Capitals vs. Sabres (Mar 12, 2026)

Forward Matchup

A. Ovechkin

WSH LW #8

T. Thompson

BUF C #72

24

Goals

33

50

Points

65

180

Shots on Goal

217

Defenseman Matchup

J. Chychrun

WSH D #6

R. Dahlin

BUF D #26

49

Points

53

83

Blocks

70

48

Hits

56

Goalie Matchup

L. Thompson

WSH G #48

A. Lyon

BUF G #34

21

Wins

16

.913

Save Pct

.914

2.42

Goals Against Avg

2.66

WSH

Team Stats

BUF

3.14

Goals per Game

3.4

2.92

Goals Against per Game

2.97

29.10

Shots per Game

27.94

28.06

Shots Against per Game

30.13

16.4

Power Play Pct

19.8

78.5

Penalty Kill Pct

83.4

.896

Save Pct

.901

WSH

Injuries

BUF

John Carlson

D

Day to day (Lower-Body)

C

Tyson Kozak

Day to day (Undisclosed)

C

Jiri Kulich

Out (Ear)

RW

Justin Danforth

Out (Lower Body)

D

Conor Timmins

Out (Leg)

LW

Jordan Greenway

Out (Abdomen)

2025-26 Metropolitan Division

WSHBUF

Team	W	L	OTL	PTS	DIFF
Hurricanes	39	16	6	84	39
Penguins	31	17	13	75	25
Islanders	35	23	5	75	4
Blue Jackets	32	21	8	72	3
Capitals	31	25	7	69	10
Flyers	28	22	11	67	-14
Devils	31	29	2	64	-26
Rangers	24	29	8	56	-26

Team	W	L	OTL	PTS	DIFF
Lightning	38	18	4	80	49
Sabres	37	19	6	80	30
Red Wings	35	20	7	77	-2
Canadiens	33	18	9	75	13
Bruins	34	22	5	73	11
Senators	30	22	9	69	11
Maple Leafs	27	25	11	65	-21
Panthers	30	29	3	63	-21

WSH

Last 5

BUF

Tue, Mar 3

Thu, Mar 5

Sat, Feb 28

Tue, Mar 3

Fri, Feb 27

Sat, Feb 28

Wed, Feb 25

Fri, Feb 27

Thu, Feb 5

Wed, Feb 25

Game Info

March 12, 2026

ESPN+

KeyBank Center

Buffalo, New York

Team Leaders

G

24

A. Ovechkin

A

33

D. Strome

GWG

6

J. Chychrun

SV%

.913

L. Thompson

Season

Career vs BUF

	Goalie	GP	GS	W	L	OTL	SA	SV	SV%	GA	GAA	SHO	MIN
	Logan Thompson L. Thompson	42	42	21	17	4	1,143	1,043	.913	100	2.42	2	2482
	Charlie Lindgren C. Lindgren	19	18	8	7	3	539	475	.881	64	3.41	1	1126

	Goalie	GP	GS	W	L	OTL	SA	SV	SV%	GA	GAA	SHO	MIN
	Charlie Lindgren C. Lindgren	7	6	2	2	2	178	156	.876	22	3.38	0	391
	Logan Thompson L. Thompson	5	5	2	3	0	139	115	.827	24	4.85	0	297

Team Leaders

G

33

T. Thompson

A

41

R. Dahlin

GWG

4

T. Thompson

SV%

.914

A. Lyon

Season

Career vs WSH

Skater	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
Alex Ovechkin A. Ovechkin	63	24	26	50	-1	24	4	11	0	0	4	0	180	13.3	2	3	66.7	106	12	8	51	17:46
Jakob Chychrun J. Chychrun	61	22	27	49	+19	53	6	8	0	0	6	2	193	11.4	0	0	0	48	83	32	86	23:45
Tom Wilson T. Wilson	53	23	26	49	+19	78	7	4	0	0	2	0	112	20.5	14	29	48.3	138	37	12	64	19:29
Dylan Strome D. Strome	61	16	33	49	+8	34	5	13	0	0	1	0	118	13.6	627	1,058	59.3	10	40	11	51	18:27
Aliaksei Protas A. Protas	59	20	22	42	+18	18	0	1	2	1	4	0	129	15.5	16	39	41.0	29	32	18	67	18:24
Connor McMichael C. McMichael	59	8	23	31	+5	18	1	1	0	0	3	1	111	7.2	214	495	43.2	32	32	21	42	16:59
Ryan Leonard R. Leonard	56	11	20	31	+1	34	2	8	0	0	2	0	110	10.0	6	11	54.5	79	20	10	60	14:31
Justin Sourdif J. Sourdif	59	12	14	26	+11	25	2	0	0	0	1	1	84	14.3	237	516	45.9	75	29	15	35	14:30
Ethen Frank E. Frank	52	11	12	23	+7	14	2	2	0	0	0	0	82	13.4	1	6	16.7	47	39	8	25	12:44
Anthony Beauvillier A. Beauvillier	63	12	10	22	+3	20	0	0	0	1	4	0	132	9.1	20	41	48.8	78	38	13	32	15:43
Rasmus Sandin R. Sandin	56	3	19	22	+6	10	0	1	0	0	0	0	71	4.2	0	0	0	66	95	21	68	19:00
Martin Fehervary M. Fehervary	62	4	16	20	+12	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	61	6.6	0	0	0	85	132	10	42	19:08
Matt Roy M. Roy	60	1	14	15	+12	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	75	1.3	0	0	0	91	116	10	56	20:44
Hendrix Lapierre H. Lapierre	58	2	8	10	+1	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	47	4.3	85	218	39.0	36	18	5	25	8:29
Trevor van Riemsdyk T. van Riemsdyk	49	2	6	8	-4	16	0	0	0	0	1	0	28	7.1	0	0	0	7	70	12	34	15:30
Declan Chisholm D. Chisholm	24	1	5	6	+1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	20	5.0	0	0	0	11	20	5	25	13:48
Pierre-Luc Dubois P. Dubois	11	4	2	6	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	25	16.0	78	158	49.4	11	8	1	10	16:48
Brandon Duhaime B. Duhaime	63	4	2	6	-5	60	0	0	1	0	0	0	46	8.7	12	36	33.3	121	40	7	19	11:02
Dylan McIlrath D. McIlrath	12	0	0	0	-1	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0.0	0	0	0	23	7	0	7	9:00
Ivan Miroshnichenko I. Miroshnichenko	4	0	0	0	+1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0.0	0	0	0	7	3	0	1	10:27

Skater	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
Alex Ovechkin A. Ovechkin	68	42	29	71	-3	71	13	15	0	0	5	1	355	11.8	6	11	54.5	168	14	26	64	20:00
John Carlson J. Carlson	47	4	22	26	+4	12	2	7	0	0	0	0	106	3.8	0	0	0	34	60	22	42	24:07
Tom Wilson T. Wilson	36	13	10	23	+6	62	4	0	1	1	4	0	56	23.2	6	16	37.5	106	20	9	21	15:49
Pierre-Luc Dubois P. Dubois	18	8	11	19	+4	16	2	2	0	0	1	0	41	19.5	111	243	45.7	17	8	4	17	17:38
Dylan Strome D. Strome	17	7	9	16	-7	8	2	4	0	0	2	1	42	16.7	138	243	56.8	4	9	5	7	17:12
Anthony Beauvillier A. Beauvillier	24	8	7	15	+12	2	0	0	0	0	3	1	69	11.6	6	15	40.0	21	9	4	10	15:07
Jakob Chychrun J. Chychrun	16	6	6	12	0	2	1	3	0	0	0	0	44	13.6	0	0	0	17	31	7	12	22:10
Trevor van Riemsdyk T. van Riemsdyk	24	0	6	6	+3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	33	0.0	0	0	0	3	34	8	16	16:50
Connor McMichael C. McMichael	11	2	3	5	0	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	15	13.3	31	83	37.3	3	4	1	4	14:02
Martin Fehervary M. Fehervary	12	2	2	4	-2	7	0	0	0	1	0	0	16	12.5	0	0	0	37	18	1	7	20:34
Aliaksei Protas A. Protas	10	3	1	4	-5	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	27	11.1	2	4	50.0	8	4	1	6	15:39
Matt Roy M. Roy	12	1	2	3	-5	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	17	5.9	0	0	0	19	24	2	10	19:25
Rasmus Sandin R. Sandin	10	1	2	3	-10	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	12.5	0	0	0	18	10	4	11	19:16
Dylan McIlrath D. McIlrath	4	1	0	1	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	20.0	0	0	0	10	2	1	1	14:23
Brandon Duhaime B. Duhaime	10	1	0	1	-1	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	10.0	0	2	0.0	17	7	0	2	12:13
Declan Chisholm D. Chisholm	3	1	0	1	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	5	20.0	0	0	0	1	4	1	1	16:11
Hendrix Lapierre H. Lapierre	5	0	1	1	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	0.0	8	20	40.0	2	3	0	2	11:03
Ryan Leonard R. Leonard	1	0	1	1	+1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	0	0	0	1	1	0	3	12:14
Justin Sourdif J. Sourdif	1	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	0	0	0	3	0	1	1	13:02

Skater	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
Tage Thompson T. Thompson	62	33	32	65	-5	27	5	12	0	1	4	0	217	15.2	318	692	46.0	57	37	23	55	19:09
Alex Tuch A. Tuch	61	25	28	53	+18	49	6	2	2	2	2	1	150	16.7	29	68	42.6	64	69	29	50	18:48
Rasmus Dahlin R. Dahlin	58	12	41	53	0	57	4	14	0	0	0	0	153	7.8	0	0	0	56	70	25	93	24:31
Ryan McLeod R. McLeod	62	12	32	44	+23	10	0	6	5	1	1	0	77	15.6	470	1,007	46.7	14	26	29	69	17:44
Josh Doan J. Doan	62	18	23	41	-6	23	7	8	0	0	1	0	132	13.6	4	15	26.7	59	26	39	50	16:09
Jack Quinn J. Quinn	62	12	26	38	+5	12	2	4	0	0	4	0	132	9.1	3	12	25.0	29	20	11	58	15:38
Mattias Samuelsson M. Samuelsson	60	12	23	35	+32	18	0	0	1	2	3	1	89	13.5	0	0	0	103	121	13	59	23:07
Bowen Byram B. Byram	62	10	22	32	+11	30	1	5	0	0	4	1	79	12.7	0	0	0	33	75	13	73	22:32
Jason Zucker J. Zucker	43	16	14	30	-7	17	7	5	0	0	4	0	87	18.4	41	106	38.7	40	12	5	50	15:44
Peyton Krebs P. Krebs	62	9	20	29	+6	69	0	1	0	0	3	0	66	13.6	173	389	44.5	147	32	19	45	13:42
Zach Benson Z. Benson	45	7	20	27	+17	22	1	4	0	1	4	0	75	9.3	5	11	45.5	26	16	15	31	16:13
Josh Norris J. Norris	24	9	13	22	+2	6	2	5	0	0	3	0	37	24.3	158	322	49.1	6	11	5	14	15:58
Noah Ostlund N. Ostlund	50	10	12	22	+8	8	2	2	0	0	0	0	50	20.0	74	241	30.7	4	26	14	28	13:42
Owen Power O. Power	61	6	15	21	+6	8	0	0	0	3	0	0	97	6.2	0	0	0	28	68	18	63	21:41
Beck Malenstyn B. Malenstyn	61	5	4	9	-6	24	0	0	1	0	0	0	54	9.3	7	16	43.8	213	62	10	29	11:12
Conor Timmins C. Timmins	33	0	6	6	-11	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	33	0.0	0	0	0	25	70	8	40	19:14
Jordan Greenway J. Greenway	33	1	4	5	-9	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	29	3.4	8	30	26.7	49	15	5	17	12:24
Jiri Kulich J. Kulich	12	3	2	5	-4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	20	15.0	68	163	41.7	9	12	1	10	16:22
Zach Metsa Z. Metsa	31	2	2	4	+16	6	0	0	0	0	1	0	17	11.8	0	0	0	4	20	3	22	9:45
Josh Dunne J. Dunne	31	1	3	4	-5	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	27	3.7	51	96	53.1	37	12	6	16	9:31
Tyson Kozak T. Kozak	39	2	2	4	-3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	26	7.7	165	336	49.1	98	33	11	23	11:21
Michael Kesselring M. Kesselring	29	0	1	1	-4	43	0	0	0	0	0	0	39	0.0	0	0	0	21	35	6	31	13:44
Justin Danforth J. Danforth	4	0	0	0	-2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0	17	31	54.8	3	4	0	3	11:42

Skater	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
Tage Thompson T. Thompson	24	11	9	20	+4	13	4	1	0	0	1	1	66	16.7	63	158	39.9	19	9	11	7	16:49
Alex Tuch A. Tuch	13	10	6	16	+8	8	0	3	0	0	2	0	30	33.3	4	12	33.3	8	18	17	7	19:01
Jason Zucker J. Zucker	29	5	10	15	-6	13	2	2	0	0	1	0	70	7.1	3	11	27.3	37	12	10	6	15:16
Rasmus Dahlin R. Dahlin	24	3	11	14	-13	8	3	5	0	0	1	0	51	5.9	0	0	0	23	33	5	19	23:05
Jack Quinn J. Quinn	8	2	7	9	+6	5	0	0	0	0	2	0	12	16.7	0	1	0.0	3	1	3	4	14:41
Jordan Greenway J. Greenway	10	1	7	8	+1	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	12	8.3	3	6	50.0	24	6	3	0	14:20
Josh Norris J. Norris	8	4	3	7	+4	2	1	0	1	1	1	0	13	30.8	59	119	49.6	15	2	7	7	18:42
Owen Power O. Power	10	0	6	6	+3	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	13	0.0	0	0	0	4	9	5	5	23:23
Bowen Byram B. Byram	9	0	5	5	+3	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0.0	0	0	0	13	12	1	3	20:47
Ryan McLeod R. McLeod	9	1	3	4	+4	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	9.1	55	99	55.6	2	6	3	8	16:11
Peyton Krebs P. Krebs	10	1	3	4	-1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	20.0	38	82	46.3	14	1	3	2	14:24
Zach Benson Z. Benson	6	2	2	4	+2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	9	22.2	0	0	0	4	2	0	2	15:33
Michael Kesselring M. Kesselring	5	1	2	3	+5	6	0	0	0	0	1	0	5	20.0	0	0	0	2	3	1	6	15:58
Mattias Samuelsson M. Samuelsson	8	0	3	3	-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	0.0	0	0	0	13	10	0	4	19:54
Josh Doan J. Doan	2	1	2	3	+2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	25.0	2	2	100.0	3	2	1	2	15:09
Conor Timmins C. Timmins	8	0	2	2	+4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	13	0.0	0	0	0	8	5	2	6	18:11
Justin Danforth J. Danforth	8	1	1	2	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	15	6.7	33	66	50.0	22	3	1	1	14:05
Jacob Bryson J. Bryson	11	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0.0	0	0	0	11	10	0	1	18:23
Jiri Kulich J. Kulich	4	1	0	1	-1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	25.0	9	21	42.9	4	2	1	2	12:38
Beck Malenstyn B. Malenstyn	3	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0	0	0	0	7	4	0	0	11:26
Josh Dunne J. Dunne	1	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	11:51
Tyson Kozak T. Kozak	1	0	0	0	+1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	9	44.4	0	0	0	0	12:25

Capitals WSH

Sabres BUF

Forward Matchup

Defenseman Matchup

Goalie Matchup

Team Stats

Injuries

2025-26 Metropolitan Division

Last 5

Game Info

Goalie	GP	GS	W	L	OTL	SA	SV	SV%	GA	GAA	SHO	MIN
Alex Lyon A. Lyon	29	27	16	8	3	836	764	.914	72	2.66	2	1622
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen U. Luukkonen	24	23	14	7	2	647	589	.910	58	2.55	0	1366
Colten Ellis C. Ellis	13	12	7	4	1	367	329	.896	38	3.11	0	732

	Goalie	GP	GS	W	L	OTL	SA	SV	SV%	GA	GAA	SHO	MIN
	Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen U. Luukkonen	9	9	6	1	2	285	258	.905	27	2.89	0	560
	Alex Lyon A. Lyon	8	7	3	2	2	210	190	.905	20	2.81	0	427