17:17 0.36 18-5 0.51-0.21
88 Nate Schmidt D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 21:18 0.02 20-18 0.35-1.35
89 Alex Tuch R 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 16:58 0.61 13-10 0.38-0.10
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
29 Marc-Andre Fleury 26 23 3 57:23 3.11 +0.11

Washington Capitals

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Alex Ovechkin · Evgeny Kuznetsov · Tom Wilson9:4252.287.21-0
T.J. Oshie · Nicklas Backstrom · Jakub Vrana9:0950.033.90-1
Lars Eller · Brett Connolly · Andre Burakovsky9:0962.546.30-0
Jay Beagle · Devante Smith-Pelly · Chandler Stephenson6:5535.749.31-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Matt Niskanen · Dmitry Orlov19:0737.854.02-0
John Carlson · Michal Kempny14:1061.881.11-1
Brooks Orpik · Christian Djoos8:0136.426.90-0

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
92 Evgeny Kuznetsov C 1 1 2 2 0 4 1 18:52 0.42 17-16 1.48-0.26
83 Jay Beagle C 0 2 2 2 0 0 2 13:25 7-13 0.39-0.32
8 Alex Ovechkin L 1 0 1 1 0 5 2 17:28 0.60 13-15 1.16-0.22
25 Devante Smith-Pelly R 1 0 1 1 4 1 3 10:20 0.11 6-14 0.31-0.33
74 John Carlson D 0 1 1 0 0 6 1 22:23 0.81 21-13 1.32-0.31
77 T.J. Oshie R 0 1 1 0 0 0 3 18:51 0.23 10-13 0.30-0.31
6 Michal Kempny D 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 17:23 0.01 23-14 1.49-0.31
9 Dmitry Orlov D 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 26:04 14-23 0.58-0.49
9 Chandler Stephenson C 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 10:28 0.14 7-10 0.36-0.28
15 Matt Niskanen D 0 0 0 2 0 0 4 27:16 15-28 0.70-0.54
19 Nicklas Backstrom C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 17:44 0.19 8-8 0.21-0.22
19 Jakub Vrana L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 13:33 0.10 8-9 0.21-0.24
20 Lars Eller C 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 20:14 0.12 11-14 0.22-0.28
20 Brett Connolly R 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 13:20 0.02 10-9 0.18-0.23
28 Andre Burakovsky L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 11:57 0.06 11-7 0.23-0.21
43 Tom Wilson R 0 0 0 1 0 2 5 16:05 0.14 15-16 1.34-0.22
44 Brooks Orpik D 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 11:57 0.02 5-11 0.12-0.24
44 Christian Djoos D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 08:40 4-7 0.07-0.19
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
70 Braden Holtby 22 21 1 60:00 1.89 +0.89