Washington Capitals
Why #9 at season’s end
Puckigree#9 · +5.3Standings2ndChance share (xGF% 5v5)13thSchedule faced24th hardest
Results rank, standings, how the team drove play, and schedule strength side by side.
Final
Record51-22-9Points111Games82Goals for – against288–232
CF%50.212th of 32
GF/GP3.492nd of 32
GA/GP2.798th of 32
PP%23.513th of 32
PK%82.05th of 32
PDO101.47th of 32
SV% 5v5.90720th of 32
SF/GP27.622nd of 32
Playoff odds
From simulations of the games left, using Team Puckigree.FinalMade the playoffs
Lowest along the way34%
Player Puckigree
How much each player adds over a replacement-level player, in goals. See them against the league →Roster total+98.9goals above replacement · 7th of 32
Forwards +45.7Defence +18.0Goalies +35.2
Goals above a replacement-level player (someone outside a team’s regular rotation): how he did against an average player, plus credit for the workload a replacement would otherwise take. About 6.2 goals make one win.
Who’s driving it
ShepardGSAx −3.2G−3.0
Chances
From our expected-goals model: what each shot was worth, given where and how it was taken.Where the goal difference came fromxg-v1.1
Even-strength chances EV xGD+2.4
Power play and penalty kill ST xGD−4.9
Finishing GF−xGF+25.1
Goaltending GSAx+19.3
Goal difference GD+42
Each bar starts where the last one ended. Chances are what the shots were worth; finishing and goaltending are what happened to them.
Record by the chances
Chances say40-35-787.6 pts
Actually51-22-9111 pts
23.4 points ahead of their chances.
xGF% 5v550.913th of 32
HDCF% 5v552.111th of 32
GF−xGF+25.13rd of 32
GSAx+19.35th of 32
LeadersFull roster →
- CDylan Strome29-53-82
- LAlex Ovechkin44-29-73
- LAliaksei Protas30-36-66
- CPierre-Luc Dubois20-46-66
- RTom Wilson33-32-65
- GLogan Thompson43 GP · .910
- GCharlie Lindgren39 GP · .896
- GHunter Shepard1 GP · .731
Source: NHL.com data. Results through Apr 17.