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Washington Capitals at Buffalo Sabres

Apr 2, 2024 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Washington Capitals 2 26
Buffalo Sabres 6 35

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
02:46 WSH Martin Fehérváry (3) Michael Sgarbossa (3), Hendrix Lapierre (11) 1 - 0
15:42 BUF Zemgus Girgensons (8) Rasmus Dahlin (37), Owen Power (24) 1 - 1
16:50 BUF JJ Peterka (27) PP Alex Tuch (33), Zach Benson (15) 1 - 2
2nd Period
10:54 BUF JJ Peterka (28) Alex Tuch (34) 1 - 3
19:14 WSH Dylan Strome (26) PP John Carlson (39), Alex Ovechkin (33) 2 - 3
3rd Period
03:03 BUF Rasmus Dahlin (18) PP JJ Peterka (21), Tage Thompson (24) 2 - 4
04:48 BUF Tage Thompson (27) Jack Quinn (8), Zach Benson (16) 2 - 5
05:33 BUF Alex Tuch (20) Tage Thompson (25), Rasmus Dahlin (38) 2 - 6

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
16:00 WSH Rasmus Sandin Hooking 2
2nd Period
18:51 BUF Peyton Krebs Holding 2
3rd Period
00:38 BUF JJ Peterka Tripping 2
01:46 WSH Max Pacioretty Holding 2
17:58 BUF Owen Power Tripping 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Washington Capitals 56 39 26 2 2.4 43.5
Buffalo Sabres 67 47 35 6 3.5 56.5

How the game went

05101520Start2nd3rdBuffalo 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: 2.4 expected, 2 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 3.5 expected, 6 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndWSH goal, 2:46 of 1st, a 5% chanceWSH goal, 19:14 of 2nd, a 4% chanceBUF goal, 15:42 of 1st, a 7% chanceBUF goal, 16:50 of 1st, a 10% chanceBUF goal, 10:54 of 2nd, a 21% chanceBUF goal, 3:03 of 3rd, a 3% chanceBUF goal, 4:48 of 3rd, a 18% chanceBUF goal, 5:33 of 3rd, a 16% chanceBUF 3.5WSH 2.4

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.

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
Max Pacioretty · Sonny Milano · Dylan Strome11:0552.457.10-1
Nic Dowd · Nicolas Aube-Kubel · Beck Malenstyn8:1138.939.30-1
Alex Ovechkin · Connor McMichael · Ivan Miroshnichenko7:1729.40.00-0
Alex Ovechkin · Connor McMichael · Aliaksei Protas5:2555.654.00-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
John Carlson · Martin Fehérváry15:5950.043.71-1
Nick Jensen · Rasmus Sandin12:5229.410.50-1
Trevor van Riemsdyk · Alexander Alexeyev12:3663.054.50-1

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

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 0 1 -1 0 5 0 15:57 0.45 12-11 0.53-0.55
42 Martin Fehérváry D 1 0 1 0 0 1 2 20:36 0.05 18-25 0.75-1.21
8 Alex Ovechkin L 0 1 1 -2 0 3 4 18:58 0.31 11-20 0.40-1.14
22 Hendrix Lapierre C 0 1 1 1 0 4 1 15:46 0.16 12-12 0.47-0.61
23 Michael Sgarbossa C 0 1 1 1 0 2 2 16:43 0.25 17-15 0.57-0.85
74 John Carlson D 0 1 1 -1 0 1 1 23:54 0.05 20-24 0.58-1.08
3 Nick Jensen D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 19:08 11-20 0.76-0.99
15 Sonny Milano L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 14:35 0.06 11-14 0.53-0.89
16 Nicolas Aube-Kubel R 0 0 0 -2 0 1 1 12:00 0.22 9-15 0.28-0.62
21 Aliaksei Protas L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 13:56 0.41 13-16 0.77-0.78
26 Nic Dowd C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 12:42 13-14 0.38-0.52
27 Alexander Alexeyev D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 16:33 0.04 20-17 0.73-0.62
29 Beck Malenstyn L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 13:03 0.02 9-14 0.27-0.44
38 Rasmus Sandin D 0 0 0 -2 2 1 3 19:27 0.00 7-19 0.08-1.28
57 Trevor van Riemsdyk D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 16:56 0.01 18-17 0.64-1.04
63 Ivan Miroshnichenko L 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 15:01 0.06 12-16 0.19-0.79
67 Max Pacioretty L 0 0 0 -1 2 2 3 14:35 0.23 12-12 0.53-0.71
77 Connor McMichael L 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 18:11 0.05 10-24 0.39-1.43
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
79 Charlie Lindgren 31 25 6 45:33 3.26 -2.74
35 Darcy Kuemper 4 4 0 14:19 0.30 +0.30

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Alex Tuch · Tage Thompson · JJ Peterka14:3763.979.32-0
Jeff Skinner · Peyton Krebs · Lukas Rousek10:2560.089.10-0
Dylan Cozens · Jack Quinn · Zach Benson9:0542.140.30-0
Zemgus Girgensons · Victor Olofsson · Eric Robinson8:3446.232.41-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Rasmus Dahlin · Owen Power18:1472.780.92-1
Henri Jokiharju · Bowen Byram17:2731.330.20-0
Connor Clifton · Jacob Bryson13:3345.862.81-0

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
10 JJ Peterka R 2 1 3 1 2 3 0 18:41 0.54 26-15 1.36-0.36
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 1 2 3 1 0 4 3 21:05 0.15 33-12 1.69-0.38
72 Tage Thompson C 1 2 3 3 0 4 1 19:41 0.54 28-13 1.47-0.31
89 Alex Tuch R 1 2 3 2 0 4 0 20:17 0.53 28-13 1.46-0.31
6 Zach Benson L 0 2 2 1 0 2 2 13:38 0.28 13-11 0.94-0.98
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 1 0 1 1 0 2 2 14:22 0.09 8-14 0.15-0.38
22 Jack Quinn R 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 15:10 0.44 17-13 1.00-1.02
25 Owen Power D 0 1 1 2 2 2 2 23:38 0.19 38-12 1.90-0.38
13 Lukas Rousek R 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 13:04 9-12 0.46-0.16
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 -1 2 1 2 12:16 0.12 12-8 0.75-0.10
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 20:43 0.02 13-22 0.63-0.97
24 Bowen Byram D 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 19:21 11-22 0.48-0.97
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 13:29 0.14 13-12 0.75-0.98
50 Eric Robinson L 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 11:53 0.02 10-13 0.24-0.38
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 14:16 0.33 13-8 0.60-0.06
75 Connor Clifton D 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 18:02 0.05 15-13 0.80-0.41
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 16:06 11-13 0.70-0.41
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 09:55 0.09 7-9 0.19-0.28
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen 26 24 2 60:00 2.40 +0.40