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Montréal Canadiens at Washington Capitals

Feb 20, 2020 · Capital One Arena

Team Goals Shots
Montréal Canadiens 4 32
Washington Capitals 3 32

Decided in overtime.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
07:29 WSH Alex Ovechkin (41) Nicklas Backstrom (35) 0 - 1
17:43 MTL Shea Weber (14) Phillip Danault (29) 1 - 1
2nd Period
17:03 WSH Lars Eller (15) Carl Hagelin (14), Richard Panik (8) 1 - 2
18:37 MTL Brendan Gallagher (20) Brett Kulak (7) 2 - 2
3rd Period
00:30 MTL Ben Chiarot (8) Tomas Tatar (34) 3 - 2
19:39 WSH Tom Wilson (18) Evgeny Kuznetsov (28), Nicklas Backstrom (36) 3 - 3
Overtime
00:58 MTL Ben Chiarot (9) Max Domi (25), Jeff Petry (28) 4 - 3

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
08:47 MTL Jonathan Drouin Tripping 2
2nd Period
00:37 WSH Alex Ovechkin Cross checking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Montréal Canadiens 63 51 32 4 3.7 56.9
Washington Capitals 52 38 32 3 2.6 43.1

How the game went

1510505Start2nd3rdOTWashington Capitals aheadMontréal Canadiens 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 Montréal Canadiens had.

Expected goals

Montréal Canadiens: 3.7 expected, 4 scored · Washington Capitals: 2.6 expected, 3 scored

0123Start2nd3rdOTMTL goal, 17:43 of 1st, a 2% chanceMTL goal, 18:37 of 2nd, a 29% chanceMTL goal, 0:30 of 3rd, a 7% chanceMTL goal, 0:58 of overtime, a 13% chanceWSH goal, 7:29 of 1st, a 3% chanceWSH goal, 17:03 of 2nd, a 12% chanceWSH goal, 19:39 of 3rd, a 39% chanceMTL 3.7WSH 2.6

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

Montréal Canadiens
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.

Montréal Canadiens

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Tomas Tatar · Brendan Gallagher · Phillip Danault13:4660.774.63-0
Ilya Kovalchuk · Paul Byron · Max Domi11:1542.934.20-0
Joel Armia · Jonathan Drouin · Nick Suzuki10:0950.021.60-2
Nate Thompson · Jordan Weal · Nick Cousins10:0775.086.60-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jeff Petry · Brett Kulak15:0351.669.50-1
Shea Weber · Ben Chiarot13:1157.969.61-0
Ben Chiarot · Christian Folin7:4053.829.00-0

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
8 Ben Chiarot D 2 0 2 2 0 4 4 28:05 0.22 25-20 0.80-0.89
6 Shea Weber D 1 0 1 1 0 5 0 24:25 0.10 18-16 0.99-0.60
7 Brendan Gallagher R 1 0 1 3 0 2 0 16:04 0.68 18-13 0.98-0.42
2 Jeff Petry D 0 1 1 -1 0 1 1 24:52 0.13 23-24 1.25-1.04
11 Max Domi C 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 16:24 0.24 12-13 0.33-0.60
24 Phillip Danault C 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 17:53 0.09 20-11 1.09-0.30
27 Brett Kulak D 0 1 1 -2 0 1 0 27:21 0.08 31-21 1.91-0.67
90 Tomas Tatar L 0 1 1 3 0 3 0 15:53 0.09 17-12 0.89-0.40
14 Nick Suzuki C 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 13:51 7-11 0.21-0.48
17 Ilya Kovalchuk L 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 16:48 0.18 12-16 0.33-0.72
21 Nick Cousins C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 14:58 0.19 21-9 1.30-0.38
32 Christian Folin D 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 13:31 0.03 18-7 0.56-0.37
40 Joel Armia R 0 0 0 -3 0 1 2 14:45 0.07 9-9 0.26-0.43
41 Paul Byron L 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 15:29 0.36 14-16 0.65-0.62
43 Jordan Weal C 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 11:34 0.51 16-6 0.95-0.21
44 Nate Thompson C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 13:53 0.14 19-9 1.13-0.39
61 Xavier Ouellet D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 01:04 0.03 1-0 0.03-0.00
92 Jonathan Drouin L 0 0 0 -2 2 0 0 14:04 0.03 9-7 0.16-0.38
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
31 Carey Price 32 29 3 60:58 2.64 -0.36

Washington Capitals

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Alex Ovechkin · Nicklas Backstrom · Tom Wilson14:0236.732.01-1
T.J. Oshie · Evgeny Kuznetsov · Jakub Vrana11:5955.059.80-1
Carl Hagelin · Lars Eller · Richard Panik10:4157.146.61-1
Nic Dowd · Travis Boyd · Garnet Hathaway7:2633.325.60-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
John Carlson · Brenden Dillon15:2236.727.11-3
Dmitry Orlov · Nick Jensen12:3851.752.80-0
Radko Gudas · Michal Kempny8:4946.252.11-0

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 2 2 0 0 2 0 18:24 0.25 12-19 0.45-0.94
8 Alex Ovechkin L 1 0 1 0 2 6 3 22:31 0.27 14-26 0.54-1.03
20 Lars Eller C 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 15:30 0.17 12-11 0.42-0.52
43 Tom Wilson R 1 0 1 1 0 6 4 20:09 0.80 13-21 0.45-0.97
16 Richard Panik R 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 12:20 0.03 14-12 0.43-0.61
62 Carl Hagelin L 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 12:46 0.10 12-9 0.42-0.49
92 Evgeny Kuznetsov C 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 18:28 0.14 14-14 0.61-0.59
3 Nick Jensen D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 16:12 0.03 18-16 0.74-0.57
5 Brenden Dillon D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 1 20:22 0.00 13-21 0.43-0.99
6 Radko Gudas D 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 11:52 8-8 0.38-0.30
6 Michal Kempny D 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 19:44 0.10 16-13 0.74-0.41
9 Dmitry Orlov D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 23:33 19-28 0.69-1.47
19 Jakub Vrana L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 16:23 0.30 14-15 0.62-0.69
21 Garnet Hathaway R 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 10:33 0.10 6-14 0.29-0.75
26 Nic Dowd C 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 12:19 6-15 0.29-0.75
72 Travis Boyd C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 09:16 0.08 4-8 0.19-0.55
74 John Carlson D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 25:36 0.03 14-29 0.59-1.77
77 T.J. Oshie R 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 16:23 0.22 11-11 0.60-0.43
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
70 Braden Holtby 32 28 4 59:31 3.18 -0.82