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Colorado Avalanche at Buffalo Sabres

Feb 14, 2016 · First Niagara Center

Team Goals Shots
Colorado Avalanche 1 35
Buffalo Sabres 4 21

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
02:02 BUF Jack Eichel (17) Unassisted 0 - 1
04:42 BUF Evander Kane (16) Sam Reinhart (9), Josh Gorges (8) 0 - 2
17:14 BUF Sam Reinhart (17) Ryan O'Reilly (31), Jake McCabe (8) 0 - 3
2nd Period
02:35 COL Erik Johnson (8) Mikhail Grigorenko (13), Jarome Iginla (17) 1 - 3
3rd Period
18:10 BUF Marcus Foligno (7) Ryan O'Reilly (32) 1 - 4

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
05:37 COL Matt Duchene Cross checking 2
10:34 BUF Evander Kane Hooking 2
2nd Period
04:00 BUF Brian Gionta Slashing 2
15:42 COL Matt Duchene Hooking 2
3rd Period
05:49 BUF Josh Gorges Tripping 2
08:13 COL Matt Duchene High sticking 2
11:37 BUF Zemgus Girgensons High sticking double minor 4
13:38 BUF Josh Gorges High sticking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Colorado Avalanche 60 47 35 1 2.3 55.1
Buffalo Sabres 42 29 21 4 2.1 44.9

How the game went

151050Start2nd3rdBuffalo 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: 2.3 expected, 1 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 2.1 expected, 4 scored

00.511.52Start2nd3rdEndCOL goal, 2:35 of 2nd, a 10% chanceBUF goal, 2:02 of 1st, a 2% chanceBUF goal, 4:42 of 1st, a 1% chanceBUF goal, 17:14 of 1st, a 11% chanceBUF goal, 18:10 of 3rd, a 46% chanceCOL 2.3BUF 2.1

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
Blake Comeau · Carl Soderberg · Gabriel Landeskog6:5863.688.60-1
Cody McLeod · Chris Wagner · Andreas Martinsen5:160.00.00-0
Alex Tanguay · Matt Duchene · Nathan MacKinnon4:2545.522.60-0
Alex Tanguay · Mikhail Grigorenko · Nathan MacKinnon4:2580.080.10-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Francois Beauchemin · Erik Johnson13:4346.243.30-1
Nick Holden · Tyson Barrie11:5972.751.70-2
Andrew Bodnarchuk · Chris Bigras8:4146.759.40-0

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
6 Erik Johnson D 1 0 1 0 0 3 0 22:54 0.15 15-19 0.51-0.82
25 Mikhail Grigorenko C 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 19:16 15-6 0.53-0.27
88 Jarome Iginla R 0 1 1 0 0 7 0 17:14 0.29 12-5 0.41-0.63
3 Chris Bigras D 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 12:39 0.02 9-13 0.32-0.54
5 Nick Holden D 0 0 0 -3 0 1 0 18:50 0.03 19-7 0.47-0.42
7 John Mitchell C 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 14:28 0.40 16-9 0.70-0.70
8 Tyson Barrie D 0 0 0 -3 0 3 1 22:04 0.19 19-6 0.50-0.41
14 Chris Wagner R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 07:25 0.01 2-8 0.02-0.17
15 Blake Comeau L 0 0 0 -3 0 3 0 17:48 0.18 8-9 0.27-0.29
23 Francois Beauchemin D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 27:14 0.08 14-16 0.36-0.47
29 Nathan MacKinnon C 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 20:09 0.26 14-10 0.30-0.30
29 Andreas Martinsen L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 3 07:59 0.00 1-10 0.00-0.29
34 Carl Soderberg C 0 0 0 -3 0 1 0 18:34 0.04 11-8 0.26-0.15
40 Alex Tanguay L 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 13:19 0.04 15-10 0.20-0.28
41 Andrew Bodnarchuk D 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 09:35 10-9 0.38-0.18
55 Cody McLeod L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 09:08 0.19 8-10 0.25-0.19
92 Gabriel Landeskog L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 3 17:43 0.28 8-4 0.32-0.03
95 Matt Duchene C 0 0 0 -2 6 2 0 19:31 0.10 19-16 0.53-0.98
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
31 Calvin Pickard 18 17 1 53:28 1.57 +0.57
40 Semyon Varlamov L 2 0 2 04:42 0.03 -1.97

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Ryan O'Reilly · Evander Kane · Sam Reinhart9:0053.342.01-0
Jamie McGinn · Justin Bailey · Jack Eichel6:1142.971.81-0
Brian Gionta · Marcus Foligno · Zemgus Girgensons6:0644.431.50-0
David Legwand · Matt Moulson · Nicolas Deslauriers2:3550.052.90-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Josh Gorges · Rasmus Ristolainen15:0246.267.42-0
Zach Bogosian · Jake McCabe13:0743.547.11-1
Cody Franson · Mark Pysyk11:2850.050.20-0

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
13 Sam Reinhart C 1 1 2 2 0 2 0 15:40 0.20 11-9 0.33-0.23
90 Ryan O'Reilly C 0 2 2 3 0 1 0 23:04 0.18 12-9 0.35-0.27
9 Jack Eichel C 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 16:31 0.42 14-14 0.77-0.60
17 Marcus Foligno L 1 0 1 2 0 2 3 13:43 0.02 10-9 0.27-0.19
91 Evander Kane L 1 0 1 2 2 3 3 21:19 0.07 14-15 0.32-0.39
4 Josh Gorges D 0 1 1 3 4 0 1 20:51 12-14 0.69-0.33
22 Jake McCabe D 0 1 1 0 0 1 2 18:44 0.03 10-14 0.40-0.57
11 Cody Franson D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16:05 0.01 13-13 0.34-0.33
12 Brian Gionta R 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 15:14 0.04 10-6 0.22-0.05
13 Mark Pysyk D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13:26 13-15 0.34-0.37
17 David Legwand C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 11:50 3-7 0.13-0.18
24 Zach Bogosian D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 19:29 0.03 10-13 0.40-0.45
26 Matt Moulson L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 08:41 0.15 4-12 0.28-0.50
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 0 4 0 1 14:16 5-11 0.03-0.10
44 Nicolas Deslauriers L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 3 06:58 0.14 4-8 0.24-0.37
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 3 0 1 2 27:13 0.02 12-17 0.69-0.48
88 Jamie McGinn L 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 14:00 0.11 11-9 0.74-0.30
90 Justin Bailey R 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 11:06 0.22 7-20 0.60-0.64
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
90 Robin Lehner W 35 34 1 59:50 2.23 +1.23