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Washington Capitals at Buffalo Sabres

Apr 9, 2021 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Washington Capitals 4 33
Buffalo Sabres 3 33

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
02:39 WSH Brenden Dillon (2) Justin Schultz (17), T.J. Oshie (18) 1 - 0
11:39 WSH Alex Ovechkin (21) Brenden Dillon (12), John Carlson (25) 2 - 0
18:26 BUF Henri Jokiharju (3) Rasmus Dahlin (14) 2 - 1
2nd Period
00:28 WSH Justin Schultz (3) Lars Eller (10) 3 - 1
10:08 BUF Casey Mittelstadt (5) Rasmus Asplund (1), Rasmus Ristolainen (8) 3 - 2
3rd Period
09:48 WSH Jakub Vrana (11) Justin Schultz (18), Lars Eller (11) 4 - 2
18:40 BUF Tage Thompson (4) Rasmus Ristolainen (9) 4 - 3

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
12:38 WSH Dmitry Orlov Cross checking 2
18:45 WSH Nick Jensen High sticking 2
19:41 BUF Team Too many men on the ice 2
2nd Period
16:20 WSH John Carlson Hooking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Washington Capitals 57 45 33 4 2.4 52.0
Buffalo Sabres 57 43 33 3 2.0 48.0

How the game went

420246810Start2nd3rdBuffalo 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: 2.4 expected, 4 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 2.0 expected, 3 scored

00.511.52Start2nd3rdEndWSH goal, 2:39 of 1st, a 2% chanceWSH goal, 11:39 of 1st, a 1% chanceWSH goal, 0:28 of 2nd, a 5% chanceWSH goal, 9:48 of 3rd, a 8% chanceBUF goal, 18:26 of 1st, a 2% chanceBUF goal, 10:08 of 2nd, a 15% chanceBUF goal, 18:40 of 3rd, a 8% chanceWSH 2.4BUF 2.0

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
Carl Hagelin · Nic Dowd · Garnet Hathaway13:3326.915.40-1
Nicklas Backstrom · Conor Sheary · Daniel Sprong12:0859.341.40-1
Alex Ovechkin · Evgeny Kuznetsov · Tom Wilson11:0581.391.11-0
T.J. Oshie · Lars Eller · Jakub Vrana9:1044.451.22-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Justin Schultz · Brenden Dillon17:4252.256.43-0
John Carlson · Dmitry Orlov17:3250.037.50-1
Zdeno Chara · Nick Jensen12:2654.573.00-0

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
4 Justin Schultz D 1 2 3 2 0 3 2 19:45 0.11 12-14 0.33-0.43
5 Brenden Dillon D 1 1 2 2 0 1 2 19:44 0.02 13-11 0.40-0.25
20 Lars Eller C 0 2 2 3 0 2 0 13:03 0.27 8-10 0.31-0.30
8 Alex Ovechkin L 1 0 1 0 0 5 1 14:08 0.40 16-6 0.64-0.15
19 Jakub Vrana L 1 0 1 2 0 1 0 11:05 0.08 9-10 0.44-0.30
74 John Carlson D 0 1 1 -1 2 2 1 23:17 0.10 25-23 0.50-0.75
77 T.J. Oshie R 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 13:02 13-11 0.40-0.36
3 Nick Jensen D 0 0 0 -1 2 0 0 17:06 14-13 0.79-0.46
9 Dmitry Orlov D 0 0 0 0 2 4 1 21:47 0.13 25-25 0.56-0.77
10 Daniel Sprong R 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 12:31 0.04 16-11 0.29-0.42
19 Nicklas Backstrom C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 14:16 0.08 21-11 0.38-0.42
21 Garnet Hathaway R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 7 15:22 0.01 8-19 0.25-0.59
26 Nic Dowd C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 18:15 7-22 0.11-0.65
33 Zdeno Chara D 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 17:50 0.08 14-11 0.84-0.26
43 Tom Wilson R 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 15:36 0.09 14-6 0.70-0.09
43 Conor Sheary L 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 13:43 0.15 20-12 0.33-0.46
62 Carl Hagelin L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 18:16 0.08 9-21 0.30-0.59
92 Evgeny Kuznetsov C 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 15:14 0.31 18-6 0.92-0.12
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
41 Vitek Vanecek W 33 30 3 60:00 2.02 -0.98

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jeff Skinner · Sam Reinhart · Victor Olofsson12:0550.049.60-1
Rasmus Asplund · Tage Thompson · Casey Mittelstadt11:1852.668.91-0
Kyle Okposo · Riley Sheahan · Arttu Ruotsalainen10:1641.221.50-0
Cody Eakin · Tobias Rieder · Sam Reinhart1:430.00.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Henri Jokiharju · Rasmus Dahlin16:2360.059.31-1
Rasmus Ristolainen · Jacob Bryson15:2739.325.30-1
Colin Miller · Brandon Montour11:3156.562.01-0

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
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 2 2 0 0 0 6 23:42 12-28 0.23-0.90
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 17:10 0.24 13-11 0.49-0.23
20 Henri Jokiharju D 1 0 1 -1 0 2 0 20:05 0.04 22-12 0.78-0.50
72 Tage Thompson C 1 0 1 1 0 4 0 16:42 0.24 12-13 0.46-0.41
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 1 1 -1 0 2 2 24:04 0.04 21-18 0.78-0.64
74 Rasmus Asplund C 0 1 1 2 0 1 0 12:50 0.07 11-9 0.49-0.21
6 Colin Miller D 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 16:50 0.06 15-12 0.46-0.29
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 0 0 1 0 4 1 16:29 0.25 13-13 0.42-0.76
8 Riley Sheahan C 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 15:59 0.29 9-15 0.20-0.80
13 Tobias Rieder L 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 12:16 0.02 10-12 0.36-0.15
13 Sam Reinhart C 0 0 0 -2 0 3 0 20:44 0.21 17-17 0.48-0.46
20 Cody Eakin C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10:50 9-10 0.30-0.16
25 Arttu Ruotsalainen C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 15:52 0.15 10-18 0.35-0.91
52 Matt Irwin D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 04:28 0.05 5-4 0.06-0.05
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 18:13 0.08 18-15 0.37-0.43
62 Brandon Montour D 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 16:17 0.08 15-12 0.46-0.29
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 19:02 0.07 11-22 0.23-0.77
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 18:28 0.12 17-16 0.39-0.44
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
34 Dustin Tokarski L 33 29 4 57:59 1.96 -2.04