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Pittsburgh Penguins at Washington Capitals

Feb 25, 2021 · Capital One Arena

Team Goals Shots
Pittsburgh Penguins 2 28
Washington Capitals 5 35

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
11:20 WSH Nicklas Backstrom (9) Nick Jensen (5) 0 - 1
3rd Period
03:18 WSH T.J. Oshie (5) Lars Eller (6), John Carlson (11) 0 - 2
04:22 PIT Brandon Tanev (5) SH Unassisted 1 - 2
07:22 PIT Jake Guentzel (7) Sidney Crosby (10), Kris Letang (9) 2 - 2
12:40 WSH Tom Wilson (7) PP John Carlson (12), Alex Ovechkin (10) 2 - 3
18:38 WSH Carl Hagelin (2) Unassisted 2 - 4
19:08 WSH Lars Eller (3) T.J. Oshie (9), Nicklas Backstrom (15) 2 - 5

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
11:40 WSH Lars Eller Tripping 2
15:27 WSH Tom Wilson Interference 2
2nd Period
04:03 WSH John Carlson Interference goalkeeper 2
09:09 PIT Evgeni Malkin Hooking 2
15:36 WSH Evgeny Kuznetsov Tripping 2
3rd Period
03:32 PIT Kris Letang Hooking 2
10:53 PIT Drew O'Connor Hooking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Pittsburgh Penguins 52 46 28 2 3.0 40.2
Washington Capitals 66 49 35 5 4.5 59.8

How the game went

051015Start2nd3rdWashington 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: 3.0 expected, 2 scored · Washington Capitals: 4.5 expected, 5 scored

01234Start2nd3rdEndPIT goal, 4:22 of 3rd, a 9% chancePIT goal, 7:22 of 3rd, a 27% chanceWSH goal, 11:20 of 1st, a 21% chanceWSH goal, 3:18 of 3rd, a 12% chanceWSH goal, 12:40 of 3rd, a 14% chanceWSH goal, 18:38 of 3rd, a 54% chanceWSH goal, 19:08 of 3rd, a 53% chanceWSH 4.5PIT 3.0

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

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 · Sam Lafferty · Brandon Tanev11:0932.042.50-1
Evgeni Malkin · Bryan Rust · Zachary Aston-Reese11:0454.540.50-0
Sidney Crosby · Jake Guentzel · Kasperi Kapanen9:5640.044.71-0
Colton Sceviour · Mark Jankowski · Drew O'Connor5:3266.751.20-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mike Matheson · John Marino16:4040.730.20-1
Cody Ceci · Marcus Pettersson11:0330.843.60-1
Kris Letang · Pierre-Olivier Joseph10:4545.850.91-0

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
13 Brandon Tanev L 1 0 1 0 0 3 5 16:06 0.44 8-23 0.50-0.95
59 Jake Guentzel C 1 0 1 -1 0 2 0 18:40 0.64 9-12 0.57-0.55
58 Kris Letang D 0 1 1 -1 2 1 3 23:50 0.00 17-18 0.87-0.59
87 Sidney Crosby C 0 1 1 -2 0 2 0 18:21 0.20 9-13 0.57-0.66
5 Cody Ceci D 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 16:25 0.12 9-21 0.54-0.74
6 John Marino D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 22:46 0.02 11-19 0.46-1.31
7 Pierre-Olivier Joseph D 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 12:51 0.00 12-14 0.57-0.54
8 Mike Matheson D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 19:56 0.18 15-17 0.58-1.07
17 Bryan Rust R 0 0 0 -2 0 5 0 19:41 0.47 13-11 0.58-0.67
18 Drew O'Connor L 0 0 0 -1 2 2 0 10:05 0.12 8-10 0.34-0.43
24 Sam Lafferty C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 3 13:20 0.19 8-20 0.50-0.76
26 Marcus Pettersson D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 16:54 0.02 9-22 0.59-0.96
27 Zachary Aston-Reese L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 14:51 0.08 12-10 0.46-0.67
42 Kasperi Kapanen R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 15:34 10-16 0.59-0.63
70 Colton Sceviour C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 06:31 0.12 6-7 0.19-0.38
71 Evgeni Malkin C 0 0 0 -2 2 3 1 20:37 0.28 13-13 0.58-0.87
73 Teddy Blueger C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 17:41 0.07 8-24 0.50-1.01
77 Mark Jankowski L 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 11:00 0.08 8-5 0.34-0.23
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Tristan Jarry L 33 30 3 59:04 3.43 +0.43

Washington Capitals

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
T.J. Oshie · Lars Eller · Richard Panik11:0659.154.50-0
Alex Ovechkin · Evgeny Kuznetsov · Conor Sheary10:5557.769.80-0
Nicklas Backstrom · Tom Wilson · Jakub Vrana9:1150.049.41-0
Carl Hagelin · Nic Dowd · Garnet Hathaway5:4866.724.30-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Justin Schultz · Dmitry Orlov17:0071.974.00-0
John Carlson · Brenden Dillon14:1948.329.60-1
Zdeno Chara · Nick Jensen8:5666.767.91-0

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 1 1 2 1 0 5 0 16:43 0.54 15-12 0.67-0.60
20 Lars Eller C 1 1 2 2 2 1 2 15:54 0.23 14-11 0.55-0.61
77 T.J. Oshie R 1 1 2 1 0 3 1 18:14 0.20 18-13 0.75-0.45
74 John Carlson D 0 2 2 -1 2 2 3 22:34 0.07 18-19 0.49-0.76
43 Tom Wilson R 1 0 1 1 2 1 4 18:09 0.14 15-11 0.75-0.77
62 Carl Hagelin L 1 0 1 1 0 4 0 12:18 0.30 7-2 0.44-0.27
3 Nick Jensen D 0 1 1 1 0 3 1 17:15 0.07 15-7 0.73-0.35
8 Alex Ovechkin L 0 1 1 -1 0 4 2 16:04 0.59 19-11 0.99-0.37
4 Justin Schultz D 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 19:28 0.02 24-13 1.42-0.72
5 Brenden Dillon D 0 0 0 1 0 2 4 17:47 0.04 16-16 0.40-0.78
9 Dmitry Orlov D 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 20:43 0.06 23-10 1.31-0.58
16 Richard Panik R 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 11:55 0.18 14-9 0.61-0.36
19 Jakub Vrana L 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 14:22 0.14 11-12 0.53-0.59
21 Garnet Hathaway R 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 07:06 5-2 0.12-0.27
26 Nic Dowd C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 12:15 0.18 4-3 0.09-0.40
33 Zdeno Chara D 0 0 0 3 0 1 1 18:22 0.03 14-10 0.84-0.59
43 Conor Sheary L 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 16:18 0.52 21-11 1.02-0.37
92 Evgeny Kuznetsov C 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 16:38 0.08 22-13 1.29-0.51
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
41 Vitek Vanecek W 28 26 2 59:55 3.06 +1.06