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Washington Capitals at Buffalo Sabres

Apr 11, 2024 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Washington Capitals 2 24
Buffalo Sabres 4 17

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
19:00 BUF Zach Benson (10) Jeff Skinner (22), Peyton Krebs (13) 0 - 1
2nd Period
12:37 BUF Alex Tuch (22) Henri Jokiharju (15), Tage Thompson (27) 0 - 2
14:36 WSH Connor McMichael (18) Max Pacioretty (18), John Carlson (41) 1 - 2
3rd Period
09:46 BUF Jack Quinn (8) Connor Clifton (14), Jordan Greenway (16) 1 - 3
17:43 BUF Dylan Cozens (16) Jordan Greenway (17), Henri Jokiharju (16) 1 - 4
19:00 WSH Tom Wilson (18) John Carlson (42), Alex Ovechkin (34) 2 - 4

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
3rd Period
00:16 WSH Tom Wilson Tripping 2
20:00 BUF Rasmus Dahlin Interference 2
20:00 WSH Max Pacioretty Fighting 5
20:00 BUF Tage Thompson Fighting 5
20:00 WSH Tom Wilson Fighting 5
20:00 BUF Jordan Greenway Fighting 5

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Washington Capitals 59 43 24 2 2.2 55.1
Buffalo Sabres 51 31 17 4 2.9 44.9

How the game went

151050Start2nd3rdBuffalo 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: 2.2 expected, 2 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 2.9 expected, 4 scored

012Start2nd3rdEndWSH goal, 14:36 of 2nd, a 7% chanceWSH goal, 19:00 of 3rd, a 4% chanceBUF goal, 19:00 of 1st, a 7% chanceBUF goal, 12:37 of 2nd, a 7% chanceBUF goal, 9:46 of 3rd, a 13% chanceBUF goal, 17:43 of 3rd, a 49% chanceBUF 2.9WSH 2.2

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
Tom Wilson · Dylan Strome · Aliaksei Protas11:5579.295.80-0
Nic Dowd · Nicolas Aube-Kubel · Beck Malenstyn9:3655.654.30-0
Max Pacioretty · Sonny Milano · Hendrix Lapierre6:5135.730.20-1
Alex Ovechkin · T.J. Oshie · Connor McMichael6:3242.952.10-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Nick Jensen · Alexander Alexeyev17:3253.677.30-0
John Carlson · Martin Fehérváry16:3759.566.10-1
Trevor van Riemsdyk · Vincent Iorio8:4627.316.20-1

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
74 John Carlson D 0 2 2 0 0 1 0 24:54 0.15 30-18 1.26-0.54
43 Tom Wilson R 1 0 1 0 7 2 3 16:51 0.14 21-8 0.74-0.11
77 Connor McMichael L 1 0 1 0 0 3 1 15:50 0.21 13-15 0.66-0.42
8 Alex Ovechkin L 0 1 1 -1 0 3 2 17:21 0.11 15-15 0.38-0.37
67 Max Pacioretty L 0 1 1 -1 5 3 8 15:19 0.28 11-16 0.65-0.67
3 Nick Jensen D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 24:36 0.03 19-18 0.50-0.46
6 Vincent Iorio D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 09:58 4-10 0.13-0.48
15 Sonny Milano L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 14:28 14-14 0.37-0.64
16 Nicolas Aube-Kubel R 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 12:07 0.03 10-6 0.34-0.12
17 Dylan Strome C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 20:00 0.14 25-11 0.91-0.25
21 Aliaksei Protas L 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 15:25 0.43 22-7 0.86-0.08
22 Hendrix Lapierre C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 13:19 0.08 11-13 0.33-0.51
26 Nic Dowd C 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 12:10 0.01 5-5 0.12-0.12
27 Alexander Alexeyev D 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 21:21 0.13 18-13 0.68-0.12
29 Beck Malenstyn L 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 12:10 0.07 6-5 0.14-0.11
42 Martin Fehérváry D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 3 20:38 26-18 1.01-0.55
57 Trevor van Riemsdyk D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 16:49 0.05 11-11 0.47-0.45
77 T.J. Oshie R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 3 17:06 0.32 9-17 0.58-0.49
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
79 Charlie Lindgren L 16 13 3 57:38 1.44 -1.56

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Alex Tuch · Tage Thompson · JJ Peterka14:2136.830.71-0
Zemgus Girgensons · Tyson Jost · Lukas Rousek9:1841.224.30-1
Jeff Skinner · Peyton Krebs · Zach Benson8:2980.094.61-0
Jordan Greenway · Dylan Cozens · Jack Quinn8:1763.671.31-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Rasmus Dahlin · Owen Power18:0040.026.50-0
Connor Clifton · Jacob Bryson16:1844.438.50-0
Kale Clague · Henri Jokiharju14:4246.247.01-0

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
12 Jordan Greenway L 0 2 2 1 5 2 3 16:31 0.16 13-10 0.37-0.39
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 2 2 2 0 0 2 18:27 13-16 0.41-0.46
6 Zach Benson L 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 13:28 0.07 9-3 0.36-0.07
22 Jack Quinn R 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 14:19 0.13 10-12 0.34-0.42
24 Dylan Cozens C 1 0 1 2 0 1 0 16:09 0.02 11-11 0.34-0.38
89 Alex Tuch R 1 0 1 2 0 3 1 18:41 0.20 15-25 0.47-1.08
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 1 1 1 0 0 4 15:32 11-7 0.36-0.18
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 15:29 0.14 10-9 0.37-0.30
72 Tage Thompson C 0 1 1 0 5 1 1 18:15 0.18 14-26 0.47-1.14
75 Connor Clifton D 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 20:53 0.04 16-16 0.45-0.30
10 JJ Peterka R 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 18:36 0.20 15-26 0.47-1.14
13 Lukas Rousek R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 12:09 8-11 0.10-0.33
17 Tyson Jost C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 2 11:00 0.10 8-10 0.14-0.32
25 Owen Power D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 22:55 0.01 17-25 0.57-1.40
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 0 2 3 3 21:26 0.12 14-21 0.43-1.20
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 11:47 8-12 0.12-0.33
38 Kale Clague D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 16:25 0.06 14-15 0.52-0.46
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 17:58 14-15 0.22-0.24
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen W 24 22 2 60:00 2.22 +0.22