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Buffalo Sabres at Washington Capitals

Nov 1, 2019 · Capital One Arena

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 1 30
Washington Capitals 6 34

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
06:17 WSH Jakub Vrana (5) Tom Wilson (4) 0 - 1
06:59 WSH Chandler Stephenson (2) Travis Boyd (2), Brendan Leipsic (4) 0 - 2
09:29 WSH Jakub Vrana (6) Michal Kempny (3), Tom Wilson (5) 0 - 3
10:44 WSH Brendan Leipsic (1) Travis Boyd (3), Radko Gudas (5) 0 - 4
2nd Period
10:40 BUF Henri Jokiharju (1) Rasmus Dahlin (10), Evan Rodrigues (1) 1 - 4
16:53 WSH Tom Wilson (5) Michal Kempny (4) 1 - 5
3rd Period
13:43 WSH T.J. Oshie (8) Michal Kempny (5), Alex Ovechkin (8) 1 - 6

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
02:42 WSH Dmitry Orlov Elbowing 2
3rd Period
11:10 WSH Dmitry Orlov Tripping 2
18:24 BUF Johan Larsson Slashing 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 52 36 30 1 2.2 47.5
Washington Capitals 59 48 34 6 3.4 52.5

How the game went

10505Start2nd3rdWashington 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: 2.2 expected, 1 scored · Washington Capitals: 3.4 expected, 6 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 10:40 of 2nd, a 2% chanceWSH goal, 6:17 of 1st, a 16% chanceWSH goal, 6:59 of 1st, a 12% chanceWSH goal, 9:29 of 1st, a 11% chanceWSH goal, 10:44 of 1st, a 8% chanceWSH goal, 16:53 of 2nd, a 9% chanceWSH goal, 13:43 of 3rd, a 9% chanceWSH 3.4BUF 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

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
Kyle Okposo · Johan Larsson · Zemgus Girgensons12:1945.056.60-0
Conor Sheary · Evan Rodrigues · Casey Mittelstadt11:4142.941.61-1
Sam Reinhart · Victor Olofsson · Jack Eichel11:0163.257.00-2
Vladimir Sobotka · Marcus Johansson · Jeff Skinner10:3850.035.90-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Colin Miller · John Gilmour18:0755.955.10-1
Jake McCabe · Rasmus Ristolainen16:4133.339.40-1
Henri Jokiharju · Rasmus Dahlin14:4552.232.01-1

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
20 Henri Jokiharju D 1 0 1 -1 0 5 0 17:33 0.10 16-12 0.48-0.62
17 Evan Rodrigues C 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 11:58 0.06 9-12 0.41-0.57
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 1 1 -2 0 3 4 17:43 0.09 13-13 0.26-0.74
6 Colin Miller D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 21:37 0.08 19-16 0.85-0.79
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 14:14 10-12 0.55-0.48
9 Jack Eichel C 0 0 0 -3 0 4 0 17:01 0.54 14-11 0.64-0.57
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13:46 9-12 0.41-0.57
13 Sam Reinhart C 0 0 0 -3 0 1 0 16:32 0.00 14-12 0.64-0.57
17 Vladimir Sobotka C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 14:44 0.19 14-16 0.48-1.05
22 Johan Larsson L 0 0 0 0 2 1 2 13:50 0.07 10-12 0.55-0.39
22 Jake McCabe D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 20:23 14-23 0.90-1.15
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 3 12:59 0.18 9-13 0.51-0.48
43 Conor Sheary L 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 14:19 0.25 9-12 0.41-0.57
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 0 0 -2 0 3 0 17:17 0.32 16-17 0.65-1.04
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 -2 0 3 2 21:01 0.09 12-23 0.75-1.25
58 John Gilmour D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 1 19:56 0.12 20-17 0.92-0.81
90 Marcus Johansson L 0 0 0 -2 0 0 2 17:39 0.05 14-17 0.48-1.14
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 15:52 0.06 13-10 0.51-0.58
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Linus Ullmark 34 28 6 60:00 3.42 -2.58

Washington Capitals

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Alex Ovechkin · T.J. Oshie · Nicklas Backstrom14:5950.044.91-0
Evgeny Kuznetsov · Tom Wilson · Jakub Vrana13:0260.082.13-1
Carl Hagelin · Lars Eller · Garnet Hathaway11:2672.266.20-0
Travis Boyd · Brendan Leipsic · Chandler Stephenson9:5821.433.02-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
John Carlson · Michal Kempny17:0946.238.82-0
Dmitry Orlov · Radko Gudas15:0048.056.91-0
Nick Jensen · Jonas Siegenthaler13:1268.878.91-1

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

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
43 Tom Wilson R 1 2 3 2 0 2 5 17:09 0.47 16-11 0.93-0.19
6 Michal Kempny D 0 3 3 3 0 1 1 20:57 0.04 16-17 0.63-0.90
19 Jakub Vrana L 2 0 2 2 0 8 0 16:45 0.86 19-14 1.11-0.24
28 Brendan Leipsic L 1 1 2 2 0 1 0 10:48 0.08 4-11 0.26-0.53
72 Travis Boyd C 0 2 2 2 0 0 0 11:53 0.05 7-12 0.46-0.53
9 Chandler Stephenson C 1 0 1 2 0 1 4 12:04 0.12 4-12 0.28-0.53
77 T.J. Oshie R 1 0 1 1 0 2 2 16:52 0.26 15-18 0.66-1.04
6 Radko Gudas D 0 1 1 2 0 3 2 19:11 0.10 16-15 0.84-0.54
8 Alex Ovechkin L 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 18:12 0.23 16-16 0.69-0.93
3 Nick Jensen D 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 16:54 0.16 24-10 1.29-0.30
9 Dmitry Orlov D 0 0 0 2 4 1 2 21:00 0.08 13-21 0.87-0.92
19 Nicklas Backstrom C 0 0 0 1 0 3 1 15:43 0.09 15-16 0.66-0.86
20 Lars Eller C 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 14:38 0.22 15-7 0.69-0.38
21 Garnet Hathaway R 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 13:45 0.22 14-6 0.61-0.31
62 Carl Hagelin L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13:32 0.01 13-6 0.61-0.38
71 Jonas Siegenthaler D 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 17:00 0.06 23-13 1.18-0.39
74 John Carlson D 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 23:33 0.09 12-18 0.54-1.10
92 Evgeny Kuznetsov C 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 16:04 0.27 18-12 1.04-0.31
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
70 Braden Holtby 30 29 1 60:00 2.23 +1.23