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Washington Capitals at Buffalo Sabres

Jan 15, 2021 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Washington Capitals 2 21
Buffalo Sabres 1 31

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
2nd Period
01:34 WSH Jakub Vrana (2) Tom Wilson (1) 1 - 0
3rd Period
00:31 BUF Rasmus Ristolainen (1) Taylor Hall (2), Jack Eichel (3) 1 - 1
07:47 WSH Tom Wilson (1) Nicklas Backstrom (2) 2 - 1

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
05:57 WSH Brenden Dillon Hooking 2
10:23 WSH Conor Sheary Tripping 2
16:35 WSH Evgeny Kuznetsov Holding 2
2nd Period
12:23 WSH John Carlson Slashing 2
3rd Period
15:47 WSH Zdeno Chara Holding 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Washington Capitals 35 27 21 2 1.4 48.6
Buffalo Sabres 52 45 31 1 2.9 51.4

How the game went

051015Start2nd3rdBuffalo Sabres aheadWashington Capitals 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 Buffalo Sabres had taken more, and below it and blue while Washington Capitals had.

Expected goals

Washington Capitals: 1.4 expected, 2 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 2.9 expected, 1 scored

012Start2nd3rdEndWSH goal, 1:34 of 2nd, a 11% chanceWSH goal, 7:47 of 3rd, a 7% chanceBUF goal, 0:31 of 3rd, a 1% chanceBUF 2.9WSH 1.4

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

Washington Capitals
Buffalo Sabres

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.

Washington Capitals

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Alex Ovechkin · T.J. Oshie · Nicklas Backstrom7:5731.311.70-0
Evgeny Kuznetsov · Tom Wilson · Jakub Vrana6:5238.545.71-0
Lars Eller · Richard Panik · Conor Sheary5:3242.919.20-0
Carl Hagelin · Nic Dowd · Garnet Hathaway5:0763.637.40-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
John Carlson · Dmitry Orlov15:3438.121.90-1
Justin Schultz · Brenden Dillon14:3844.447.31-0
Zdeno Chara · Nick Jensen13:1656.053.71-0

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

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
43 Tom Wilson R 1 1 2 1 0 1 4 18:44 0.07 7-12 0.23-0.31
19 Jakub Vrana L 1 0 1 1 0 1 2 13:56 0.13 12-9 0.36-0.19
19 Nicklas Backstrom C 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 16:22 0.21 9-16 0.33-1.01
3 Nick Jensen D 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 19:13 0.02 15-11 0.42-0.37
4 Justin Schultz D 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 17:19 0.01 9-10 0.22-0.23
5 Brenden Dillon D 0 0 0 1 2 1 2 19:25 0.01 10-11 0.22-0.25
8 Alex Ovechkin L 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 14:51 0.03 11-15 0.36-0.95
9 Dmitry Orlov D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 22:15 9-14 0.27-0.91
16 Richard Panik R 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 12:24 0.11 8-5 0.21-0.10
20 Lars Eller C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 17:30 0.01 6-5 0.13-0.16
21 Garnet Hathaway R 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 09:05 7-6 0.10-0.17
26 Nic Dowd C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12:30 0.01 9-4 0.20-0.16
33 Zdeno Chara D 0 0 0 1 2 3 2 20:06 0.03 15-12 0.44-0.37
43 Conor Sheary L 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 08:52 5-5 0.06-0.09
62 Carl Hagelin L 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 13:55 0.08 7-6 0.10-0.23
74 John Carlson D 0 0 0 -1 2 1 1 22:19 0.02 10-15 0.29-0.93
77 T.J. Oshie R 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 16:16 0.09 8-13 0.21-0.96
92 Evgeny Kuznetsov C 0 0 0 1 2 3 1 14:58 0.11 13-11 0.49-0.25
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
41 Vitek Vanecek W 31 30 1 60:00 2.96 +1.96

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Cody Eakin · Tobias Rieder · Dylan Cozens7:1230.012.10-1
Taylor Hall · Jack Eichel · Tage Thompson6:4063.694.00-0
Riley Sheahan · Jeff Skinner · Curtis Lazar6:0637.562.90-0
Eric Staal · Sam Reinhart · Victor Olofsson4:2666.756.80-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jake McCabe · Rasmus Ristolainen13:1373.781.71-0
Brandon Montour · Rasmus Dahlin11:1429.429.30-1
Colin Miller · Henri Jokiharju10:2233.318.20-1

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

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 1 0 1 1 0 3 4 20:51 0.11 17-6 0.99-0.21
9 Jack Eichel C 0 1 1 1 0 3 2 23:23 0.19 16-9 1.11-0.20
71 Taylor Hall L 0 1 1 1 0 0 3 21:36 0.21 13-9 0.87-0.27
6 Colin Miller D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 2 15:35 0.08 13-10 0.51-0.38
8 Riley Sheahan C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 08:21 6-5 0.27-0.04
12 Eric Staal C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 17:43 0.16 10-10 0.16-0.21
13 Tobias Rieder L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 12:42 0.10 9-8 0.24-0.41
13 Sam Reinhart C 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 21:25 0.40 17-6 0.45-0.19
20 Cody Eakin C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 12:17 7-9 0.19-0.47
20 Curtis Lazar C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 08:47 3-7 0.07-0.05
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 14:15 7-13 0.11-0.40
22 Jake McCabe D 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 17:36 0.24 18-8 1.11-0.22
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 12:49 0.11 5-9 0.13-0.47
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 21:31 0.16 5-13 0.12-0.29
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 14:28 0.30 7-7 0.32-0.04
62 Brandon Montour D 0 0 0 -1 0 4 1 19:13 0.04 11-18 0.23-0.36
72 Tage Thompson C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 19:39 0.47 8-12 0.61-0.21
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 0 0 -1 0 4 0 19:51 0.35 8-11 0.17-0.22
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Linus Ullmark L 21 19 2 57:58 0.94 -1.06