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Buffalo Sabres at Washington Capitals

Mar 15, 2023 · Capital One Arena

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 4 27
Washington Capitals 5 39

Decided in a shootout.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
04:43 BUF Ilya Lyubushkin (2) Peyton Krebs (13), Riley Stillman (7) 1 - 0
08:50 BUF JJ Peterka (9) Jack Quinn (18) 2 - 0
10:03 WSH T.J. Oshie (18) PP Dylan Strome (33), Alex Ovechkin (27) 2 - 1
18:06 BUF Tyson Jost (7) Unassisted 3 - 1
3rd Period
01:32 WSH Evgeny Kuznetsov (12) Alexander Alexeyev (4), T.J. Oshie (15) 3 - 2
05:22 BUF Zemgus Girgensons (9) Peyton Krebs (14), Owen Power (23) 4 - 2
10:30 WSH Alex Ovechkin (37) Trevor van Riemsdyk (16), Dylan Strome (34) 4 - 3
18:52 WSH Tom Wilson (8) PP Nicklas Backstrom (9) 4 - 4
Shootout
WSH Evgeny Kuznetsov Shootout winner 4 - 5

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
09:46 BUF Riley Stillman Interference 2
2nd Period
04:01 WSH Nick Jensen Holding 2
3rd Period
16:18 WSH Alex Ovechkin Slashing 2
17:36 BUF Alex Tuch Roughing 2
Overtime
04:03 BUF Dylan Cozens Tripping 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 57 44 27 4 3.5 45.8
Washington Capitals 70 50 39 4 3.6 54.2

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: 3.5 expected, 4 scored · Washington Capitals: 3.6 expected, 4 scored

0123Start2nd3rdOTBUF goal, 4:43 of 1st, a 2% chanceBUF goal, 8:50 of 1st, a 24% chanceBUF goal, 18:06 of 1st, a 8% chanceBUF goal, 5:22 of 3rd, a 19% chanceWSH goal, 10:03 of 1st, a 28% chanceWSH goal, 1:32 of 3rd, a 5% chanceWSH goal, 10:30 of 3rd, a 6% chanceWSH goal, 18:52 of 3rd, a 11% chanceWSH 3.6BUF 3.5

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 Thompson15:1845.239.00-0
Jordan Greenway · Tyson Jost · Casey Mittelstadt10:4735.738.41-0
Kyle Okposo · Zemgus Girgensons · Peyton Krebs9:3862.5100.02-0
Dylan Cozens · Jack Quinn · JJ Peterka8:1752.965.11-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Henri Jokiharju · Owen Power17:0460.071.42-0
Jacob Bryson · Rasmus Dahlin14:0135.730.80-1
Riley Stillman · Ilya Lyubushkin10:5837.531.72-0

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
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 2 2 2 0 0 0 15:40 0.05 11-8 0.51-0.17
10 JJ Peterka R 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 11:00 0.40 9-9 0.75-0.44
17 Tyson Jost C 1 0 1 1 0 3 0 14:45 0.29 13-19 0.53-0.60
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 14:56 0.28 14-11 0.74-0.25
46 Ilya Lyubushkin D 1 0 1 2 0 1 0 14:47 0.02 9-12 0.43-0.59
22 Jack Quinn R 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 12:36 0.08 9-11 0.75-0.58
25 Owen Power D 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 27:34 0.14 27-26 1.76-0.99
61 Riley Stillman D 0 1 1 2 2 0 2 11:50 0.04 10-10 0.68-0.59
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 14:18 0.13 14-10 0.66-0.11
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 14:42 0.10 10-18 0.37-0.60
12 Jordan Greenway L 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 14:23 0.11 11-21 0.38-0.74
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 24:11 0.01 26-19 1.46-0.71
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 0 0 -1 2 2 0 12:54 0.41 10-11 0.81-0.51
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 26:22 14-27 0.49-1.22
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 19:17 0.25 15-17 0.79-1.13
72 Tage Thompson C 0 0 0 0 0 5 3 23:29 0.73 15-20 0.79-1.28
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 2 18:11 12-22 0.51-1.01
89 Alex Tuch R 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 22:32 0.46 16-19 0.88-1.27
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen 39 35 4 65:00 3.63 -0.37

Washington Capitals

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Nic Dowd · Nicolas Aube-Kubel · Aliaksei Protas12:1868.263.40-0
Alex Ovechkin · Evgeny Kuznetsov · Tom Wilson9:2040.013.70-1
T.J. Oshie · Conor Sheary · Dylan Strome7:2750.036.30-2
Nicklas Backstrom · Craig Smith · Anthony Mantha7:2064.356.80-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Trevor van Riemsdyk · Rasmus Sandin18:0952.438.41-4
Nick Jensen · Martin Fehérváry15:1146.754.00-0
Matt Irwin · Alexander Alexeyev10:1461.550.40-0

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 1 1 2 0 2 5 1 19:32 0.58 14-19 0.32-0.82
77 T.J. Oshie R 1 1 2 -1 0 2 3 13:54 0.44 15-13 0.56-0.60
17 Dylan Strome C 0 2 2 -1 0 2 0 16:43 0.41 20-10 0.95-0.68
43 Tom Wilson R 1 0 1 -1 0 1 5 17:18 0.11 11-14 0.21-0.67
92 Evgeny Kuznetsov C 1 0 1 0 0 4 0 17:07 0.22 14-13 0.32-0.51
19 Nicklas Backstrom C 0 1 1 -1 0 0 1 16:30 0.08 9-17 0.49-0.77
27 Alexander Alexeyev D 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 18:40 0.03 17-9 0.57-0.35
57 Trevor van Riemsdyk D 0 1 1 -2 0 5 0 24:44 0.16 31-20 1.17-1.15
3 Nick Jensen D 0 0 0 0 2 3 1 17:15 0.06 18-19 1.18-1.15
15 Craig Smith C 0 0 0 -1 0 4 3 13:18 0.60 13-14 0.83-0.78
16 Nicolas Aube-Kubel R 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 15:12 0.19 18-7 0.91-0.46
21 Aliaksei Protas L 0 0 0 0 0 7 1 14:04 0.62 16-9 0.85-0.70
26 Nic Dowd C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 16:48 15-10 0.80-0.77
38 Rasmus Sandin D 0 0 0 -3 0 2 1 26:31 0.03 25-24 0.77-1.47
39 Anthony Mantha R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 09:58 11-7 0.52-0.37
42 Martin Fehérváry D 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 25:22 0.09 16-21 1.15-1.01
43 Conor Sheary L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 3 16:17 0.02 18-13 0.92-0.76
52 Matt Irwin D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 13:12 0.01 9-6 0.28-0.26
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
79 Charlie Lindgren 27 23 4 64:32 3.49 -0.51