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Washington Capitals at Buffalo Sabres

Mar 12, 2026 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Washington Capitals 2 22
Buffalo Sabres 1 30

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
06:02 BUF Sam Carrick (6) Beck Malenstyn (5), Owen Power (17) 0 - 1
2nd Period
02:14 WSH Ryan Leonard (14) Unassisted 1 - 1
3rd Period
18:27 WSH Jakob Chychrun (23) Aliaksei Protas (24), Trevor van Riemsdyk (7) 2 - 1

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
17:50 WSH Connor McMichael Hooking 2
2nd Period
12:50 BUF Tanner Pearson Slashing 2
16:41 WSH Martin Fehérváry Holding 2
3rd Period
06:08 BUF Logan Stanley Holding 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Washington Capitals 51 40 22 2 3.0 42.4
Buffalo Sabres 67 50 30 1 3.2 57.6

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: 3.0 expected, 2 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 3.2 expected, 1 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndWSH goal, 2:14 of 2nd, a 7% chanceWSH goal, 18:27 of 3rd, a 11% chanceBUF goal, 6:02 of 1st, a 7% chanceBUF 3.2WSH 3.0

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 · Hendrix Lapierre11:2937.546.80-0
Dylan Strome · Aliaksei Protas · Ryan Leonard10:0343.527.92-0
Brandon Duhaime · Connor McMichael · Ethen Frank7:0653.868.50-0
Alex Ovechkin · Anthony Beauvillier · Justin Sourdif6:5650.043.90-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Trevor van Riemsdyk · Martin Fehérváry14:2040.754.90-0
Jakob Chychrun · Timothy Liljegren14:0728.021.71-0
Matt Roy · Rasmus Sandin14:0542.330.50-1

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
6 Jakob Chychrun D 1 0 1 2 0 1 0 20:25 0.12 13-19 0.68-0.89
9 Ryan Leonard R 1 0 1 2 0 1 1 13:46 0.07 10-14 0.34-0.88
21 Aliaksei Protas L 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 16:31 0.10 13-16 0.47-1.04
57 Trevor van Riemsdyk D 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 19:00 0.37 15-17 0.98-0.54
3 Matt Roy D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 21:46 0.01 15-17 0.46-0.93
8 Alex Ovechkin L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 14:03 0.33 7-12 0.20-0.42
17 Dylan Strome C 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 15:25 0.00 14-16 0.65-1.04
22 Hendrix Lapierre C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 13:17 0.13 8-10 0.39-0.43
24 Brandon Duhaime L 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 12:17 7-15 0.27-0.55
27 Timothy Liljegren D 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 15:50 0.07 10-19 0.70-0.84
34 Justin Sourdif C 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 14:50 0.03 10-17 0.32-0.68
38 Rasmus Sandin D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 19:47 0.21 12-16 0.46-0.88
42 Martin Fehérváry D 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 19:56 0.01 14-18 0.78-0.55
43 Tom Wilson R 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 20:34 0.61 11-10 0.99-0.43
53 Ethen Frank R 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 10:30 9-12 0.29-0.20
72 Anthony Beauvillier R 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 14:07 0.05 9-15 0.25-0.66
77 Connor McMichael L 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 14:15 0.26 10-9 0.66-0.12
80 Pierre-Luc Dubois C 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 19:41 0.21 8-13 0.75-0.50
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
79 Charlie Lindgren W 30 29 1 60:00 3.04 +2.04

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jason Zucker · Ryan McLeod · Jack Quinn10:3448.136.40-1
Tage Thompson · Noah Ostlund · Zach Benson10:1358.853.70-0
Josh Norris · Peyton Krebs · Josh Doan7:4063.668.00-1
Sam Carrick · Tanner Pearson · Beck Malenstyn7:2776.591.11-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Bowen Byram · Owen Power17:2461.143.01-1
Mattias Samuelsson · Rasmus Dahlin16:0058.865.00-0
Luke Schenn · Logan Stanley10:0242.958.30-1

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
10 Sam Carrick C 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 10:51 0.13 14-7 0.59-0.19
25 Owen Power D 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 21:29 0.04 23-14 1.05-1.16
29 Beck Malenstyn L 0 1 1 1 0 1 3 10:25 0.09 13-4 0.56-0.05
2 Luke Schenn D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 14:31 0.01 6-10 0.29-0.27
6 Zach Benson L 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 17:15 0.18 13-8 0.53-0.51
8 Logan Stanley D 0 0 0 -1 2 1 1 13:02 0.09 8-9 0.34-0.22
9 Josh Norris C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 15:45 0.23 8-8 0.56-0.39
17 Jason Zucker L 0 0 0 -1 0 3 5 17:07 0.32 14-15 0.48-0.85
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 4 13:44 0.10 12-8 0.61-0.44
22 Jack Quinn R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 16:19 0.13 15-16 0.59-0.90
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 20:30 0.04 22-15 1.09-0.50
24 Bowen Byram D 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 23:02 0.33 24-14 0.88-1.16
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 23:28 0.15 23-16 0.97-0.55
70 Tanner Pearson L 0 0 0 1 2 3 0 08:58 0.31 13-6 0.56-0.12
71 Ryan McLeod C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 17:26 0.18 16-14 0.50-0.84
72 Tage Thompson C 0 0 0 0 0 5 2 22:04 0.40 17-14 0.82-0.69
86 Noah Ostlund C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16:49 0.02 16-10 0.58-0.52
91 Josh Doan R 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 14:42 0.39 8-7 0.56-0.28
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen L 22 20 2 58:33 2.49 +0.49