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Colorado Avalanche at Buffalo Sabres

Dec 20, 2014 · First Niagara Center

Team Goals Shots
Colorado Avalanche 5 23
Buffalo Sabres 1 29

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
02:23 COL Erik Johnson (7) Nathan MacKinnon (15), Max Talbot (5) 1 - 0
07:07 COL Cody McLeod (2) SH Ryan O'Reilly (12) 2 - 0
3rd Period
01:51 COL Alex Tanguay (10) Jarome Iginla (12), John Mitchell (4) 3 - 0
05:09 COL John Mitchell (4) PP Alex Tanguay (11), Jarome Iginla (13) 4 - 0
13:27 BUF Johan Larsson (1) Chris Stewart (3), Andre Benoit (3) 4 - 1
19:34 COL Alex Tanguay (11) Jarome Iginla (14), Erik Johnson (10) 5 - 1

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
05:35 COL Marc-Andre Cliche Interference 2
13:13 COL Gabriel Landeskog Tripping 2
16:51 BUF Andre Benoit Hooking 2
2nd Period
04:55 BUF Nikita Zadorov Holding 2
3rd Period
04:32 BUF Johan Larsson Tripping 2
07:35 COL Ryan O'Reilly Slashing 2
16:57 COL John Mitchell Cross checking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Colorado Avalanche 44 30 23 5 2.1 48.6
Buffalo Sabres 51 37 29 1 2.0 51.4

How the game went

64202468Start2nd3rdBuffalo Sabres aheadColorado Avalanche ahead

The gap in shot attempts as the game went on: how many more one team had taken than the other. The line is above the middle and red while Buffalo Sabres had taken more, and below it and blue while Colorado Avalanche had.

Expected goals

Colorado Avalanche: 2.1 expected, 5 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 2.0 expected, 1 scored

00.511.52Start2nd3rdEndCOL goal, 2:23 of 1st, a 9% chanceCOL goal, 7:07 of 1st, a 18% chanceCOL goal, 1:51 of 3rd, a 3% chanceCOL goal, 5:09 of 3rd, a 10% chanceCOL goal, 19:34 of 3rd, a 38% chanceBUF goal, 13:27 of 3rd, a 14% chanceCOL 2.1BUF 2.0

Each line climbs with every chance a team had: a small step for a shot from far out, a big one for a dangerous chance. A dot is a goal. Expected goals adds up how likely each shot was to go in, judged by where it was taken from, what kind of shot it was and whether it was a rebound. Blocked shots and the shootout are not counted. Before 2023-24 the NHL timed events less exactly, and differently from rink to rink, so expected goals for this season are rougher than for recent ones.

Where the attempts came from

Colorado Avalanche
Buffalo Sabres

There is a dot for each attempt, bigger for a better chance. "Show as heat map" shades the ice by where the attempts came from.

Colorado Avalanche

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Max Talbot · Matt Duchene · Nathan MacKinnon12:0366.774.51-0
Daniel Brière · Ryan O'Reilly · Gabriel Landeskog11:3952.680.20-0
Jarome Iginla · Alex Tanguay · John Mitchell9:5850.034.81-1
Patrick Bordeleau · Cody McLeod · Marc-Andre Cliche6:1127.311.50-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jan Hejda · Erik Johnson17:0939.345.31-0
Nate Guenin · Tyson Barrie11:5563.265.61-1
Brad Stuart · Zach Redmond11:3633.35.50-0

The forwards and the defencemen who were on the ice together most at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out.

Players

xG is the expected goals of a skater's own shots. CF-CA and xGF-xGA are the shot attempts and the expected goals for and against while he was on the ice at five-on-five. For a goalie, xGA is what the shots he faced were expected to produce, and the last column is how many of those he saved. What these numbers mean

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
40 Alex Tanguay L 2 1 3 1 0 3 1 18:06 0.04 8-14 0.24-0.55
88 Jarome Iginla R 0 3 3 1 0 0 0 17:06 0.03 9-13 0.29-0.54
6 Erik Johnson D 1 1 2 2 0 2 2 26:23 0.12 12-17 0.41-0.44
7 John Mitchell C 1 1 2 1 2 4 2 15:16 0.35 9-8 0.29-0.46
55 Cody McLeod L 1 0 1 1 0 4 3 09:53 0.25 4-8 0.07-0.36
25 Max Talbot C 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 19:00 0.17 14-6 0.53-0.15
29 Nathan MacKinnon C 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 14:46 0.25 13-7 0.45-0.17
90 Ryan O'Reilly C 0 1 1 1 2 1 0 15:48 0.14 10-10 0.47-0.13
5 Nate Guenin D 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 16:44 0.02 14-9 0.66-0.35
8 Jan Hejda D 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 23:15 11-17 0.36-0.44
8 Tyson Barrie D 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 18:20 17-7 0.90-0.33
17 Brad Stuart D 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 19:01 7-14 0.02-0.42
24 Marc-Andre Cliche C 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 10:41 3-11 0.05-0.37
38 Zach Redmond D 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 16:17 11-12 0.26-0.40
48 Daniel Brière C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 14:18 0.04 11-9 0.52-0.11
58 Patrick Bordeleau L 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 06:46 3-8 0.05-0.36
92 Gabriel Landeskog L 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 15:12 0.29 10-13 0.47-0.20
95 Matt Duchene C 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 15:08 0.05 14-7 0.50-0.17
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
31 Calvin Pickard W 29 28 1 60:00 2.00 +1.00

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Drew Stafford · Tyler Ennis · Zemgus Girgensons10:3850.046.00-0
Brian Gionta · Cody Hodgson · Brian Flynn7:4850.038.20-0
Patrick Kaleta · Marcus Foligno · Nicolas Deslauriers4:4333.325.20-0
Chris Stewart · Johan Larsson · Mikhail Grigorenko3:3870.070.30-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Andrej Meszaros · Nikita Zadorov10:3671.468.50-1
Andre Benoit · Rasmus Ristolainen7:5120.018.20-1
Josh Gorges · Tyler Myers7:0263.634.90-0

The forwards and the defencemen who were on the ice together most at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out.

Players

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
22 Johan Larsson L 1 0 1 0 2 2 1 10:14 0.33 14-7 0.66-0.37
44 Chris Stewart R 0 1 1 -1 0 3 2 16:51 0.31 16-8 0.69-0.33
61 Andre Benoit D 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 13:54 8-17 0.37-0.67
4 Josh Gorges D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 20:22 0.02 12-10 0.25-0.52
11 Cody Hodgson C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 3 14:18 0.20 9-7 0.24-0.30
12 Brian Gionta R 0 0 0 -2 0 2 2 18:31 0.28 9-8 0.25-0.30
17 Marcus Foligno L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 4 15:22 0.01 11-13 0.32-0.34
18 Drew Stafford R 0 0 0 -2 0 3 0 20:59 0.05 9-13 0.16-0.52
25 Mikhail Grigorenko C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 10:48 0.08 11-7 0.47-0.22
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 20:28 0.30 10-10 0.23-0.29
32 Brian Flynn C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 18:35 0.15 6-8 0.17-0.33
36 Patrick Kaleta R 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 04:43 0.01 3-6 0.05-0.14
41 Andrej Meszaros D 0 0 0 -2 0 2 1 17:37 0.08 20-8 0.66-0.28
44 Nicolas Deslauriers L 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 15:04 10-10 0.35-0.21
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 -2 0 3 2 27:01 0.05 7-20 0.20-0.67
57 Tyler Myers D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 13:10 0.01 8-6 0.11-0.36
63 Tyler Ennis R 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 21:56 0.13 10-11 0.21-0.42
91 Nikita Zadorov D 0 0 0 -3 2 1 1 19:14 0.01 17-11 0.56-0.27
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
31 Jhonas Enroth L 22 18 4 56:16 1.71 -2.29