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Montréal Canadiens at Washington Capitals

Dec 31, 2022 · Capital One Arena

Team Goals Shots
Montréal Canadiens 2 33
Washington Capitals 9 40

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
00:32 WSH Erik Gustafsson (6) Evgeny Kuznetsov (25), Conor Sheary (14) 0 - 1
04:32 WSH Garnet Hathaway (4) Aliaksei Protas (5), Nic Dowd (7) 0 - 2
2nd Period
04:02 MTL Cole Caufield (20) PP Nick Suzuki (17), Kirby Dach (18) 1 - 2
08:31 WSH Nic Dowd (9) Aliaksei Protas (6), Erik Gustafsson (16) 1 - 3
09:06 WSH Alex Ovechkin (24) Trevor van Riemsdyk (5), Lars Eller (8) 1 - 4
12:39 MTL Cole Caufield (21) Unassisted 2 - 4
19:21 WSH Dylan Strome (8) PP Evgeny Kuznetsov (26), Marcus Johansson (9) 2 - 5
3rd Period
01:22 WSH Alex Ovechkin (25) PP Erik Gustafsson (17), Marcus Johansson (10) 2 - 6
05:31 WSH Marcus Johansson (10) Evgeny Kuznetsov (27), Martin Fehérváry (3) 2 - 7
15:43 WSH Anthony Mantha (9) Unassisted 2 - 8
16:35 WSH Alex Ovechkin (26) Conor Sheary (15) 2 - 9

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
11:20 MTL Josh Anderson Slashing 2
2nd Period
02:54 WSH Martin Fehérváry Hooking 2
02:54 MTL Christian Dvorak Holding 2
03:18 WSH Lars Eller High sticking 2
08:31 MTL Johnathan Kovacevic Roughing 2
08:31 WSH Garnet Hathaway Roughing 2
17:41 MTL Chris Wideman Holding 2
3rd Period
00:54 MTL Nick Suzuki Tripping 2
05:31 MTL Brendan Gallagher Unsportsmanlike conduct 2
07:18 WSH Alex Ovechkin High sticking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Montréal Canadiens 60 45 33 2 3.1 49.5
Washington Capitals 67 53 40 9 5.5 50.5

How the game went

50510Start2nd3rdWashington Capitals aheadMontréal Canadiens 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 Montréal Canadiens had.

Expected goals

Montréal Canadiens: 3.1 expected, 2 scored · Washington Capitals: 5.5 expected, 9 scored

024Start2nd3rdEndMTL goal, 4:02 of 2nd, a 14% chanceMTL goal, 12:39 of 2nd, a 12% chanceWSH goal, 0:32 of 1st, a 14% chanceWSH goal, 4:32 of 1st, a 10% chanceWSH goal, 8:31 of 2nd, a 34% chanceWSH goal, 9:06 of 2nd, a 18% chanceWSH goal, 19:21 of 2nd, a 25% chanceWSH goal, 1:22 of 3rd, a 6% chanceWSH goal, 5:31 of 3rd, a 11% chanceWSH goal, 15:43 of 3rd, a 12% chanceWSH goal, 16:35 of 3rd, a 20% chanceWSH 5.5MTL 3.1

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

Montréal Canadiens
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.

Montréal Canadiens

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Nick Suzuki · Kirby Dach · Cole Caufield12:3762.546.61-1
Mike Hoffman · Josh Anderson · Jonathan Drouin9:4840.013.20-2
Brendan Gallagher · Christian Dvorak · Juraj Slafkovský8:2046.735.70-1
Joel Armia · Jake Evans · Michael Pezzetta8:0050.063.90-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Johnathan Kovacevic · Jordan Harris15:1551.441.30-2
Chris Wideman · Arber Xhekaj14:2336.712.60-2
Joel Edmundson · Justin Barron11:5054.234.11-2

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

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 Cole Caufield R 2 0 2 -1 0 5 1 15:52 0.48 21-12 1.03-1.19
14 Nick Suzuki C 0 1 1 -1 2 2 0 17:24 0.18 21-13 1.07-1.21
77 Kirby Dach C 0 1 1 0 0 4 2 17:26 0.55 21-16 1.03-1.64
6 Chris Wideman D 0 0 0 -2 2 0 1 16:01 0.04 11-20 0.22-1.58
6 Joel Edmundson D 0 0 0 -2 0 3 0 21:57 0.19 20-14 1.07-1.19
7 Brendan Gallagher R 0 0 0 -1 2 2 0 10:34 0.14 10-8 0.26-0.41
8 Johnathan Kovacevic D 0 0 0 -2 2 2 3 20:19 0.10 18-18 0.99-1.43
17 Josh Anderson R 0 0 0 -3 2 3 2 16:06 0.36 9-12 0.34-1.19
20 Juraj Slafkovský L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 3 12:28 0.03 11-12 0.28-0.99
22 Christian Dvorak C 0 0 0 -1 2 0 0 16:24 0.08 11-15 0.39-1.10
40 Joel Armia R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 15:45 0.13 10-17 0.60-1.37
43 Jordan Harris D 0 0 0 -3 0 1 0 20:06 0.03 25-19 1.44-1.58
61 Michael Pezzetta L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 2 10:29 0.21 11-11 0.67-0.44
68 Mike Hoffman C 0 0 0 -3 0 1 0 14:09 0.06 9-12 0.25-1.20
71 Jake Evans C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 13:52 0.18 12-16 0.67-0.99
72 Justin Barron D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 18:48 14-12 0.55-1.16
72 Arber Xhekaj D 0 0 0 -2 0 2 5 18:18 0.10 13-21 0.32-1.61
92 Jonathan Drouin L 0 0 0 -2 0 3 2 13:54 0.24 8-11 0.34-1.08
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
34 Jake Allen L 40 31 9 60:00 5.51 -3.49

Washington Capitals

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Nic Dowd · Garnet Hathaway · Aliaksei Protas9:4863.686.12-0
Anthony Mantha · Sonny Milano · Dylan Strome9:4459.153.41-0
Lars Eller · Marcus Johansson · Joe Snively6:1562.583.60-0
Alex Ovechkin · Evgeny Kuznetsov · Conor Sheary5:4228.649.31-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Dmitry Orlov · Nick Jensen14:5642.460.21-0
Matt Irwin · Martin Fehérváry14:0150.069.22-0
Erik Gustafsson · Trevor van Riemsdyk13:2458.675.62-0

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
8 Alex Ovechkin L 3 0 3 2 2 5 0 19:31 0.62 7-16 0.60-0.84
64 Erik Gustafsson D 1 2 3 3 0 2 1 21:27 0.33 19-15 1.50-0.73
90 Marcus Johansson L 1 2 3 0 0 1 0 17:48 0.11 13-14 1.11-0.68
92 Evgeny Kuznetsov C 0 3 3 2 0 1 0 18:49 0.25 5-15 0.36-0.83
26 Nic Dowd C 1 1 2 2 0 2 3 13:03 0.52 14-10 1.90-0.43
21 Aliaksei Protas L 0 2 2 2 0 3 2 10:32 0.33 14-9 1.90-0.31
43 Conor Sheary L 0 2 2 2 0 1 1 13:36 0.09 8-14 0.75-0.46
17 Dylan Strome C 1 0 1 1 0 4 0 17:41 0.41 15-12 0.59-0.51
21 Garnet Hathaway R 1 0 1 2 2 6 1 12:12 1.02 15-11 1.90-0.50
39 Anthony Mantha R 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 14:13 0.32 14-11 0.60-0.54
20 Lars Eller C 0 1 1 1 2 5 1 14:59 0.59 17-15 1.41-0.62
42 Martin Fehérváry D 0 1 1 3 2 1 1 18:00 0.04 16-18 1.23-0.66
57 Trevor van Riemsdyk D 0 1 1 3 0 1 0 18:20 0.01 19-13 1.30-0.42
3 Nick Jensen D 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 19:51 0.19 15-21 1.65-1.20
9 Dmitry Orlov D 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 20:21 0.08 17-21 1.66-1.27
15 Sonny Milano L 0 0 0 1 0 2 4 14:14 0.14 19-12 0.68-0.54
52 Matt Irwin D 0 0 0 2 0 2 4 16:14 0.04 18-15 1.20-0.49
91 Joe Snively C 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 12:25 0.46 15-13 1.02-0.49
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
79 Charlie Lindgren W 33 31 2 60:00 3.08 +1.08