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Washington Capitals at Buffalo Sabres

Jan 6, 2025 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Washington Capitals 3 28
Buffalo Sabres 4 27

Decided in a shootout.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
04:42 BUF Alex Tuch (13) JJ Peterka (19) 0 - 1
06:10 WSH Tom Wilson (17) PP Jakob Chychrun (17), Dylan Strome (33) 1 - 1
2nd Period
01:07 BUF Alex Tuch (14) Unassisted 1 - 2
11:29 WSH Tom Wilson (18) Aliaksei Protas (17), John Carlson (22) 2 - 2
12:49 BUF Tage Thompson (19) PP Rasmus Dahlin (23), JJ Peterka (20) 2 - 3
3rd Period
15:47 WSH Aliaksei Protas (18) John Carlson (23), Pierre-Luc Dubois (26) 3 - 3
Shootout
BUF JJ Peterka Shootout winner 3 - 4

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
01:02 WSH Aliaksei Protas Holding the stick 2
05:40 BUF Nicolas Aube-Kubel High sticking 2
19:58 BUF Jiri Kulich Roughing 2
19:58 WSH Brandon Duhaime Roughing 2
2nd Period
11:46 WSH Dylan Strome Roughing 2
3rd Period
01:01 BUF Tage Thompson Tripping 2
06:04 WSH Dylan Strome Boarding 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Washington Capitals 64 42 28 3 2.6 54.9
Buffalo Sabres 59 44 27 3 3.6 45.1

How the game went

50510Start2nd3rdOTBuffalo 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, 3 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 3.6 expected, 3 scored

0123Start2nd3rdOTWSH goal, 6:10 of 1st, a 10% chanceWSH goal, 11:29 of 2nd, a 28% chanceWSH goal, 15:47 of 3rd, a 13% chanceBUF goal, 4:42 of 1st, a 12% chanceBUF goal, 1:07 of 2nd, a 7% chanceBUF goal, 12:49 of 2nd, a 9% chanceBUF 3.6WSH 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.

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 · Pierre-Luc Dubois · Aliaksei Protas11:5663.071.52-0
Nic Dowd · Andrew Mangiapane · Brandon Duhaime7:047.10.00-1
Lars Eller · Jakub Vrana · Connor McMichael6:4847.116.80-0
Alex Ovechkin · Dylan Strome · Taylor Raddysh6:2666.713.10-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Trevor van Riemsdyk · Martin Fehérváry13:2238.131.30-0
Matt Roy · Jakob Chychrun9:4736.86.40-0
John Carlson · Rasmus Sandin8:1764.765.21-1

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
43 Tom Wilson R 2 0 2 1 0 4 2 22:04 0.58 18-12 1.02-0.42
21 Aliaksei Protas L 1 1 2 2 2 4 1 20:00 0.53 21-14 1.26-0.48
74 John Carlson D 0 2 2 0 0 1 0 23:40 0.04 20-11 0.88-0.64
6 Jakob Chychrun D 0 1 1 0 0 4 0 23:01 0.24 18-18 0.28-0.89
17 Dylan Strome C 0 1 1 -1 4 2 3 18:10 0.13 12-6 0.07-0.55
80 Pierre-Luc Dubois C 0 1 1 2 0 1 0 20:43 0.31 22-11 1.26-0.41
3 Matt Roy D 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 20:58 0.12 16-16 0.57-0.65
8 Alex Ovechkin L 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 16:42 0.19 12-4 0.09-0.49
14 Taylor Raddysh R 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 11:35 0.08 12-5 0.36-0.46
19 Jakub Vrana L 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 08:22 10-9 0.12-0.50
20 Lars Eller C 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 12:09 0.01 13-10 0.39-0.51
24 Brandon Duhaime L 0 0 0 -1 2 0 0 12:02 6-13 0.06-0.51
26 Nic Dowd C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 4 14:02 7-14 0.08-0.52
26 Andrew Mangiapane L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 11:51 0.22 5-14 0.23-0.52
38 Rasmus Sandin D 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 19:48 0.10 24-9 1.00-0.39
42 Martin Fehérváry D 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 19:18 9-14 0.47-0.71
57 Trevor van Riemsdyk D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17:44 13-14 0.33-0.70
77 Connor McMichael L 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 15:48 0.02 12-11 0.38-0.60
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
79 Charlie Lindgren OTL 27 24 3 65:00 3.58 +0.58

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jason Zucker · Tage Thompson · Dylan Cozens12:3350.054.40-1
Alex Tuch · Ryan McLeod · JJ Peterka11:2860.080.31-0
Peyton Krebs · Jiri Kulich · Zach Benson4:4366.759.40-0
Peyton Krebs · Jack Quinn · Zach Benson4:1833.337.70-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Rasmus Dahlin · Bowen Byram18:5354.370.20-0
Connor Clifton · Owen Power8:0735.333.30-1
Henri Jokiharju · Mattias Samuelsson7:5358.366.51-0

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

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
89 Alex Tuch R 2 0 2 2 0 3 1 19:36 0.66 12-14 0.75-0.20
10 JJ Peterka R 0 2 2 0 0 4 0 23:37 0.29 15-13 0.79-0.54
72 Tage Thompson C 1 0 1 -2 2 6 1 23:48 1.08 17-19 0.92-1.11
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 29:58 0.20 22-17 1.02-0.38
6 Zach Benson L 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 13:52 0.18 8-8 0.27-0.27
16 Nicolas Aube-Kubel R 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 06:19 0.04 4-7 0.04-0.17
17 Jason Zucker L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 2 21:33 0.45 16-20 0.88-0.78
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 14:33 8-12 0.27-0.28
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 11:46 9-9 0.39-0.32
20 Jiri Kulich C 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 05:18 0.05 6-4 0.18-0.13
22 Jack Quinn R 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 14:26 0.21 3-7 0.13-0.33
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 15:41 11-13 0.41-0.61
24 Sam Lafferty C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 07:12 2-9 0.04-0.17
24 Bowen Byram D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 28:57 0.03 21-23 1.18-0.55
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 0 0 -2 0 3 1 18:14 0.23 19-20 0.92-1.12
25 Owen Power D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 19:36 0.06 9-23 0.29-0.84
71 Ryan McLeod C 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 21:44 0.09 13-17 0.75-0.20
75 Connor Clifton D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 14:20 0.00 10-15 0.66-0.84
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen W 28 25 3 65:00 2.58 -0.42