Hockey Terminal
Be a GM

← All games

Buffalo Sabres at Columbus Blue Jackets

Oct 25, 2017 · Nationwide Arena

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 1 35
Columbus Blue Jackets 5 38

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
12:00 CBJ Oliver Bjorkstrand (2) PP Sonny Milano (1), Seth Jones (5) 0 - 1
2nd Period
15:20 CBJ Seth Jones (2) Brandon Dubinsky (2), Cam Atkinson (1) 0 - 2
17:38 CBJ Nick Foligno (3) Jack Johnson (3) 0 - 3
18:19 CBJ Matt Calvert (2) Markus Nutivaara (1), Ryan Murray (2) 0 - 4
3rd Period
17:26 BUF Seth Griffith (1) Jordan Nolan (1), Johan Larsson (2) 1 - 4
19:21 CBJ Josh Anderson (2) Artemi Panarin (9), Alexander Wennberg (6) 1 - 5

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
10:43 BUF Zach Redmond Hooking 2
2nd Period
18:35 CBJ Team Delaying game bench face off violation 2
3rd Period
03:07 BUF Zemgus Girgensons High sticking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 56 45 35 1 2.0 49.0
Columbus Blue Jackets 59 49 38 5 2.7 51.0

How the game went

505Start2nd3rdColumbus Blue Jackets aheadBuffalo Sabres 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 Columbus Blue Jackets had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 2.0 expected, 1 scored · Columbus Blue Jackets: 2.7 expected, 5 scored

012Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 17:26 of 3rd, a 3% chanceCBJ goal, 12:00 of 1st, a 5% chanceCBJ goal, 15:20 of 2nd, a 3% chanceCBJ goal, 17:38 of 2nd, a 49% chanceCBJ goal, 18:19 of 2nd, a 45% chanceCBJ goal, 19:21 of 3rd, a 3% chanceCBJ 2.7BUF 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

Buffalo Sabres
Columbus Blue Jackets

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.

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Evander Kane · Justin Bailey · Jack Eichel12:2740.953.10-2
Kyle Okposo · Zemgus Girgensons · Sam Reinhart11:5152.065.40-0
Jason Pominville · Benoit Pouliot · Ryan O'Reilly10:5970.846.40-1
Jordan Nolan · Johan Larsson · Seth Griffith9:4457.154.31-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Marco Scandella · Rasmus Ristolainen20:4155.347.80-1
Zach Redmond · Jake McCabe15:5555.234.01-1
Matt Tennyson · Victor Antipin14:2240.740.90-1

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

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
23 Seth Griffith C 1 0 1 1 0 3 0 11:08 0.07 10-9 0.33-0.34
22 Johan Larsson L 0 1 1 0 0 1 3 14:20 0.15 9-11 0.23-0.70
71 Jordan Nolan C 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 12:45 10-8 0.31-0.23
6 Marco Scandella D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 23:38 0.06 22-17 0.90-0.97
7 Matt Tennyson D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 18:07 11-21 0.37-0.65
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 14:46 0.18 13-15 0.37-0.29
9 Jack Eichel C 0 0 0 -2 0 2 0 16:26 0.14 10-19 0.34-0.53
13 Sam Reinhart C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 16:20 0.07 13-19 0.37-0.91
22 Jake McCabe D 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 19:05 0.05 16-16 0.38-0.76
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 -1 2 1 3 14:37 0.01 13-16 0.37-0.70
29 Jason Pominville R 0 0 0 -1 0 5 1 13:45 0.27 18-8 0.72-0.83
38 Zach Redmond D 0 0 0 -1 2 5 1 17:24 0.16 17-14 0.46-0.77
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 3 25:45 0.06 21-19 0.89-1.06
67 Benoit Pouliot L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 12:40 17-8 0.72-0.83
90 Ryan O'Reilly C 0 0 0 -1 0 5 1 17:27 0.46 18-10 0.80-0.89
90 Justin Bailey R 0 0 0 -2 0 1 1 14:51 0.13 9-13 0.32-0.29
91 Evander Kane L 0 0 0 -2 0 1 2 17:38 0.01 10-20 0.34-0.62
93 Victor Antipin D 0 0 0 -2 0 3 0 16:01 0.15 13-17 0.47-0.57
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Chad Johnson 38 33 5 60:00 2.78 -2.22

Columbus Blue Jackets

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Nick Foligno · Cam Atkinson · Artemi Panarin7:5637.534.00-0
Brandon Dubinsky · Boone Jenner · Josh Anderson7:2150.038.70-0
Zac Dalpe · Sonny Milano · Pierre-Luc Dubois6:2328.612.90-1
Nick Foligno · Josh Anderson · Artemi Panarin6:0581.885.70-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jack Johnson · David Savard18:0952.962.21-1
Ryan Murray · Markus Nutivaara17:1144.858.11-0
Seth Jones · Zach Werenski17:0555.658.02-0

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
3 Seth Jones D 1 1 2 2 0 3 0 21:19 0.16 21-18 0.58-0.56
11 Matt Calvert L 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 12:08 0.50 13-11 0.82-0.23
17 Josh Anderson R 1 0 1 2 0 2 5 18:17 0.04 20-10 0.97-0.32
28 Oliver Bjorkstrand R 1 0 1 1 0 4 0 11:46 0.12 12-11 0.64-0.33
71 Nick Foligno L 1 0 1 1 0 3 2 20:16 0.61 16-12 0.46-0.46
3 Jack Johnson D 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 19:11 0.09 18-16 1.06-0.65
10 Artemi Panarin L 0 1 1 2 0 2 0 19:36 0.18 21-14 1.08-0.49
13 Cam Atkinson R 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 18:11 0.15 15-22 0.60-0.94
15 Sonny Milano L 0 1 1 -1 0 1 1 10:48 0.16 5-8 0.18-0.31
17 Brandon Dubinsky C 0 1 1 1 0 4 3 17:22 0.12 13-18 0.44-0.72
21 Alexander Wennberg C 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 14:56 18-13 1.31-0.20
28 Ryan Murray D 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 18:42 0.03 13-17 0.74-0.60
65 Markus Nutivaara D 0 1 1 1 0 3 1 17:54 0.05 14-16 0.75-0.54
8 Zach Werenski D 0 0 0 2 0 4 0 19:59 0.22 20-16 0.57-0.41
22 Zac Dalpe C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 09:07 5-8 0.18-0.31
22 Boone Jenner C 0 0 0 1 0 3 1 16:46 0.22 13-15 0.43-0.61
58 David Savard D 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 19:53 0.09 18-17 1.06-0.73
80 Pierre-Luc Dubois C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 11:49 5-8 0.06-0.31
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
72 Sergei Bobrovsky 35 34 1 60:00 2.03 +1.03