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Washington Capitals at Buffalo Sabres

Feb 26, 2023 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Washington Capitals 4 30
Buffalo Sabres 7 37

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
10:40 BUF Dylan Cozens (21) Casey Mittelstadt (27), Ilya Lyubushkin (9) 0 - 1
14:45 WSH Dylan Strome (13) Nick Jensen (21), T.J. Oshie (11) 1 - 1
16:35 BUF Tage Thompson (40) Unassisted 1 - 2
16:50 WSH T.J. Oshie (15) Dylan Strome (27), Nick Jensen (22) 2 - 2
2nd Period
05:49 BUF Jeff Skinner (25) Mattias Samuelsson (6), Jack Quinn (15) 2 - 3
08:36 BUF Zemgus Girgensons (8) Kyle Okposo (15), Tyson Jost (15) 2 - 4
10:07 BUF Vinnie Hinostroza (1) Owen Power (18), Dylan Cozens (29) 2 - 5
12:49 BUF Dylan Cozens (22) Jack Quinn (16) 2 - 6
15:49 WSH Alex Ovechkin (33) Erik Gustafsson (31), Evgeny Kuznetsov (39) 3 - 6
18:40 WSH Sonny Milano (10) PP Unassisted 4 - 6
3rd Period
11:52 BUF Dylan Cozens (23) Vinnie Hinostroza (9), Casey Mittelstadt (28) 4 - 7

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
2nd Period
16:32 WSH Nicolas Aube-Kubel Cross checking 2
16:32 WSH Nicolas Aube-Kubel Fighting 5
16:32 BUF Jack Quinn Fighting 5
18:00 BUF Dylan Cozens Roughing 2
18:00 BUF Dylan Cozens Roughing 2
18:00 WSH Martin Fehérváry Roughing 2
3rd Period
07:09 WSH Nick Jensen Hooking 2
14:02 WSH Nic Dowd Cross checking 2
19:26 BUF Henri Jokiharju Hooking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Washington Capitals 52 43 30 4 2.6 49.5
Buffalo Sabres 57 47 37 7 4.4 50.5

How the game went

4202468Start2nd3rdBuffalo 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: 2.6 expected, 4 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 4.4 expected, 7 scored

01234Start2nd3rdEndWSH goal, 14:45 of 1st, a 14% chanceWSH goal, 16:50 of 1st, a 7% chanceWSH goal, 15:49 of 2nd, a 19% chanceWSH goal, 18:40 of 2nd, a 12% chanceBUF goal, 10:40 of 1st, a 14% chanceBUF goal, 16:35 of 1st, a 8% chanceBUF goal, 5:49 of 2nd, a 19% chanceBUF goal, 8:36 of 2nd, a 15% chanceBUF goal, 10:07 of 2nd, a 8% chanceBUF goal, 12:49 of 2nd, a 19% chanceBUF goal, 11:52 of 3rd, a 13% chanceBUF 4.4WSH 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

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
Alex Ovechkin · Evgeny Kuznetsov · Tom Wilson11:4750.036.21-1
T.J. Oshie · Sonny Milano · Dylan Strome11:3542.150.12-1
Nicklas Backstrom · Craig Smith · Conor Sheary10:0964.758.00-1
Lars Eller · Nic Dowd · Nicolas Aube-Kubel9:1666.761.40-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Nick Jensen · Martin Fehérváry20:0048.643.12-1
Erik Gustafsson · Trevor van Riemsdyk18:1951.743.01-2
Matt Irwin · Dylan McIlrath10:1150.026.70-3

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
17 Dylan Strome C 1 1 2 1 0 2 0 15:27 0.33 9-14 0.75-0.88
77 T.J. Oshie R 1 1 2 0 0 2 2 15:33 0.20 10-17 0.86-1.40
3 Nick Jensen D 0 2 2 1 2 1 1 24:42 0.01 20-22 1.21-1.73
8 Alex Ovechkin L 1 0 1 -2 0 7 0 16:03 0.54 17-21 0.78-1.95
15 Sonny Milano L 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 15:03 0.34 10-15 0.84-0.99
64 Erik Gustafsson D 0 1 1 -2 0 0 1 22:06 0.02 17-17 0.83-1.24
92 Evgeny Kuznetsov C 0 1 1 -2 0 2 0 16:05 0.07 18-21 0.80-1.85
15 Craig Smith C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 11:33 0.31 12-8 0.50-0.40
16 Nicolas Aube-Kubel R 0 0 0 -1 7 3 3 13:01 0.25 9-6 0.35-0.38
19 Nicklas Backstrom C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 14:34 0.08 13-7 0.52-0.40
20 Lars Eller C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 13:33 0.06 8-5 0.32-0.20
26 Nic Dowd C 0 0 0 -2 2 0 0 11:33 8-7 0.32-0.48
42 Martin Fehérváry D 0 0 0 0 2 3 2 24:44 0.20 19-22 1.10-1.51
43 Tom Wilson R 0 0 0 -2 0 0 3 15:58 0.02 17-17 0.68-1.42
43 Conor Sheary L 0 0 0 -2 0 1 1 16:02 0.08 13-9 0.44-0.47
52 Matt Irwin D 0 0 0 -3 0 1 0 14:21 0.02 13-13 0.36-0.94
52 Dylan McIlrath D 0 0 0 -3 0 0 2 11:13 0.04 11-10 0.41-0.80
57 Trevor van Riemsdyk D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 22:29 0.04 16-14 0.87-1.00
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Darcy Kuemper L 19 14 5 30:07 2.08 -2.92
79 Charlie Lindgren 18 16 2 29:53 2.29 +0.29

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jeff Skinner · Tage Thompson · Jack Quinn11:0955.052.62-1
Kyle Okposo · Zemgus Girgensons · Tyson Jost11:0050.052.21-0
Vinnie Hinostroza · Casey Mittelstadt · Dylan Cozens10:2452.270.33-1
Victor Olofsson · Peyton Krebs · JJ Peterka9:3527.347.30-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Henri Jokiharju · Owen Power15:4060.068.31-1
Kale Clague · Mattias Samuelsson9:1958.865.12-0
Mattias Samuelsson · Ilya Lyubushkin6:1036.437.80-1

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

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
24 Dylan Cozens C 3 1 4 3 4 8 0 15:41 1.40 13-12 1.23-0.48
24 Vinnie Hinostroza C 1 1 2 2 0 3 0 14:22 0.25 16-12 1.48-0.49
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 2 2 3 0 1 0 14:36 0.00 13-11 1.23-0.44
22 Jack Quinn R 0 2 2 2 5 0 0 13:22 12-9 0.92-0.66
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 1 0 1 1 0 4 0 12:12 0.45 13-12 0.80-0.67
53 Jeff Skinner L 1 0 1 1 0 3 0 20:38 0.53 19-15 1.39-0.95
72 Tage Thompson C 1 0 1 1 0 7 0 19:41 0.62 17-14 1.30-0.83
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 15:18 0.10 14-16 0.73-0.95
17 Tyson Jost C 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 13:36 0.19 13-13 0.80-0.78
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 1 1 2 0 1 0 22:10 0.11 23-21 1.84-1.08
25 Owen Power D 0 1 1 1 0 5 1 27:43 0.59 22-17 1.80-0.94
46 Ilya Lyubushkin D 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 17:56 9-20 0.46-0.93
10 JJ Peterka R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 12:42 4-9 0.18-0.29
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 15:02 6-10 0.27-0.33
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 23:40 23-20 1.88-1.11
38 Kale Clague D 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 09:59 0.07 10-7 0.75-0.40
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 13:44 11-11 0.50-0.33
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 16:24 0.09 7-11 0.48-0.30
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen W 30 26 4 60:00 2.59 -1.41