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Buffalo Sabres at Washington Capitals

Jan 3, 2023 · Capital One Arena

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 5 29
Washington Capitals 4 32

Decided in overtime.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
10:48 BUF Alex Tuch (18) Tage Thompson (25), Jeff Skinner (22) 1 - 0
12:07 WSH Sonny Milano (6) Anthony Mantha (13), Matt Irwin (2) 1 - 1
17:29 BUF Tage Thompson (28) PP Rasmus Dahlin (29), Dylan Cozens (23) 2 - 1
2nd Period
05:50 BUF Tage Thompson (29) Alex Tuch (23), Ilya Lyubushkin (4) 3 - 1
16:46 WSH Alex Ovechkin (27) Evgeny Kuznetsov (28) 3 - 2
3rd Period
00:55 WSH Nic Dowd (10) Sonny Milano (12), Nick Jensen (16) 3 - 3
07:10 WSH Alex Ovechkin (28) Conor Sheary (16) 3 - 4
11:42 BUF Tyson Jost (3) Casey Mittelstadt (13), Owen Power (13) 4 - 4
Overtime
03:00 BUF Tage Thompson (30) Alex Tuch (24) 5 - 4

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
16:57 WSH T.J. Oshie High sticking 2
2nd Period
17:49 BUF Ilya Lyubushkin Slashing 2
3rd Period
18:00 WSH Evgeny Kuznetsov Tripping 2
19:43 WSH Lars Eller Tripping 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 53 38 29 5 2.6 47.4
Washington Capitals 57 47 32 4 3.4 52.6

How the game went

50510Start2nd3rdOTWashington Capitals aheadBuffalo Sabres 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 Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 2.6 expected, 5 scored · Washington Capitals: 3.4 expected, 4 scored

0123Start2nd3rdOTBUF goal, 10:48 of 1st, a 13% chanceBUF goal, 17:29 of 1st, a 6% chanceBUF goal, 5:50 of 2nd, a 13% chanceBUF goal, 11:42 of 3rd, a 8% chanceBUF goal, 3:00 of overtime, a 23% chanceWSH goal, 12:07 of 1st, a 8% chanceWSH goal, 16:46 of 2nd, a 8% chanceWSH goal, 0:55 of 3rd, a 17% chanceWSH goal, 7:10 of 3rd, a 16% chanceWSH 3.4BUF 2.6

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 lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jeff Skinner · Alex Tuch · Tage Thompson12:4440.031.82-1
Kyle Okposo · Zemgus Girgensons · Peyton Krebs11:5650.044.70-1
Victor Olofsson · Tyson Jost · Casey Mittelstadt11:2236.45.50-2
Dylan Cozens · Jack Quinn · JJ Peterka11:0153.857.50-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mattias Samuelsson · Rasmus Dahlin19:3640.534.41-3
Kale Clague · Owen Power15:5740.931.90-1
Jacob Bryson · Ilya Lyubushkin12:5054.248.51-0

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
72 Tage Thompson C 3 1 4 2 0 5 2 19:56 0.55 13-18 0.43-0.91
89 Alex Tuch R 1 2 3 2 0 4 0 18:51 0.31 10-17 0.32-0.77
17 Tyson Jost C 1 0 1 -1 0 1 3 15:06 0.09 6-8 0.21-0.73
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 1 1 -1 0 1 0 15:45 0.08 7-8 0.23-0.69
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 1 1 0 0 4 3 15:53 0.54 15-12 0.97-0.63
25 Owen Power D 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 21:44 0.01 12-14 0.69-0.95
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 1 1 -1 0 0 0 27:58 19-25 0.80-1.41
46 Ilya Lyubushkin D 0 1 1 1 2 0 0 14:56 17-12 0.72-0.53
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 18:26 0.13 13-17 0.43-0.82
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 15:07 0.34 13-12 0.52-0.58
10 JJ Peterka R 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 12:38 0.26 15-13 0.97-0.72
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 15:13 11-11 0.43-0.50
22 Jack Quinn R 0 0 0 1 0 3 1 14:33 0.17 16-14 1.02-0.81
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 4 22:57 0.03 16-23 0.70-1.27
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 13:22 0.01 10-12 0.41-0.54
38 Kale Clague D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 17:20 0.04 12-14 0.74-0.99
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 16:30 0.07 14-13 0.43-0.55
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 0 0 -2 0 0 1 13:06 6-7 0.18-0.65
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen W 32 28 4 63:00 3.41 -0.59

Washington Capitals

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Evgeny Kuznetsov · Anthony Mantha · Sonny Milano7:5738.527.71-0
Alex Ovechkin · Evgeny Kuznetsov · Conor Sheary7:4373.384.52-0
Alex Ovechkin · Conor Sheary · Dylan Strome6:5453.852.20-0
T.J. Oshie · Lars Eller · Marcus Johansson6:2752.962.30-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Erik Gustafsson · Trevor van Riemsdyk18:2667.981.22-0
Dmitry Orlov · Nick Jensen17:2955.657.91-2
Matt Irwin · Martin Fehérváry15:2124.025.81-1

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

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
8 Alex Ovechkin L 2 0 2 2 0 7 4 20:33 0.85 21-13 1.14-0.45
15 Sonny Milano L 1 1 2 2 0 4 0 14:55 0.25 12-12 0.81-0.65
26 Nic Dowd C 1 0 1 -1 0 1 3 15:01 0.17 7-8 0.67-0.63
3 Nick Jensen D 0 1 1 -1 0 0 0 22:01 20-16 1.03-0.75
39 Anthony Mantha R 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 15:05 0.05 9-12 0.30-0.39
43 Conor Sheary L 0 1 1 2 0 2 3 16:42 0.18 19-10 1.05-0.40
52 Matt Irwin D 0 1 1 0 0 0 7 16:22 6-19 0.33-0.95
92 Evgeny Kuznetsov C 0 1 1 3 2 4 2 21:49 0.33 21-13 1.11-0.47
9 Dmitry Orlov D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 3 21:57 0.00 24-17 1.21-0.79
17 Dylan Strome C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 15:35 0.51 12-13 0.69-0.64
20 Lars Eller C 0 0 0 -1 2 2 1 13:41 0.16 11-11 0.42-0.30
21 Garnet Hathaway R 0 0 0 -2 0 0 3 11:54 7-10 0.37-0.51
21 Aliaksei Protas L 0 0 0 -3 0 2 1 08:44 0.14 2-9 0.14-0.66
42 Martin Fehérváry D 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 17:01 7-20 0.33-0.99
57 Trevor van Riemsdyk D 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 23:27 0.04 21-9 1.28-0.30
64 Erik Gustafsson D 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 22:26 0.22 21-9 1.37-0.30
77 T.J. Oshie R 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 15:55 0.35 17-12 1.13-0.55
90 Marcus Johansson L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 13:45 0.17 13-12 0.69-0.46
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Darcy Kuemper OTL 29 24 5 62:56 2.62 -2.38