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Washington Capitals at Vegas Golden Knights

Dec 4, 2018 · T-Mobile Arena

Team Goals Shots
Washington Capitals 3 26
Vegas Golden Knights 5 28

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
02:30 VGK Ryan Reaves (6) PP Cody Eakin (8), Oscar Lindberg (1) 0 - 1
15:33 WSH Jakub Vrana (7) Brett Connolly (11) 1 - 1
2nd Period
11:42 WSH Alex Ovechkin (20) Brett Connolly (12), Madison Bowey (5) 2 - 1
3rd Period
02:33 VGK Pierre-Edouard Bellemare (4) Brayden McNabb (3), Nate Schmidt (2) 2 - 2
02:49 VGK Cody Eakin (11) Oscar Lindberg (2), Deryk Engelland (4) 2 - 3
11:40 WSH Jakub Vrana (8) Evgeny Kuznetsov (18), Matt Niskanen (9) 3 - 3
18:35 VGK Nate Schmidt (1) PP Shea Theodore (12) 3 - 4
19:53 VGK Nate Schmidt (2) Unassisted 3 - 5

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
01:03 WSH Brett Connolly Interference goalkeeper 2
08:05 WSH Madison Bowey Holding 2
09:43 VGK Team Too many men on the ice 2
19:44 WSH Nic Dowd Tripping 2
2nd Period
08:35 WSH Evgeny Kuznetsov Illegal equipment 2
15:42 VGK Ryan Reaves Interference 5
15:42 VGK Ryan Reaves Game misconduct 10
3rd Period
03:53 VGK Colin Miller High sticking 2
07:14 VGK Jonathan Marchessault Slashing 2
14:46 WSH Nic Dowd High sticking double minor 4

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Washington Capitals 51 37 26 3 2.2 58.2
Vegas Golden Knights 54 37 28 5 4.0 41.8

How the game went

50510Start2nd3rdVegas 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: 2.2 expected, 3 scored · Vegas Golden Knights: 4.0 expected, 5 scored

01234Start2nd3rdEndWSH goal, 15:33 of 1st, a 23% chanceWSH goal, 11:42 of 2nd, a 9% chanceWSH goal, 11:40 of 3rd, a 10% chanceVGK goal, 2:30 of 1st, a 32% chanceVGK goal, 2:33 of 3rd, a 7% chanceVGK goal, 2:49 of 3rd, a 21% chanceVGK goal, 18:35 of 3rd, a 6% chanceVGK goal, 19:53 of 3rd, a 49% chanceVGK 4.0WSH 2.2

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 Wilson8:1362.557.10-0
Evgeny Kuznetsov · Brett Connolly · Jakub Vrana7:4171.489.72-0
Nic Dowd · Dmitrij Jaskin · Chandler Stephenson6:3050.029.30-1
Lars Eller · Devante Smith-Pelly · Andre Burakovsky4:5825.014.30-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Matt Niskanen · Dmitry Orlov12:0168.273.72-0
Christian Djoos · Madison Bowey10:3052.641.21-1
John Carlson · Michal Kempny10:0450.037.20-1

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 Jakub Vrana L 2 0 2 2 0 2 1 13:17 0.32 13-5 0.87-0.10
20 Brett Connolly R 0 2 2 2 2 2 0 15:45 0.23 14-5 0.96-0.17
8 Alex Ovechkin L 1 0 1 -1 0 3 7 21:57 0.37 18-9 0.44-0.23
4 Madison Bowey D 0 1 1 0 2 2 1 11:15 0.07 10-9 0.46-0.66
15 Matt Niskanen D 0 1 1 2 0 1 5 22:47 0.03 17-8 0.79-0.27
92 Evgeny Kuznetsov C 0 1 1 2 2 5 1 19:33 0.40 13-5 0.94-0.13
6 Michal Kempny D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 18:05 0.05 13-12 0.29-0.44
9 Dmitry Orlov D 0 0 0 2 0 1 3 21:37 0.04 16-7 0.77-0.27
9 Chandler Stephenson C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 13:48 6-7 0.11-0.38
19 Nicklas Backstrom C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 6 23:32 0.07 16-10 0.35-0.29
20 Lars Eller C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 17:08 0.06 6-9 0.12-0.69
25 Devante Smith-Pelly R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 12:09 0.10 3-10 0.16-0.69
26 Nic Dowd C 0 0 0 -1 6 0 3 08:28 4-5 0.11-0.29
28 Andre Burakovsky L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10:32 0.05 9-8 0.17-0.66
43 Tom Wilson R 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 14:14 10-7 0.21-0.23
44 Christian Djoos D 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 11:31 0.00 10-9 0.46-0.66
74 John Carlson D 0 0 0 -2 0 3 0 26:39 0.28 12-11 0.27-0.44
93 Dmitrij Jaskin R 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 07:30 0.11 5-4 0.11-0.26
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
70 Braden Holtby L 27 23 4 58:57 3.51 -0.49

Vegas Golden Knights

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Cody Eakin · Oscar Lindberg · Alex Tuch7:5650.069.21-1
Reilly Smith · William Karlsson · Jonathan Marchessault7:4342.939.30-0
Ryan Reaves · William Carrier · Pierre-Edouard Bellemare6:0427.344.90-0
Ryan Carpenter · Daniel Carr · Tomas Nosek4:5750.027.80-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Brayden McNabb · Nate Schmidt12:5934.537.51-1
Nick Holden · Colin Miller11:0220.064.00-1
Deryk Engelland · Shea Theodore10:0460.948.31-1

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
88 Nate Schmidt D 2 1 3 1 0 4 0 23:38 0.51 10-22 0.39-0.67
20 Cody Eakin C 1 1 2 1 0 2 1 16:44 0.28 7-8 0.64-0.30
24 Oscar Lindberg L 0 2 2 0 0 3 1 13:49 0.36 8-7 0.64-0.29
41 Pierre-Edouard Bellemare L 1 0 1 2 0 1 2 15:46 0.07 8-13 0.27-0.18
75 Ryan Reaves R 1 0 1 -1 15 3 5 10:48 0.65 4-12 0.16-0.26
3 Brayden McNabb D 0 1 1 1 0 0 4 22:19 11-19 0.39-0.64
5 Deryk Engelland D 0 1 1 0 0 3 3 18:18 0.05 15-9 0.65-0.66
27 Shea Theodore D 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 14:16 0.08 14-9 0.62-0.66
5 Nick Holden D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 16:21 4-11 0.36-0.21
6 Colin Miller D 0 0 0 -1 2 0 4 19:03 0.02 2-9 0.33-0.20
19 Reilly Smith R 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 19:41 0.38 7-10 0.35-0.60
22 Ryan Carpenter C 0 0 0 2 0 2 1 13:29 0.19 10-5 0.24-0.22
28 William Carrier L 0 0 0 1 0 1 8 09:10 0.16 8-9 0.27-0.17
28 Daniel Carr L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 06:19 4-8 0.08-0.32
71 William Karlsson C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 19:55 0.25 6-11 0.35-0.68
81 Jonathan Marchessault R 0 0 0 -1 2 3 5 19:54 0.20 8-13 0.35-0.74
89 Alex Tuch R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 17:17 0.24 8-10 0.64-0.43
92 Tomas Nosek L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 12:13 0.08 6-10 0.11-0.37
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
29 Marc-Andre Fleury W 26 23 3 60:00 2.16 -0.84