Game

Rangers at Capitals

Rangers 7, Capitals 3 · first star Vincent Trocheck (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.

New York Rangers 7 at Washington Capitals 3

Rangers NYR

7 FINAL 3

Capitals WSH

Tuesday, December 23, 2025 · 7:00 PM ET · Capital One Arena, Washington · TV SN

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Rangers	1	1	5	7	21
Capitals	0	3	0	3	32

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Rangers 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: NYR 21, WSH 32.

NYR in red WSH in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Rangers 21 shots on goal (7 goals, 14 missed, 20 blocked) attacking left; Capitals 32 shots on goal (3 goals, 21 missed, 19 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	NYR SOG	NYR G	NYR ATT	WSH SOG	WSH G	WSH ATT
1st	5	1	19	6	0	24
2nd	5	1	14	15	3	27
3rd	11	5	22	11	0	21
Total	21	7	55	32	3	72

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	NYR SOG	NYR G	WSH SOG	WSH G
Even strength	18	6	23	2
Power play	3	1	7	1
Short-handed	0	0	2	0
Into an empty net	1	1	0	0

Attempt share by period

Capitals took 56.7% of the shot attempts, and 55.7% of the 97 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 Rangers hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Rangers at Capitals
Period	WSH CF%	WSH FF%
1st	55.8	53.9
2nd	65.8	75.0
3rd	48.8	52.9
Game	56.7	60.2

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

Scoring summary

1st period

14:57 Taylor Raddysh (6) Jonny Brodzinski (4), Braden Schneider (6) · snap 1–0

2nd period

00:23 John Carlson (8) Aliaksei Protas (11), Ryan Leonard (12) · snap 1–1
08:40 Dylan Strome (7) PP Connor McMichael (14), Ryan Leonard (13) · snap 1–2
11:14 Will Cuylle (10) PP Mika Zibanejad (16), Vincent Trocheck (12) · tip-in 2–2
12:11 Aliaksei Protas (13) Sonny Milano (3), Hendrix Lapierre (6) · snap 2–3

3rd period

08:10 Taylor Raddysh (7) Will Cuylle (12), Noah Laba (7) · backhand 3–3
09:18 Alexis Lafrenière (8) Artemi Panarin (24), Scott Morrow (3) · tip-in 4–3
13:43 Vincent Trocheck (7) Jonny Brodzinski (5), Gabe Perreault (3) · wrist 5–3
17:44 Artemi Panarin (14) EN Mika Zibanejad (17), Alexis Lafrenière (12) · snap 6–3
18:09 Vincent Trocheck (8) Will Cuylle (13), Taylor Raddysh (4) · backhand 7–3

Three stars

Vincent Trocheck NYR · C #16 · 2 G, 1 A
Taylor Raddysh NYR · R #14 · 2 G, 1 A
Aliaksei Protas WSH · C #21 · 1 G, 1 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	07:49	WSH	Ryan Leonard	high sticking double minor	4	Jonny Brodzinski
2nd	03:57	NYR	Matthew Robertson	slashing	2	Ryan Leonard
2nd	08:29	NYR	Carson Soucy	holding	2	Nic Dowd
2nd	10:54	WSH	Connor McMichael	tripping	2	Vincent Trocheck
3rd	02:23	WSH	Alex Ovechkin	cross checking	2	Brennan Othmann
3rd	19:31	NYR	Noah Laba	tripping	2	Matt Roy

Boxscore

New York Rangers

Rangers skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Vincent Trocheck #16	C	2	1	3	+2	2	0	1	0	61.9	19:54
Taylor Raddysh #14	R	2	1	3	+3	3	0	3	0	0.0	15:24
Will Cuylle #50	L	1	2	3	+2	1	4	0	0	0.0	18:56
Alexis Lafrenière #13	L	1	1	2	+1	2	0	0	0	0.0	18:22
Artemi Panarin #10	L	1	1	2	+1	4	1	0	0	0.0	21:22
Jonny Brodzinski #22	C	0	2	2	+2	3	0	0	0	0.0	13:10
Mika Zibanejad #93	C	0	2	2	+1	0	2	1	0	25.0	20:41
Noah Laba #42	C	0	1	1	+1	0	3	3	2	70.0	15:16
Gabe Perreault #94	R	0	1	1	+1	0	0	1	0	0.0	14:56
Braden Schneider #4	D	0	1	1	+1	1	1	0	0	0.0	19:58
Scott Morrow #60	D	0	1	1	+2	0	0	3	0	0.0	19:14
Matt Rempe #73	C	0	0	0	-1	0	2	0	0	0.0	08:01
Sam Carrick #39	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	50.0	09:46
Brennan Othmann #78	L	0	0	0	-1	2	1	1	0	0.0	07:55
Carson Soucy #24	D	0	0	0	+1	0	2	0	2	0.0	19:10
Matthew Robertson #29	D	0	0	0	+2	0	0	0	2	0.0	14:44
Vladislav Gavrikov #44	D	0	0	0	+1	1	1	4	0	0.0	19:46
Will Borgen #17	D	0	0	0	+1	2	1	1	0	0.0	20:45

Rangers goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Igor Shesterkin #31	W	32	29	3	.906	21/23	6/7	60:00

Washington Capitals

Capitals skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Aliaksei Protas #21	L	1	1	2	+1	1	1	0	0	0.0	17:04
Ryan Leonard #9	R	0	2	2	+1	2	1	1	4	0.0	17:54
Dylan Strome #17	C	1	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	50.0	18:34
John Carlson #74	D	1	0	1	-1	4	0	1	0	0.0	22:18
Hendrix Lapierre #29	C	0	1	1	-2	1	0	0	0	40.0	07:19
Connor McMichael #24	L	0	1	1	-1	4	1	0	2	0.0	18:00
Sonny Milano #15	L	0	1	1	-1	1	0	0	0	0.0	07:07
Justin Sourdif #34	C	0	0	0	-2	2	1	1	0	50.0	15:47
Nic Dowd #26	C	0	0	0	-1	0	3	1	0	41.2	16:16
Alex Ovechkin #8	L	0	0	0	-2	1	1	0	2	0.0	18:27
Brandon Duhaime #22	L	0	0	0	-2	2	0	1	0	0.0	10:15
Anthony Beauvillier #72	R	0	0	0	-2	2	0	0	0	0.0	16:22
Ethen Frank #53	R	0	0	0	-2	2	1	0	0	0.0	14:29
Declan Chisholm #47	D	0	0	0	-2	4	0	3	0	0.0	14:11
Jakob Chychrun #6	D	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	0.0	22:00
Martin Fehérváry #42	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0.0	21:21
Matt Roy #3	D	0	0	0	-3	2	2	1	0	0.0	21:27
Trevor van Riemsdyk #57	D	0	0	0	-2	1	0	2	0	0.0	16:32

Capitals goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Logan Thompson #48	L	20	14	6	.700	12/17	2/3	58:17

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.