Game

Capitals at Senators

Senators 4, Capitals 3 · first star Thomas Chabot (0 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 Ottawa Senators 4

Capitals WSH

3 FINAL 4

Senators OTT

Thursday, January 1, 2026 · 1:00 PM ET · Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Capitals	2	0	1	3	29
Senators	0	2	2	4	32

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Capitals attack left, Senators attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 4 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 29, OTT 32.

WSH in red OTT in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Capitals 29 shots on goal (3 goals, 10 missed, 14 blocked) attacking left; Senators 32 shots on goal (4 goals, 12 missed, 23 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	WSH SOG	WSH G	WSH ATT	OTT SOG	OTT G	OTT ATT
1st	16	2	21	6	0	15
2nd	7	0	18	15	2	24
3rd	6	1	14	11	2	28
Total	29	3	53	32	4	67

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	WSH SOG	WSH G	OTT SOG	OTT G
Even strength	22	2	27	4
Power play	5	1	5	0
Short-handed	2	0	0	0

Attempt share by period

Senators took 55.8% of the shot attempts, and 54.9% of the 82 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 Senators 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 Senators
Period	OTT CF%	OTT FF%
1st	41.7	26.9
2nd	57.1	66.7
3rd	66.7	63.0
Game	55.8	53.0

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

Scoring summary

1st period

08:13 Tom Wilson (22) Justin Sourdif (7) · wrist 1–0
18:59 Dylan Strome (9) PP Ryan Leonard (15), Jakob Chychrun (16) · wrist 2–0

2nd period

07:42 Nick Jensen (2) Jake Sanderson (20), Shane Pinto (7) · wrist 2–1
19:31 Ridly Greig (5) Shane Pinto (8), Michael Amadio (9) · deflected 2–2

3rd period

02:47 David Perron (8) Stephen Halliday (6), Nick Cousins (4) · snap 2–3
15:53 Aliaksei Protas (16) Justin Sourdif (8), Tom Wilson (20) · wrist 3–3
17:38 Fabian Zetterlund (10) Thomas Chabot (11), Tim Stützle (23) · snap 3–4

Three stars

Thomas Chabot OTT · D #72 · 0 G, 1 A
Shane Pinto OTT · C #12 · 0 G, 2 A
Fabian Zetterlund OTT · L #20 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	04:21	WSH	Alex Ovechkin	high sticking	2	Michael Amadio
1st	09:16	OTT	Artem Zub	roughing	2	Dylan Strome
1st	09:16	OTT	Artem Zub	tripping	2	Aliaksei Protas
1st	09:16	WSH	Dylan Strome	slashing	2	Artem Zub
1st	14:25	OTT	Drake Batherson	fighting (major)	5	Justin Sourdif
1st	14:25	WSH	Justin Sourdif	fighting (major)	5	Drake Batherson
1st	17:53	OTT	Nick Jensen	high sticking	2	Brandon Duhaime
2nd	03:13	OTT	Nick Cousins	cross checking	2	Ryan Leonard
2nd	08:21	WSH	Connor McMichael	slashing	2	David Perron
2nd	09:23	OTT	David Perron	tripping	2	Aliaksei Protas
2nd	15:41	OTT	Nick Cousins	roughing	2	Trevor van Riemsdyk
2nd	15:41	WSH	Trevor van Riemsdyk	roughing	2	Nick Cousins
3rd	03:39	WSH	Matt Roy	tripping	2	Brady Tkachuk
3rd	11:21	WSH	Anthony Beauvillier	slashing	2	Michael Amadio

Boxscore

Washington Capitals

Capitals skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Tom Wilson #43	R	1	1	2	+1	3	3	1	0	0.0	22:51
Justin Sourdif #34	C	0	2	2	+2	1	1	0	5	46.2	13:25
Dylan Strome #17	C	1	0	1	-3	4	0	0	2	66.7	18:47
Aliaksei Protas #21	L	1	0	1	-1	3	0	1	0	0.0	14:55
Ryan Leonard #9	R	0	1	1	-1	0	1	0	0	0.0	12:58
Jakob Chychrun #6	D	0	1	1	+1	2	0	0	0	0.0	23:25
Hendrix Lapierre #29	C	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	33.3	07:12
Nic Dowd #26	C	0	0	0	-1	0	1	1	0	47.1	17:29
Alex Ovechkin #8	L	0	0	0	-2	4	4	0	2	0.0	16:33
Brandon Duhaime #22	L	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	100.0	08:37
Connor McMichael #24	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	33.3	18:21
Anthony Beauvillier #72	R	0	0	0	-1	2	1	1	2	0.0	15:27
Ethen Frank #53	R	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	11:34
John Carlson #74	D	0	0	0	-1	2	0	5	0	0.0	23:15
Martin Fehérváry #42	D	0	0	0	-2	3	1	3	0	0.0	16:04
Matt Roy #3	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0.0	21:38
Rasmus Sandin #38	D	0	0	0	-1	1	1	0	0	0.0	18:05
Trevor van Riemsdyk #57	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	3	2	0.0	11:39

Capitals goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Logan Thompson #48	L	32	28	4	.875	23/27	5/5	57:45

Ottawa Senators

Senators skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Shane Pinto #12	C	0	2	2	+1	1	1	0	0	37.5	18:54
Ridly Greig #71	C	1	0	1	+1	4	2	0	0	11.1	15:08
David Perron #57	L	1	0	1	+1	5	4	0	2	0.0	12:35
Fabian Zetterlund #20	L	1	0	1	+1	2	2	1	0	0.0	10:30
Nick Jensen #3	D	1	0	1	+2	2	2	1	2	0.0	18:10
Nick Cousins #21	C	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	4	0.0	06:43
Stephen Halliday #83	C	0	1	1	+1	1	1	1	0	0.0	06:54
Tim Stützle #18	C	0	1	1	0	2	4	1	0	66.7	21:23
Michael Amadio #22	R	0	1	1	+1	0	3	0	0	0.0	16:06
Jake Sanderson #85	D	0	1	1	+1	2	1	3	0	0.0	25:44
Thomas Chabot #72	D	0	1	1	+2	0	1	2	0	0.0	22:54
Dylan Cozens #24	C	0	0	0	0	4	1	1	0	52.9	18:16
Brady Tkachuk #7	L	0	0	0	0	3	3	1	0	100.0	17:45
Claude Giroux #28	R	0	0	0	+1	2	0	0	0	72.7	16:56
Drake Batherson #19	R	0	0	0	-1	1	3	0	5	0.0	16:07
Artem Zub #2	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	0.0	18:55
Jordan Spence #10	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0.0	14:23
Tyler Kleven #43	D	0	0	0	-1	0	4	1	0	0.0	13:31

Senators goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Leevi Meriläinen #1	W	29	26	3	.897	20/22	4/5	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.