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Pittsburgh Penguins at Washington Capitals

Feb 23, 2020 · Capital One Arena

Team Goals Shots
Pittsburgh Penguins 3 35
Washington Capitals 5 23

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
06:12 WSH Jakub Vrana (24) Unassisted 0 - 1
2nd Period
14:47 PIT Patric Hornqvist (15) Kris Letang (27), Evgeni Malkin (41) 1 - 1
15:13 PIT Sidney Crosby (13) Jason Zucker (17), Marcus Pettersson (18) 2 - 1
3rd Period
01:16 WSH Tom Wilson (20) Nicklas Backstrom (38) 2 - 2
04:41 WSH Carl Hagelin (6) Lars Eller (22), John Carlson (57) 2 - 3
08:50 PIT Evgeni Malkin (21) Bryan Rust (26) 3 - 3
10:40 WSH T.J. Oshie (25) Unassisted 3 - 4
19:13 WSH Carl Hagelin (7) Nicklas Backstrom (39), T.J. Oshie (21) 3 - 5

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
15:27 WSH Tom Wilson Cross checking 2
19:38 WSH John Carlson Hooking 2
20:00 WSH Brenden Dillon Roughing 2
20:00 PIT Evgeni Malkin Roughing 2
20:00 PIT Evgeni Malkin Roughing 2
20:00 WSH Brenden Dillon Roughing 2
2nd Period
03:56 PIT Marcus Pettersson Slashing 2
09:16 WSH Garnet Hathaway Holding 2
09:16 PIT Anthony Angello Interference 2
16:28 WSH Alex Ovechkin Slashing 2
3rd Period
00:57 PIT Kris Letang Slashing 2
00:57 WSH Evgeny Kuznetsov Slashing 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Pittsburgh Penguins 66 50 35 3 3.7 56.3
Washington Capitals 48 37 23 5 3.7 43.8

How the game went

151050Start2nd3rdWashington Capitals aheadPittsburgh Penguins 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 Pittsburgh Penguins had.

Expected goals

Pittsburgh Penguins: 3.7 expected, 3 scored · Washington Capitals: 3.7 expected, 5 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndPIT goal, 14:47 of 2nd, a 27% chancePIT goal, 15:13 of 2nd, a 11% chancePIT goal, 8:50 of 3rd, a 15% chanceWSH goal, 6:12 of 1st, a 16% chanceWSH goal, 1:16 of 3rd, a 13% chanceWSH goal, 4:41 of 3rd, a 32% chanceWSH goal, 10:40 of 3rd, a 26% chanceWSH goal, 19:13 of 3rd, a 55% chancePIT 3.7WSH 3.7

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

Pittsburgh Penguins
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.

Pittsburgh Penguins

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Teddy Blueger · Jared McCann · Brandon Tanev12:4153.344.50-1
Sidney Crosby · Jason Zucker · Dominik Simon11:2163.044.91-2
Evgeni Malkin · Patric Hornqvist · Bryan Rust11:0950.068.32-0
Andrew Agozzino · Sam Lafferty · Anthony Angello5:5944.436.90-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jack Johnson · Kris Letang13:2441.735.61-1
Justin Schultz · Marcus Pettersson13:0676.272.91-1
Zach Trotman · Chad Ruhwedel10:3347.831.20-1

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
71 Evgeni Malkin C 1 1 2 1 4 3 3 19:05 0.44 12-12 0.75-0.37
70 Patric Hornqvist R 1 0 1 1 0 5 1 17:57 0.98 11-12 0.75-0.37
87 Sidney Crosby C 1 0 1 -3 0 5 0 20:58 0.38 17-10 0.71-0.88
17 Jason Zucker L 0 1 1 -2 0 3 3 16:12 0.35 19-12 0.71-0.97
17 Bryan Rust R 0 1 1 1 0 3 1 20:45 0.47 12-11 0.75-0.35
26 Marcus Pettersson D 0 1 1 0 2 1 1 18:37 0.03 19-6 1.04-0.33
58 Kris Letang D 0 1 1 0 2 3 1 26:13 0.17 16-17 0.66-0.82
3 Jack Johnson D 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 19:43 13-15 0.54-0.83
4 Justin Schultz D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 19:22 0.06 17-7 0.89-0.39
5 Zach Trotman D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 3 14:32 0.03 13-13 0.48-0.94
5 Chad Ruhwedel D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 2 16:26 0.11 13-12 0.52-0.88
13 Brandon Tanev L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 5 16:06 0.23 8-7 0.49-0.61
19 Jared McCann L 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 16:08 0.31 11-7 0.51-0.61
24 Sam Lafferty C 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 07:54 4-5 0.09-0.16
36 Andrew Agozzino L 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 07:51 0.00 7-5 0.09-0.16
51 Dominik Simon C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 3 13:35 20-11 0.73-0.95
57 Anthony Angello C 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 07:27 0.08 4-5 0.09-0.16
73 Teddy Blueger C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 16:10 0.08 9-8 0.51-0.69
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
30 Matt Murray 22 18 4 58:59 3.11 -0.89

Washington Capitals

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Alex Ovechkin · Evgeny Kuznetsov · Tom Wilson14:0347.135.10-1
T.J. Oshie · Nicklas Backstrom · Jakub Vrana10:4445.562.72-1
Carl Hagelin · Lars Eller · Richard Panik9:1557.170.11-0
Nic Dowd · Brendan Leipsic · Garnet Hathaway6:1150.026.40-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
John Carlson · Brenden Dillon11:0953.667.73-1
Dmitry Orlov · Nick Jensen11:0646.237.00-0
Radko Gudas · Michal Kempny9:2554.540.50-1

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
62 Carl Hagelin L 2 0 2 2 0 3 2 15:24 0.57 9-8 0.69-0.42
77 T.J. Oshie R 1 1 2 2 0 2 2 15:21 0.44 10-15 0.95-0.67
19 Nicklas Backstrom C 0 2 2 3 0 0 0 17:04 0.10 12-16 1.00-0.78
19 Jakub Vrana L 1 0 1 1 0 2 2 17:17 0.27 14-21 1.06-0.89
43 Tom Wilson R 1 0 1 0 2 3 8 18:17 0.27 9-14 0.24-0.68
20 Lars Eller C 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 14:32 0.22 10-12 0.75-0.45
74 John Carlson D 0 1 1 2 2 1 1 22:00 0.11 17-24 1.40-0.94
3 Nick Jensen D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 13:32 0.09 6-9 0.29-0.50
5 Brenden Dillon D 0 0 0 2 4 1 9 20:38 0.02 19-17 1.46-0.73
6 Radko Gudas D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 4 19:01 0.08 6-11 0.27-0.50
6 Michal Kempny D 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 20:28 0.14 9-15 0.29-0.67
8 Alex Ovechkin L 0 0 0 -1 2 1 5 19:00 0.29 9-13 0.24-0.49
9 Dmitry Orlov D 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 22:49 0.14 13-16 0.47-0.80
16 Richard Panik R 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 11:58 0.07 11-9 0.80-0.42
21 Garnet Hathaway R 0 0 0 -1 2 0 4 07:22 0.08 4-4 0.10-0.28
26 Nic Dowd C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 4 11:42 4-7 0.10-0.39
28 Brendan Leipsic L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 06:20 4-4 0.10-0.28
92 Evgeny Kuznetsov C 0 0 0 -1 2 2 0 17:15 0.21 9-10 0.24-0.45
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
70 Braden Holtby 35 32 3 60:00 3.74 +0.74