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Buffalo Sabres at Colorado Avalanche

Dec 5, 2017 · Pepsi Center

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 4 35
Colorado Avalanche 2 37

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
2nd Period
05:32 BUF Benoit Pouliot (7) SH Ryan O'Reilly (10) 1 - 0
12:22 COL Nathan MacKinnon (9) PP Alexander Kerfoot (11), Mikko Rantanen (14) 1 - 1
18:59 BUF Jake McCabe (1) Benoit Pouliot (3), Johan Larsson (4) 2 - 1
3rd Period
09:58 COL Nathan MacKinnon (10) PP Tyson Barrie (18), Alexander Kerfoot (12) 2 - 2
11:54 BUF Evander Kane (13) Jack Eichel (14), Jake McCabe (5) 3 - 2
19:27 BUF Jack Eichel (8) Ryan O'Reilly (11) 4 - 2

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
01:06 BUF Jack Eichel Holding 2
11:18 COL Nikita Zadorov Interference 2
17:29 BUF Rasmus Ristolainen Roughing 2
2nd Period
05:10 BUF Zach Bogosian High sticking 2
10:37 BUF Sam Reinhart Tripping 2
15:51 COL Mikko Rantanen Tripping 2
18:59 COL Team Delaying game bench 2
3rd Period
08:23 BUF Kyle Okposo High sticking 2
10:43 BUF Zach Bogosian Slashing 2
10:43 COL Blake Comeau Embellishment 2
12:14 BUF Marco Scandella High sticking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 63 48 35 4 3.5 50.0
Colorado Avalanche 75 53 37 2 3.1 50.0

How the game went

5051015Start2nd3rdColorado Avalanche 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 Colorado Avalanche had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 3.5 expected, 4 scored · Colorado Avalanche: 3.1 expected, 2 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 5:32 of 2nd, a 9% chanceBUF goal, 18:59 of 2nd, a 3% chanceBUF goal, 11:54 of 3rd, a 10% chanceBUF goal, 19:27 of 3rd, a 47% chanceCOL goal, 12:22 of 2nd, a 4% chanceCOL goal, 9:58 of 3rd, a 8% chanceBUF 3.5COL 3.1

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

Buffalo Sabres
Colorado Avalanche

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
Jason Pominville · Evander Kane · Jack Eichel9:0357.983.00-0
Jordan Nolan · Johan Larsson · Sam Reinhart5:5245.521.10-0
Kyle Okposo · Scott Wilson · Evan Rodrigues5:2577.884.50-0
Benoit Pouliot · Ryan O'Reilly · Hudson Fasching5:2354.560.90-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Marco Scandella · Rasmus Ristolainen13:3150.077.00-0
Zach Bogosian · Jake McCabe11:0759.181.00-0
Justin Falk · Victor Antipin8:4042.129.90-0

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
9 Jack Eichel C 1 1 2 2 2 3 1 17:12 0.25 14-15 0.77-0.23
22 Jake McCabe D 1 1 2 2 0 1 4 19:21 0.03 16-14 1.00-0.36
67 Benoit Pouliot L 1 1 2 3 0 2 0 16:49 0.17 9-9 0.36-0.25
90 Ryan O'Reilly C 0 2 2 2 0 4 0 19:24 0.13 13-10 0.55-0.40
91 Evander Kane L 1 0 1 1 0 4 1 17:22 0.72 17-15 0.92-0.36
22 Johan Larsson L 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 13:12 0.46 8-15 0.53-0.53
6 Marco Scandella D 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 22:25 12-14 0.76-0.23
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 0 0 0 2 3 1 15:35 0.24 10-3 0.42-0.11
13 Sam Reinhart C 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 09:09 0.01 6-11 0.07-0.40
17 Evan Rodrigues C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 14:33 0.02 10-8 0.46-0.16
20 Scott Wilson C 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 14:19 0.13 14-11 0.96-0.32
20 Hudson Fasching R 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 11:01 0.18 9-8 0.40-0.36
24 Zach Bogosian D 0 0 0 0 4 3 3 18:40 0.21 18-14 1.17-0.30
29 Jason Pominville R 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 15:06 0.20 11-9 0.77-0.17
42 Justin Falk D 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 13:25 8-17 0.24-0.74
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 4 2 4 2 30:42 0.19 17-16 0.85-0.36
71 Jordan Nolan C 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 07:28 7-8 0.50-0.26
93 Victor Antipin D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 10:57 0.07 11-13 0.47-0.57
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
90 Robin Lehner W 37 35 2 60:00 3.12 +1.12

Colorado Avalanche

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
J.T. Compher · Nathan MacKinnon · Mikko Rantanen7:4784.681.50-0
Blake Comeau · Carl Soderberg · Matt Nieto5:1540.022.80-0
Nail Yakupov · Alexander Kerfoot · Tyson Jost3:4612.519.60-0
Colin Wilson · Rocco Grimaldi · Sven Andrighetto2:5275.064.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Erik Johnson · Samuel Girard7:3371.479.20-0
Tyson Barrie · Samuel Girard7:0635.78.30-1
Tyson Barrie · Nikita Zadorov5:5233.323.80-0

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 Nathan MacKinnon C 2 0 2 -3 0 7 0 21:48 0.72 17-6 0.55-0.14
14 Alexander Kerfoot C 0 2 2 -3 0 2 0 18:47 0.11 5-18 0.18-1.44
8 Tyson Barrie D 0 1 1 -2 0 3 1 27:24 0.15 14-20 0.39-1.34
96 Mikko Rantanen R 0 1 1 -3 2 3 0 23:01 0.46 16-9 0.36-1.00
6 Erik Johnson D 0 0 0 -2 0 3 2 24:35 0.16 22-17 0.63-0.64
10 Sven Andrighetto R 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 15:45 0.20 16-9 0.28-0.63
15 Blake Comeau L 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 11:29 7-13 0.11-0.68
15 Duncan Siemens D 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 06:58 5-5 0.17-0.27
17 Tyson Jost C 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 15:32 0.30 14-13 0.43-0.37
22 Colin Wilson C 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 11:47 0.46 9-5 0.41-0.13
23 Rocco Grimaldi R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 08:59 0.01 7-12 0.31-0.37
34 Carl Soderberg C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 16:18 0.19 11-9 0.25-0.41
37 J.T. Compher L 0 0 0 -3 0 1 1 21:18 0.08 13-8 0.30-0.62
49 Samuel Girard D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 18:52 0.03 18-14 0.54-1.11
54 Anton Lindholm D 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 12:54 0.01 13-9 0.44-0.37
64 Nail Yakupov R 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 09:59 0.11 2-8 0.05-0.22
83 Matt Nieto L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 11:44 0.02 11-15 0.44-0.71
91 Nikita Zadorov D 0 0 0 -1 2 2 3 16:48 0.06 10-20 0.26-0.76
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
40 Semyon Varlamov L 34 31 3 58:02 3.08 +0.08