National Hockey League
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Buffalo 5, Washington 2
When: 7:00 PM ET, Thursday, April 15, 2021
Where: Capital One Arena, Washington, District of Columbia
Referees: Trevor Hanson, Furman South
Linesmen: Brandon Gawryletz, James Tobias
Attendance: N/A
Final Scoring Summary
 
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Buffalo 1315
Washington 1102
Scoring/Penalty Summary
1st Period
Scoring
18:50 - Sabres Sam Reinhart (EV) Assists: Dylan Cozens , Henri Jokiharju
19:37 - Capitals Dmitry Orlov (EV) Assists: T.J. Oshie
Penalties
10:48 - Capitals Nicklas Backstrom (2) Interference
2nd Period
Scoring
1:36 - Sabres Victor Olofsson (EV) Unassisted
5:42 - Sabres Casey Mittelstadt (SH) Assists: Anders Bjork
9:59 - Capitals Anthony Mantha (EV) Assists: John Carlson , Nicklas Backstrom
13:23 - Sabres Anders Bjork (EV) Assists: Dylan Cozens
Penalties
3:45 - Sabres Matt Irwin (2) High sticking
3rd Period
Scoring
19:17 - Sabres Tage Thompson (EV) (EN) Assists: Rasmus Asplund
Penalties
0:35 - Sabres Henri Jokiharju (2) Tripping
 9:34 - Sabres Rasmus Dahlin (2) Hooking
 14:01 - Sabres Matt Irwin (2) Roughing
 14:01 - Capitals Tom Wilson (2) Roughing
 15:38 - Capitals Nicklas Backstrom (2) Cross checking
 15:38 - Capitals Nicklas Backstrom (2) Cross checking
Buffalo Sabres
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Dustin Tokarski G 0 0 0 0 0 60:00 50:00 4:00 6:00 0 0 - - - - -
Michael Houser G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Henri Jokiharju D 0 1 1 +1 2 2 21 20:25 18:38 1:07 0:40 0 0 1 3 - - -
Tobias Rieder LW 0 0 0 -2 0 1 15 12:22 9:19 0:00 3:03 0 0 - 1 0 2 0
Cody Eakin C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 15 13:08 9:27 0:00 3:41 0 0 1 1 5 6 45
Kyle Okposo RW 0 0 0 E 0 0 3 2:17 2:17 0:00 0:00 0 0 - 1 - - -
Sam Reinhart RW 1 0 1 +1 0 3 25 18:15 15:46 2:26 0:03 0 0 - - 4 7 36
Dylan Cozens C 0 2 2 +2 0 4 21 14:15 12:41 1:34 0:00 0 0 2 - 5 5 50
Arttu Ruotsalainen C 0 0 0 +1 0 2 22 16:08 14:24 1:44 0:00 0 0 1 - 0 1 0
Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 +1 2 2 22 20:29 18:34 1:55 0:00 0 0 1 1 - - -
Colin Miller D 0 0 0 E 0 0 23 18:18 14:54 0:51 2:33 0 0 1 1 - - -
Casey Mittelstadt C 1 0 1 +2 0 4 22 16:01 13:30 2:16 0:15 0 1 - 1 5 7 42
Matt Irwin D 0 0 0 +1 4 0 22 16:00 14:14 0:05 1:41 0 0 1 2 - - -
Jeff Skinner LW 0 0 0 +2 0 1 21 15:17 14:33 0:41 0:03 0 0 - 1 0 2 0
Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 +2 0 1 24 22:14 16:30 2:02 3:42 0 0 2 - - - -
Victor Olofsson LW 1 0 1 +1 0 5 22 15:29 13:41 1:48 0:00 0 0 - 1 - - -
Tage Thompson RW 1 0 1 E 0 2 16 13:44 12:53 0:51 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Rasmus Asplund C 0 1 1 +1 0 0 22 16:03 14:24 0:00 1:39 0 0 - - - - -
Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 +1 0 0 22 22:04 17:13 1:24 3:27 0 0 3 - - - -
Anders Bjork LW 1 1 2 +2 0 2 26 18:40 14:31 0:53 3:16 0 0 - 1 - - -
Washington Capitals
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Craig Anderson G 0 0 0 0 0 24:44 18:44 4:00 2:00 0 0 - - - - -
Vitek Vanecek G 0 0 0 0 0 32:54 28:54 2:00 2:00 0 0 - - - - -
Justin Schultz D 0 0 0 -4 0 1 22 19:21 17:02 2:19 0:00 0 0 - 1 - - -
Nick Jensen D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 18 16:31 13:45 0:00 2:46 0 0 2 1 - - -
Brenden Dillon D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 21 17:58 16:41 0:03 1:14 0 0 1 1 - - -
Alex Ovechkin LW 0 0 0 -1 0 6 21 21:49 15:52 5:57 0:00 0 0 2 - - - -
Dmitry Orlov D 1 0 1 +2 0 2 19 18:34 18:34 0:00 0:00 0 0 2 1 - - -
Daniel Sprong RW 0 0 0 -1 0 3 14 12:31 12:28 0:03 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Nicklas Backstrom C 0 1 1 E 6 2 20 19:51 15:43 4:08 0:00 0 0 1 1 7 1 88
Lars Eller C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 20 16:37 14:34 0:03 2:00 0 0 1 - 10 4 71
Garnet Hathaway RW 0 0 0 -1 0 0 9 8:56 7:28 0:00 1:28 0 0 3 - - - -
Nic Dowd C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 11 9:01 7:11 0:00 1:50 0 0 1 - 3 5 38
Zdeno Chara D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 17 15:55 12:27 0:00 3:28 0 0 4 2 - - -
Anthony Mantha RW 1 0 1 -1 0 1 22 17:59 16:05 1:49 0:05 0 0 3 2 1 0 100
Tom Wilson RW 0 0 0 -2 2 1 23 16:35 13:51 1:49 0:55 0 0 4 - 0 1 0
Carl Hagelin LW 0 0 0 E 0 1 14 11:16 9:57 0:00 1:19 0 0 - - - - -
Conor Sheary LW 0 0 0 -3 0 1 16 13:48 11:56 1:52 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
John Carlson D 0 1 1 +2 0 1 22 23:11 18:58 3:41 0:32 0 0 1 1 - - -
T.J. Oshie RW 0 1 1 E 0 2 21 19:18 15:10 4:08 0:00 0 0 2 - 3 2 60
Evgeny Kuznetsov C 0 0 0 E 0 3 18 17:11 13:03 4:08 0:00 0 0 1 - 6 6 50
Goaltending
Buffalo
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Dustin Tokarski W (1-4-2) 29 27 2 .931 0 60:00
Washington
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Vitek Vanecek L (17-8-3) 21 17 4 .810 0 32:54
Craig Anderson 8 8 0 1.000 0 24:44