Game

Devils at Capitals

Capitals 2, Devils 1 · first star Logan Thompson (0 GA, .968 SV%).

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

New Jersey Devils 1 at Washington Capitals 2

Devils NJD

1 FINAL 2

Capitals WSH

Friday, March 20, 2026 · 7:00 PM ET · Capital One Arena, Washington · TV SN

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Devils	0	0	1	1	31
Capitals	1	0	1	2	28

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Devils attack left, Capitals 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; 1 empty-net goal is drawn as a diamond. Boxscore shots on goal: NJD 31, WSH 28.

NJD in red WSH in blue goal empty-net goal shot on goal missed blocked Devils 31 shots on goal (1 goal, 22 missed, 15 blocked) attacking left; Capitals 28 shots on goal (2 goals, 13 missed, 14 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	NJD SOG	NJD G	NJD ATT	WSH SOG	WSH G	WSH ATT
1st	5	0	14	8	1	18
2nd	8	0	23	7	0	16
3rd	18	1	31	13	1	21
Total	31	1	68	28	2	55

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	NJD SOG	NJD G	WSH SOG	WSH G
Even strength	29	1	26	2
Power play	2	0	1	0
Short-handed	0	0	1	0
Into an empty net	0	0	1	1

Attempt share by period

Devils took 55.3% of the shot attempts, and 53.4% of the 103 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 Devils hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Devils at Capitals
Period	WSH CF%	WSH FF%
1st	56.3	52.6
2nd	41.0	38.7
3rd	40.4	43.2
Game	44.7	43.6

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

Scoring summary

1st period

09:36 Ryan Leonard (15) Brandon Duhaime (4), Trevor van Riemsdyk (9) · snap 0–1

3rd period

18:17 Aliaksei Protas (23) EN Pierre-Luc Dubois (5), Tom Wilson (27) · wrist 0–2
19:17 Jesper Bratt (17) Jack Hughes (37) · snap 1–2

Three stars

Logan Thompson WSH · G #48 · 0 GA, .968 SV%
Ryan Leonard WSH · R #9 · 1 G, 0 A
Jake Allen NJD · G #34 · 0 GA, .963 SV%

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
2nd	04:30	WSH	Ethen Frank	high sticking	2	Lenni Hameenaho
2nd	18:17	WSH	Tom Wilson	hooking	2	Arseny Gritsyuk
3rd	08:38	NJD	Johnathan Kovacevic	hooking	2	Anthony Beauvillier

Boxscore

New Jersey Devils

Devils skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Jesper Bratt #63	L	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	20:04
Jack Hughes #86	C	0	1	1	0	4	0	0	0	44.4	26:18
Cody Glass #12	C	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	0	46.7	12:22
Dawson Mercer #91	C	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	0.0	15:37
Nick Bjugstad #72	C	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0.0	06:49
Nico Hischier #13	C	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	52.0	21:15
Paul Cotter #47	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	100.0	06:55
Arseny Gritsyuk #81	R	0	0	0	-1	5	2	0	0	0.0	15:09
Connor Brown #16	R	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	0.0	23:04
Lenni Hameenaho #29	R	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	0.0	11:21
Maxim Tsyplakov #42	R	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	06:59
Timo Meier #28	R	0	0	0	+1	2	1	0	0	0.0	18:41
Brenden Dillon #5	D	0	0	0	-1	0	4	2	0	0.0	16:18
Dougie Hamilton #7	D	0	0	0	+1	1	2	1	0	0.0	23:37
Johnathan Kovacevic #8	D	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	2	0.0	15:10
Jonas Siegenthaler #71	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	0.0	15:37
Luke Hughes #43	D	0	0	0	-1	3	1	1	0	0.0	23:51
Simon Nemec #17	D	0	0	0	-2	2	0	4	0	0.0	20:32

Devils goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Jake Allen #34	L	27	26	1	.963	24/25	1/1	58:21

Washington Capitals

Capitals skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Aliaksei Protas #21	L	1	0	1	+1	4	0	0	0	0.0	18:15
Ryan Leonard #9	R	1	0	1	0	3	1	1	0	0.0	14:08
Pierre-Luc Dubois #80	C	0	1	1	+1	1	0	0	0	61.5	17:24
Brandon Duhaime #22	L	0	1	1	+1	4	1	0	0	0.0	11:51
Tom Wilson #43	R	0	1	1	+1	2	3	2	2	0.0	17:21
Trevor van Riemsdyk #57	D	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	0.0	18:47
Dylan Strome #17	C	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	46.2	14:10
Hendrix Lapierre #29	C	0	0	0	+1	0	0	0	0	42.9	11:02
Justin Sourdif #34	C	0	0	0	-1	0	1	2	0	40.0	14:51
Alex Ovechkin #8	L	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0.0	13:29
Connor McMichael #24	L	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	0	75.0	16:16
Anthony Beauvillier #72	R	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	0	100.0	17:49
Ethen Frank #53	R	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	0.0	11:23
Cole Hutson #44	D	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0.0	17:04
Jakob Chychrun #6	D	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0.0	21:46
Martin Fehérváry #42	D	0	0	0	+1	0	2	0	0	0.0	21:22
Matt Roy #3	D	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0.0	19:56
Rasmus Sandin #38	D	0	0	0	+1	0	1	2	0	0.0	19:14

Capitals goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Logan Thompson #48	W	31	30	1	.968	28/29	2/2	59:52

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.