Game

Capitals at Panthers

Panthers 5, Capitals 3 · first star Aaron Ekblad (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.

Washington Capitals 3 at Florida Panthers 5

Capitals WSH

3 FINAL 5

Panthers FLA

Monday, December 29, 2025 · 7:00 PM ET · Amerant Bank Arena, Sunrise · TV TVAS

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Capitals	2	0	1	3	27
Panthers	2	0	3	5	29

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Capitals attack left, Panthers attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 3 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: WSH 27, FLA 29.

WSH in red FLA in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Capitals 27 shots on goal (3 goals, 16 missed, 6 blocked) attacking left; Panthers 29 shots on goal (5 goals, 19 missed, 22 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	WSH SOG	WSH G	WSH ATT	FLA SOG	FLA G	FLA ATT
1st	10	2	18	10	2	22
2nd	12	0	19	8	0	25
3rd	5	1	12	11	3	23
Total	27	3	49	29	5	70

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	WSH SOG	WSH G	FLA SOG	FLA G
Even strength	15	2	21	4
Power play	7	1	8	1
Short-handed	5	0	0	0
Into an empty net	0	0	1	1

Attempt share by period

Panthers took 58.8% of the shot attempts, and 67.7% of the 65 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 Panthers 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 Panthers
Period	FLA CF%	FLA FF%
1st	55.0	48.5
2nd	56.8	48.6
3rd	65.7	65.2
Game	58.8	52.8

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

Scoring summary

1st period

03:53 Tom Wilson (18) Martin Fehérváry (9), Dylan Strome (22) · snap 1–0
04:35 Anton Lundell (13) Jeff Petry (8) · tip-in 1–1
12:45 Sam Reinhart (20) PP Seth Jones (16), Brad Marchand (22) · wrist 1–2
19:17 Tom Wilson (19) PP Dylan Strome (23), Jakob Chychrun (15) · snap 2–2

3rd period

03:11 Dylan Strome (8) Tom Wilson (18), Aliaksei Protas (14) · wrist 3–2
06:16 Brad Marchand (22) Sam Bennett (15), Seth Jones (17) · bat 3–3
13:12 Aaron Ekblad (2) Sam Reinhart (21), Anton Lundell (17) · slap 3–4
19:25 Sam Reinhart (21) EN Eetu Luostarinen (13), Aaron Ekblad (13) · backhand 3–5

Three stars

Aaron Ekblad FLA · D #5 · 1 G, 1 A
Sam Reinhart FLA · C #13 · 2 G, 1 A
Tom Wilson WSH · R #43 · 2 G, 1 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	08:33	WSH	Anthony Beauvillier	holding	2	Evan Rodrigues
1st	11:44	WSH	Ethen Frank	slashing	2	Niko Mikkola
1st	16:54	FLA	A.J. Greer	slashing	2	Matt Roy
1st	18:04	FLA	Seth Jones	high sticking double minor	4	Justin Sourdif
2nd	04:20	FLA	Gustav Forsling	tripping	2	Tom Wilson
2nd	11:48	WSH	Ryan Leonard	tripping	2	Brad Marchand
2nd	13:50	WSH	Nic Dowd	tripping	2	Evan Rodrigues
3rd	04:15	WSH	Alex Ovechkin	interference	2	Aaron Ekblad
3rd	06:55	FLA	Gustav Forsling	interference	2	Alex Ovechkin
3rd	07:19	WSH	Ryan Leonard	holding	2	Seth Jones
3rd	17:12	FLA	Eetu Luostarinen	slashing	2	Trevor van Riemsdyk

Boxscore

Washington Capitals

Capitals skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Tom Wilson #43	R	2	1	3	+1	6	2	0	0	0.0	20:48
Dylan Strome #17	C	1	2	3	0	4	0	0	0	73.7	20:56
Aliaksei Protas #21	L	0	1	1	-2	3	1	0	0	25.0	17:19
Jakob Chychrun #6	D	0	1	1	-1	4	0	2	0	0.0	26:59
Martin Fehérváry #42	D	0	1	1	+1	1	2	6	0	0.0	17:05
Hendrix Lapierre #29	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	100.0	06:09
Justin Sourdif #34	C	0	0	0	-1	0	1	1	0	45.5	14:39
Nic Dowd #26	C	0	0	0	0	3	1	1	2	41.2	14:38
Alex Ovechkin #8	L	0	0	0	-2	2	5	0	2	0.0	20:24
Brandon Duhaime #22	L	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	06:34
Connor McMichael #24	L	0	0	0	-1	0	1	1	0	0.0	16:28
Anthony Beauvillier #72	R	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	50.0	14:17
Ethen Frank #53	R	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0.0	08:53
Ryan Leonard #9	R	0	0	0	-1	1	1	1	4	0.0	14:13
John Carlson #74	D	0	0	0	-1	1	0	1	0	0.0	22:43
Matt Roy #3	D	0	0	0	-1	0	2	2	0	0.0	17:38
Rasmus Sandin #38	D	0	0	0	-1	1	1	1	0	0.0	15:56
Trevor van Riemsdyk #57	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	2	0	0.0	14:35

Capitals goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Logan Thompson #48	L	28	24	4	.857	17/20	7/8	58:45

Florida Panthers

Panthers skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Sam Reinhart #13	C	2	1	3	+3	5	0	0	0	50.0	23:25
Anton Lundell #15	C	1	1	2	+2	3	2	0	0	29.4	20:14
Brad Marchand #63	L	1	1	2	0	2	2	0	0	0.0	21:28
Aaron Ekblad #5	D	1	1	2	+2	2	1	2	0	0.0	22:01
Seth Jones #3	D	0	2	2	-1	1	0	2	4	0.0	22:19
Eetu Luostarinen #27	C	0	1	1	+2	0	0	0	2	0.0	16:21
Sam Bennett #9	C	0	1	1	0	3	2	0	0	75.0	20:51
Jeff Petry #2	D	0	1	1	+1	0	0	0	0	0.0	14:16
Carter Verhaeghe #23	C	0	0	0	-1	3	0	0	0	0.0	14:55
Evan Rodrigues #17	C	0	0	0	+1	1	0	0	0	43.8	15:50
Jack Studnicka #53	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	04:53
Jesper Boqvist #70	C	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	07:39
Luke Kunin #71	C	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	50.0	05:58
A.J. Greer #10	L	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	0.0	10:38
Mackie Samoskevich #11	R	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	0.0	15:50
Gustav Forsling #42	D	0	0	0	+2	1	1	0	4	0.0	19:03
Niko Mikkola #77	D	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	0.0	19:15
Uvis Balinskis #26	D	0	0	0	+1	2	4	2	0	0.0	13:54

Panthers goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Sergei Bobrovsky #72	W	27	24	3	.889	13/15	6/7	59:57

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.