Detroit Red Wings vs Washington Capitals
Regular season · Tuesday, December 11, 2018 · Capital One Arena
NBCSN · NBCSWA
Game summary
The Washington Capitals beat the Detroit Red Wings 6-2 on Tuesday, December 11, 2018 at Capital One Arena. The Red Wings outshot the Capitals 37-25.
Alex Ovechkin scored a hat trick. Brett Connolly, Travis Boyd, T.J. Oshie, Dylan Larkin and Gustav Nyquist also scored.
Braden Holtby made 35 saves on 37 shots for the win; Jonathan Bernier stopped 10 of 15.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Brett Connolly (6)John Carlson (26), Evgeny Kuznetsov (21)0–103:39 WSH · PPG
Travis Boyd (2)Nic Dowd (5), Dmitrij Jaskin (6)0–210:50 WSH
Alex Ovechkin (23)Nicklas Backstrom (25), Michal Kempny (8)0–312:59 WSH
2nd period
- Alex Ovechkin (24)John Carlson (27), Nicklas Backstrom (26)0–409:05 WSH
T.J. Oshie (10)Nicklas Backstrom (27), Evgeny Kuznetsov (22)0–510:06 WSH · PPG
3rd period
Dylan Larkin (13)Gustav Nyquist (21), Nick Jensen (5)1–501:03 DET- Alex Ovechkin (25)Christian Djoos (4), Nicklas Backstrom (28)1–609:33 WSH
Gustav Nyquist (8)Justin Abdelkader (6)2–616:42 DET
Team stats
DETWSH
37Shots on goal25
52%Faceoff %48%
0/1Power play2/2
4Penalty minutes2
18Hits12
13Blocked shots11
6Giveaways13
11Takeaways9
Penalties
- 1st 02:10
Frans Nielsen · tripping2 min - 2nd 09:30Frans Nielsen · cross checking2 min
- 2nd 16:18
Dmitry Orlov · hooking2 min
Season series
Detroit Red Wings
| 14Gustav NyquistC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 4 | 20:01 |
| 8Justin AbdelkaderL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 18:15 |
| 71Dylan LarkinC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 6 | 21:10 |
| 3Nick JensenD | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 2 | 18:29 |
| 26Thomas VanekL | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 1 | 14:33 |
| 27Michael RasmussenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 | 15:16 |
| 28Luke WitkowskiR | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | 11:56 |
| 41Luke GlendeningC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 16:13 |
| 42Martin FrkR | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 3 | 12:14 |
| 51Frans NielsenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | 15:13 |
| 59Tyler BertuzziL | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | 16:44 |
| 61Jacob de la RoseL | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | 11:38 |
| 72Andreas AthanasiouC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | 18:38 |
| 21Dennis CholowskiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 1 | 16:05 |
| 25Mike GreenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 3 | 15:46 |
| 52Jonathan EricssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 17:18 |
| 55Niklas KronwallD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 3 | 18:09 |
| 83Trevor DaleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 20:17 |
| Goalie | DEC | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Jimmy HowardG | 10 | 9 | 1 | .900 | 29:54 | |
| 45Jonathan BernierG | L | 15 | 10 | 5 | .667 | 30:06 |
Washington Capitals
| 19Nicklas BackstromC | 0 | 4 | 4 | +3 | 2 | 18:39 |
| 8Alex OvechkinL | 3 | 0 | 3 | +3 | 4 | 19:38 |
| 92Evgeny KuznetsovC | 0 | 2 | 2 | -1 | 0 | 15:50 |
| 74John CarlsonD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 0 | 22:25 |
| 10Brett ConnollyR | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 1 | 14:27 |
| 23Dmitrij JaskinR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 11:44 |
| 26Nic DowdC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11:20 |
| 72Travis BoydC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 12:01 |
| 77T.J. OshieR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 2 | 16:56 |
| 6Michal KempnyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 19:56 |
| 29Christian DjoosD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 16:23 |
| 13Jakub VranaL | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 | 13:49 |
| 18Chandler StephensonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14:14 |
| 20Lars EllerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 15:24 |
| 25Devante Smith-PellyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 15:58 |
| 2Matt NiskanenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21:16 |
| 9Dmitry OrlovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21:11 |
| 22Madison BoweyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 16:49 |
| Goalie | DEC | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Pheonix CopleyG | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 00:00 | |
| 70Braden HoltbyG | W | 37 | 35 | 2 | .946 | 60:00 |