National Hockey League
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Washington 6, Buffalo 4
When: 7:00 PM ET, Thursday, January 14, 2021
Where: KeyBank Center, Buffalo, New York
Referees: Chris Lee, Justin St. Pierre
Linesmen: Bryan Pancich, Libor Suchanek
Attendance: N/A
Final Scoring Summary
 
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Washington 2226
Buffalo 1124
Scoring/Penalty Summary
1st Period
Scoring
5:43 - Capitals Nicklas Backstrom (EV) Assists: Alex Ovechkin , T.J. Oshie
8:48 - Sabres Taylor Hall (PP) Assists: Victor Olofsson , Jack Eichel
10:33 - Capitals T.J. Oshie (PP) Assists: Alex Ovechkin , John Carlson
Penalties
8:30 - Capitals T.J. Oshie (2) Elbowing
 9:34 - Sabres Rasmus Dahlin (2) Holding
2nd Period
Scoring
7:05 - Capitals John Carlson (EV) Assists: T.J. Oshie , Nicklas Backstrom
13:23 - Capitals Brenden Dillon (EV) Assists: Conor Sheary , Lars Eller
18:46 - Sabres Tobias Rieder (EV) Assists: Dylan Cozens , Jake McCabe
Penalties
2:40 - Capitals Nic Dowd (2) Holding
 11:19 - Sabres Colin Miller (2) Cross checking
3rd Period
Scoring
0:20 - Sabres Jake McCabe (EV) Assists: Jack Eichel , Tage Thompson
0:46 - Capitals Jakub Vrana (EV) Unassisted
18:06 - Sabres Victor Olofsson (EV) Assists: Taylor Hall , Sam Reinhart
18:57 - Capitals Garnet Hathaway (EV) (EN) Assists: Nick Jensen
Penalties
10:04 - Capitals Nic Dowd (2) Illegal Check to head
 15:27 - Sabres Jake McCabe (5) Fighting
 15:27 - Capitals Brenden Dillon (5) Fighting
Washington Capitals
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Ilya Samsonov G 0 0 0 0 0 60:00 52:43 2:59 4:18 0 0 - - - - -
Vitek Vanecek G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Justin Schultz D 0 0 0 +2 0 1 22 15:56 15:00 0:56 0:00 0 0 1 - - - -
Nick Jensen D 0 1 1 +1 0 0 24 20:17 18:32 0:00 1:45 0 0 1 2 - - -
Brenden Dillon D 1 0 1 +3 5 1 23 17:21 14:48 0:00 2:33 0 0 2 4 - - -
Alex Ovechkin LW 0 2 2 +1 0 3 24 19:36 16:50 2:46 0:00 0 0 3 1 - - -
Dmitry Orlov D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 25 19:41 19:28 0:13 0:00 0 0 - 1 - - -
Jakub Vrana LW 1 0 1 +1 0 5 20 14:07 13:06 1:01 0:00 0 0 1 - - - -
Richard Panik RW 0 0 0 E 0 2 16 11:18 10:14 1:04 0:00 0 0 1 - - - -
Nicklas Backstrom C 1 1 2 +1 0 3 24 17:54 15:46 1:58 0:10 0 0 - 1 7 9 44
Lars Eller C 0 1 1 -1 0 0 19 15:13 12:08 0:00 3:05 0 0 - - 11 5 69
Garnet Hathaway RW 1 0 1 +1 0 2 19 12:13 11:10 0:00 1:03 0 0 2 - - - -
Nic Dowd C 0 0 0 +1 4 0 19 11:24 11:24 0:00 0:00 0 0 2 - 2 4 33
Zdeno Chara D 0 0 0 +2 0 1 24 20:16 18:31 0:00 1:45 0 0 1 - - - -
Tom Wilson RW 0 0 0 E 0 0 23 17:11 15:25 1:07 0:39 0 0 - - 1 1 50
Carl Hagelin LW 0 0 0 +1 0 1 20 12:54 10:58 0:00 1:56 0 0 - - - - -
Conor Sheary LW 0 1 1 E 0 0 15 10:40 10:40 0:00 0:00 0 0 1 - - - -
John Carlson D 1 1 2 -2 0 6 28 23:43 19:07 2:03 2:33 0 0 3 1 - - -
T.J. Oshie RW 1 2 3 +1 2 3 25 19:29 15:54 1:52 1:43 1 0 1 - 3 2 60
Evgeny Kuznetsov C 0 0 0 E 0 0 22 16:29 14:34 1:55 0:00 0 0 - 1 5 7 42
Buffalo Sabres
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Linus Ullmark G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Carter Hutton G 0 0 0 0 0 58:36 51:19 4:18 2:59 0 0 - - - - -
Taylor Hall LW 1 1 2 E 0 2 27 19:30 17:19 2:11 0:00 1 0 - - - - -
Jack Eichel C 0 2 2 E 0 1 28 22:12 20:01 2:11 0:00 0 0 2 - 9 13 41
Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 18 14:56 14:00 0:00 0:56 0 0 - - - - -
Eric Staal C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 18 14:45 13:00 1:34 0:11 0 0 1 2 8 7 53
Tobias Rieder LW 1 0 1 +1 0 3 18 11:36 9:47 0:10 1:39 0 0 1 - - - -
Riley Sheahan C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 13 9:55 8:46 0:00 1:09 0 0 - - 1 0 100
Jake McCabe D 1 1 2 E 5 1 22 16:36 14:23 0:10 2:03 0 0 2 1 - - -
Cody Eakin C 0 0 0 +1 0 0 22 13:23 11:11 0:33 1:39 0 0 1 - 6 4 60
Sam Reinhart RW 0 1 1 -2 0 2 24 19:34 16:49 2:11 0:34 0 0 1 - 1 0 100
Dylan Cozens C 0 1 1 +1 0 1 18 12:09 10:02 2:07 0:00 0 0 1 - 1 1 50
Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 E 2 4 23 24:20 22:22 1:58 0:00 0 0 1 - - - -
Curtis Lazar C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 18 11:33 10:47 0:00 0:46 0 0 2 - 2 2 50
Colin Miller D 0 0 0 -1 2 1 19 15:14 15:14 0:00 0:00 0 0 1 1 - - -
Jeff Skinner LW 0 0 0 -1 0 2 19 14:25 12:28 1:57 0:00 0 0 1 - 0 1 0
Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 +1 0 1 27 22:22 18:07 2:20 1:55 0 0 3 2 - - -
Brandon Montour D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 23 20:37 19:33 0:00 1:04 0 0 - - - - -
Victor Olofsson LW 1 1 2 -2 0 2 23 18:10 15:59 2:11 0:00 0 0 - 1 - - -
Tage Thompson RW 0 1 1 E 0 2 24 17:08 15:11 1:57 0:00 0 0 3 - 0 1 0
Goaltending
Washington
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Ilya Samsonov W (1-0-0) 26 22 4 .846 0 60:00
Buffalo
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Carter Hutton L (0-1-0) 27 22 5 .815 0 58:36