National Hockey League
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Washington 5, Minnesota 2
Thursday, February 15, 2018 8:00 PM
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 TOI
Philipp Grubauer G 0 1 1 0 0 60:00
Braden Holtby G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00
Matt Niskanen D 0 0 0 +1 0 1 21:43
Taylor Chorney D 0 0 0 E 2 0 13:51
Alex Ovechkin LW 1 3 4 +4 0 7 17:48
Dmitry Orlov D 0 1 1 +1 0 2 21:12
Brett Connolly RW 0 1 1 +1 0 1 10:25
Jakub Vrana LW 0 0 0 -1 0 1 13:03
Chandler Stephenson C 0 0 0 E 0 1 13:26
Nicklas Backstrom C 1 1 2 +2 0 2 18:00
Lars Eller C 0 0 0 +2 2 2 14:39
Devante Smith-Pelly RW 0 0 0 E 2 0 12:28
Christian Djoos D 0 0 0 +2 0 2 17:19
Tom Wilson RW 2 1 3 +3 2 3 16:34
Brooks Orpik D 0 0 0 +1 2 0 19:26
Andre Burakovsky LW 1 1 2 +2 0 1 11:31
John Carlson D 0 0 0 +3 0 0 23:09
T.J. Oshie RW 0 0 0 -1 0 2 18:22
Jay Beagle RW 0 0 0 E 0 0 12:32
Evgeny Kuznetsov C 0 0 0 E 0 2 17:37
Minnesota Wild
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG TOI
Alex Stalock G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00
Devan Dubnyk G 0 0 0 0 0 58:58
Charlie Coyle C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 18:59
Matt Cullen C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 14:13
Mikko Koivu C 0 1 1 -1 0 1 18:12
Zach Parise LW 0 0 0 -1 0 7 18:56
Eric Staal C 1 0 1 -1 2 2 15:37
Joel Eriksson Ek LW 0 0 0 -1 0 1 11:38
Jason Zucker LW 0 0 0 -1 0 3 14:57
Marcus Foligno LW 0 0 0 E 0 0 10:59
Ryan Suter D 0 1 1 -2 0 3 25:57
Nino Niederreiter RW 1 0 1 -1 2 3 14:35
Gustav Olofsson D 0 1 1 +1 0 1 19:02
Matt Dumba D 0 0 0 -1 0 4 21:53
Daniel Winnik LW 0 0 0 E 0 1 11:30
Nick Seeler D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 12:26
Nate Prosser D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 12:29
Jared Spurgeon D 0 0 0 -4 0 0 24:59
Tyler Ennis LW 0 0 0 -2 0 3 11:49
Mikael Granlund RW 0 1 1 -2 0 3 18:51
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