Vancouver Canucks vs. Washington CapitalsOct 19, 2025

FinalSunday, Oct 19, 2025· Capital One Arena

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: VAN —WSH —
PP goals: VAN —WSH —
Hits: VAN 22WSH 28
Blocks: VAN 23WSH 1
PIM: VAN 13WSH 11
: VAN 45%WSH 55%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Vancouver Canucks edge Washington Capitals 4–3

Vancouver Canucks beat Washington Capitals 4–3 at WSH. Tyler Myers (VAN) led the scoring with 1G 1A. VAN's first power-play unit (DeBrusk, Garland, Pettersson, Sherwood and Hughes) scored 1 power-play goal on 9 attempts in 5:17 together.

Points
Tyler Myers had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 3 shots in 26:12.Myers
Points
Conor Garland had 2 assists (2 points) on 4 shots in 22:20.Garland
Points
Dylan Strome had 2 assists (2 points) on 2 shots in 19:42.Strome
Points
Tom Wilson had 2 assists (2 points) on 1 shot in 20:57.Wilson
PP1
VAN's first power-play unit (DeBrusk, Garland, Pettersson, Sherwood and Hughes) scored 1 power-play goal on 9 attempts in 5:17 together.DeBrusk Garland Pettersson Sherwood Hughes
PP1
WSH's first power-play unit (Ovechkin, Carlson, Wilson, Strome and Leonard) scored 1 power-play goal on 4 attempts in 3:52 together.Ovechkin Carlson Wilson Strome Leonard
Usage
Filip Chytil (VAN) played 5:02, −10:53 down on his 15:55 season average over 11 games.Chytil
New line
New look for VAN: DeBrusk–Garland–Pettersson skated 8:08 together at 5v5 as the L2 trio (14.3% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.DeBrusk Garland Pettersson

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

WSH
VAN
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

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

: descriptive only, the team with more pressure scored the next goal about half the time. In control: VAN 26% of the game, WSH 48%.

Head-to-head matchups

WSH skaters (rows) against VAN 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	VAN	WSH
	31	72
	2.77	2.68
	2.43	2.56
	8	11
	4	6
	22	19
	−0.021	+0.021
	26%	48%

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.

Vancouver Canucks

L1Blueger – Sherwood – O'Connor
8:4325% CF
L2DeBrusk – Garland – Pettersson
8:0814% CF
L3Karlsson – Bains – Sasson
7:4823% CF
L4Kane – Chytil – Lekkerimäki
3:1844% CF
D1Hronek – Hughes
9:3931% CF
D2Myers – Pettersson
7:5033% CF
D3Pettersson – Mancini
2:2220% CF

PP1DeBrusk – Garland – Pettersson – Sherwood – Hughes
5:1790% CF
PP2Kane – Pettersson – Hronek – Karlsson – Bains
0:22
PK1FBlueger – Garland
3:39
PK2FSherwood – O'Connor
2:33
PK1DMyers – Pettersson
4:24
PK2DHronek – Pettersson
1:44

Current VAN line combinations →

Washington Capitals

L1Ovechkin – Strome – Beauvillier
6:0456% CF
L2Wilson – McMichael – Protas
5:2255% CF
L3Milano – Lapierre – Leonard
3:4367% CF
L4Dowd – Duhaime – Sourdif
3:0083% CF
D1Roy – Sandin
8:4884% CF
D2van Riemsdyk – Chychrun
7:1173% CF
D3Carlson – Fehérváry
6:4546% CF

PP1Ovechkin – Carlson – Wilson – Strome – Leonard
3:5280% CF
PP2Ovechkin – Chychrun – Sandin – McMichael – Protas
2:2780% CF
PK1FDowd – Duhaime
2:49
PK2FWilson – Protas
2:28
PK1DCarlson – Fehérváry
3:16
PK2Dvan Riemsdyk – Roy
1:07

Current WSH line combinations →

Box score

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

Vancouver Canucks

VAN skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-		Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Kiefer Sherwood L	L1	1	0	1	0	1	4	1	0	23:15	—	—	32
Teddy Blueger C	L1	1	0	1	+1	2	0	1	0	18:42	—	—	30
Drew O'Connor L	L1	0	0	0	-1	2	1	1	0	15:14	—	—	19
Conor Garland R	L2	0	2	2	+1	4	1	1	0	22:20	—	—	21
Elias Pettersson C	L2	1	0	1	0	2	0	3	0	18:37	—	—	17
Jake DeBrusk L	L2	0	0	0	+1	2	1	0	0	16:40	—	—	23
Linus Karlsson C	L3	0	0	0	0	2	3	1	0	13:41	—	—	36
Max Sasson C	L3	0	0	0	-1	0	2	1	0	13:15	—	—	25
Arshdeep Bains L	L3	0	0	0	-1	2	1	0	2	10:11	—	—	30
Evander Kane L	L4	0	1	1	+2	2	2	1	2	16:33	—	—	43
Filip Chytil C	L4	0	0	0	+1	1	0	2	2	5:02	—	—	50
Jonathan Lekkerimäki R	L4	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	4:07	—	—	44
Quinn Hughes D	D1	0	1	1	+1	1	0	0	0	25:00	—	—	33
Filip Hronek D	D1	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	2	21:55	—	—	24
Tyler Myers D	D2	1	1	2	+1	3	2	2	0	26:12	—	—	33
Elias Pettersson D	D2	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	15:25	—	—	29
Marcus Pettersson D	D3	0	0	0	+1	0	0	5	0	19:26	—	—	27
Victor Mancini D	D3	0	0	0	-1	0	1	1	5	6:56	—	—	33

VAN goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA		TOI
Thatcher Demko(start)	W	31	28	3	.903	60:00

Washington Capitals

WSH skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-		Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Alex Ovechkin L	L1	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	21:24	—	—	65
Dylan Strome C	L1	0	2	2	+1	2	2	1	2	19:42	—	—	64
Anthony Beauvillier R	L1	0	0	0	+1	4	2	0	0	13:02	—	—	73
Aliaksei Protas L	L2	0	0	0	-2	0	1	0	0	21:36	—	—	58
Tom Wilson R	L2	0	2	2	-2	1	7	0	0	20:57	—	—	67
Connor McMichael L	L2	0	0	0	-3	6	1	0	0	15:53	—	—	71
Ryan Leonard R	L3	1	0	1	+1	3	4	0	0	14:04	—	—	60
Hendrix Lapierre C	L3	0	1	1	+1	1	1	0	0	11:33	—	—	84
Sonny Milano L	L3	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	8:38	—	—	88
Justin Sourdif C	L4	0	0	0	+1	0	2	0	2	11:07	—	—	78
Nic Dowd C	L4	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	11:01	—	—	79
Brandon Duhaime L	L4	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	5	10:32	—	—	79
Rasmus Sandin D	D1	0	1	1	+1	2	1	0	0	22:02	—	—	78
Matt Roy D	D1	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	15:20	—	—	75
Jakob Chychrun D	D2	1	0	1	+1	3	2	0	0	23:19	—	—	75
Trevor van Riemsdyk D	D2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	14:09	—	—	61
John Carlson D	D3	1	0	1	-2	3	0	0	0	23:39	—	—	63
Martin Fehérváry D	D3	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	17:41	—	—	55

WSH goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA		TOI
Charlie Lindgren(start)	L	24	20	4	.833	57:40

Goal anatomy

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

Elias Pettersson () · unassisted · Forecheck turnover · 41.4 mph shot.

Elias Pettersson

Play: turnover-forecheck
Passes: 1
Shot: 41.4 mph
Distance: 22 ft

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Kiefer Sherwood

Play: cycle
Passes: 2
Shot: 20.7 mph
Distance: 41 ft

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Tyler Myers

Play: turnover-forecheck
Entry: carry
Odd man: No
Passes: 0
Shot: 37.2 mph
Distance: 14 ft
Entry to goal: 8.9 s

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Teddy Blueger

Play: turnover-forecheck
Entry: carry
Odd man: No
Passes: 0
Shot: 44.3 mph
Distance: 17 ft
Entry to goal: 7.9 s

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Ryan Leonard

Play: cycle
Passes: 4 (royal road)
Shot: 23.3 mph
Distance: 7 ft

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Jakob Chychrun

Play: turnover-forecheck
Passes: 0
Shot: 54.1 mph
Distance: 13 ft
Type: one-timer

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John Carlson

Play: point-shot
Passes: 3 (royal road)
Shot: 67.4 mph
Distance: 58 ft
Type: one-timer

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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.