Game

Blackhawks at Capitals

Blackhawks 3, Capitals 2 in a shootout · first star Spencer Knight (0 GA, .941 SV%).

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

Chicago Blackhawks 3 at Washington Capitals 2

Blackhawks CHI

3 FINAL/SO 2

Capitals WSH

Saturday, January 3, 2026 · 7:00 PM ET · Capital One Arena, Washington

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	1OT	SO	T	SOG
Blackhawks	1	1	0	0	1	3	33
Capitals	1	0	1	0	0	2	34

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Blackhawks 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. Boxscore shots on goal: CHI 33, WSH 34.

CHI in red WSH in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Blackhawks 33 shots on goal (2 goals, 9 missed, 19 blocked) attacking left; Capitals 34 shots on goal (2 goals, 15 missed, 11 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	CHI SOG	CHI G	CHI ATT	WSH SOG	WSH G	WSH ATT
1st	9	1	24	13	1	20
2nd	9	1	14	7	0	15
3rd	13	0	21	14	1	23
OT	2	0	2	0	0	2
Total	33	2	61	34	2	60

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	CHI SOG	CHI G	WSH SOG	WSH G
Even strength	32	1	30	2
Power play	1	1	4	0
Short-handed	0	0	0	0

Attempt share by period

Blackhawks took 50.4% of the shot attempts, and 53.8% of the 106 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 Blackhawks hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Blackhawks at Capitals
Period	WSH CF%	WSH FF%
1st	45.5	51.6
2nd	51.7	55.0
3rd	52.3	55.6
OT	50.0	50.0
Game	49.6	53.9

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

Scoring summary

1st period

01:13 Ryan Donato (10) Ilya Mikheyev (5) · tip-in 1–0
04:46 Dylan Strome (10) Ethen Frank (8), Trevor van Riemsdyk (5) · snap 1–1

2nd period

04:24 Teuvo Teravainen (9) PP Tyler Bertuzzi (12), Andre Burakovsky (17) · snap 2–1

3rd period

11:18 Ryan Leonard (8) Matt Roy (11), Anthony Beauvillier (6) · bat 2–2

Shootout

00:00 Nick Foligno Unassisted · wrist 3–2

Three stars

Spencer Knight CHI · G #30 · 0 GA, .941 SV%
Logan Thompson WSH · G #48 · 0 GA, .939 SV%
Ryan Leonard WSH · R #9 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
2nd	03:20	WSH	Jakob Chychrun	roughing	2	Colton Dach
3rd	07:27	CHI	Wyatt Kaiser	tripping	2	Alex Ovechkin
Overtime	04:06	WSH	Jakob Chychrun	slashing	2	Nick Lardis

Boxscore

Chicago Blackhawks

Blackhawks skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Ryan Donato #8	C	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	16:59
Teuvo Teravainen #86	C	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	50.0	15:44
Andre Burakovsky #28	L	0	1	1	-1	4	0	1	0	0.0	20:37
Tyler Bertuzzi #59	L	0	1	1	-1	3	0	1	0	100.0	18:43
Ilya Mikheyev #95	R	0	1	1	+1	2	2	0	0	0.0	18:26
Colton Dach #34	C	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	11:41
Jason Dickinson #16	C	0	0	0	+1	1	2	2	0	41.7	17:21
Oliver Moore #11	C	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	50.0	13:58
Ryan Greene #20	C	0	0	0	-1	4	0	1	0	56.2	20:07
Landon Slaggert #84	L	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	10:56
Nick Foligno #17	L	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	42.9	10:27
Nick Lardis #76	L	0	0	0	-1	3	1	0	0	0.0	14:34
Alex Vlasic #72	D	0	0	0	+1	1	0	0	0	0.0	23:13
Artyom Levshunov #55	D	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	0.0	23:46
Connor Murphy #5	D	0	0	0	-2	1	1	0	0	0.0	16:50
Louis Crevier #46	D	0	0	0	+1	2	2	1	0	0.0	20:30
Matt Grzelcyk #48	D	0	0	0	-2	3	0	0	0	0.0	17:26
Wyatt Kaiser #44	D	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	0.0	22:36

Blackhawks goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Spencer Knight #30	W	34	32	2	.941	28/30	4/4	65:00

Washington Capitals

Capitals skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Dylan Strome #17	C	1	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	72.2	21:12
Ryan Leonard #9	R	1	0	1	+1	3	2	0	0	0.0	20:21
Anthony Beauvillier #72	R	0	1	1	+1	3	0	1	0	0.0	20:07
Ethen Frank #53	R	0	1	1	+1	4	1	1	0	0.0	14:20
Matt Roy #3	D	0	1	1	+1	2	0	1	0	0.0	18:43
Trevor van Riemsdyk #57	D	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	0.0	16:06
Hendrix Lapierre #29	C	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0.0	06:53
Justin Sourdif #34	C	0	0	0	+1	4	0	1	0	35.7	20:51
Nic Dowd #26	C	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	50.0	19:09
Alex Ovechkin #8	L	0	0	0	-1	2	4	0	0	0.0	18:49
Brandon Duhaime #22	L	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0.0	11:37
Connor McMichael #24	L	0	0	0	0	3	3	3	0	0.0	22:07
Sonny Milano #15	L	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0.0	07:25
Tom Wilson #43	R	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0.0	05:55
Jakob Chychrun #6	D	0	0	0	+1	2	3	2	4	0.0	24:58
John Carlson #74	D	0	0	0	0	5	1	1	0	0.0	23:53
Martin Fehérváry #42	D	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0.0	21:20
Rasmus Sandin #38	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	20:10

Capitals goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Logan Thompson #48	O	33	31	2	.939	31/32	0/1	65:00

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.