Washington Capitals vs Philadelphia Flyers
Regular season · Sunday, March 18, 2018 · Wells Fargo Center
NHLN-US · NBCSWA · NBCSP
Game summary
The Philadelphia Flyers beat the Washington Capitals 6–3 on Sunday, March 18, 2018 at Wells Fargo Center. The Flyers outshot the Capitals 35–28.
Wayne Simmonds scored twice. Shayne Gostisbehere, Alex Ovechkin, Oskar Lindblom, Ivan Provorov, Chandler Stephenson, John Carlson and Jakub Voracek also scored.
Petr Mrazek made 25 saves on 28 shots for the win; Philipp Grubauer stopped 29 of 34.
Three stars
Scoring
2nd period
Shayne Gostisbehere (12)Claude Giroux (58)0–102:15 PHI
Alex Ovechkin (43)Travis Boyd (1), John Carlson (45)1–115:08 WSH
Oskar Lindblom (1)Jakub Voracek (60)1–218:19 PHI
Ivan Provorov (13)Radko Gudas (10), Sean Couturier (38)1–319:41 PHI
3rd period
Wayne Simmonds (22)Robert Hagg (6), Radko Gudas (11)1–401:37 PHI
Chandler Stephenson (6)Jakub Vrana (13)2–410:31 WSH- Wayne Simmonds (23)Unassisted2–514:27 PHI
John Carlson (14)Alex Ovechkin (35), Nicklas Backstrom (38)3–516:07 WSH
Jakub Voracek (18)Sean Couturier (39)3–619:22 PHI ·
Team stats
WSHPHI
2835
57%43%
0/30/3
1313
1722
1511
147
511
Penalties
- 10:33 into the first period
Tom Wilson · interference2 min - 14:48 into the first periodNicklas Backstrom · tripping2 min
- 15:39 into the first period
Sean Couturier · roughing2 min - 0:43 into the second periodSean Couturier · hooking2 min
- 0:47 into the second periodAndre Burakovsky · interference goalkeeper2 min
- 2:49 into the second periodIvan Provorov · high sticking2 min
- 9:42 into the second periodIvan Provorov · slashing2 min
- 9:42 into the second periodTom Wilson · roughing2 min
- 7:41 into the third periodTravis Konecny · fighting5 min
- 7:41 into the third periodT.J. Oshie · fighting5 min
Season series
Washington Capitals
| 8Alex OvechkinL | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 2 | 18:48 |
| 74John CarlsonD | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 25:27 |
| 13Jakub VranaL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 14:01 |
| 18Chandler StephensonC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 14:30 |
| 19Nicklas BackstromC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | 20:40 |
| 72Travis BoydC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11:35 |
| 20Lars EllerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | 3 | 14:14 |
| 25Devante Smith-PellyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 10:58 |
| 39Alex ChiassonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 10:51 |
| 43Tom WilsonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15:35 |
| 65Andre BurakovskyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 15:43 |
| 77T.J. OshieR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | 16:46 |
| 83Jay BeagleC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14:34 |
| 2Matt NiskanenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 23:54 |
| 6Michal KempnyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 12:31 |
| 9Dmitry OrlovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | 24:54 |
| 28Jakub JerabekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 2 | 12:15 |
| 29Christian DjoosD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 16:44 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Philipp GrubauerG | L | 34 | 5 | .853 |
| 70Braden HoltbyG | 0 | 0 | – |
Philadelphia Flyers
| 14Sean CouturierC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 4 | 22:29 |
| 17Wayne SimmondsR | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 18:22 |
| 93Jakub VoracekR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | 18:13 |
| 3Radko GudasD | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 19:56 |
| 28Claude GirouxR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | 21:02 |
| 54Oskar LindblomL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 12:52 |
| 8Robert HaggD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 16:05 |
| 9Ivan ProvorovD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +3 | 4 | 20:10 |
| 53Shayne GostisbehereD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 5 | 16:39 |
| 11Travis KonecnyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 11:19 |
| 12Michael RafflL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 06:40 |
| 19Nolan PatrickC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 14:29 |
| 21Scott LaughtonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 09:04 |
| 24Matt ReadR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 12:16 |
| 40Jordan WealC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 13:30 |
| 51Valtteri FilppulaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 14:07 |
| 6Travis SanheimD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20:02 |
| 47Andrew MacDonaldD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 24:45 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34Petr MrazekG | W | 28 | 3 | .893 |
| 49Alex LyonG | 0 | 0 | – |