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Los Angeles Kings at Buffalo Sabres

Dec 12, 2015 · First Niagara Center

Team Goals Shots
Los Angeles Kings 1 21
Buffalo Sabres 2 30

Decided in overtime.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
04:47 LAK Marian Gaborik (6) Anze Kopitar (10), Tanner Pearson (10) 1 - 0
07:19 BUF Jamie McGinn (6) PP Ryan O'Reilly (17), Rasmus Ristolainen (15) 1 - 1
Overtime
03:19 BUF Ryan O'Reilly (10) Jake McCabe (2) 1 - 2

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
07:05 LAK Jordan Nolan Interference 2
10:43 LAK Andy Andreoff Tripping 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Los Angeles Kings 46 29 21 1 1.9 47.2
Buffalo Sabres 58 44 30 2 2.8 52.8

How the game went

05101520Start2nd3rdOTBuffalo Sabres aheadLos Angeles Kings 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 Los Angeles Kings had.

Expected goals

Los Angeles Kings: 1.9 expected, 1 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 2.8 expected, 2 scored

012Start2nd3rdOTLAK goal, 4:47 of 1st, a 10% chanceBUF goal, 7:19 of 1st, a 11% chanceBUF goal, 3:19 of overtime, a 13% chanceBUF 2.8LAK 1.9

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

Los Angeles Kings
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.

Los Angeles Kings

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Marian Gaborik · Anze Kopitar · Tanner Pearson14:1450.053.91-0
Jeff Carter · Milan Lucic · Tyler Toffoli14:1158.669.00-0
Dustin Brown · Michael Mersch · Nicholas Shore12:0633.34.90-0
Jordan Nolan · Jordan Weal · Andy Andreoff6:3525.06.80-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Drew Doughty · Brayden McNabb21:2265.663.30-0
Jake Muzzin · Alec Martinez18:5532.440.70-0
Christian Ehrhoff · Jamie McBain10:4346.721.21-0

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
12 Marian Gaborik R 1 0 1 1 0 4 0 19:34 0.33 15-18 0.49-0.64
11 Anze Kopitar C 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 20:48 0.21 17-15 0.55-0.49
70 Tanner Pearson L 0 1 1 1 0 4 2 17:47 0.30 16-13 0.52-0.39
3 Brayden McNabb D 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 23:37 0.22 21-12 0.71-0.41
8 Jake Muzzin D 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 22:13 0.02 13-23 0.50-0.60
8 Drew Doughty D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 26:42 0.11 23-12 0.80-0.43
17 Milan Lucic L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 5 19:19 0.09 19-14 0.93-0.49
18 Andy Andreoff C 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 08:24 2-6 0.01-0.14
21 Jamie McBain D 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 12:03 0.02 7-9 0.14-0.51
21 Nicholas Shore C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 15:17 5-12 0.03-0.55
23 Dustin Brown R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15:37 5-11 0.03-0.50
25 Alec Martinez D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 24:12 12-26 0.55-0.72
43 Jordan Weal C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 08:29 3-6 0.04-0.14
49 Michael Mersch L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 14:32 0.01 5-14 0.03-0.64
55 Christian Ehrhoff D 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 14:32 0.02 8-12 0.28-0.65
71 Jordan Nolan C 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 08:18 2-6 0.01-0.14
73 Tyler Toffoli C 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 17:16 0.33 19-12 0.91-0.39
77 Jeff Carter C 0 0 0 -1 0 4 0 19:03 0.29 18-14 0.93-0.49
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
31 Jhonas Enroth OTL 30 28 2 63:19 2.78 +0.78

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Matt Moulson · Evander Kane · Jack Eichel14:1656.552.30-0
Jamie McGinn · Ryan O'Reilly · Sam Reinhart12:3847.631.80-0
Brian Gionta · Johan Larsson · Zemgus Girgensons10:4962.587.30-0
David Legwand · Marcus Foligno · Nicolas Deslauriers6:0450.034.50-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Josh Gorges · Rasmus Ristolainen20:4952.552.20-0
Zach Bogosian · Jake McCabe18:2145.540.10-0
Cody Franson · Mike Weber12:2566.769.50-1

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
90 Ryan O'Reilly C 1 1 2 1 0 3 0 21:28 0.18 15-17 0.65-0.92
88 Jamie McGinn L 1 0 1 0 0 3 1 15:03 0.64 10-12 0.36-0.77
22 Jake McCabe D 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 20:13 10-14 0.24-0.37
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 1 1 0 0 2 4 27:30 0.03 26-22 1.14-0.85
4 Josh Gorges D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 22:04 0.03 21-21 0.90-0.98
6 Mike Weber D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 4 14:17 0.02 11-7 0.29-0.14
9 Jack Eichel C 0 0 0 0 0 5 1 20:16 0.32 15-12 0.35-0.37
11 Cody Franson D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 14:10 0.01 11-6 0.31-0.25
12 Brian Gionta R 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 17:33 0.32 16-11 0.71-0.20
13 Sam Reinhart C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 19:16 0.09 13-15 0.46-0.86
17 David Legwand C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 07:19 0.02 6-5 0.08-0.12
17 Marcus Foligno L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 10:51 0.10 7-6 0.26-0.12
22 Johan Larsson L 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 14:05 0.27 11-9 0.58-0.10
24 Zach Bogosian D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 23:58 15-14 0.46-0.40
26 Matt Moulson L 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 16:10 0.39 13-11 0.33-0.31
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 15:54 0.19 15-9 0.79-0.14
44 Nicolas Deslauriers L 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 09:20 0.01 6-7 0.06-0.21
91 Evander Kane L 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 20:38 0.21 14-12 0.35-0.36
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Linus Ullmark W 21 20 1 63:11 1.90 +0.90