Buffalo Sabres at Washington Capitals

Feb 18, 2021 · Capital One Arena

Team	Goals	Shots
Buffalo Sabres	1	23
Washington Capitals	3	21

Scoring

Time	Team	Goal	Assists	Score
1st Period
17:23	WSH	Nicklas Backstrom (8) PP	T.J. Oshie (7), Alex Ovechkin (9)	0 - 1
2nd Period
06:38	WSH	Tom Wilson (6) SH	Unassisted	0 - 2
3rd Period
07:28	WSH	Conor Sheary (4)	Lars Eller (4), Justin Schultz (6)	0 - 3
11:27	BUF	Victor Olofsson (6) PP	Sam Reinhart (5), Jack Eichel (10)	1 - 3

Penalties

Time	Team	Player	Penalty	Min
1st Period
16:19	BUF	Will Borgen	Slashing	2
2nd Period
05:46	WSH	T.J. Oshie	High sticking	2
3rd Period
09:36	WSH	Dmitry Orlov	Tripping	2

Shot attempts

Team	Attempts (Corsi)	Unblocked (Fenwick)	On goal	Goals	Expected goals	5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres	45	38	23	1	2.1	48.8
Washington Capitals	50	36	21	3	3.0	51.2

How the game went

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 Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 2.1 expected, 1 scored · Washington Capitals: 3.0 expected, 3 scored

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

Buffalo Sabres

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.

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward line	Time	CF%	xGF%	Goals
Eric Staal · Taylor Hall · Sam Reinhart	10:35	46.2	31.0	0-0
Kyle Okposo · Cody Eakin · Tobias Rieder	8:29	50.0	54.0	0-0
Victor Olofsson · Jack Eichel · Tage Thompson	8:14	41.2	44.8	0-0
Taylor Hall · Sam Reinhart · Jack Eichel	7:24	54.5	75.1	0-0

Defence pair	Time	CF%	xGF%	Goals
Colin Miller · Rasmus Dahlin	15:16	50.0	52.3	0-0
Jake McCabe · Will Borgen	14:02	69.2	69.7	0-0
Brandon Montour · Henri Jokiharju	11:52	40.0	48.2	0-0

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
95	Victor Olofsson	L	1	0	1	-2	0	1	0	17:33	0.18	12-13	0.63-0.85
9	Jack Eichel	C	0	1	1	-1	0	2	1	22:24	0.06	13-15	0.59-0.53
13	Sam Reinhart	C	0	1	1	-1	0	1	1	23:27	0.28	12-12	0.42-0.52
6	Colin Miller	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	20:08	0.05	15-17	0.60-0.60
8	Kyle Okposo	R	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	14:14	0.13	9-9	0.31-0.18
8	Riley Sheahan	C	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	08:34	0.03	5-8	0.24-0.17
12	Eric Staal	C	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	19:59	0.12	13-10	0.59-0.84
13	Tobias Rieder	L	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	09:36	0.05	6-6	0.14-0.12
17	Will Borgen	D	0	0	0	0	2	1	4	16:31	0.07	9-4	0.54-0.23
20	Cody Eakin	C	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	13:00	0.15	9-9	0.31-0.18
20	Curtis Lazar	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	08:01		5-8	0.24-0.17
20	Henri Jokiharju	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	15:30	0.06	10-19	0.40-0.53
22	Jake McCabe	D	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	17:43	0.12	12-4	0.68-0.23
26	Rasmus Dahlin	D	0	0	0	-2	0	1	0	25:42	0.06	20-20	0.77-0.99
53	Jeff Skinner	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11:26	0.27	9-11	0.52-0.23
62	Brandon Montour	D	0	0	0	-1	0	1	1	19:08	0.04	14-20	0.45-0.85
71	Taylor Hall	L	0	0	0	-1	0	2	0	23:52	0.06	13-12	0.43-0.52
72	Tage Thompson	C	0	0	0	-1	0	2	2	14:16	0.35	14-13	0.76-0.85

#	Goalie	Decision	Shots against	Saves	Goals against	TOI	xGA	Saved above xG
35	Linus Ullmark	L	21	18	3	57:52	2.54	-0.46

Washington Capitals

Lines and pairings

Forward line	Time	CF%	xGF%	Goals
Alex Ovechkin · T.J. Oshie · Evgeny Kuznetsov	13:28	57.1	49.0	0-0
Carl Hagelin · Nic Dowd · Garnet Hathaway	11:25	45.0	19.7	0-0
Lars Eller · Richard Panik · Conor Sheary	11:06	52.6	60.8	1-0
Nicklas Backstrom · Tom Wilson · Jakub Vrana	9:57	66.7	55.5	0-0

Defence pair	Time	CF%	xGF%	Goals
John Carlson · Brenden Dillon	18:43	61.8	61.8	0-0
Zdeno Chara · Justin Schultz	13:57	35.0	45.0	1-0
Dmitry Orlov · Nick Jensen	12:06	64.3	70.5	0-0

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	0	1	0	0	1	0	14:28	0.37	10-8	0.41-0.35
43	Tom Wilson	R	1	0	1	1	0	1	2	15:53	0.18	10-8	0.41-0.37
43	Conor Sheary	L	1	0	1	1	0	2	0	12:56	0.45	10-10	0.66-0.44
4	Justin Schultz	D	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	18:04		11-18	0.87-1.11
8	Alex Ovechkin	L	0	1	1	0	0	4	4	16:25	0.42	12-11	0.49-0.53
20	Lars Eller	C	0	1	1	1	0	2	1	16:06	0.24	11-9	0.72-0.42
77	T.J. Oshie	R	0	1	1	0	2	0	3	15:56	0.21	12-9	0.49-0.52
3	Nick Jensen	D	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	18:28	0.02	9-9	0.16-0.22
5	Brenden Dillon	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	22:24	0.01	22-14	0.69-0.40
9	Dmitry Orlov	D	0	0	0	0	2	2	2	17:37	0.05	14-10	0.34-0.29
16	Richard Panik	R	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	13:52		11-11	0.72-0.46
19	Jakub Vrana	L	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	13:00	0.35	10-6	0.41-0.35
21	Garnet Hathaway	R	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	12:47		9-12	0.09-0.38
26	Nic Dowd	C	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	15:54	0.01	9-14	0.09-0.43
33	Zdeno Chara	D	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	19:16		7-16	0.73-1.04
62	Carl Hagelin	L	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	15:32	0.06	10-13	0.15-0.40
74	John Carlson	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	23:07	0.02	21-13	0.65-0.40
92	Evgeny Kuznetsov	C	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	14:56	0.11	12-9	0.49-0.52

#	Goalie	Decision	Shots against	Saves	Goals against	TOI	xGA	Saved above xG
41	Vitek Vanecek	W	23	22	1	59:28	2.10	+1.10