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Washington Capitals at Chicago Blackhawks

Dec 15, 2021 · United Center

Team Goals Shots
Washington Capitals 4 46
Chicago Blackhawks 5 28

Decided in overtime.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
2nd Period
03:36 WSH Alex Ovechkin (21) PP T.J. Oshie (6), Nicklas Backstrom (1) 1 - 0
13:55 CHI Alex DeBrincat (15) PP Patrick Kane (16), Dominik Kubalik (5) 1 - 1
14:13 CHI Philipp Kurashev (1) PP Kirby Dach (7), Caleb Jones (1) 1 - 2
14:29 CHI MacKenzie Entwistle (3) Brandon Hagel (5), Jonathan Toews (10) 1 - 3
19:18 WSH Daniel Sprong (4) Lars Eller (9) 2 - 3
3rd Period
11:57 WSH Lars Eller (5) T.J. Oshie (7), Conor Sheary (7) 3 - 3
15:00 CHI Alex DeBrincat (16) PP Brandon Hagel (6), Dylan Strome (4) 3 - 4
19:57 WSH Conor Sheary (6) Alex Ovechkin (25), John Carlson (19) 4 - 4
Overtime
01:21 CHI Caleb Jones (1) Kirby Dach (8), Patrick Kane (17) 4 - 5

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
04:06 WSH Alex Ovechkin Hooking 2
12:51 WSH Daniel Sprong Holding 2
2nd Period
02:21 CHI Jonathan Toews Hooking 2
12:05 WSH Martin Fehérváry Hooking 2
13:48 WSH Nic Dowd Tripping 2
16:50 CHI Calvin de Haan Tripping 2
3rd Period
00:50 CHI MacKenzie Entwistle Tripping 2
04:59 WSH Lars Eller Slashing 2
13:42 WSH T.J. Oshie Tripping 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Washington Capitals 71 55 46 4 4.0 60.4
Chicago Blackhawks 51 37 28 5 2.5 39.6

How the game went

20151050Start2nd3rdOTChicago Blackhawks 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 Chicago Blackhawks had taken more, and below it and blue while Washington Capitals had.

Expected goals

Washington Capitals: 4.0 expected, 4 scored · Chicago Blackhawks: 2.5 expected, 5 scored

01234Start2nd3rdOTWSH goal, 3:36 of 2nd, a 7% chanceWSH goal, 19:18 of 2nd, a 5% chanceWSH goal, 11:57 of 3rd, a 9% chanceWSH goal, 19:57 of 3rd, a 19% chanceCHI goal, 13:55 of 2nd, a 17% chanceCHI goal, 14:13 of 2nd, a 11% chanceCHI goal, 14:29 of 2nd, a 19% chanceCHI goal, 15:00 of 3rd, a 12% chanceCHI goal, 1:21 of overtime, a 28% chanceWSH 4.0CHI 2.5

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
Chicago Blackhawks

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
T.J. Oshie · Nicklas Backstrom · Conor Sheary8:2078.666.70-1
Carl Hagelin · Nic Dowd · Beck Malenstyn8:1344.425.80-0
Alex Ovechkin · Lars Eller · Daniel Sprong5:2761.564.00-0
Alex Ovechkin · Lars Eller · Aliaksei Protas4:0275.087.60-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
John Carlson · Martin Fehérváry13:4374.291.71-0
Dmitry Orlov · Nick Jensen11:0669.269.40-0
Justin Schultz · Trevor van Riemsdyk7:3325.015.80-1

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
8 Alex Ovechkin L 1 1 2 0 2 10 2 21:51 0.70 14-13 0.66-0.58
20 Lars Eller C 1 1 2 3 2 3 1 20:53 0.29 16-13 0.81-0.50
43 Conor Sheary L 1 1 2 0 0 5 0 19:08 0.61 12-5 0.62-0.30
77 T.J. Oshie R 0 2 2 1 2 0 1 20:58 0.08 17-10 0.88-0.60
10 Daniel Sprong R 1 0 1 1 2 6 0 14:56 0.47 19-12 0.92-0.56
19 Nicklas Backstrom C 0 1 1 0 0 5 2 18:14 0.32 13-6 0.69-0.49
74 John Carlson D 0 1 1 2 0 2 2 27:19 0.10 25-10 1.81-0.22
3 Nick Jensen D 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 18:09 0.03 15-8 0.61-0.35
4 Justin Schultz D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 15:06 0.03 9-19 0.42-0.99
9 Dmitry Orlov D 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 19:46 0.07 19-9 0.89-0.54
21 Aliaksei Protas L 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 08:10 0.26 18-5 1.97-0.02
23 Michael Sgarbossa C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 07:48 0.12 17-5 1.31-0.08
26 Nic Dowd C 0 0 0 0 2 1 4 12:52 0.09 9-11 0.17-0.39
29 Beck Malenstyn L 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 11:08 0.11 9-11 0.17-0.39
42 Martin Fehérváry D 0 0 0 1 2 1 3 21:17 0.01 32-11 1.93-0.39
57 Trevor van Riemsdyk D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 14:34 0.01 10-15 0.28-0.59
62 Carl Hagelin L 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 13:50 12-10 0.24-0.39
77 Connor McMichael L 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 10:18 0.72 16-9 1.40-0.35
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Ilya Samsonov 28 23 5 59:34 2.44 -2.56

Chicago Blackhawks

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Patrick Kane · Dylan Strome · Alex DeBrincat13:1540.034.70-1
Dominik Kubalik · Philipp Kurashev · Kirby Dach4:5425.021.30-0
Jonathan Toews · Brett Connolly · Brandon Hagel4:4540.023.20-0
Dominik Kubalik · MacKenzie Entwistle · Kirby Dach3:1660.069.60-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Calvin de Haan · Seth Jones13:4144.442.00-0
Connor Murphy · Caleb Jones8:2633.321.70-0
Connor Murphy · Jake McCabe6:4816.78.50-2

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
93 Alex DeBrincat R 2 0 2 -1 0 3 0 22:51 0.38 12-21 0.39-0.83
82 Caleb Jones D 1 1 2 1 0 1 2 14:31 0.28 9-12 0.31-0.55
38 Brandon Hagel L 0 2 2 1 0 2 2 18:46 0.11 10-9 0.47-0.41
77 Kirby Dach C 0 2 2 0 0 3 1 17:15 0.19 8-11 0.56-0.68
88 Patrick Kane R 0 2 2 -1 0 2 1 24:50 0.10 13-20 0.39-0.79
58 MacKenzie Entwistle R 1 0 1 0 2 2 3 08:20 0.31 6-12 0.47-0.44
96 Philipp Kurashev C 1 0 1 -1 0 1 0 14:19 0.11 7-7 0.26-0.42
17 Dylan Strome C 0 1 1 -2 0 1 0 20:02 0.14 12-20 0.39-0.74
19 Jonathan Toews C 0 1 1 1 2 2 0 17:23 0.17 12-8 0.47-0.35
81 Dominik Kubalik L 0 1 1 -1 0 1 0 13:38 0.11 8-11 0.56-0.62
3 Seth Jones D 0 0 0 0 0 5 3 27:41 0.16 13-11 0.46-0.42
5 Connor Murphy D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 2 23:53 0.01 15-30 0.73-1.87
20 Brett Connolly R 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 11:32 0.12 10-13 0.20-1.15
22 Jake McCabe D 0 0 0 -3 0 0 1 16:31 6-23 0.13-0.99
22 Ryan Carpenter C 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 10:57 0.22 6-18 0.35-1.36
23 Josiah Slavin L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 06:38 4-15 0.12-1.14
44 Calvin de Haan D 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 17:40 0.03 13-17 0.57-1.32
61 Riley Stillman D 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 11:53 0.03 16-17 0.89-0.80
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
29 Marc-Andre Fleury 46 42 4 61:21 3.97 -0.03