01/Line score
02/Scoring summary
1st
| Time | Team | Goal | Assists | BUF–WSH |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05:48 | BUF | NHL 8467407 (4) | Jack Eichel, Zemgus Girgensons | 1–0 |
2nd
| Time | Team | Goal | Assists | BUF–WSH |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14:08 | WSH | NHL 8468508 (11) | unassisted | 1–1 |
| 18:53 | BUF | Zemgus Girgensons (3) | Jack Eichel | 2–1 |
3rd
| Time | Team | Goal | Assists | BUF–WSH |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01:24 | WSH | Alex Ovechkin (19) | NHL 8475744, NHL 8471698 | 2–2 |
| 08:32 | WSH | Marcus Johansson (8) | NHL 8475744, NHL 8471702 | 2–3 |
| 09:56 | WSH | Andre Burakovsky (3) | Marcus Johansson | 2–4 |
| 18:47 | WSH | Alex Ovechkin (20) | unassisted | 2–5 |
03/Team stats
Shots on goal include goals, the way the league counts them. Shot attempts are shots on goal plus misses plus attempts that were blocked. A club's blocked shots are the blocks it made, credited to the blocker's club: a shot that deflects off one of the shooter's own teammates is credited to neither side, so this can run under the raw count of blocked shots in the game. Penalty minutes are the durations the feed publishes, plus the ten minute misconduct that automatically rides with a match penalty.
Power plays are opportunities, and they are derived rather than stored. The feed carries no strength on a goal and no end time on a penalty, so the penalty record is run forward to find the seconds a club really had a skater more than its opponent: coincidental penalties offset, a double minor counts twice, a misconduct costs no skater, and a call at the final horn counts for nothing. Power play time is not printed, it would rest on the same reconstruction with nothing published to check it against.
04/Buffalo Sabres
| Player | Pos | G | A | P | +/- | PIM | S | H | BLK | FO | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jack Eichel | C | 0 | 2 | 2 | -1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6-7 | 18:08 |
| Zemgus Girgensons | C | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1-0 | 16:36 |
| NHL 8467407 | – | 1 | 0 | 1 | — | — | 2 | 1 | 0 | – | — |
| Zach Bogosian | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | -4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | – | 22:17 |
| Ryan O'Reilly | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 19-13 | 21:23 |
| Evander Kane | L | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1-2 | 21:04 |
| Jake McCabe | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | – | 20:29 |
| Sam Reinhart | C | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | – | 19:10 |
| Marcus Foligno | L | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | 10:11 |
| Nicolas Deslauriers | L | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | – | 9:09 |
| NHL 8467330 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1-1 | — |
| NHL 8470324 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | 2 | – | — |
| NHL 8471742 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 1 | 0 | 2 | – | — |
| NHL 8473426 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | — |
| NHL 8473465 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 1 | 1 | – | — |
| NHL 8474589 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | — |
| NHL 8475728 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5-7 | — |
| NHL 8477499 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 1 | 1 | 2 | – | — |
| Skaters | 2 | 3 | 5 | – | 27 | 12 | 19 |
Goaltending
| Player | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NHL 8473434 | 42 | 38 | 4 | .905 | — |
05/Washington Capitals
| Player | Pos | G | A | P | +/- | PIM | S | H | BLK | FO | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alex Ovechkin | L | 2 | 0 | 2 | +2 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 0 | – | 21:38 |
| Marcus Johansson | L | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 1-2 | 20:11 |
| NHL 8475744 | – | 0 | 2 | 2 | — | — | 6 | 0 | 1 | 10-12 | — |
| NHL 8468508 | – | 1 | 0 | 1 | — | — | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1-0 | — |
| NHL 8471698 | – | 0 | 1 | 1 | — | — | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2-1 | — |
| NHL 8471702 | – | 0 | 1 | 1 | — | — | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | — |
| Andre Burakovsky | L | 1 | 0 | 1 | — | — | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | — |
| Nate Schmidt | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | – | 23:23 |
| Dmitry Orlov | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | – | 21:53 |
| Tom Wilson | R | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | 12:57 |
| NHL 8466251 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 1 | 0 | 2 | – | — |
| NHL 8469639 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0-1 | — |
| NHL 8471710 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | — |
| NHL 8473563 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7-6 | — |
| NHL 8473991 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 1 | 1 | 3 | – | — |
| NHL 8474291 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6-2 | — |
| NHL 8475119 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3-9 | — |
| NHL 8476941 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 1 | 2 | 0 | – | — |
| Skaters | 5 | 5 | 10 | – | 43 | 24 | 16 |
Goaltending
| Player | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NHL 8474651 | 27 | 25 | 2 | .926 | — |
06/Penalties
| Per | Time | Team | Player | Infraction | Min | Drawn by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 00:27 | WSH | Alex Ovechkin | Roughing | 2 | NHL 8477499 |
| 1st | 12:10 | BUF | NHL 8474589 | Tripping | 2 | Marcus Johansson |
| 1st | 17:30 | WSH | Tom Wilson | Roughing | 2 | Zach Bogosian |
| 1st | 17:30 | BUF | Zach Bogosian | Roughing | 2 | Tom Wilson |
| 1st | 17:30 | WSH | Tom Wilson | Roughing | 2 | Zach Bogosian |
| 2nd | 05:55 | BUF | NHL 8475728 | Hooking | 2 | NHL 8475744 |
| 3rd | 03:44 | WSH | Marcus Johansson | Boarding | 2 | Zach Bogosian |
| 3rd | 04:54 | BUF | Evander Kane | Tripping | 2 | Tom Wilson |
| 3rd | 05:15 | WSH | Alex Ovechkin | High-sticking | 2 | Jake McCabe |
| 3rd | 07:26 | BUF | Evander Kane | Hooking | 2 | Alex Ovechkin |
07/Game
- Date
- Thu Dec 31, 2015
- Venue
- Verizon Center
- Season
- 2015-16
- Type
- Regular season
- Decision
- Final
- NHL game id
- 2015020552
Goals, assists, shots, hits, blocks and faceoffs are counted from the play-by-play for this game. Shots on goal include goals, the way the league counts them, so a club's skater shot total is the shot total the opposing goaltender faced. The skater line does not include a goaltender's own assists. Time on ice, penalty minutes and plus-minus come from the box score. Save percentage is saves over shots faced and excludes any empty-net goal, which the feed does not credit to a goaltender. Time on ice, penalty minutes and plus-minus are on file for 14 of the 38 players on this page. The dressed list itself is short: the box score feed names 38 players for this game, where a club normally dresses twenty and a full game is forty. The names it leaves out cannot be recovered from it, and this page does not invent them. 23 players are not in the player index and appear by NHL id rather than under an invented name.