Caps vs Knights: Observations After 2 Games

With two games gone to the books in the 2018 Stanley Cup Final, let’s take a look at how Gerard Gallant leveraged last change in his deployments against the Washington Capitals. We’ll use Muneeb’s head-to-head matrixes to explore. Here’s an aggregate view of the matchups in Games 1 and 2.

Here’s a tip on reading this: in the above plot, the very first cell represents that William Karlsson faced Nicklas Backstrom for 10 minutes or so, and had an on-ice shot attempt differential of -4 in those minutes (nice work, Nick).