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Detroit Red Wings at Washington Capitals

Dec 11, 2018 · Capital One Arena

Team Goals Shots
Detroit Red Wings 2 37
Washington Capitals 6 25

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
03:39 WSH Brett Connolly (6) PP John Carlson (26), Evgeny Kuznetsov (21) 0 - 1
10:50 WSH Travis Boyd (2) Nic Dowd (5), Dmitrij Jaskin (6) 0 - 2
12:59 WSH Alex Ovechkin (23) Nicklas Backstrom (25), Michal Kempny (8) 0 - 3
2nd Period
09:05 WSH Alex Ovechkin (24) John Carlson (27), Nicklas Backstrom (26) 0 - 4
10:06 WSH T.J. Oshie (10) PP Nicklas Backstrom (27), Evgeny Kuznetsov (22) 0 - 5
3rd Period
01:03 DET Dylan Larkin (13) Gustav Nyquist (21), Nick Jensen (5) 1 - 5
09:33 WSH Alex Ovechkin (25) Christian Djoos (4), Nicklas Backstrom (28) 1 - 6
16:42 DET Gustav Nyquist (8) Justin Abdelkader (6) 2 - 6

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
02:10 DET Frans Nielsen Tripping 2
2nd Period
09:30 DET Frans Nielsen Cross checking 2
16:18 WSH Dmitry Orlov Hooking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Detroit Red Wings 61 50 37 2 2.7 55.0
Washington Capitals 53 40 25 6 2.3 45.0

How the game went

1050510Start2nd3rdWashington Capitals aheadDetroit Red Wings 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 Detroit Red Wings had.

Expected goals

Detroit Red Wings: 2.7 expected, 2 scored · Washington Capitals: 2.3 expected, 6 scored

012Start2nd3rdEndDET goal, 1:03 of 3rd, a 24% chanceDET goal, 16:42 of 3rd, a 16% chanceWSH goal, 3:39 of 1st, a 11% chanceWSH goal, 10:50 of 1st, a 12% chanceWSH goal, 12:59 of 1st, a 2% chanceWSH goal, 9:05 of 2nd, a 5% chanceWSH goal, 10:06 of 2nd, a 13% chanceWSH goal, 9:33 of 3rd, a 3% chanceDET 2.7WSH 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

Detroit Red Wings
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.

Detroit Red Wings

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Justin Abdelkader · Gustav Nyquist · Dylan Larkin11:5768.286.32-1
Luke Glendening · Tyler Bertuzzi · Michael Rasmussen8:4670.078.20-1
Frans Nielsen · Thomas Vanek · Andreas Athanasiou8:1033.333.90-1
Martin Frk · Jacob de la Rose · Tyler Bertuzzi2:29100.0100.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Trevor Daley · Jonathan Ericsson13:4342.937.11-0
Niklas Kronwall · Nick Jensen11:4567.985.21-2
Mike Green · Dennis Cholowski10:3236.424.00-1

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
14 Gustav Nyquist R 1 1 2 1 0 4 0 20:01 0.23 24-20 1.31-0.82
71 Dylan Larkin C 1 0 1 1 0 6 1 21:10 0.95 25-17 1.45-0.68
3 Nick Jensen D 0 1 1 -1 0 2 3 18:29 0.04 26-11 1.53-0.29
8 Justin Abdelkader L 0 1 1 1 0 1 2 18:15 0.03 23-12 1.23-0.51
20 Luke Witkowski D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 2 11:56 0.05 14-13 0.45-0.45
26 Thomas Vanek L 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 14:33 0.21 9-14 0.25-0.38
27 Mike Green D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 15:46 0.05 11-14 0.24-0.63
27 Michael Rasmussen C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 15:16 0.12 13-8 0.49-0.21
29 Martin Frk R 0 0 0 -1 0 3 3 12:14 0.29 12-10 0.48-0.69
41 Luke Glendening C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 16:13 0.18 12-9 0.40-0.38
44 Dennis Cholowski D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 16:05 0.04 11-15 0.22-0.65
52 Jonathan Ericsson D 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 17:18 0.02 8-12 0.28-0.55
55 Niklas Kronwall D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 18:09 0.16 23-16 1.43-0.47
59 Tyler Bertuzzi L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 16:44 0.05 14-6 0.53-0.20
61 Jacob de la Rose L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 2 11:38 0.03 13-7 0.37-0.41
81 Frans Nielsen C 0 0 0 -1 4 2 1 15:13 0.01 8-15 0.17-0.35
83 Trevor Daley D 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 20:17 0.04 17-9 0.56-0.48
89 Andreas Athanasiou C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 18:38 0.15 12-17 0.39-0.65
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
45 Jonathan Bernier 15 10 5 30:06 1.44 -3.56
35 Jimmy Howard 10 9 1 29:54 0.83 -0.17

Washington Capitals

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Alex Ovechkin · T.J. Oshie · Nicklas Backstrom14:4936.429.82-0
Lars Eller · Devante Smith-Pelly · Chandler Stephenson12:1854.259.50-0
Evgeny Kuznetsov · Brett Connolly · Jakub Vrana11:3927.314.80-1
Nic Dowd · Travis Boyd · Dmitrij Jaskin9:4365.062.71-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Matt Niskanen · Dmitry Orlov19:0241.229.71-1
John Carlson · Michal Kempny17:3543.330.12-1
Christian Djoos · Madison Bowey14:5450.058.71-0

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
19 Nicklas Backstrom C 0 4 4 3 0 2 0 18:39 0.11 10-14 0.25-0.48
8 Alex Ovechkin L 3 0 3 3 0 4 1 19:38 0.29 10-15 0.25-0.48
74 John Carlson D 0 2 2 1 0 0 0 22:25 16-19 0.60-0.99
92 Evgeny Kuznetsov C 0 2 2 -1 0 0 0 15:50 7-18 0.16-1.01
20 Brett Connolly R 1 0 1 -1 0 1 0 14:27 0.19 7-17 0.19-0.93
72 Travis Boyd C 1 0 1 0 0 3 0 12:01 0.29 15-10 0.80-0.54
77 T.J. Oshie R 1 0 1 2 0 2 0 16:56 0.26 8-15 0.20-0.50
6 Michal Kempny D 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 19:56 0.05 13-18 0.41-0.98
26 Nic Dowd C 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 11:20 0.06 13-12 0.76-0.50
44 Christian Djoos D 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 16:23 0.00 16-16 0.90-0.59
93 Dmitrij Jaskin R 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 11:44 0.37 15-9 0.80-0.49
4 Madison Bowey D 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 16:49 0.03 15-17 0.83-0.62
9 Dmitry Orlov D 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 21:11 16-20 0.45-0.77
9 Chandler Stephenson C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 14:14 0.14 13-11 0.55-0.38
15 Matt Niskanen D 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 21:16 0.03 14-20 0.32-0.77
19 Jakub Vrana L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 13:49 0.05 7-20 0.16-1.02
20 Lars Eller C 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 15:24 0.17 15-11 0.59-0.38
25 Devante Smith-Pelly R 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 15:58 0.24 15-13 0.57-0.39
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
70 Braden Holtby 37 35 2 60:00 2.63 +0.63