National Hockey League
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Washington 5, Nashville 3
Wednesday, December 29, 2021 7:00 PM
When: 7:00 PM ET, Wednesday, December 29, 2021
Where: Capital One Arena, Washington, District of Columbia
Referees: Jake Brenk, T.J. Luxmore
Linesmen: Shandor Alphonso, Dan Kelly
Attendance: 18573
Final Scoring Summary
 
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Nashville 0303
Washington 3025
Scoring/Penalty Summary
1st Period
Scoring
3:15 - Capitals Lars Eller (EV) Assists: John Carlson , Alex Ovechkin
13:11 - Capitals John Carlson (EV) Assists: Nicklas Backstrom , Dmitry Orlov
18:52 - Capitals Nic Dowd (EV) Assists: Carl Hagelin , Michal Kempny
Penalties
7:44 - Predators Michael McCarron (2) Interference
 16:03 - Predators Ryan Johansen (2) Slashing
 19:21 - Predators Matt Benning (2) Roughing
 19:21 - Capitals Garnet Hathaway (2) High sticking
 19:21 - Capitals Alexander Alexeyev (2) Roughing
2nd Period
Scoring
1:23 - Predators Yakov Trenin (EV) Assists: Tanner Jeannot , Dante Fabbro
7:03 - Predators Luke Kunin (EV) Assists: Eeli Tolvanen , Ben Harpur
7:38 - Predators Filip Forsberg (EV) Assists: Dante Fabbro , Mikael Granlund
Penalties
4:27 - Predators Mark Borowiecki (2) Instigating
 4:27 - Capitals Tom Wilson (5) Fighting
 4:27 - Predators Mark Borowiecki (5) Fighting
 4:27 - Predators Mark Borowiecki (10) Misconduct
 13:00 - Capitals Dmitry Orlov (2) Roughing
 13:00 - Predators Ben Harpur (2) Roughing
 16:35 - Predators Matt Benning (2) Roughing
3rd Period
Scoring
14:24 - Capitals Evgeny Kuznetsov (SH) Assists: T.J. Oshie , John Carlson
18:57 - Capitals Carl Hagelin (EV) (EN) Assists: Dmitry Orlov , John Carlson
Penalties
6:15 - Predators Dante Fabbro (2) Delay of game
 8:24 - Capitals Tom Wilson (2) Tripping
 12:18 - Predators Mikael Granlund (2) Cross checking
 13:44 - Capitals Tom Wilson (2) Tripping
 19:31 - Capitals Michal Kempny (2) Cross checking
 19:31 - Predators Michael McCarron (10) Misconduct
 19:31 - Capitals Tom Wilson (10) Misconduct
Nashville Predators
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG TOI
David Rittich G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00
Juuse Saros G 0 0 0 0 0 59:16
Matt Benning D 0 0 0 E 4 1 19:44
Filip Forsberg LW 1 0 1 -1 0 2 18:29
Luke Kunin C 1 0 1 +1 0 1 12:22
Yakov Trenin C 1 0 1 +1 0 4 14:33
Mattias Ekholm D 0 0 0 E 0 1 24:52
Ben Harpur D 0 1 1 -1 2 0 17:45
Nick Cousins C 0 0 0 -2 0 0 8:07
Mathieu Olivier RW 0 0 0 -2 0 0 7:25
Philip Tomasino C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 6:40
Eeli Tolvanen RW 0 1 1 -1 0 1 11:50
Alexandre Carrier D 0 0 0 -3 0 23:40
Michael McCarron RW 0 0 0 +1 12 2 13:30
Dante Fabbro D 0 2 2 +1 2 1 17:23
Mikael Granlund RW 0 1 1 -2 2 0 25:18
Tanner Jeannot LW 0 1 1 E 0 1 17:16
Mark Borowiecki D 0 0 0 E 17 2 11:29
Ryan Johansen C 0 0 0 E 2 3 17:30
Matt Duchene C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 18:51
Washington Capitals
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG TOI
Pheonix Copley G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00
Ilya Samsonov G 0 0 0 0 0 60:00
Michal Kempny D 0 1 1 E 2 0 20:57
Alex Ovechkin LW 0 1 1 +1 0 4 26:01
Dmitry Orlov D 0 2 2 +2 2 1 20:42
Nicklas Backstrom C 0 1 1 +1 0 3 16:19
Lars Eller C 1 0 1 +1 0 3 19:06
Garnet Hathaway RW 0 0 0 E 2 3 10:49
Connor McMichael C 0 0 0 +1 0 0 10:04
Nic Dowd C 1 0 1 E 0 2 10:36
Alexander Alexeyev D 0 0 0 E 2 0 10:35
Tom Wilson RW 0 0 0 E 19 2 18:02
Matt Irwin D 0 0 0 E 0 3 9:29
Trevor van Riemsdyk D 0 0 0 E 0 0 21:32
Aliaksei Protas C 0 0 0 E 0 1 7:00
Carl Hagelin LW 1 1 2 +1 0 2 11:21
Conor Sheary LW 0 0 0 E 0 3 12:20
John Carlson D 1 3 4 +2 0 5 24:27
T.J. Oshie RW 0 1 1 E 0 1 20:13
Evgeny Kuznetsov C 1 0 1 E 0 4 21:58
Goaltending
Nashville
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Juuse Saros L (38-25-3) 36 32 4 .889 0 59:16
Washington
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Ilya Samsonov W (23-12-5) 20 17 3 .850 0 60:00