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San Jose Sharks at Buffalo Sabres

Oct 28, 2017 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
San Jose Sharks 3 31
Buffalo Sabres 2 33

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
09:12 SJS Joonas Donskoi (3) Unassisted 1 - 0
2nd Period
02:55 BUF Ryan O'Reilly (4) PP Kyle Okposo (2), Sam Reinhart (2) 1 - 1
14:51 BUF Jason Pominville (6) Jack Eichel (8), Evander Kane (6) 1 - 2
19:48 SJS Chris Tierney (2) Melker Karlsson (1), Timo Meier (2) 2 - 2
3rd Period
16:08 SJS Logan Couture (8) Tomas Hertl (4), Justin Braun (4) 3 - 2

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
02:03 BUF Sam Reinhart Tripping 2
07:03 SJS Joonas Donskoi Slashing 2
12:37 SJS Timo Meier Tripping 2
16:54 SJS Joonas Donskoi Hooking 2
2nd Period
01:30 SJS Joel Ward Hooking 2
09:42 BUF Victor Antipin Interference 2
17:45 BUF Evander Kane Hooking 2
3rd Period
12:21 SJS Logan Couture Interference 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
San Jose Sharks 48 38 31 3 2.5 55.1
Buffalo Sabres 57 40 33 2 2.2 44.9

How the game went

5051015Start2nd3rdBuffalo Sabres aheadSan Jose Sharks 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 San Jose Sharks had.

Expected goals

San Jose Sharks: 2.5 expected, 3 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 2.2 expected, 2 scored

012Start2nd3rdEndSJS goal, 9:12 of 1st, a 14% chanceSJS goal, 19:48 of 2nd, a 26% chanceSJS goal, 16:08 of 3rd, a 3% chanceBUF goal, 2:55 of 2nd, a 5% chanceBUF goal, 14:51 of 2nd, a 6% chanceSJS 2.5BUF 2.2

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

San Jose Sharks
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.

San Jose Sharks

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Joe Thornton · Joe Pavelski · Kevin Labanc11:1470.667.90-1
Mikkel Boedker · Joonas Donskoi · Chris Tierney8:3285.797.70-0
Logan Couture · Tomas Hertl · Melker Karlsson7:4530.09.61-0
Joel Ward · Ryan Carpenter · Timo Meier4:4520.020.40-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Brent Burns · Joakim Ryan14:4866.765.50-0
Marc-Edouard Vlasic · Justin Braun13:4231.640.21-1
Brenden Dillon · Tim Heed8:0970.034.30-0

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
11 Chris Tierney C 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 16:00 0.41 16-6 1.21-0.11
39 Logan Couture C 1 0 1 2 2 2 0 17:45 0.17 4-10 0.17-0.31
72 Joonas Donskoi R 1 0 1 1 4 3 0 14:16 0.61 16-3 1.09-0.03
28 Timo Meier R 0 1 1 1 2 1 0 09:50 0.09 7-9 0.47-0.53
48 Tomas Hertl C 0 1 1 2 0 0 2 19:36 4-11 0.17-0.35
61 Justin Braun D 0 1 1 0 0 0 5 23:20 7-13 0.24-0.29
68 Melker Karlsson C 0 1 1 2 0 1 1 14:40 0.02 5-11 0.31-0.34
5 Brenden Dillon D 0 0 0 1 0 4 1 15:15 0.05 12-5 0.43-0.21
16 Joe Pavelski C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 2 16:50 0.29 14-9 0.33-0.22
19 Joe Thornton C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 16:37 0.20 16-7 0.36-0.20
22 Ryan Carpenter C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 09:09 0.05 2-10 0.13-0.54
33 Joakim Ryan D 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 15:18 0.18 19-9 0.98-0.51
42 Joel Ward R 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 11:19 3-10 0.14-0.56
44 Marc-Edouard Vlasic D 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 27:11 0.02 9-18 0.61-0.43
62 Kevin Labanc R 0 0 0 -1 0 5 0 15:44 0.33 14-5 0.41-0.13
72 Tim Heed D 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 12:36 9-5 0.33-0.18
84 Brent Burns D 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 23:02 0.08 20-12 1.14-0.60
89 Mikkel Boedker L 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 12:15 0.01 13-2 0.82-0.02
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
30 Aaron Dell W 33 31 2 59:52 2.24 +0.24

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jason Pominville · Evander Kane · Jack Eichel12:0152.071.31-0
Benoit Pouliot · Kyle Okposo · Ryan O'Reilly10:4050.055.40-1
Jordan Nolan · Johan Larsson · Seth Griffith5:0950.060.90-0
Zemgus Girgensons · Justin Bailey · Sam Reinhart2:4150.079.30-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Marco Scandella · Rasmus Ristolainen13:0440.925.51-1
Matt Tennyson · Jake McCabe11:0644.459.40-1
Zach Redmond · Victor Antipin6:2536.419.40-0

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

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
29 Jason Pominville R 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 19:08 0.14 16-14 0.54-0.39
90 Ryan O'Reilly C 1 0 1 -2 0 2 3 21:11 0.11 6-9 0.18-0.33
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 1 1 -1 0 3 0 18:56 0.28 7-8 0.21-0.38
9 Jack Eichel C 0 1 1 0 0 3 1 20:39 0.23 14-14 0.53-0.49
13 Sam Reinhart C 0 1 1 -1 2 3 0 16:18 0.43 3-10 0.14-1.04
91 Evander Kane L 0 1 1 0 2 5 2 19:12 0.31 17-15 0.62-0.53
6 Marco Scandella D 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 25:08 0.15 10-15 0.15-0.54
7 Matt Tennyson D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 21:05 0.02 9-13 0.48-0.52
22 Johan Larsson L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 15:10 0.07 6-12 0.25-0.80
22 Jake McCabe D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 20:41 0.05 16-12 0.79-0.44
23 Seth Griffith C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 07:04 5-6 0.22-0.14
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10:17 1-4 0.05-0.12
38 Zach Redmond D 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 11:50 0.01 9-10 0.36-0.87
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 -1 0 4 1 26:25 0.05 13-18 0.27-0.67
67 Benoit Pouliot L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 2 17:09 0.07 9-7 0.22-0.30
71 Jordan Nolan C 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 09:17 0.20 6-11 0.22-0.78
90 Justin Bailey R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 05:45 0.05 3-4 0.14-0.29
93 Victor Antipin D 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 11:14 0.01 5-8 0.17-0.70
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
90 Robin Lehner L 31 28 3 57:31 2.57 -0.43