Game

Capitals at Wild

Wild 5, Capitals 0 · first star Vladimir Tarasenko (2 G, 1 A).

2025-26 regular season · Preseason. The 2026-27 regular season starts Sep 29. Data as of September 28, 2026, source NHL.

Washington Capitals 0 at Minnesota Wild 5

Capitals WSH

0 FINAL 5

Wild MIN

Tuesday, December 16, 2025 · 8:00 PM ET · Grand Casino Arena, St. Paul

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Capitals	0	0	0	0	25
Wild	1	1	3	5	32

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Capitals attack left, Wild attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 2 marks in a team's own end are attempts logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net. Boxscore shots on goal: WSH 25, MIN 32.

WSH in red MIN in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Capitals 25 shots on goal (0 goals, 18 missed, 23 blocked) attacking left; Wild 32 shots on goal (5 goals, 15 missed, 11 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	WSH SOG	WSH ATT	MIN SOG	MIN G	MIN ATT
1st	11	23	9	1	15
2nd	9	25	15	1	28
3rd	5	18	8	3	15
Total	25	66	32	5	58

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	WSH SOG	MIN SOG	MIN G
Even strength	21	25	3
Power play	3	5	1
Short-handed	1	2	1

Attempt share by period

Capitals took 53.2% of the shot attempts, and 59.4% of the 101 attempts taken at 5-on-5. An attempt is a goal, a shot on goal, a miss or a blocked shot; CF% is the share of them belonging to the Wild and FF% their share of the ones that were not blocked, so the Capitals hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Capitals at Wild
Period	MIN CF%	MIN FF%
1st	39.5	44.4
2nd	52.8	53.9
3rd	45.5	58.3
Game	46.8	52.2

Team totals only: per-player on-ice numbers need shift data, which this source does not publish.

Scoring summary

1st period

02:09 Vladimir Tarasenko (4) Danila Yurov (6), Brock Faber (12) · wrist 0–1

2nd period

12:51 Kirill Kaprizov (21) PP Joel Eriksson Ek (17), Quinn Hughes (22) · backhand 0–2

3rd period

04:23 Vladimir Tarasenko (5) Danila Yurov (7) · wrist 0–3
08:53 Danila Yurov (4) Vladimir Tarasenko (11) · wrist 0–4
14:12 Matt Boldy (19) SH Matt Kiersted (1) · wrist 0–5

Three stars

Vladimir Tarasenko MIN · R #91 · 2 G, 1 A
Filip Gustavsson MIN · G #32 · 0 GA, .000 SV%
Danila Yurov MIN · R #22 · 1 G, 2 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	11:39	MIN	Danila Yurov	hooking	2	Justin Sourdif
1st	17:55	WSH	Rasmus Sandin	holding	2	Danila Yurov
2nd	11:53	WSH	Martin Fehérváry	hooking	2	Marcus Foligno
2nd	17:23	WSH	Jakob Chychrun	hooking	2	Matt Boldy
3rd	12:44	MIN	David Jiricek	hooking	2	Justin Sourdif
3rd	15:22	WSH	Aliaksei Protas	holding	2	Vladimir Tarasenko

Boxscore

Washington Capitals

Capitals skaters · by points
Player	Pos	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Dylan Strome #17	C	-1	2	0	2	0	68.8	15:17
Hendrix Lapierre #29	C	0	1	0	0	0	14.3	10:33
Justin Sourdif #34	C	0	1	0	1	0	50.0	17:17
Nic Dowd #26	C	-1	1	1	1	0	40.0	14:10
Alex Ovechkin #8	L	-2	0	3	0	0	0.0	15:12
Aliaksei Protas #21	L	-1	1	0	0	2	100.0	17:22
Brandon Duhaime #22	L	-1	1	5	0	0	0.0	14:31
Connor McMichael #24	L	-2	1	0	0	0	40.0	17:40
Sonny Milano #15	L	-1	0	0	0	0	0.0	11:56
Anthony Beauvillier #72	R	-3	3	1	0	0	0.0	12:35
Ethen Frank #53	R	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	13:14
Tom Wilson #43	R	-1	4	2	0	0	0.0	16:25
Jakob Chychrun #6	D	0	4	2	1	2	0.0	21:18
John Carlson #74	D	-2	1	0	0	0	0.0	22:10
Martin Fehérváry #42	D	0	1	0	1	2	0.0	17:29
Matt Roy #3	D	-1	1	2	1	0	0.0	21:07
Rasmus Sandin #38	D	-3	1	2	1	2	0.0	17:57
Trevor van Riemsdyk #57	D	-1	0	0	0	0	0.0	16:49

Capitals goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Charlie Lindgren #79	L	32	27	5	.844	22/25	4/5	60:00

Minnesota Wild

Wild skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Vladimir Tarasenko #91	R	2	1	3	+3	4	0	0	0	0.0	16:01
Danila Yurov #22	R	1	2	3	+3	1	0	1	2	90.9	15:02
Kirill Kaprizov #97	L	1	0	1	0	4	0	1	0	0.0	18:15
Matt Boldy #12	L	1	0	1	+1	2	1	2	0	0.0	19:49
Joel Eriksson Ek #14	C	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	56.5	17:29
Brock Faber #7	D	0	1	1	+3	3	2	3	0	0.0	28:10
Matt Kiersted #26	D	0	1	1	0	3	0	0	0	0.0	16:16
Quinn Hughes #43	D	0	1	1	+2	2	1	3	0	0.0	29:33
Ben Jones #39	C	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	100.0	11:18
Nico Sturm #78	C	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	0	37.5	12:47
Tyler Pitlick #19	C	0	0	0	0	1	3	1	0	0.0	09:36
Yakov Trenin #13	C	0	0	0	+3	0	6	1	0	0.0	14:15
Marcus Foligno #17	L	0	0	0	+1	2	1	0	0	0.0	15:18
Nicolas Aube-Kubel #16	R	0	0	0	0	2	1	3	0	0.0	14:17
Ryan Hartman #38	R	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	37.5	16:37
Daemon Hunt #48	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0.0	03:44
David Jiricek #55	D	0	0	0	+1	0	0	3	2	0.0	14:11
Jared Spurgeon #46	D	0	0	0	+2	4	1	0	0	0.0	23:22

Wild goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Filip Gustavsson #32	W	25	25	0	1.000	21/21	3/3	60:00

SOG shots on goal · BLK blocked shots · FO% faceoff win percentage · EV / PP saves over shots by strength. Skaters sorted by points, then goals.

Source NHL (boxscore, play-by-play, game summary). Shot locations are the league's tracked coordinates; the chart and the situation tables are computed by Play-Pause Hockey. Data as of 2026-09-28.