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Buffalo Sabres at Washington Capitals

Dec 21, 2018 · Capital One Arena

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 1 37
Washington Capitals 2 24

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
2nd Period
02:50 WSH Chandler Stephenson (3) SH Nic Dowd (9) 0 - 1
3rd Period
09:01 BUF Johan Larsson (3) Tage Thompson (3), Rasmus Ristolainen (19) 1 - 1
13:00 WSH Tom Wilson (10) Evgeny Kuznetsov (25) 1 - 2

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
04:32 BUF Jeff Skinner Hooking 2
08:28 WSH Tom Wilson Hooking 2
2nd Period
02:37 WSH Jonas Siegenthaler Tripping 2
07:12 BUF Evan Rodrigues Holding 2
09:38 BUF Casey Mittelstadt Holding 2
3rd Period
09:24 WSH Matt Niskanen Tripping 2
14:23 BUF Vladimir Sobotka Hooking 2
17:48 WSH Nic Dowd Tripping 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 72 53 37 1 2.9 59.1
Washington Capitals 50 40 24 2 3.6 40.9

How the game went

201510505Start2nd3rdWashington Capitals aheadBuffalo Sabres 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 Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 2.9 expected, 1 scored · Washington Capitals: 3.6 expected, 2 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 9:01 of 3rd, a 15% chanceWSH goal, 2:50 of 2nd, a 15% chanceWSH goal, 13:00 of 3rd, a 10% chanceWSH 3.6BUF 2.9

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

Buffalo Sabres
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.

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jeff Skinner · Sam Reinhart · Jack Eichel12:0259.449.70-0
Vladimir Sobotka · Conor Sheary · Evan Rodrigues9:1258.863.40-0
Johan Larsson · Remi Elie · Tage Thompson4:0671.468.80-0
Kyle Okposo · Remi Elie · Casey Mittelstadt3:5971.453.50-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Zach Bogosian · Rasmus Dahlin13:2770.055.10-1
Rasmus Ristolainen · Lawrence Pilut12:2075.080.71-0
Marco Scandella · Jake McCabe10:4036.412.80-0

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
22 Johan Larsson L 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 14:45 0.27 15-12 0.44-0.68
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 1 1 0 0 6 1 24:27 0.16 22-11 0.82-0.40
72 Tage Thompson C 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 09:46 0.10 14-7 0.54-0.26
6 Marco Scandella D 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 16:49 0.05 12-14 0.21-0.59
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 10:08 0.09 9-5 0.27-0.15
9 Jack Eichel C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 22:32 0.30 20-13 0.69-0.56
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 0 0 -1 2 0 0 10:59 0.08 8-8 0.25-0.53
13 Sam Reinhart C 0 0 0 -1 0 6 0 19:40 0.76 19-13 0.55-0.56
17 Vladimir Sobotka C 0 0 0 0 2 1 2 15:15 0.01 12-11 0.28-0.24
17 Evan Rodrigues C 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 14:56 0.12 13-7 0.30-0.16
20 Lawrence Pilut D 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 17:04 0.01 22-10 0.85-0.23
22 Jake McCabe D 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 16:13 0.06 8-18 0.09-0.79
24 Zach Bogosian D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 21:15 0.04 24-11 0.72-0.52
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 22:59 0.01 22-12 0.63-0.61
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 12:20 0.15 13-10 0.49-0.57
38 Remi Elie L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 09:39 0.11 10-5 0.31-0.22
43 Conor Sheary L 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 15:16 0.26 12-10 0.30-0.23
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 0 0 -1 2 2 0 20:05 0.29 20-13 0.56-0.56
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
40 Carter Hutton 24 22 2 57:52 2.62 +0.62

Washington Capitals

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Evgeny Kuznetsov · Tom Wilson · Jakub Vrana10:2241.756.61-0
Alex Ovechkin · T.J. Oshie · Nicklas Backstrom9:2540.031.20-0
Nic Dowd · Devante Smith-Pelly · Chandler Stephenson7:3831.628.50-0
Lars Eller · Brett Connolly · Andre Burakovsky5:2942.968.80-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Matt Niskanen · Dmitry Orlov13:4643.847.10-0
John Carlson · Michal Kempny11:3525.027.00-1
Madison Bowey · Jonas Siegenthaler10:2652.463.41-0

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
9 Chandler Stephenson C 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 10:46 0.16 6-13 0.13-0.32
43 Tom Wilson R 1 0 1 1 2 4 3 17:32 0.48 13-15 0.75-0.50
26 Nic Dowd C 0 1 1 1 2 0 2 11:44 7-15 0.13-0.42
92 Evgeny Kuznetsov C 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 18:44 0.33 12-14 0.75-0.50
4 Madison Bowey D 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 16:24 0.07 15-13 0.77-0.43
6 Michal Kempny D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 18:08 10-24 0.35-0.78
8 Alex Ovechkin L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 20:21 0.17 12-15 0.17-0.39
9 Dmitry Orlov D 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 20:22 0.07 16-20 0.52-0.52
15 Matt Niskanen D 0 0 0 1 2 0 2 21:03 0.02 14-20 0.46-0.54
19 Nicklas Backstrom C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 18:32 0.09 9-13 0.15-0.25
19 Jakub Vrana L 0 0 0 1 0 5 0 15:20 0.31 13-17 0.79-0.65
20 Lars Eller C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 17:14 0.07 10-13 0.54-0.48
20 Brett Connolly R 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 11:17 0.02 10-10 0.61-0.29
25 Devante Smith-Pelly R 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 09:33 0.06 7-15 0.15-0.41
28 Andre Burakovsky L 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 08:56 0.30 7-10 0.48-0.30
71 Jonas Siegenthaler D 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 12:57 0.01 12-11 0.70-0.36
74 John Carlson D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 23:47 0.12 9-22 0.34-0.69
77 T.J. Oshie R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 19:26 0.30 8-15 0.05-0.46
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
70 Braden Holtby 37 36 1 59:54 2.84 +1.84