🦅 Away Capitals 33-7-3
1–4
Final
⚔️ Home Sabres 17-23-4
Goals 1st2nd3rdF
🦅 WSH 0011
⚔️ BUF 2204

Capitals at Sabres

Sabres beat Capitals 4–1 at KeyBank Center on January 16, 2016.

🗓 📍 KeyBank Center, Buffalo 🏒 2015-16 🔁 Capitals lead the season series 2–1
⚔️ Head-to-head

⭐ Three stars

Best games by the box score
1st star ⚔️ BUF
Evander Kane
1 G, 1 A
5 shots · 19:58 TOI
2nd star ⚔️ BUF
Zach Bogosian
2 A
21:29 TOI
3rd star ⚔️ BUF
Chad Johnson
33 saves
0.971 SV% · 1 GA

🚨 Scoring

5 goals · in order
1st period
⚔️ Phil Varone Go-ahead 1st · 10:30
Assists: Rasmus Ristolainen, Zach Bogosian · beat Braden Holtby
0–1
⚔️ Tim Schaller SH 1st · 16:00
Unassisted · beat Braden Holtby
0–2
2nd period
⚔️ Evander Kane 2nd · 07:14
Assists: Ryan O'Reilly, Sam Reinhart · beat Braden Holtby
0–3
⚔️ Cody Franson PP 2nd · 15:37
Assists: Evander Kane, Zach Bogosian · beat Philipp Grubauer
0–4
3rd period
🦅 Marcus Johansson 3rd · 02:54
Assists: Jason Chimera · beat Chad Johnson
1–4

🧩 Lines & pairings

Estimated from ice time
🦅Capitals
L1 Ovechkin · Backstrom · Oshie 19:21
L2 Johansson · Kuznetsov · Williams 15:54
L3 Chimera · Richards · Latta 13:01
L4 Burakovsky · Sill · Wilson 11:18
D1 Niskanen · Alzner 25:01
D2 Orlov · Schmidt 18:15
D3 Ness · Chorney 12:44
⚔️Sabres
L1 Kane · O'Reilly · Gionta 19:58
L2 Larsson · Reinhart · Eichel 17:05
L3 McGinn · Foligno · Legwand 14:00
L4 Schaller · Moulson · Varone 8:10
D1 Ristolainen · Weber 24:37
D2 Bogosian · Pysyk 18:22
D3 Franson · McCabe 15:09

📊 Team stats

Away left · home right
🦅WSH BUF⚔️
34 Shots on goal 29
0/4 Power play (goals / chances) 1/5
17 Hits 18
6 Blocked shots 10
0 Takeaways 5
6 Giveaways 4
19 Penalty minutes 17
WSH shooting 2.9% (1/34) BUF shooting 13.8% (4/29)

🥅 Goaltending

Saves, shots faced and save percentage
🦅Capitals
Braden Holtby
13/16
.812 SV% · 3 GA · 27:14 TOI
Philipp Grubauer
12/13
.923 SV% · 1 GA · 32:46 TOI
⚔️Sabres
Chad Johnson
33/34
.971 SV% · 1 GA · 59:38 TOI

🗺 Where the goals came from

5 of 5 goals located
Phil Varone · 1st 10:30 · 0–1 Tim Schaller · 1st 16:00 · 0–2 Evander Kane · 2nd 07:14 · 0–3 Cody Franson · 2nd 15:37 · 0–4 Marcus Johansson · 3rd 02:54 · 1–4
WSH BUF
The net is on the right for both teams. Hover a dot for the goal.

🔮 Period by period

AI
After 1st — 0–2
Capitals
Capitals — trailing by 2 goals after 1st: 1-0 (100% win rate, 1 game)
Sabres
Sabres: no games found in this situation this year.

⚔️ Last meetings

All →
Capitals lead the season series 2–1
Dec 302015 ⚔️BUF @ 🦅WSH 2–5 Dec 282015 🦅WSH @ ⚔️BUF 2–0 Mar 162015 🦅WSH @ ⚔️BUF 4–3 SO Mar 72015 ⚔️BUF @ 🦅WSH 1–6 Nov 222014 ⚔️BUF @ 🦅WSH 2–1
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❓ WSH vs BUF, answered

Who won Capitals vs Sabres on January 16, 2016?

Sabres won 4–1. The final score was Capitals 1, Sabres 4.

Who scored for Capitals?

Marcus Johansson.

Who scored for Sabres?

Cody Franson, Evander Kane, Phil Varone, Tim Schaller.

How did the Capitals goalie play?

Braden Holtby made 13 saves on 16 shots (.812 save percentage).

How did the Sabres goalie play?

Chad Johnson made 33 saves on 34 shots (.971 save percentage).

Where is Capitals vs Sabres played?

At KeyBank Center in Buffalo, the Sabres home rink.

What is the Capitals vs Sabres season series?

Capitals lead the season series 2–1 after 3 games.

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🧭 Around this game

Before and after, for both teams
🦅 Capitals
BeforeJan 14 🐋VAN @ 🦅WSH 1–4 AfterJan 17 🗽NYR @ 🦅WSH 2–5
⚔️ Sabres
BeforeJan 15 🐻BOS @ ⚔️BUF 4–1 AfterJan 18 ⚔️BUF @ 🌵ARI 2–1
Also on January 16
🗽NYR 3–2 🔔PHI 😈NJD 2–0 🌵ARI 🏛️OTT 5–3 👑LAK 🍁TOR 2–3 🐻BOS 🏔️COL 1–2 🧥CBJ 🇨🇦MTL 3–4 🎵STL 🌲MIN 0–3 🐯NSH 🔥CGY 1–2 🛢️EDM
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