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Vegas Golden Knights at Washington Capitals

Feb 27, 2026 · Capital One Arena

Team Goals Shots
Vegas Golden Knights 2 26
Washington Capitals 3 30

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
2nd Period
00:49 WSH Pierre-Luc Dubois (2) Aliaksei Protas (21), Rasmus Sandin (17) 0 - 1
03:23 WSH Pierre-Luc Dubois (3) Aliaksei Protas (22) 0 - 2
14:52 WSH Jakob Chychrun (22) Rasmus Sandin (18), Pierre-Luc Dubois (2) 0 - 3
3rd Period
02:27 VGK Braeden Bowman (8) Kaedan Korczak (10), Brayden McNabb (4) 1 - 3
09:15 VGK Tomas Hertl (23) PP Pavel Dorofeyev (19), Mitch Marner (43) 2 - 3

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
12:47 VGK Team Too many men on the ice 2
15:34 WSH Matt Roy Cross checking 2
2nd Period
04:41 VGK Braeden Bowman Hooking 2
05:58 VGK Noah Hanifin High sticking 2
16:44 WSH Ryan Leonard Slashing 2
3rd Period
05:26 VGK Kaedan Korczak Cross checking 2
08:15 WSH Team Too many men on the ice 2
15:36 VGK Mark Stone High sticking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Vegas Golden Knights 64 47 26 2 4.1 55.2
Washington Capitals 58 44 30 3 2.8 44.8

How the game went

50510Start2nd3rdWashington Capitals aheadVegas Golden Knights 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 Vegas Golden Knights had.

Expected goals

Vegas Golden Knights: 4.1 expected, 2 scored · Washington Capitals: 2.8 expected, 3 scored

01234Start2nd3rdEndVGK goal, 2:27 of 3rd, a 17% chanceVGK goal, 9:15 of 3rd, a 8% chanceWSH goal, 0:49 of 2nd, a 7% chanceWSH goal, 3:23 of 2nd, a 18% chanceWSH goal, 14:52 of 2nd, a 5% chanceVGK 4.1WSH 2.8

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

Vegas Golden Knights
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.

Vegas Golden Knights

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mark Stone · Ivan Barbashev · Jack Eichel10:4433.336.20-1
Reilly Smith · Mitch Marner · Pavel Dorofeyev9:0366.786.20-0
Tomas Hertl · Keegan Kolesar · Braeden Bowman7:4240.049.71-0
Brandon Saad · Colton Sissons · Alexander Holtz6:0440.059.40-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Noah Hanifin · Rasmus Andersson13:3163.662.80-1
Shea Theodore · Jeremy Lauzon13:1345.564.50-0
Brayden McNabb · Kaedan Korczak11:1242.956.51-1

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
42 Braeden Bowman R 1 0 1 1 2 1 0 11:18 0.19 7-9 0.35-0.35
48 Tomas Hertl C 1 0 1 1 0 3 3 18:26 0.65 13-10 0.87-0.49
3 Brayden McNabb D 0 1 1 0 0 0 6 17:37 0.01 12-12 0.84-0.54
6 Kaedan Korczak D 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 13:02 10-14 0.83-0.56
16 Pavel Dorofeyev R 0 1 1 -1 0 1 0 16:24 0.18 10-6 0.50-0.14
93 Mitch Marner R 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 19:50 0.23 14-7 0.66-0.09
4 Rasmus Andersson D 0 0 0 -2 0 4 0 20:46 0.23 22-13 1.01-0.66
5 Jeremy Lauzon D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 4 20:35 0.07 12-13 0.92-0.51
9 Jack Eichel C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 20:46 0.03 13-13 0.50-0.65
15 Colton Sissons C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 2 11:06 0.75 8-9 0.90-0.44
15 Noah Hanifin D 0 0 0 -1 2 3 0 19:55 0.22 28-14 1.27-0.62
19 Reilly Smith R 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 14:08 0.46 14-4 0.62-0.08
20 Brandon Saad L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 12:28 0.14 15-11 1.33-0.58
26 Alexander Holtz R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 08:04 0.09 10-10 0.78-0.44
27 Shea Theodore D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20:04 0.05 12-12 0.92-0.44
49 Ivan Barbashev L 0 0 0 -2 0 2 2 15:14 0.15 12-15 0.70-0.66
55 Keegan Kolesar R 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 11:28 0.25 9-10 0.76-0.49
61 Mark Stone R 0 0 0 -1 2 1 0 20:40 0.37 17-13 0.61-0.59
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
40 Akira Schmid L 30 27 3 58:09 2.66 -0.34

Washington Capitals

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Tom Wilson · Pierre-Luc Dubois · Aliaksei Protas10:3871.473.73-0
Alex Ovechkin · Dylan Strome · Anthony Beauvillier8:3022.726.30-1
Connor McMichael · Justin Sourdif · Ryan Leonard5:5960.034.10-0
Nic Dowd · Brandon Duhaime · Ethen Frank5:4088.995.20-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Martin Fehérváry · Rasmus Sandin13:3439.352.61-0
Matt Roy · Jakob Chychrun12:5664.054.10-0
Trevor van Riemsdyk · Declan Chisholm8:0542.916.20-1

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

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
80 Pierre-Luc Dubois C 2 1 3 3 0 6 0 19:37 0.60 17-14 0.75-0.57
21 Aliaksei Protas L 0 2 2 3 0 2 1 19:38 0.06 17-11 0.75-0.58
38 Rasmus Sandin D 0 2 2 3 0 2 2 21:30 0.06 15-24 0.98-1.13
6 Jakob Chychrun D 1 0 1 1 0 6 0 24:43 0.24 20-15 0.57-0.74
3 Matt Roy D 0 0 0 1 2 1 2 20:20 0.03 17-10 0.56-0.42
8 Alex Ovechkin L 0 0 0 -1 0 3 2 17:43 0.54 5-23 0.37-1.23
9 Ryan Leonard R 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 14:42 0.58 7-5 0.29-0.56
17 Dylan Strome C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 16:26 0.15 5-24 0.37-1.44
24 Brandon Duhaime L 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 09:36 0.01 10-7 0.27-0.26
26 Nic Dowd C 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 15:13 0.02 10-10 0.27-0.45
34 Justin Sourdif C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 07:59 0.01 7-5 0.29-0.61
42 Martin Fehérváry D 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 22:04 13-22 0.69-0.93
43 Tom Wilson R 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 21:58 0.05 18-7 0.75-0.32
47 Declan Chisholm D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 10:59 0.02 7-15 0.33-1.46
53 Ethen Frank R 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 10:58 0.22 9-7 0.27-0.52
57 Trevor van Riemsdyk D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 12:54 6-10 0.20-1.11
72 Anthony Beauvillier R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 13:48 0.08 5-21 0.37-1.27
77 Connor McMichael L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15:03 0.09 7-10 0.29-0.90
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
48 Logan Thompson W 26 24 2 59:49 3.94 +1.94