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Nashville Predators at Washington Capitals

Dec 29, 2021 · Capital One Arena

Team Goals Shots
Nashville Predators 3 20
Washington Capitals 5 37

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
03:15 WSH Lars Eller (6) John Carlson (21), Alex Ovechkin (26) 0 - 1
13:11 WSH John Carlson (7) Nicklas Backstrom (2), Dmitry Orlov (11) 0 - 2
18:52 WSH Nic Dowd (4) Carl Hagelin (5), Michal Kempny (1) 0 - 3
2nd Period
01:23 NSH Yakov Trenin (6) Tanner Jeannot (10), Dante Fabbro (7) 1 - 3
07:03 NSH Luke Kunin (5) Eeli Tolvanen (7), Ben Harpur (1) 2 - 3
07:38 NSH Filip Forsberg (14) Dante Fabbro (8), Mikael Granlund (23) 3 - 3
3rd Period
14:24 WSH Evgeny Kuznetsov (10) SH T.J. Oshie (8), John Carlson (22) 3 - 4
18:57 WSH Carl Hagelin (2) Dmitry Orlov (12), John Carlson (23) 3 - 5

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
07:44 NSH Michael McCarron Interference 2
16:03 NSH Ryan Johansen Slashing 2
19:21 NSH Matt Benning Roughing 2
19:21 WSH Garnet Hathaway High sticking 2
19:21 WSH Alexander Alexeyev Roughing 2
2nd Period
04:27 NSH Mark Borowiecki Instigator 2
04:27 NSH Mark Borowiecki Fighting 5
04:27 NSH Mark Borowiecki Misconduct 10
04:27 WSH Tom Wilson Fighting 5
13:00 NSH Ben Harpur Roughing 2
13:00 WSH Dmitry Orlov Roughing 2
16:35 NSH Matt Benning Roughing 2
3rd Period
06:15 NSH Dante Fabbro Delaying game puck over glass 2
08:24 WSH Tom Wilson Tripping 2
12:18 NSH Mikael Granlund Cross checking 2
13:44 WSH Tom Wilson Tripping 2
19:31 WSH Michal Kempny Cross checking 2
19:31 NSH Michael McCarron Misconduct 10
19:31 WSH Tom Wilson Misconduct 10

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Nashville Predators 45 31 20 3 2.1 52.1
Washington Capitals 64 47 37 5 4.0 47.9

How the game went

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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 Nashville Predators had.

Expected goals

Nashville Predators: 2.1 expected, 3 scored · Washington Capitals: 4.0 expected, 5 scored

01234Start2nd3rdEndNSH goal, 1:23 of 2nd, a 31% chanceNSH goal, 7:03 of 2nd, a 9% chanceNSH goal, 7:38 of 2nd, a 9% chanceWSH goal, 3:15 of 1st, a 8% chanceWSH goal, 13:11 of 1st, a 5% chanceWSH goal, 18:52 of 1st, a 16% chanceWSH goal, 14:24 of 3rd, a 7% chanceWSH goal, 18:57 of 3rd, a 63% chanceWSH 4.0NSH 2.1

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

Nashville Predators
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.

Nashville Predators

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Matt Duchene · Mikael Granlund · Filip Forsberg9:5547.648.01-0
Michael McCarron · Yakov Trenin · Tanner Jeannot7:5754.262.61-0
Ryan Johansen · Luke Kunin · Eeli Tolvanen6:5366.795.61-0
Nick Cousins · Mathieu Olivier · Philip Tomasino6:1666.743.20-2
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Ben Harpur · Dante Fabbro11:2156.560.51-2
Mattias Ekholm · Alexandre Carrier9:2138.931.70-1
Mark Borowiecki · Matt Benning7:0875.058.20-0

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
15 Dante Fabbro D 0 2 2 1 2 1 1 17:23 0.04 18-16 1.13-0.75
9 Filip Forsberg L 1 0 1 -1 0 2 0 18:29 0.20 12-12 0.46-0.29
13 Yakov Trenin C 1 0 1 1 0 4 3 14:33 0.66 14-13 0.80-0.59
71 Luke Kunin C 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 12:22 0.09 6-8 0.11-0.29
5 Ben Harpur D 0 1 1 -1 2 0 1 17:45 0.02 13-11 0.59-0.49
17 Eeli Tolvanen R 0 1 1 -1 0 1 2 11:50 0.06 5-5 0.11-0.39
64 Mikael Granlund C 0 1 1 -2 2 0 1 25:18 13-15 0.36-0.52
84 Tanner Jeannot L 0 1 1 0 0 1 5 17:16 0.03 15-12 0.99-0.42
12 Ryan Johansen C 0 0 0 0 2 3 1 17:30 0.51 5-3 0.31-0.11
14 Mattias Ekholm D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 24:52 0.02 12-17 0.65-0.54
21 Nick Cousins C 0 0 0 -2 0 0 2 08:07 8-5 0.11-0.40
24 Mathieu Olivier R 0 0 0 -2 0 0 3 07:25 6-3 0.11-0.14
33 Matt Benning D 0 0 0 0 4 1 0 19:44 0.03 13-8 0.25-0.43
45 Alexandre Carrier D 0 0 0 -3 0 0 1 23:40 0.08 8-14 0.10-0.41
47 Michael McCarron C 0 0 0 1 12 2 2 13:30 0.08 14-13 0.71-0.48
53 Philip Tomasino R 0 0 0 -2 0 1 1 06:40 0.08 6-3 0.11-0.14
90 Mark Borowiecki D 0 0 0 0 17 2 0 10:55 0.00 12-5 0.25-0.29
95 Matt Duchene C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 18:51 0.15 11-13 0.27-0.45
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
74 Juuse Saros L 36 32 4 59:16 3.34 -0.66

Washington Capitals

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Alex Ovechkin · Evgeny Kuznetsov · Tom Wilson9:4542.127.80-0
T.J. Oshie · Lars Eller · Connor McMichael8:0628.63.70-0
Carl Hagelin · Nic Dowd · Garnet Hathaway7:1652.972.01-1
Nicklas Backstrom · Conor Sheary · Aliaksei Protas5:3860.058.20-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Trevor van Riemsdyk · Michal Kempny14:0032.043.31-1
John Carlson · Dmitry Orlov12:2362.545.22-2
Matt Irwin · Alexander Alexeyev8:4243.860.90-0

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
74 John Carlson D 1 3 4 2 0 5 0 24:27 0.20 15-9 0.41-0.50
62 Carl Hagelin L 1 1 2 1 0 2 0 11:21 0.11 9-9 0.52-0.30
9 Dmitry Orlov D 0 2 2 2 2 1 2 20:42 0.00 18-11 0.52-0.70
20 Lars Eller C 1 0 1 1 0 3 1 19:06 0.36 6-9 0.20-0.26
26 Nic Dowd C 1 0 1 0 0 2 1 10:36 0.23 10-9 0.67-0.30
92 Evgeny Kuznetsov C 1 0 1 0 0 4 0 21:58 0.57 9-14 0.13-0.67
6 Michal Kempny D 0 1 1 0 2 0 2 20:57 11-17 0.63-0.60
8 Alex Ovechkin L 0 1 1 1 0 4 0 26:01 0.33 11-14 0.22-0.54
19 Nicklas Backstrom C 0 1 1 1 0 3 1 16:19 0.25 10-6 0.40-0.25
77 T.J. Oshie R 0 1 1 0 0 1 2 20:13 0.12 4-10 0.05-0.11
21 Garnet Hathaway R 0 0 0 0 2 3 3 10:49 0.38 11-10 0.64-0.54
21 Aliaksei Protas L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 07:00 0.16 9-5 0.36-0.30
27 Alexander Alexeyev D 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 10:35 8-10 0.36-0.18
43 Tom Wilson R 0 0 0 0 19 2 2 18:02 0.26 13-15 0.38-0.87
43 Conor Sheary L 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 12:20 0.39 10-7 0.59-0.40
52 Matt Irwin D 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 09:29 0.02 9-9 0.42-0.16
57 Trevor van Riemsdyk D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 21:32 9-19 0.46-0.62
77 Connor McMichael L 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 10:04 3-7 0.06-0.09
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Ilya Samsonov W 20 17 3 60:00 2.04 -0.96