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Colorado Avalanche at Buffalo Sabres

Feb 16, 2017 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Colorado Avalanche 0 23
Buffalo Sabres 2 32

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
2nd Period
00:48 BUF Sam Reinhart (13) PP Rasmus Ristolainen (30), Ryan O'Reilly (25) 0 - 1
3rd Period
15:46 BUF Evander Kane (19) Evan Rodrigues (2), Jack Eichel (18) 0 - 2

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
02:50 COL Andreas Martinsen Holding 2
05:45 COL Gabriel Landeskog Tripping 2
19:54 COL Cody Goloubef Holding 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Colorado Avalanche 46 32 23 0 1.3 50.6
Buffalo Sabres 51 40 32 2 1.8 49.4

How the game went

5051015Start2nd3rdBuffalo 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: 1.3 expected, 0 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 1.8 expected, 2 scored

00.511.5Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 0:48 of 2nd, a 25% chanceBUF goal, 15:46 of 3rd, a 14% chanceBUF 1.8COL 1.3

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
Gabriel Landeskog · Nathan MacKinnon · Mikko Rantanen9:0441.245.90-0
Blake Comeau · Matt Duchene · Mikko Rantanen8:4068.837.20-1
Matt Nieto · Gabriel Landeskog · Nathan MacKinnon6:2027.333.80-0
Jarome Iginla · John Mitchell · Mikhail Grigorenko4:5955.627.50-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Francois Beauchemin · Nikita Zadorov15:2550.068.70-0
Mark Barberio · Tyson Barrie13:1355.645.40-0
Fedor Tyutin · Tyson Barrie5:5325.042.60-0

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
7 John Mitchell C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 14:04 8-8 0.09-0.22
8 Joe Colborne C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 06:14 5-6 0.17-0.15
8 Tyson Barrie D 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 21:17 0.06 18-18 0.48-0.58
15 Blake Comeau L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 19:21 0.10 17-7 0.31-0.41
23 Francois Beauchemin D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 24:27 0.01 10-15 0.29-0.49
25 Mikhail Grigorenko C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 11:28 0.22 7-7 0.14-0.16
26 Cody Goloubef D 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 11:20 8-5 0.16-0.29
29 Nathan MacKinnon C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 21:31 0.02 11-19 0.36-0.62
29 Andreas Martinsen L 0 0 0 0 2 3 2 07:27 0.17 6-8 0.19-0.18
34 Carl Soderberg C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 08:18 0.01 6-6 0.22-0.06
44 Mark Barberio D 0 0 0 -1 0 6 0 23:59 0.17 21-19 0.44-0.72
51 Fedor Tyutin D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 15:00 0.01 11-15 0.34-0.55
83 Matt Nieto L 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 16:48 0.22 9-12 0.27-0.39
88 Jarome Iginla R 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 13:27 0.02 8-8 0.09-0.28
91 Nikita Zadorov D 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 22:42 0.13 16-10 0.36-0.13
92 Gabriel Landeskog L 0 0 0 0 2 1 4 20:11 0.06 11-19 0.36-0.55
95 Matt Duchene C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 19:47 0.05 19-8 0.41-0.48
96 Mikko Rantanen R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 19:38 0.05 19-15 0.48-0.64
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
31 Calvin Pickard L 32 30 2 58:07 1.81 -0.19

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Kyle Okposo · Ryan O'Reilly · Justin Bailey12:5647.842.70-0
Evander Kane · Sam Reinhart · Jack Eichel11:0452.455.60-0
Brian Gionta · Marcus Foligno · Evan Rodrigues9:3761.563.70-0
Brian Gionta · Marcus Foligno · Jack Eichel3:2016.764.10-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jake McCabe · Rasmus Ristolainen18:0355.256.60-0
Josh Gorges · Dmitry Kulikov17:2040.035.30-0
Justin Falk · Zach Bogosian12:2654.583.20-0

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 0 1 0 0 4 0 19:19 0.57 12-12 0.41-0.32
91 Evander Kane L 1 0 1 1 0 4 1 18:36 0.17 13-13 0.53-0.36
9 Jack Eichel C 0 1 1 1 0 3 1 21:46 0.04 14-20 0.57-0.36
17 Evan Rodrigues C 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 15:47 0.06 15-7 0.48-0.09
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 1 1 0 0 5 3 23:39 0.18 16-13 0.45-0.34
90 Ryan O'Reilly C 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 22:01 0.20 12-13 0.38-0.51
4 Josh Gorges D 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 19:50 0.02 11-15 0.31-0.53
7 Dmitry Kulikov D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 21:02 0.02 11-17 0.30-0.59
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 18:52 0.11 11-12 0.37-0.50
12 Brian Gionta R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17:28 12-10 0.19-0.08
17 Marcus Foligno L 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 16:25 0.17 12-10 0.31-0.08
22 Jake McCabe D 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 20:39 0.04 17-15 0.59-0.35
24 Zach Bogosian D 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 16:03 0.10 14-12 0.63-0.10
26 Matt Moulson L 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 06:58 0.01 3-7 0.12-0.10
38 Derek Grant C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 02:15 1-2 0.09-0.07
42 Justin Falk D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 14:31 0.01 13-12 0.48-0.15
63 Tyler Ennis R 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 07:35 0.09 3-8 0.12-0.13
90 Justin Bailey R 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 17:14 0.03 15-12 0.56-0.50
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
90 Robin Lehner W, SO 23 23 0 60:00 1.29 +1.29