Game

Red Wings at Capitals

Red Wings 5, Capitals 2 · first star Moritz Seider (1 G, 1 A).

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

Detroit Red Wings 5 at Washington Capitals 2

Red Wings DET

5 FINAL 2

Capitals WSH

Saturday, December 20, 2025 · 12:30 PM ET · Capital One Arena, Washington · TV SN · NHLN

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Red Wings	1	3	1	5	41
Capitals	0	1	1	2	26

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Red Wings attack left, Capitals 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; 1 empty-net goal is drawn as a diamond. Boxscore shots on goal: DET 41, WSH 26.

DET in red WSH in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Red Wings 41 shots on goal (5 goals, 11 missed, 18 blocked) attacking left; Capitals 26 shots on goal (2 goals, 16 missed, 20 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	DET SOG	DET G	DET ATT	WSH SOG	WSH G	WSH ATT
1st	17	1	33	6	0	12
2nd	14	3	22	9	1	20
3rd	10	1	15	11	1	30
Total	41	5	70	26	2	62

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	DET SOG	DET G	WSH SOG	WSH G
Even strength	32	5	23	2
Power play	9	0	3	0
Short-handed	0	0	0	0
Into an empty net	1	1	0	0

Attempt share by period

Red Wings took 53.0% of the shot attempts, and 51.8% of the 110 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 Capitals and FF% their share of the ones that were not blocked, so the Red Wings hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Red Wings at Capitals
Period	WSH CF%	WSH FF%
1st	26.7	26.7
2nd	47.6	42.4
3rd	66.7	64.5
Game	47.0	44.7

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

Scoring summary

1st period

01:05 John Leonard (1) Simon Edvinsson (7), Andrew Copp (14) · snap 1–0

2nd period

01:37 James van Riemsdyk (8) Moritz Seider (21), Andrew Copp (15) · snap 2–0
05:55 Elmer Soderblom (2) Marco Kasper (2), Albert Johansson (4) · backhand 3–0
10:05 Moritz Seider (5) Unassisted · snap 4–0
10:36 Aliaksei Protas (12) Tom Wilson (17), Rasmus Sandin (8) · snap 4–1

3rd period

08:30 Martin Fehérváry (3) Declan Chisholm (3), Dylan Strome (18) · snap 4–2
17:10 Dylan Larkin (18) EN Simon Edvinsson (8) · snap 5–2

Three stars

Moritz Seider DET · D #53 · 1 G, 1 A
John Gibson DET · G #36 · 0 GA, .923 SV%
Aliaksei Protas WSH · C #21 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	03:04	DET	Dylan Larkin	holding	2	Aliaksei Protas
1st	16:15	WSH	John Carlson	hooking	2	Dylan Larkin
2nd	06:42	DET	Axel Sandin-Pellikka	cross checking	2	Connor McMichael
2nd	13:08	WSH	Aliaksei Protas	hooking	2	Axel Sandin-Pellikka
3rd	09:41	WSH	Bench	delaying game unsuccessful challenge	2	—

Boxscore

Detroit Red Wings

Red Wings skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Moritz Seider #53	D	1	1	2	+3	3	1	3	0	0.0	23:31
Andrew Copp #18	C	0	2	2	+2	1	1	0	0	50.0	15:23
Simon Edvinsson #77	D	0	2	2	+3	2	0	1	0	0.0	22:16
Dylan Larkin #71	C	1	0	1	0	3	1	0	2	43.8	19:48
Elmer Soderblom #85	L	1	0	1	+1	1	2	2	0	0.0	10:26
James van Riemsdyk #21	L	1	0	1	+1	6	0	1	0	0.0	12:24
John Leonard #43	L	1	0	1	+1	1	0	1	0	0.0	12:57
Marco Kasper #92	C	0	1	1	+1	4	2	0	0	33.3	13:38
Albert Johansson #20	D	0	1	1	+1	2	0	1	0	0.0	13:31
Emmitt Finnie #58	C	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	100.0	22:33
Michael Rasmussen #27	C	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	100.0	12:15
Nate Danielson #29	C	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	16.7	12:28
J.T. Compher #37	L	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	42.9	13:26
Lucas Raymond #23	L	0	0	0	+1	1	0	0	0	0.0	22:01
Alex DeBrincat #93	R	0	0	0	+2	8	1	0	0	0.0	14:21
Axel Sandin-Pellikka #44	D	0	0	0	-1	2	1	1	2	0.0	15:04
Ben Chiarot #8	D	0	0	0	-1	1	0	2	0	0.0	22:02
Jacob Bernard-Docker #25	D	0	0	0	+1	1	1	4	0	0.0	17:56

Red Wings goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
John Gibson #36	W	26	24	2	.923	21/23	3/3	60:00

Washington Capitals

Capitals skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Aliaksei Protas #21	L	1	0	1	-2	2	1	0	2	0.0	18:26
Martin Fehérváry #42	D	1	0	1	+1	1	1	3	0	0.0	19:47
Dylan Strome #17	C	0	1	1	-3	2	0	1	0	84.6	17:32
Tom Wilson #43	R	0	1	1	-1	4	6	0	0	0.0	22:58
Declan Chisholm #47	D	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	0.0	14:37
Rasmus Sandin #38	D	0	1	1	-1	0	0	4	0	0.0	19:21
Justin Sourdif #34	C	0	0	0	+1	0	1	0	0	58.3	16:44
Nic Dowd #26	C	0	0	0	-1	0	2	0	0	50.0	12:00
Alex Ovechkin #8	L	0	0	0	-3	2	3	0	0	0.0	18:06
Brandon Duhaime #22	L	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	0.0	10:18
Connor McMichael #24	L	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	33.3	16:07
Ivan Miroshnichenko #63	L	0	0	0	0	2	3	0	0	0.0	10:50
Sonny Milano #15	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	09:21
Anthony Beauvillier #72	R	0	0	0	-2	0	0	1	0	100.0	13:52
Ethen Frank #53	R	0	0	0	+1	3	2	1	0	0.0	12:51
Jakob Chychrun #6	D	0	0	0	-3	8	1	3	0	0.0	21:31
John Carlson #74	D	0	0	0	-1	1	1	1	2	0.0	21:14
Matt Roy #3	D	0	0	0	-2	1	3	3	0	0.0	19:37

Capitals goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Logan Thompson #48	L	40	36	4	.900	27/31	9/9	58:48

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.