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Buffalo Sabres at Washington Capitals

Mar 30, 2025 · Capital One Arena

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 8 23
Washington Capitals 5 29

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
10:06 WSH Jakob Chychrun (19) Alex Ovechkin (25), Dylan Strome (46) 0 - 1
12:49 BUF Tage Thompson (37) PP Alex Tuch (26), JJ Peterka (35) 1 - 1
2nd Period
02:14 BUF Ryan McLeod (18) Jack Quinn (19), Owen Power (32) 2 - 1
02:46 WSH Jakob Chychrun (20) Unassisted 2 - 2
05:17 BUF Alex Tuch (30) Connor Clifton (12), Jason Zucker (28) 3 - 2
11:52 BUF Sam Lafferty (3) Connor Clifton (13) 4 - 2
3rd Period
00:37 WSH Aliaksei Protas (30) SH Tom Wilson (29), Martin Fehérváry (19) 4 - 3
01:28 BUF Tage Thompson (38) PP Jason Zucker (29), JJ Peterka (36) 5 - 3
05:52 BUF Jack Quinn (14) Unassisted 6 - 3
09:11 WSH Alex Ovechkin (37) Rasmus Sandin (24), Trevor van Riemsdyk (20) 6 - 4
14:03 WSH Pierre-Luc Dubois (19) PP Alex Ovechkin (26), Dylan Strome (47) 6 - 5
15:34 BUF Alex Tuch (31) Mattias Samuelsson (8) 7 - 5
19:36 BUF Peyton Krebs (8) Jack Quinn (20) 8 - 5

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
06:28 WSH Pierre-Luc Dubois Roughing 2
11:10 WSH Rasmus Sandin Boarding 2
11:10 BUF Ryan McLeod Roughing 2
11:10 WSH John Carlson Roughing 2
15:28 BUF Bowen Byram Hooking 2
2nd Period
13:30 WSH Tom Wilson Tripping 2
18:51 WSH Pierre-Luc Dubois High sticking double minor 4
3rd Period
12:58 BUF Beck Malenstyn Tripping 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 50 35 23 8 3.6 40.0
Washington Capitals 69 50 29 5 3.4 60.0

How the game went

05101520Start2nd3rdWashington 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: 3.6 expected, 8 scored · Washington Capitals: 3.4 expected, 5 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 12:49 of 1st, a 27% chanceBUF goal, 2:14 of 2nd, a 38% chanceBUF goal, 5:17 of 2nd, a 7% chanceBUF goal, 11:52 of 2nd, a 8% chanceBUF goal, 1:28 of 3rd, a 14% chanceBUF goal, 5:52 of 3rd, a 14% chanceBUF goal, 15:34 of 3rd, a 2% chanceBUF goal, 19:36 of 3rd, a 59% chanceWSH goal, 10:06 of 1st, a 11% chanceWSH goal, 2:46 of 2nd, a 6% chanceWSH goal, 0:37 of 3rd, a 26% chanceWSH goal, 9:11 of 3rd, a 6% chanceWSH goal, 14:03 of 3rd, a 9% chanceBUF 3.6WSH 3.4

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

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
Ryan McLeod · Jack Quinn · JJ Peterka10:2550.067.82-0
Sam Lafferty · Beck Malenstyn · Tyson Kozak8:5650.061.21-0
Tage Thompson · Jiri Kulich · Zach Benson8:5628.044.50-0
Jason Zucker · Alex Tuch · Peyton Krebs7:2736.426.21-2
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Connor Clifton · Bowen Byram14:0940.764.52-2
Mattias Samuelsson · Rasmus Dahlin13:1634.523.02-1
Jacob Bernard-Docker · Owen Power10:0833.346.31-0

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
89 Alex Tuch R 2 1 3 0 0 2 1 17:57 0.42 6-12 0.25-0.76
22 Jack Quinn R 1 2 3 2 0 3 0 16:39 0.45 14-11 1.02-0.49
72 Tage Thompson C 2 0 2 0 0 6 0 17:43 1.02 7-19 0.33-0.63
10 JJ Peterka R 0 2 2 2 0 2 0 19:27 0.09 11-14 0.97-0.66
17 Jason Zucker L 0 2 2 -1 0 1 0 16:18 0.12 6-11 0.24-0.83
75 Connor Clifton D 0 2 2 1 0 2 4 19:05 0.02 15-16 0.84-0.38
19 Peyton Krebs C 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 12:08 0.13 8-12 0.33-0.76
24 Sam Lafferty C 1 0 1 0 0 1 3 12:46 0.08 9-12 0.19-0.38
71 Ryan McLeod C 1 0 1 2 2 1 0 17:27 0.38 13-11 0.94-0.49
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 18:20 11-23 0.32-0.83
25 Owen Power D 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 18:20 9-14 0.51-0.99
6 Zach Benson L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 15:58 0.02 11-20 0.39-0.56
20 Jiri Kulich C 0 0 0 -2 0 0 2 15:20 8-21 0.33-0.77
24 Bowen Byram D 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 20:46 14-21 0.88-0.94
25 Jacob Bernard-Docker D 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 12:55 5-14 0.42-0.51
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 22:18 0.23 17-20 0.60-0.87
29 Beck Malenstyn L 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 11:14 0.08 8-7 0.18-0.11
48 Tyson Kozak C 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 12:25 8-12 0.19-0.34
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
47 James Reimer W 29 24 5 59:49 3.38 -1.62

Washington Capitals

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Lars Eller · Andrew Mangiapane · Taylor Raddysh6:0270.087.90-0
Tom Wilson · Dylan Strome · Aliaksei Protas5:4263.665.30-1
Alex Ovechkin · Anthony Beauvillier · Pierre-Luc Dubois5:2850.084.01-0
Tom Wilson · Pierre-Luc Dubois · Connor McMichael4:5485.7100.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Trevor van Riemsdyk · Jakob Chychrun9:1650.041.41-2
Matt Roy · Martin Fehérváry9:0770.634.80-1
John Carlson · Rasmus Sandin8:3353.832.20-0

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 2 3 -2 0 3 2 16:22 0.31 20-13 0.78-0.55
6 Jakob Chychrun D 2 0 2 -3 0 4 2 21:09 0.34 22-16 0.79-0.46
17 Dylan Strome C 0 2 2 -3 0 4 0 17:21 0.46 14-11 0.88-0.94
21 Aliaksei Protas L 1 0 1 -3 0 3 1 15:14 0.71 15-9 1.08-0.80
80 Pierre-Luc Dubois C 1 0 1 -2 6 2 0 18:23 0.17 14-13 0.41-0.19
38 Rasmus Sandin D 0 1 1 0 2 1 2 16:46 0.07 16-8 0.45-0.41
42 Martin Fehérváry D 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 20:06 0.03 19-12 1.01-0.81
43 Tom Wilson R 0 1 1 -1 2 2 2 20:50 0.62 19-9 0.86-0.58
57 Trevor van Riemsdyk D 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 15:37 0.09 13-13 0.86-0.47
3 Matt Roy D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 3 17:56 0.03 15-9 0.43-0.81
14 Taylor Raddysh R 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 10:00 0.09 9-5 0.20-0.11
20 Lars Eller C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 13:18 21-4 0.74-0.14
24 Brandon Duhaime L 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 12:36 0.06 5-9 0.23-0.51
26 Nic Dowd C 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 12:58 5-9 0.23-0.51
26 Andrew Mangiapane L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 10:57 0.06 16-5 0.29-0.23
72 Anthony Beauvillier R 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 13:17 0.07 12-11 0.58-0.28
74 John Carlson D 0 0 0 1 2 2 1 26:12 0.12 23-14 0.98-0.61
77 Connor McMichael L 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 14:20 0.12 12-10 0.48-0.51
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
48 Logan Thompson L 22 15 7 58:22 3.06 -3.94