Washington Capitals Game Notes Sat, Dec 30, 2017 NHL Game #589 Washington Capitals 23 - 13 - 3 (49 pts) New Jersey Devils 22 - 9 - 5 (49 pts) Team Game: 40 15 - 5 - 0 (Home) Team Game: 38 12 - 5 - 2 (Home) Home Game: 21 8 - 8 - 3 (Road) Road Game: 18 10 - 4 - 3 (Road) # Goalie GP W L OT GAA SV% # Goalie GP W L OT GAA SV% 31 Philipp Grubauer 13 2 5 3 2.70 .909 1 Keith Kinkaid 10 5 3 1 3.48 .893 70 Braden Holtby 29 21 8 0 2.66 .918 35 Cory Schneider 28 17 6 4 2.49 .923 # P Player GP G A P +/- PIM # P Player GP G A P +/- PIM 2 D Matt Niskanen 26 2 8 10 13 14 2 D John Moore 36 4 5 9 6 18 4 D Taylor Chorney 21 1 2 3 8 6 6 D Andy Greene 35 2 6 8 1 8 8 L Alex Ovechkin 39 24 14 38 8 16 8 D Will Butcher 36 2 21 23 6 4 9 D Dmitry Orlov 39 4 8 12 6 8 9 L Taylor Hall 34 12 24 36 -1 16 10 R Brett Connolly 30 8 3 11 -6 8 10 R Jimmy Hayes 23 3 6 9 1 4 13 L Jakub Vrana 38 10 6 16 6 6 11 C Brian Boyle 26 10 6 16 3 16 18 C Chandler Stephenson 27 2 7 9 6 4 12 D Ben Lovejoy 17 1 3 4 4 8 19 C Nicklas Backstrom 38 7 21 28 5 14 13 C Nico Hischier 36 7 16 23 -1 16 20 C Lars Eller 38 5 12 17 2 28 16 D Steven Santini 31 2 8 10 1 21 22 D Madison Bowey 32 0 8 8 -2 18 18 R Drew Stafford 30 5 3 8 -10 2 25 R Devante Smith-Pelly 37 5 6 11 -3 10 19 C Travis Zajac 19 2 0 2 -1 4 29 D Christian Djoos 30 2 4 6 7 8 21 R Kyle Palmieri 17 5 7 12 -2 14 39 R Alex Chiasson 37 6 2 8 -5 17 23 R Stefan Noesen 29 5 6 11 10 19 43 R Tom Wilson 35 5 12 17 11 91 28 D Damon Severson 35 4 5 9 4 27 44 D Brooks Orpik 39 0 5 5 -5 39 37 C Pavel Zacha 29 3 7 10 4 16 65 L Andre Burakovsky 19 3 5 8 -3 19 39 L Brian Gibbons 36 12 8 20 13 10 74 D John Carlson 39 3 25 28 -4 20 40 C Blake Coleman 36 5 6 11 10 38 77 R T.J. Oshie 33 11 13 24 -2 10 44 L Miles Wood 35 9 7 16 2 49 83 C Jay Beagle 39 4 7 11 -1 8 45 D Sami Vatanen 27 2 4 6 -10 14 92 C Evgeny Kuznetsov 39 12 27 39 -1 26 63 L Jesper Bratt 35 10 14 24 -2 10 90 L Marcus Johansson 18 4 3 7 -5 12 Senior VP and General Manager Brian MacLellan Executive Vice President/General Ray Shero Head Coach Barry Trotz Manager/Alt. Gov. Associate Coach/Assistant Coaches Todd Reirden/Blaine Forsythe, Assistant General Manager Tom Fitzgerald Lane Lambert Head Coach John Hynes Goaltending Coach Scott Murray Assistant Coaches Geoff Ward, Alain Nasreddine, Video Coach/Analyst Brett Leonhardt/Tim Ohashi Ryane Clowe Goaltending Coach Roland Melanson Tonight's Officials Referees Tom Chmielewski (18), Wes McCauley (4) Linesmen Lonnie Cameron (74), Brad Kovachik (71) Supervisor Paul Devorski Video Judge Kurt Klausner Ntl. Anthem Bob McDonald Today's Schedule MTL @ FLA : 7:00 MIN @ NSH : 7:00 BOS @ OTT : 7:00 CAR @ STL : 7:00 LAK @ VAN : 7:00 NJD @ WSH : 7:00 Washington Capitals: Roster Active (22 Players) # Name Pos Ht. Wt. Born Birth Place 2 Matt Niskanen D 6' 1" 203 Dec 6, 1986 Virginia, MN, USA 4 Taylor Chorney D 6' 0" 193 Apr 27, 1987 Thunder Bay, ON, CAN 8 Alex Ovechkin L 6' 3" 235 Sep 17, 1985 Moscow, RUS 9 Dmitry Orlov D 5' 11" 212 Jul 23, 1991 Novokuznetsk, RUS 10 Brett Connolly R 6' 3" 195 May 2, 1992 Campbell River, BC, CAN 13 Jakub Vrana L 6' 0" 197 Feb 28, 1996 Prague, CZE 18 Chandler Stephenson C 6' 0" 203 Apr 22, 1994 Saskatoon, SK, CAN 19 Nicklas Backstrom C 6' 1" 210 Nov 23, 1987 Gävle, SWE 20 Lars Eller C 6' 2" 207 May 8, 1989 Rodovre, DNK 22 Madison Bowey D 6' 2" 198 Apr 22, 1995 Winnipeg, MB, CAN 25 Devante Smith-Pelly R 6' 0" 223 Jun 14, 1992 Scarborough, ON, CAN 29 Christian Djoos D 6' 0" 169 Aug 6, 1994 Gothenburg, SWE 31 Philipp Grubauer G 6' 1" 191 Nov 25, 1991 Rosenheim, DEU 39 Alex Chiasson R 6' 4" 208 Oct 1, 1990 Montreal, QC, CAN 43 Tom Wilson R 6' 4" 218 Mar 29, 1994 Toronto, ON, CAN 44 Brooks Orpik D 6' 3" 217 Sep 26, 1980 San Francisco, CA, USA 65 Andre Burakovsky L 6' 3" 201 Feb 9, 1995 Klagenfurt, AUT 70 Braden Holtby G 6' 2" 211 Sep 16, 1989 Lloydminster, SK, CAN 74 John Carlson D 6' 3" 218 Jan 10, 1990 Natick, MA, USA 77 T.J. Oshie R 5' 11" 195 Dec 23, 1986 Everett, WA, USA 83 Jay Beagle C 6' 3" 218 Oct 16, 1985 Calgary, AB, CAN 92 Evgeny Kuznetsov C 6' 2" 204 May 19, 1992 Chelyabinsk, RUS 22 Players Total Avg: 6' 1" 205 Age: 27.5 Goal Streaks Assist Streaks Point Streaks No active streaks No active streaks No active streaks New Jersey Devils: Roster Active (23 Players) # Name Pos Ht. Wt. Born Birth Place 1 Keith Kinkaid G 6' 3" 195 Jul 4, 1989 Farmingville, NY, USA 2 John Moore D 6' 2" 210 Nov 19, 1990 Winnetka, IL, USA 6 Andy Greene D 5' 11" 190 Oct 30, 1982 Trenton, MI, USA 8 Will Butcher D 5' 10" 190 Jan 6, 1995 Sun Prairie, WI, USA 9 Taylor Hall L 6' 1" 205 Nov 14, 1991 Calgary, AB, CAN 10 Jimmy Hayes R 6' 5" 215 Nov 21, 1989 Dorchester, MA, USA 11 Brian Boyle C 6' 6" 245 Dec 18, 1984 Hingham, MA, USA 12 Ben Lovejoy D 6' 1" 205 Feb 20, 1984 Concord, NH, USA 13 Nico Hischier C 6' 1" 175 Jan 4, 1999 Brig, CHE 16 Steven Santini D 6' 2" 205 Mar 7, 1995 Bronxville, NY, USA 18 Drew Stafford R 6' 2" 215 Oct 30, 1985 Milwaukee, WI, USA 19 Travis Zajac C 6' 2" 185 May 13, 1985 Winnipeg, MB, CAN 21 Kyle Palmieri R 5' 11" 185 Feb 1, 1991 Smithtown, NY, USA 23 Stefan Noesen R 6' 1" 205 Feb 12, 1993 Plano, TX, USA 28 Damon Severson D 6' 2" 205 Aug 7, 1994 Melville, SK, CAN 35 Cory Schneider G 6' 3" 200 Mar 18, 1986 Marblehead, MA, USA 37 Pavel Zacha C 6' 3" 210 Apr 6, 1997 Brno, CZE 39 Brian Gibbons L 5' 8" 175 Feb 26, 1988 Braintree, MA, USA 40 Blake Coleman C 5' 11" 200 Nov 28, 1991 Plano, TX, USA 44 Miles Wood L 6' 2" 195 Sep 13, 1995 Buffalo, NY, USA 45 Sami Vatanen D 5' 10" 185 Jun 3, 1991 Jyväskylä, FIN 63 Jesper Bratt L 5' 10" 175 Jul 30, 1998 Stockholm, SWE 90 Marcus Johansson L 6' 1" 205 Oct 6, 1990 Landskrona, SWE 23 Players Total Avg: 6' 1" 198 Age: 27.0 Injured Reserve List (1 Players) 25 Mirco Mueller D 6' 3" 210 Mar 21, 1995 Winterthur, CHE Goal Streaks Assist Streaks Point Streaks No active streaks TAYLOR HALL (4 / 3 Games) TAYLOR HALL (1-4-5 / 3 Games) Washington Capitals: Season Statistics Pos # Player GP G A P +/- PIM PP SH GW S % TOI/g FO% Hits Blks C 92 Evgeny Kuznetsov 39 12 27 39 -1 26 3 0 3 89 13.5 19:08 45.79 26 16 L 8 Alex Ovechkin 39 24 14 38 8 16 7 0 4 173 13.9 19:27 40.00 76 10 C 19 Nicklas Backstrom 38 7 21 28 5 14 2 0 0 67 10.4 19:33 51.97 19 23 D 74 John Carlson 39 3 25 28 -4 20 1 0 1 110 2.7 26:13 0.00 27 69 R 77 T.J. Oshie 33 11 13 24 -2 10 7 0 2 63 17.5 19:04 50.45 71 29 C 20 Lars Eller 38 5 12 17 2 28 0 0 1 74 6.8 15:13 50.22 35 25 R 43 Tom Wilson 35 5 12 17 11 91 0 1 1 46 10.9 15:35 66.66 103 15 L 13 Jakub Vrana 38 10 6 16 6 6 1 0 2 78 12.8 13:25 30.76 20 6 D 9 Dmitry Orlov 39 4 8 12 6 8 0 0 1 70 5.7 23:23 0.00 65 55 R 10 Brett Connolly 30 8 3 11 -6 8 2 0 1 24 33.3 11:16 57.14 38 9 R 25 Devante Smith-Pelly 37 5 6 11 -3 10 0 0 1 56 8.9 12:32 46.66 57 41 C 83 Jay Beagle 39 4 7 11 -1 8 0 1 0 38 10.5 12:42 57.83 39 21 D 2 Matt Niskanen 26 2 8 10 13 14 0 0 1 49 4.1 22:29 0.00 49 34 C 18 Chandler Stephenson 27 2 7 9 6 4 0 0 0 12 16.7 12:19 58.33 11 13 R 39 Alex Chiasson 37 6 2 8 -5 17 0 1 1 42 14.3 12:41 33.33 32 22 L 65 Andre Burakovsky 19 3 5 8 -3 19 0 0 1 28 10.7 13:48 64.70 11 5 D 22 Madison Bowey 32 0 8 8 -2 18 0 0 0 29 0.0 13:40 0.00 29 29 D 29 Christian Djoos 30 2 4 6 7 8 0 0 0 27 7.4 13:44 0.00 10 23 D 44 Brooks Orpik 39 0 5 5 -5 39 0 0 0 20 0.0 20:56 0.00 119 89 D 4 Taylor Chorney 21 1 2 3 8 6 0 0 0 14 7.1 12:54 0.00 14 27 # Player GP Min GAA W L OT SO GA SVS SV% G A PIM 31 Philipp Grubauer 13 689 2.70 2 5 3 1 31 311 .909 0 0 0 70 Braden Holtby 29 1672 2.66 21 8 0 0 74 823 .918 0 0 2 New Jersey Devils: Season Statistics Pos # Player GP G A P +/- PIM PP SH GW S % TOI/g FO% Hits Blks L 9 Taylor Hall 34 12 24 36 -1 16 4 0 2 119 10.1 18:27 47.32 40 18 L 63 Jesper Bratt 35 10 14 24 -2 10 3 1 2 56 17.9 16:12 66.66 26 13 C 13 Nico Hischier 36 7 16 23 -1 16 0 0 1 81 8.6 16:20 40.93 26 18 D 8 Will Butcher 36 2 21 23 6 4 0 0 0 43 4.7 16:27 0.00 11 34 L 39 Brian Gibbons 36 12 8 20 13 10 0 3 3 51 23.5 15:07 38.46 21 30 C 11 Brian Boyle 26 10 6 16 3 16 4 0 2 44 22.7 13:57 50.43 36 14 L 44 Miles Wood 35 9 7 16 2 49 3 0 0 67 13.4 12:09 66.66 31 10 R 21 Kyle Palmieri 17 5 7 12 -2 14 3 0 2 52 9.6 16:46 28.94 28 13 R 23 Stefan Noesen 29 5 6 11 10 19 0 0 1 42 11.9 12:14 38.88 37 22 C 40 Blake Coleman 36 5 6 11 10 38 0 1 0 67 7.5 13:56 47.72 80 28 C 37 Pavel Zacha 29 3 7 10 4 16 1 0 0 38 7.9 13:41 49.05 20 9 D 16 Steven Santini 31 2 8 10 1 21 0 0 0 47 4.3 20:13 0.00 98 58 D 2 John Moore 36 4 5 9 6 18 0 1 2 51 7.8 20:01 0.00 66 47 D 28 Damon Severson 35 4 5 9 4 27 0 0 1 62 6.5 19:53 0.00 48 36 R 10 Jimmy Hayes 23 3 6 9 1 4 1 0 2 27 11.1 13:01 40.00 38 3 R 18 Drew Stafford 30 5 3 8 -10 2 2 0 1 63 7.9 14:48 45.83 30 8 D 6 Andy Greene 35 2 6 8 1 8 0 0 0 40 5.0 21:23 0.00 37 80 L 90 Marcus Johansson 18 4 3 7 -5 12 0 0 0 21 19.0 15:17 53.84 4 5 D 45 Sami Vatanen 27 2 4 6 -10 14 0 0 0 41 4.9 21:33 0.00 37 43 D 12 Ben Lovejoy 17 1 3 4 4 8 0 0 0 21 4.8 17:04 0.00 23 23 C 19 Travis Zajac 19 2 0 2 -1 4 0 0 0 24 8.3 17:25 53.54 29 13 D 25 Mirco Mueller 13 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 4 0.0 17:02 0.00 9 26 # Player GP Min GAA W L OT SO GA SVS SV% G A PIM 1 Keith Kinkaid 10 534 3.48 5 3 1 0 31 259 .893 0 0 0 35 Cory Schneider 28 1663 2.49 17 6 4 1 69 830 .923 0 0 0 New Jersey Devils @ Washington Capitals Team Records New Jersey Devils Washington Capitals Last game: Wednesday VS DETROIT (3-1 W) Thursday VS BOSTON (4-3 W) Next game: Saturday AT WASHINGTON Saturday VS NEW JERSEY Overall record/streak: 22 - 9 - 5 / Win 5 / Undef 5 23 - 13 - 3 / Win 1 / Undef 1 Home record/streak: 12 - 5 - 2 / Win 6 / Undef 6 15 - 5 - 0 / Win 7 / Undef 7 Road record/streak: 10 - 4 - 3 / OTL 1 8 - 8 - 3 / OTL 1 Last 5 Games: 5 - 0 - 0 2 - 1 - 2 Last 10