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Washington Capitals at Buffalo Sabres

Mar 25, 2022 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Washington Capitals 4 40
Buffalo Sabres 3 23

Decided in a shootout.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
09:15 WSH Anthony Mantha (7) Nicklas Backstrom (19), Tom Wilson (26) 1 - 0
15:49 BUF Jeff Skinner (25) Tage Thompson (22) 1 - 1
2nd Period
04:06 WSH Nick Jensen (5) Dmitry Orlov (19), Conor Sheary (17) 2 - 1
10:23 BUF Jeff Skinner (26) Mattias Samuelsson (5) 2 - 2
12:55 BUF Victor Olofsson (12) Casey Mittelstadt (6), Rasmus Asplund (17) 2 - 3
16:47 WSH Alex Ovechkin (41) Evgeny Kuznetsov (42) 3 - 3
Shootout
WSH Alex Ovechkin Shootout winner 4 - 3

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
18:16 WSH Michal Kempny Slashing 2
2nd Period
16:59 BUF Jeff Skinner Holding 2
16:59 WSH Garnet Hathaway Roughing 2
3rd Period
12:03 BUF Mark Pysyk Interference 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Washington Capitals 64 55 40 3 3.7 58.1
Buffalo Sabres 49 37 23 3 2.3 41.9

How the game went

20151050Start2nd3rdOTBuffalo 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: 3.7 expected, 3 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 2.3 expected, 3 scored

0123Start2nd3rdOTWSH goal, 9:15 of 1st, a 13% chanceWSH goal, 4:06 of 2nd, a 1% chanceWSH goal, 16:47 of 2nd, a 10% chanceBUF goal, 15:49 of 1st, a 6% chanceBUF goal, 10:23 of 2nd, a 4% chanceBUF goal, 12:55 of 2nd, a 19% chanceWSH 3.7BUF 2.3

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
Nicklas Backstrom · Tom Wilson · Anthony Mantha12:3958.878.01-1
Lars Eller · Conor Sheary · Garnet Hathaway12:0446.761.10-0
Alex Ovechkin · Marcus Johansson · Evgeny Kuznetsov10:4663.659.61-1
Marcus Johansson · Axel Jonsson-Fjallby · Connor McMichael1:570.00.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Dmitry Orlov · Nick Jensen16:4752.658.91-1
John Carlson · Martin Fehérváry15:4262.164.90-0
Justin Schultz · Matt Irwin7:0464.379.51-0

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
3 Nick Jensen D 1 0 1 0 0 2 2 20:22 0.01 13-11 0.60-0.45
8 Alex Ovechkin L 1 0 1 1 0 3 1 19:57 0.78 21-13 0.92-0.72
39 Anthony Mantha R 1 0 1 0 0 5 0 20:18 0.34 16-8 0.56-0.08
9 Dmitry Orlov D 0 1 1 0 0 1 4 25:10 0.02 12-14 0.70-0.79
19 Nicklas Backstrom C 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 18:56 0.02 14-8 0.40-0.08
43 Tom Wilson R 0 1 1 -1 0 3 4 20:05 0.03 14-8 0.40-0.28
43 Conor Sheary L 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 19:19 0.35 18-10 0.93-0.34
92 Evgeny Kuznetsov C 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 21:10 0.40 17-9 0.72-0.36
4 Justin Schultz D 0 0 0 1 0 4 1 15:24 0.24 17-11 0.82-0.51
6 Michal Kempny D 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 03:17 2-2 0.07-0.00
20 Lars Eller C 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 16:38 0.20 9-12 0.60-0.70
21 Garnet Hathaway R 0 0 0 1 2 0 2 16:49 0.02 10-13 0.63-0.70
42 Martin Fehérváry D 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 23:18 0.21 24-15 0.87-0.44
52 Matt Irwin D 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 10:10 0.05 12-7 0.36-0.18
71 Axel Jonsson-Fjallby L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 08:38 0.16 6-6 0.26-0.25
74 John Carlson D 0 0 0 -1 0 6 0 25:36 0.69 19-12 0.67-0.42
77 Connor McMichael L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 09:13 0.09 8-8 0.27-0.27
90 Marcus Johansson L 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 16:40 0.11 18-13 0.69-0.41
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Ilya Samsonov W 23 20 3 65:00 2.28 -0.72

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Victor Olofsson · Rasmus Asplund · Casey Mittelstadt11:1847.849.91-1
Kyle Okposo · Cody Eakin · Zemgus Girgensons10:4212.521.50-0
Jeff Skinner · Tage Thompson · Dylan Cozens5:5940.029.41-0
Vinnie Hinostroza · Alex Tuch · Peyton Krebs5:1666.743.90-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Henri Jokiharju · Rasmus Dahlin17:3232.018.11-0
Jacob Bryson · Mattias Samuelsson16:4738.151.01-2
Mark Pysyk · Colin Miller11:5558.367.20-0

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

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
53 Jeff Skinner L 2 0 2 0 2 5 0 17:30 0.48 10-13 0.29-0.50
95 Victor Olofsson L 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 14:18 0.48 12-12 0.69-0.66
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 1 1 0 0 4 1 17:56 0.31 12-13 0.67-0.66
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 21:13 11-14 0.47-0.48
72 Tage Thompson C 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 18:53 0.18 11-14 0.38-0.59
74 Rasmus Asplund C 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 12:57 0.14 12-13 0.69-0.66
6 Colin Miller D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 14:06 0.05 19-13 0.79-0.44
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 16:47 0.24 4-17 0.17-0.56
13 Mark Pysyk D 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 14:25 0.01 15-13 0.71-0.42
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 15:00 0.13 10-10 0.18-0.43
20 Cody Eakin C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14:38 2-16 0.11-0.56
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 26:35 0.11 8-23 0.19-1.12
24 Vinnie Hinostroza C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12:20 9-8 0.17-0.28
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 15:11 0.02 13-11 0.30-0.37
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 26:34 0.01 10-21 0.21-1.10
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 13:22 0.05 3-14 0.16-0.41
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 20:48 9-16 0.42-0.64
89 Alex Tuch R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 18:27 0.10 10-8 0.38-0.50
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
34 Dustin Tokarski OTL 40 37 3 65:00 3.66 +0.66