NHL Recaps: Monday, Jun 4, 2018

1 game: what happened that matters for your fantasy team, built from the play-by-play and shift charts.

Game recaps

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Vegas Golden Knights

Washington Capitals

Washington Capitals rout Vegas Golden Knights 6–2

Washington Capitals beat Vegas Golden Knights 6–2 at home. Evgeny Kuznetsov (WSH) led the scoring with 0G 4A. WSH's first power-play unit (Ovechkin, Oshie, Backstrom, Carlson and Kuznetsov) scored 2 power-play goals on 8 attempts in 5:04 together.

•Evgeny Kuznetsov had 4 assists (4 points) on 2 shots in 20:37.
•T.J. Oshie had a goal and 2 assists (3 points) on 2 shots in 17:37.
•Nicklas Backstrom had 3 assists (3 points) on 1 shot in 19:01.

Full report: shot map, shifts, lines, box score →

Top performers

Player	Game	G	A	P	SOG	Hits	Blk	TOI	PP
Evgeny Kuznetsov WSH	vs VGK	0	4	4	2	1	0	20:37	—
T.J. Oshie WSH	vs VGK	1	2	3	2	3	0	17:37	—
Nicklas Backstrom WSH	vs VGK	0	3	3	1	1	0	19:01	—
Brooks Orpik WSH	vs VGK	0	0	0	0	6	6	17:04	—

Line changes

New look for VGK: Tatar–Eakin–Carpenter skated 8:19 together at 5v5 as the L3 trio (72.2% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games. Report →

Goalie notes

Goalie	Game	Dec	SA	GA	SV%
Braden Holtby WSH	vs VGK	W	30	2	.933
Marc-Andre Fleury VGK	at WSH	L	23	6	.739

Next up: tonight's starting goalies, today's line combinations and today's games. Takeaways are generated from the numbers with fixed rules; nothing is written by a language model.