NHL Recaps: Monday, Nov 18, 2019

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

Game recaps

Final

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Anaheim Ducks

Washington Capitals

Washington Capitals beat Anaheim Ducks 5–2

Washington Capitals beat Anaheim Ducks 5–2 at home. John Carlson (WSH) led the scoring with 0G 3A. New look for ANA: Shore–Kase–Steel skated 9:37 together at 5v5 as the L1 trio (33.3% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.

•John Carlson had 3 assists (3 points) in 20:00.
•New look for ANA: Shore–Kase–Steel skated 9:37 together at 5v5 as the L1 trio (33.3% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.
•Alex Ovechkin (WSH) played 15:59, −4:45 down on his 20:44 season average over 67 games.

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Arizona Coyotes beat Los Angeles Kings 3–0

Arizona Coyotes beat Los Angeles Kings 3–0 at home. Conor Garland (ARI) led the scoring with 1G 1A. ARI's first power-play unit (Kessel, Stepan, Ekman-Larsson, Dvorak and Keller) scored 1 power-play goal on 6 attempts in 4:07 together.

•Conor Garland had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 2 shots in 13:01.
•Christian Dvorak had 2 assists (2 points) on 2 shots in 17:16.
•Nick Schmaltz had 2 assists (2 points) in 14:49.

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Top performers

Player	Game	G	A	P	SOG	Hits	Blk	TOI	PP
John Carlson WSH	vs ANA	0	3	3	0	2	2	20:00	—
Conor Garland ARI	vs LAK	1	1	2	2	0	0	13:01	—
Christian Dvorak ARI	vs LAK	0	2	2	2	0	1	17:16	—
Nick Schmaltz ARI	vs LAK	0	2	2	0	0	2	14:49	—

Line changes

New look for ANA: Shore–Kase–Steel skated 9:37 together at 5v5 as the L1 trio (33.3% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games. Report →
New look for WSH: Eller–Panik–Boyd skated 9:32 together at 5v5 as the L3 trio (91.7% 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 ANA	W	34	2	.941
Antti Raanta ARI	vs LAK	W	31	0	.1000
John Gibson ANA	at WSH	L	30	4	.867
Jack Campbell LAK	at ARI	L	27	3	.889

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.