National Hockey League
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Washington 5, Minnesota 2
When: 8:00 PM ET, Thursday, February 15, 2018
Where: Xcel Energy Center, Saint Paul, Minnesota
Referees: Pierre Lambert, Dan O'Halloran
Linesmen: Brian Mach, Jonny Murray
Attendance: 19027
Final Scoring Summary
 
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Washington 0235
Minnesota 0022
Scoring/Penalty Summary
1st Period
Scoring
No Scoring.
Penalties
9:23 - Wild Nino Niederreiter (2) Hooking
2nd Period
Scoring
0:59 - Capitals Tom Wilson (EV) Assists: Alex Ovechkin , Dmitry Orlov
5:51 - Capitals Alex Ovechkin (EV) Assists: Andre Burakovsky
Penalties
10:14 - Capitals Devante Smith-Pelly (2) Holding
 11:29 - Wild Eric Staal (2) Tripping
3rd Period
Scoring
2:29 - Capitals Andre Burakovsky (EV) Assists: Brett Connolly , Philipp Grubauer
4:25 - Wild Nino Niederreiter (EV) Assists: Mikko Koivu , Gustav Olofsson
15:06 - Capitals Nicklas Backstrom (EV) Assists: Alex Ovechkin , Tom Wilson
16:48 - Wild Eric Staal (PP) Assists: Mikael Granlund , Ryan Suter
17:46 - Capitals Tom Wilson (EV) (EN) Assists: Nicklas Backstrom , Alex Ovechkin
Penalties
7:15 - Capitals Tom Wilson (2) Tripping
 11:26 - Capitals Lars Eller (2) Delay of game
 16:34 - Capitals Brooks Orpik (2) Roughing
 19:19 - Capitals Taylor Chorney (2) High sticking
Washington Capitals
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Philipp Grubauer G 0 1 1 0 0 60:00 50:35 3:15 6:10 0 0 - - - - -
Braden Holtby G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Matt Niskanen D 0 0 0 +1 0 1 26 21:43 18:28 0:00 3:15 0 0 3 1 - - -
Taylor Chorney D 0 0 0 E 2 0 18 13:51 13:15 0:00 0:36 0 0 1 - - - -
Alex Ovechkin LW 1 3 4 +4 0 7 19 17:48 14:36 3:12 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Dmitry Orlov D 0 1 1 +1 0 2 25 21:12 18:25 0:14 2:33 0 0 1 2 - - -
Brett Connolly RW 0 1 1 +1 0 1 15 10:25 10:25 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - 1 0 100
Jakub Vrana LW 0 0 0 -1 0 1 15 13:03 13:03 0:00 0:00 0 0 - 2 - - -
Chandler Stephenson C 0 0 0 E 0 1 19 13:26 10:54 0:00 2:32 0 0 2 - 0 2 0
Nicklas Backstrom C 1 1 2 +2 0 2 21 18:00 14:21 2:32 1:07 0 0 - - 6 12 33
Lars Eller C 0 0 0 +2 2 2 20 14:39 12:12 1:00 1:27 0 0 1 - 5 5 50
Devante Smith-Pelly RW 0 0 0 E 2 0 19 12:28 11:02 0:07 1:19 0 0 - 1 - - -
Christian Djoos D 0 0 0 +2 0 2 20 17:19 17:16 0:03 0:00 0 0 - 1 - - -
Tom Wilson RW 2 1 3 +3 2 3 21 16:34 14:46 0:00 1:48 0 0 2 2 1 0 100
Brooks Orpik D 0 0 0 +1 2 0 23 19:26 15:49 0:00 3:37 0 0 - - - - -
Andre Burakovsky LW 1 1 2 +2 0 1 16 11:31 11:21 0:10 0:00 0 0 - - 0 1 0
John Carlson D 0 0 0 +3 0 0 24 23:09 17:49 3:01 2:19 0 0 - 2 - - -
T.J. Oshie RW 0 0 0 -1 0 2 19 18:22 13:57 3:08 1:17 0 0 2 - 0 3 0
Jay Beagle RW 0 0 0 E 0 0 17 12:32 9:58 0:00 2:34 0 0 - - 10 6 62
Evgeny Kuznetsov C 0 0 0 E 0 2 19 17:37 14:33 2:48 0:16 0 0 - 1 6 10 38
Minnesota Wild
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Alex Stalock G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Devan Dubnyk G 0 0 0 0 0 58:58 49:47 5:56 3:15 0 0 - - - - -
Charlie Coyle C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 21 18:59 15:12 3:05 0:42 0 0 - - 6 5 55
Matt Cullen C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 19 14:13 13:32 0:41 0:00 0 0 - - 9 6 60
Mikko Koivu C 0 1 1 -1 0 1 20 18:12 12:28 3:19 2:25 0 0 - - 10 8 56
Zach Parise LW 0 0 0 -1 0 7 21 18:56 16:43 2:10 0:03 0 0 - - - - -
Eric Staal C 1 0 1 -1 2 2 21 15:37 13:19 2:10 0:08 1 0 - - 9 5 64
Joel Eriksson Ek LW 0 0 0 -1 0 1 14 11:38 11:30 0:00 0:08 0 0 - 1 4 5 44
Jason Zucker LW 0 0 0 -1 0 3 20 14:57 12:10 2:47 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Marcus Foligno LW 0 0 0 E 0 0 12 10:59 10:59 0:00 0:00 0 0 1 2 - - -
Ryan Suter D 0 1 1 -2 0 3 24 25:57 20:27 3:05 2:25 0 0 - 2 - - -
Nino Niederreiter RW 1 0 1 -1 2 3 17 14:35 11:53 2:42 0:00 0 0 1 - - - -
Gustav Olofsson D 0 1 1 +1 0 1 21 19:02 17:31 0:41 0:50 0 0 1 3 - - -
Matt Dumba D 0 0 0 -1 0 4 23 21:53 17:40 3:23 0:50 0 0 - - - - -
Daniel Winnik LW 0 0 0 E 0 1 13 11:30 10:51 0:00 0:39 0 0 - - 1 0 100
Nick Seeler D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 15 12:26 12:26 0:00 0:00 0 0 - 2 - - -
Nate Prosser D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 15 12:29 12:29 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Jared Spurgeon D 0 0 0 -4 0 0 23 24:59 19:47 2:47 2:25 0 0 2 - - - -
Tyler Ennis LW 0 0 0 -2 0 3 16 11:49 11:08 0:41 0:00 0 0 2 - - - -
Mikael Granlund RW 0 1 1 -2 0 3 21 18:51 12:53 3:33 2:25 0 0 1 1 - - -
Goaltending
Washington
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Philipp Grubauer W (6-7-3) 34 32 2 .941 0 60:00
Minnesota
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Devan Dubnyk L (24-11-5) 26 22 4 .846 0 58:58