Game

Panthers at Capitals

Panthers 5, Capitals 2 · first star Sam Bennett (1 G, 2 A).

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

Florida Panthers 5 at Washington Capitals 2

Panthers FLA

5 FINAL 2

Capitals WSH

Saturday, January 17, 2026 · 7:00 PM ET · Capital One Arena, Washington

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Panthers	1	2	2	5	31
Capitals	0	2	0	2	24

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Panthers attack left, Capitals attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 7 marks in a team's own end are attempts logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net; 2 empty-net goals are drawn as diamonds. Boxscore shots on goal: FLA 31, WSH 24.

FLA in red WSH in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Panthers 31 shots on goal (5 goals, 19 missed, 19 blocked) attacking left; Capitals 24 shots on goal (2 goals, 21 missed, 10 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	FLA SOG	FLA G	FLA ATT	WSH SOG	WSH G	WSH ATT
1st	14	1	28	4	0	13
2nd	7	2	19	14	2	30
3rd	10	2	22	6	0	12
Total	31	5	69	24	2	55

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	FLA SOG	FLA G	WSH SOG	WSH G
Even strength	27	4	21	2
Power play	4	1	2	0
Short-handed	0	0	1	0
Into an empty net	2	2	0	0

Attempt share by period

Panthers took 55.6% of the shot attempts, and 55.8% of the 104 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 Panthers hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Panthers at Capitals
Period	WSH CF%	WSH FF%
1st	31.7	32.4
2nd	61.2	74.3
3rd	35.3	30.8
Game	44.4	47.4

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

Scoring summary

1st period

13:23 A.J. Greer (10) Sam Bennett (20), Aaron Ekblad (16) · snap 1–0

2nd period

02:04 Jakob Chychrun (16) Aliaksei Protas (16), John Carlson (28) · snap 1–1
10:04 Jakob Chychrun (17) John Carlson (29), Nic Dowd (10) · snap 1–2
11:40 Sam Bennett (17) Carter Verhaeghe (22), Niko Mikkola (7) · snap 2–2
15:16 Uvis Balinskis (3) PP Anton Lundell (20), Sam Reinhart (22) · slap 3–2

3rd period

18:40 Anton Lundell (15) EN Sam Reinhart (23) · snap 4–2
19:26 Carter Verhaeghe (14) EN Sam Bennett (21), A.J. Greer (9) · snap 5–2

Three stars

Sam Bennett FLA · C #9 · 1 G, 2 A
Jakob Chychrun WSH · D #6 · 2 G, 0 A
Uvis Balinskis FLA · D #26 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
2nd	01:14	FLA	Sam Bennett	roughing	2	Nic Dowd
2nd	01:14	WSH	Nic Dowd	roughing	2	Sam Bennett
2nd	14:31	WSH	Alex Ovechkin	delaying game puck over glass	2	—
3rd	00:22	FLA	Eetu Luostarinen	high sticking	2	Martin Fehérváry
3rd	08:30	WSH	Ethen Frank	roughing	2	Mackie Samoskevich

Boxscore

Florida Panthers

Panthers skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Sam Bennett #9	C	1	2	3	+3	5	2	0	2	27.3	20:22
Anton Lundell #15	C	1	1	2	0	2	2	0	0	72.2	21:19
Carter Verhaeghe #23	C	1	1	2	+3	3	0	0	0	0.0	19:41
A.J. Greer #10	L	1	1	2	+2	2	2	0	0	0.0	15:40
Sam Reinhart #13	C	0	2	2	0	4	0	0	0	0.0	22:05
Uvis Balinskis #26	D	1	0	1	+1	2	1	3	0	0.0	19:01
Aaron Ekblad #5	D	0	1	1	+1	1	3	1	0	0.0	26:08
Niko Mikkola #77	D	0	1	1	+2	0	2	1	0	0.0	19:21
Eetu Luostarinen #27	C	0	0	0	+1	2	0	0	2	0.0	18:41
Evan Rodrigues #17	C	0	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	33.3	14:44
Jesper Boqvist #70	C	0	0	0	-1	2	1	0	0	0.0	07:27
Luke Kunin #71	C	0	0	0	-1	1	1	0	0	28.6	07:50
Sandis Vilmanis #95	L	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	10:49
Cole Schwindt #79	R	0	0	0	-1	0	4	0	0	0.0	07:51
Mackie Samoskevich #11	R	0	0	0	+1	1	1	0	0	0.0	12:07
Gustav Forsling #42	D	0	0	0	+1	1	0	0	0	0.0	26:59
Jeff Petry #2	D	0	0	0	-1	0	1	1	0	0.0	13:55
Tobias Bjornfot #22	D	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	0.0	12:00

Panthers goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Daniil Tarasov #40	W	24	22	2	.917	19/21	2/2	60:00

Washington Capitals

Capitals skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Jakob Chychrun #6	D	2	0	2	-1	3	2	2	0	0.0	25:02
John Carlson #74	D	0	2	2	+1	3	0	2	0	0.0	21:56
Nic Dowd #26	C	0	1	1	+1	0	3	0	2	64.3	15:14
Aliaksei Protas #21	L	0	1	1	0	1	2	1	0	0.0	22:47
Dylan Strome #17	C	0	0	0	-3	2	0	2	0	76.9	19:05
Hendrix Lapierre #29	C	0	0	0	-1	1	2	1	0	66.7	06:36
Alex Ovechkin #8	L	0	0	0	-3	1	3	0	2	0.0	16:08
Brandon Duhaime #22	L	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	100.0	07:21
Connor McMichael #24	L	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	40.0	20:28
Ivan Miroshnichenko #63	L	0	0	0	+1	1	3	1	0	0.0	11:49
Anthony Beauvillier #72	R	0	0	0	-2	2	2	1	0	0.0	18:03
Brett Leason #20	R	0	0	0	-1	0	2	0	0	100.0	05:47
Ethen Frank #53	R	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	2	0.0	14:49
Ryan Leonard #9	R	0	0	0	-1	2	2	0	0	0.0	19:36
Martin Fehérváry #42	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	4	0	0.0	18:46
Matt Roy #3	D	0	0	0	0	2	3	2	0	0.0	20:22
Rasmus Sandin #38	D	0	0	0	-1	2	1	0	0	0.0	17:52
Trevor van Riemsdyk #57	D	0	0	0	-2	0	0	2	0	0.0	13:57

Capitals goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Logan Thompson #48	L	29	26	3	.897	23/25	3/4	59:37

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.