Washington Capitals vs. Dallas StarsOct 28, 2025

FinalTuesday, Oct 28, 2025· American Airlines Center

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
WSH	0	0	0	0		WSH	8	10	6	24
DAL	0	1	0	1		DAL	9	5	5	19

: WSH 61DAL 47
: WSH 2.90DAL 3.40
PP goals: WSH 0DAL 1
Hits: WSH 22DAL 30
Blocks: WSH 14DAL 19
PIM: WSH 8DAL 6
: WSH 45%DAL 55%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Dallas Stars edge Washington Capitals 1–0

Dallas Stars beat Washington Capitals 1–0 at home. Tyler Seguin (DAL) led the scoring with 1G 0A. DAL's first power-play unit (Seguin, Rantanen, Robertson, Heiskanen and Johnston) scored 1 power-play goal on 8 attempts in 4:42 together.

PP1
DAL's first power-play unit (Seguin, Rantanen, Robertson, Heiskanen and Johnston) scored 1 power-play goal on 8 attempts in 4:42 together.Seguin Rantanen Robertson Heiskanen Johnston
Luck
WSH scored 0 goals on 2.90 expected goals (61 attempts), well short of its chances.
Luck
DAL scored 1 goal on 3.40 expected goals (47 attempts), well short of its chances.
Usage
Kyle Capobianco (DAL) played 4:42, −7:40 down on his 12:22 season average over 32 games.Capobianco
New line
New look for WSH: Beauvillier–Lapierre–Frank skated 7:23 together at 5v5 as the L3 trio (81.8% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Beauvillier Lapierre Frank
Usage
Justin Sourdif (WSH) played 8:27, −6:22 down on his 14:49 season average over 77 games.Sourdif
Usage
Trevor van Riemsdyk (WSH) played 11:33, −4:46 down on his 16:19 season average over 67 games.van Riemsdyk
Usage
Jakob Chychrun (WSH) played 27:12, +3:54 up on his 23:18 season average over 79 games.Chychrun

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

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

DAL
WSH
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 108 of 108 attempts · DAL 47 · WSH 61

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

DAL
WSH
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

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

: descriptive only, the team with more pressure scored the next goal about half the time. In control: WSH 47% of the game, DAL 26%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

DAL

WSH

goals / penalties

Even strength
Power play
Penalty kill
Goal
Penalty

Head-to-head matchups

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

Matchup matrix

DAL 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	WSH	DAL
	59	35
	2.98	1.02
	2.79	0.96
	13	11
	8	5
	18	25
	−0.035	+0.035
	47%	26%

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.

Washington Capitals

L1Wilson – Dubois – Protas
11:1879% CF
L2Ovechkin – McMichael – Leonard
8:5050% CF
L3Beauvillier – Lapierre – Frank
7:2382% CF
L4Dowd – Duhaime – Sourdif
4:4550% CF
D1Roy – Chychrun
13:3076% CF
D2Carlson – Fehérváry
11:2164% CF
D3van Riemsdyk – Chisholm
8:1167% CF

PP1Ovechkin – Carlson – Wilson – Chychrun – Dubois
3:56100% CF
PP2Ovechkin – Chisholm – McMichael – Protas – Leonard
1:31
PK1FDowd – Duhaime
2:41
PK2FMcMichael – Protas
1:15
PK1DCarlson – Fehérváry
3:28
PK2Dvan Riemsdyk – Roy
2:20

Current WSH line combinations →

Dallas Stars

L1Seguin – Rantanen – Steel
7:1957% CF
L2Robertson – Bourque – Johnston
7:1117% CF
L3Faksa – Erne – Bastian
2:5050% CF
D1Petrovic – Bichsel
9:1446% CF
D2Lindell – Heiskanen
9:0764% CF
D3Lyubushkin – Harley
8:2222% CF

PP1Seguin – Rantanen – Robertson – Heiskanen – Johnston
4:4289% CF
PP2Lindell – Steel – Harley – Bourque – Hryckowian
0:50100% CF
PK1FFaksa – Johnston
1:28
PK2FBlackwell – Steel
1:01
PK1DLindell – Heiskanen
3:00
PK2DHarley – Bichsel
0:20

Current DAL line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

2nd period

0:43
DALTyler SeguinPP (Miro Heiskanen, Mikko Rantanen)snap0.12 xG
WSH: Carlson, Dowd, Duhaime, FehérváryDAL: Seguin, Rantanen, Robertson, Heiskanen, Johnston
WSH 0 – 1 DAL

Box score

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

Washington Capitals

WSH skaters
Skater	Line			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Tom Wilson R	L1	1	0.09	2	0	4	21:37	—	—	78	93
Pierre-Luc Dubois C	L1	2	0.14	2	1	0	19:58	—	—	80	94
Aliaksei Protas L	L1	6	0.79	1	2	2	19:23	—	—	79	95
Alex Ovechkin L	L2	2	0.22	0	0	0	20:33	—	—	50	76
Connor McMichael L	L2	0	0.00	0	2	0	17:01	—	—	37	51
Ryan Leonard R	L2	0	0.09	0	2	0	14:58	—	—	43	64
Anthony Beauvillier R	L3	1	0.40	0	0	0	13:36	—	—	59	66
Hendrix Lapierre C	L3	2	0.44	0	0	0	10:01	—	—	88	99
Ethen Frank R	L3	1	0.28	1	1	0	8:48	—	—	71	94
Nic Dowd C	L4	2	0.04	1	1	0	13:08	—	—	44	20
Brandon Duhaime L	L4	0	0.06	6	0	2	9:33	—	—	60	58
Justin Sourdif C	L4	0	0.00	1	0	0	8:27	—	—	58	35
Jakob Chychrun D	D1	4	0.19	2	0	0	27:12	—	—	67	83
Matt Roy D	D1	0	0.00	3	2	0	21:01	—	—	65	84
John Carlson D	D2	1	0.14	0	0	0	25:11	—	—	68	58
Martin Fehérváry D	D2	0	0.00	2	1	0	19:06	—	—	65	45
Declan Chisholm D	D3	2	0.03	1	1	0	14:17	—	—	44	79
Trevor van Riemsdyk D	D3	0	0.00	0	1	0	11:33	—	—	67	98

WSH goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Logan Thompson(start)	L	19	18	1	.947	2.12	58:14

Dallas Stars

DAL skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Mikko Rantanen R	L1	0	1	1	2	0.25	0	0	0	21:33	—	—	38	36
Sam Steel C	L1	0	0	0	0	0.10	1	1	4	19:33	—	—	57	47
Tyler Seguin C	L1	1	0	1	2	0.26	0	1	0	19:07	—	—	39	13
Wyatt Johnston C	L2	0	0	0	1	0.09	0	1	0	22:54	—	—	27	32
Jason Robertson L	L2	0	0	0	2	0.86	0	2	0	19:17	—	—	28	31
Mavrik Bourque C	L2	0	0	0	1	1.10	1	1	0	17:30	—	—	24	3
Radek Faksa C	L3	0	0	0	0	0.00	2	1	0	14:57	—	—	63	44
Adam Erne L	L3	0	0	0	2	0.12	5	1	0	11:41	—	—	35	20
Nathan Bastian R	L3	0	0	0	1	0.01	6	0	0	8:04	—	—	57	45
Alexander Petrovic D	D1	0	0	0	2	0.02	2	4	0	12:55	—	—	42	35
Lian Bichsel D	D1	0	0	0	0	0.00	8	1	2	12:19	—	—	41	35
Esa Lindell D	D2	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	2	0	23:38	—	—	48	35
Miro Heiskanen D	D2	0	1	1	2	0.23	0	0	0	23:22	—	—	47	38
Thomas Harley D	D3	0	0	0	1	0.03	0	1	0	21:01	—	—	20	2
Ilya Lyubushkin D	D3	0	0	0	1	0.00	1	2	0	16:52	—	—	21	4
Colin Blackwell C	—	0	0	0	1	0.06	3	1	0	12:20	—	—	35	15
Justin Hryckowian C	—	0	0	0	1	0.28	0	0	0	12:15	—	—	23	1
Kyle Capobianco D	—	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	4:42	—	—	33	0

DAL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Jake Oettinger(start)	W	24	24	0	.1000	2.90	60:00

Goal anatomy

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

Tyler Seguin (DAL PP) 2nd 0:43 · assists Miro Heiskanen, Mikko Rantanen · Forecheck turnover · 29.4 mph shot.

Tyler Seguin · 2nd 0:43 · DAL PP

Play: turnover-forecheck
Passes: 3 (royal road)
Shot: 29.4 mph
Distance: 25 ft

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

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.