Boston Bruins vs. Washington CapitalsMar 14, 2026

Final / SOSaturday, Mar 14, 2026· Capital One Arena

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Goals	1	2	3	OT	SO	T		Shots	1	2	3	OT	T
BOS	0	1	1	0	1	3		BOS	7	11	14	2	34
WSH	0	1	1	0	0	2		WSH	9	10	9	0	28

: BOS 64WSH 54
: BOS 3.03WSH 2.70
PP goals: BOS 0WSH 0
Hits: BOS 19WSH 20
Blocks: BOS 14WSH 12
PIM: BOS 10WSH 12
: BOS 57%WSH 43%

Fantasy takeaways

Generated from the play-by-play, shifts and season context. No opinions, just what changed.

Boston Bruins edge Washington Capitals 3–2 (SO)

Boston Bruins beat Washington Capitals 3–2 in a shootout at WSH. Charlie McAvoy (BOS) led the scoring with 2G 0A. New look for BOS: Pastrnak–Geekie–Minten skated 10:28 together at 5v5 as the L1 trio (40% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.

Points
Charlie McAvoy had two goals (2 points) on 3 shots in 27:44.McAvoy
Points
Rasmus Sandin had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 4 shots in 23:19.Sandin
New line
New look for BOS: Pastrnak–Geekie–Minten skated 10:28 together at 5v5 as the L1 trio (40% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Pastrnak Geekie Minten
Usage
Matt Roy (WSH) played 25:26, +4:53 up on his 20:33 season average over 78 games.Roy
New line
New look for BOS: Kuraly–Eyssimont–Kastelic skated 5:42 together at 5v5 as the L4 trio (16.7% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Kuraly Eyssimont Kastelic
New line
New look for BOS: Lindholm–Jeannot–Khusnutdinov skated 7:11 together at 5v5 as the L3 trio (56.3% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Lindholm Jeannot Khusnutdinov
Usage
David Pastrnak (BOS) played 24:23, +3:47 up on his 20:36 season average over 76 games.Pastrnak
Usage
Rasmus Sandin (WSH) played 23:19, +4:10 up on his 19:09 season average over 72 games.Sandin

Shot map

Both teams on one rink, filtered by strength and period.

Shot map

Every attempt, sized by expected goals. Goals are rings, shots on goal dots, misses hollow, blocks crosses.

Strength

Period

Team

← BOS attacks left (bottom on phones)WSH attacks right (top on phones) →

WSH
BOS
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 118 of 118 attempts · WSH 54 · BOS 64

Game flow

Cumulative expected goals and shot attempts, with power plays shaded and goals marked.

Cumulative shot attempts

WSH
BOS
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

WSH pressure
BOS pressure
Goal
Control (|PI| > 0.25)

: descriptive only, the team with more pressure scored the next goal about half the time. In control: BOS 29% of the game, WSH 33%.

Shift chart

Every shift, grouped by line and pair; bars are coloured by strength state. Click a player to highlight.

Shifts

WSH

BOS

goals / penalties

Even strength
Power play
Penalty kill
Goal
Penalty

Head-to-head matchups

WSH skaters (rows) against BOS skaters (columns) at 5v5. Square size is time together; colour is xGF% from the WSH side.

Matchup matrix

WSH xGF% 4060square size = TOI together · blank = under 1:00

Sequence card

5-on-5 possession-chain numbers from the sequence engine (Draw Equity and control cover all situations).

Sequence card
Stat	BOS	WSH
	47	41
	2.22	1.93
	2.12	1.86
	8	4
	10	1
	13	18
	+0.051	−0.051
	29%	33%

Definitions: sequence xG, transition attempts, Draw Equity, control and the Pressure Index.

Lines used

Detected from who actually shared the ice, with time together. Percentages are the unit's share of shot attempts.

Boston Bruins

L1Pastrnak – Geekie – Minten
10:2840% CF
L2Arvidsson – Zacha – Mittelstadt
9:4250% CF
L3Lindholm – Jeannot – Khusnutdinov
7:1156% CF
L4Kuraly – Eyssimont – Kastelic
5:4217% CF
D1Zadorov – Peeke
11:3342% CF
D2Lindholm – Lohrei
11:2357% CF
D3McAvoy – Aspirot
11:1333% CF

PP1Lindholm – Pastrnak – Zacha – McAvoy – Geekie
4:4288% CF
PP2Arvidsson – Mittelstadt – Khusnutdinov – Lohrei – Minten
1:20100% CF
PK1FLindholm – Khusnutdinov
2:51
PK2FKuraly – Kastelic
2:17
PK1DPeeke – Aspirot
2:34
PK2DLindholm – Zadorov
1:00

Current BOS line combinations →

Washington Capitals

L1Wilson – Dubois – Lapierre
10:3250% CF
L2Strome – Protas – Leonard
7:3136% CF
L3Duhaime – McMichael – Frank
5:2750% CF
L4Ovechkin – Beauvillier – Sourdif
5:1383% CF
D1Chychrun – Liljegren
12:3338% CF
D2Roy – Sandin
12:1771% CF
D3van Riemsdyk – Fehérváry
7:5540% CF

PP1Ovechkin – Wilson – Strome – Chychrun – Dubois
4:1886% CF
PP2Ovechkin – Sandin – McMichael – Protas – Leonard
1:37100% CF
PK1FWilson – McMichael
1:24
PK2FDuhaime – Protas
0:52
PK1DRoy – Fehérváry
3:52
PK2Dvan Riemsdyk – Sandin
1:54

Current WSH line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

2nd period

1:15
WSHMatt Roy (Rasmus Sandin, Hendrix Lapierre)slap0.07 xG
BOS: Lindholm, Zadorov, Peeke, Jeannot, GeekieWSH: Wilson, Roy, Dubois, Sandin, Lapierre
BOS 0 – 1 WSH
11:57
BOSCharlie McAvoy (David Pastrnak)slap0.05 xG
BOS: Pastrnak, McAvoy, Geekie, Aspirot, MintenWSH: Wilson, Chychrun, Dubois, Liljegren, Lapierre
BOS 1 – 1 WSH

3rd period

3:12
WSHRasmus Sandinslap0.08 xG
BOS: Lindholm, Zadorov, Peeke, Jeannot, KhusnutdinovWSH: Ovechkin, Beauvillier, Roy, Sandin, Sourdif
BOS 1 – 2 WSH
10:09
BOSCharlie McAvoy (Pavel Zacha, Viktor Arvidsson)tip-in0.10 xG
BOS: Lindholm, Arvidsson, Zacha, McAvoy, MittelstadtWSH: Strome, Roy, Fehérváry, Protas, Leonard
BOS 2 – 2 WSH

Decided in the shootout: BOS 3 – 2 WSH.

Box score

Skaters grouped by the line they played on; CF% is the 5v5 share of shot attempts while on the ice.

Boston Bruins

BOS skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
David Pastrnak R	L1	0	1	1	+1	8	0.75	1	1	0	24:23	—	—	50	66
Morgan Geekie C	L1	0	0	0	0	1	0.23	0	1	2	19:23	—	—	42	46
Fraser Minten C	L1	0	0	0	+1	1	0.11	1	2	0	18:36	—	—	56	73
Pavel Zacha C	L2	0	1	1	+1	1	0.13	1	0	0	19:01	—	—	47	46
Viktor Arvidsson L	L2	0	1	1	+1	0	0.06	0	1	0	15:40	—	—	61	56
Casey Mittelstadt C	L2	0	0	0	+1	3	0.04	0	1	0	14:02	—	—	67	73
Elias Lindholm C	L3	0	0	0	-2	5	0.41	0	0	0	20:16	—	—	48	48
Marat Khusnutdinov C	L3	0	0	0	-1	2	0.20	1	0	0	16:03	—	—	58	67
Tanner Jeannot L	L3	0	0	0	-2	2	0.19	3	1	0	10:06	—	—	52	56
Sean Kuraly C	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.00	0	0	0	10:37	—	—	57	37
Mark Kastelic C	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0.19	5	1	2	10:28	—	—	54	32
Michael Eyssimont C	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.14	4	0	0	7:25	—	—	50	34
Andrew Peeke D	D1	0	0	0	-2	2	0.03	0	1	0	19:07	—	—	57	47
Nikita Zadorov D	D1	0	0	0	-2	0	0.00	2	0	2	17:51	—	—	43	27
Hampus Lindholm D	D2	0	0	0	+1	2	0.05	0	1	2	20:21	—	—	58	57
Mason Lohrei D	D2	0	0	0	0	2	0.33	0	1	0	20:05	—	—	68	83
Charlie McAvoy D	D3	2	0	2	+2	3	0.18	0	2	2	27:44	—	—	38	44
Jonathan Aspirot D	D3	0	0	0	+1	0	0.00	1	1	0	18:52	—	—	52	67

BOS goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Jeremy Swayman(start)	W	28	26	2	.929	2.70	65:00

Washington Capitals

WSH skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Tom Wilson R	L1	0	0	0	0	1	0.12	2	1	2	23:05	—	—	61	41
Pierre-Luc Dubois C	L1	0	0	0	0	1	0.12	3	0	2	19:48	—	—	47	23
Hendrix Lapierre C	L1	0	1	1	0	1	0.07	0	0	2	12:10	—	—	39	17
Aliaksei Protas L	L2	0	0	0	-1	3	0.48	0	0	0	20:49	—	—	45	56
Dylan Strome C	L2	0	0	0	-1	1	0.09	0	0	0	20:21	—	—	35	44
Ryan Leonard R	L2	0	0	0	-1	1	0.06	5	0	0	12:58	—	—	32	37
Connor McMichael L	L3	0	0	0	0	4	0.23	0	0	2	15:11	—	—	53	45
Brandon Duhaime L	L3	0	0	0	0	2	0.20	3	1	0	10:00	—	—	42	40
Ethen Frank R	L3	0	0	0	0	1	0.01	0	0	0	7:32	—	—	50	43
Alex Ovechkin L	L4	0	0	0	+1	3	0.35	1	0	0	15:47	—	—	47	70
Anthony Beauvillier R	L4	0	0	0	+1	0	0.00	0	0	4	14:11	—	—	53	68
Justin Sourdif C	L4	0	0	0	+1	2	0.07	2	0	0	11:36	—	—	73	73
Jakob Chychrun D	D1	0	0	0	-1	0	0.09	1	3	0	23:52	—	—	42	45
Timothy Liljegren D	D1	0	0	0	-1	1	0.30	0	0	0	15:45	—	—	41	47
Matt Roy D	D2	1	0	1	+1	1	0.07	2	2	0	25:26	—	—	52	49
Rasmus Sandin D	D2	1	1	2	+2	4	0.39	0	4	0	23:19	—	—	60	58
Martin Fehérváry D	D3	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	0	0	0	20:21	—	—	35	32
Trevor van Riemsdyk D	D3	0	0	0	0	2	0.05	1	1	0	15:49	—	—	48	39

WSH goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Logan Thompson(start)	O	34	32	2	.941	3.03	65:00

Goal anatomy

Animated replays from NHL EDGE tracking, with the entry, passes and shot speed for each goal.

Charlie McAvoy (BOS) 3rd 10:09 · assists Pavel Zacha, Viktor Arvidsson · Deflection · 37.9 mph shot.

Charlie McAvoy · 3rd 10:09 · BOS

Play: deflection
Passes: 1
Shot: 37.9 mph
Distance: 14 ft
Type: deflection

Watch on NHL.com → · Tracking-derived via NHL EDGE

Matt Roy · 2nd 1:15 · WSH

Play: rush
Entry: carry
Odd man: No
Passes: 4 (royal road)
Shot: 66.3 mph
Distance: 47 ft
Entry to goal: 5.5 s

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Charlie McAvoy · 2nd 11:57 · BOS

Play: turnover-forecheck
Passes: 1
Shot: 49.6 mph
Distance: 55 ft
Type: one-timer

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Rasmus Sandin · 3rd 3:12 · WSH

Play: turnover-forecheck
Passes: 0
Shot: 59.6 mph
Distance: 68 ft

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Methodology

Shot locations come from the NHL play-by-play, normalised so each shooter attacks the same way, then flipped so the home team attacks right. On-ice stats and lines come from the shift charts: a unit is the exact set of skaters sharing the ice, and CF% is the share of all shot attempts while they were out. Head-to-head cells are 5v5 time against each opponent. Expected goals and the Pressure Index appear as their models are released.