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Buffalo Sabres at St. Louis Blues

Dec 10, 2017 · Scottrade Center

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 2 24
St. Louis Blues 3 45

Decided in overtime.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
00:40 STL Brayden Schenn (16) Joel Edmundson (5), Alexander Steen (13) 0 - 1
2nd Period
16:17 STL Paul Stastny (7) Vladimir Tarasenko (19), Joel Edmundson (6) 0 - 2
3rd Period
01:42 BUF Evan Rodrigues (1) PP Sam Reinhart (6), Evander Kane (14) 1 - 2
18:33 BUF Evan Rodrigues (2) Ryan O'Reilly (12), Marco Scandella (6) 2 - 2
Overtime
04:24 STL Vladimir Tarasenko (14) Colton Parayko (14), Paul Stastny (16) 2 - 3

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
14:05 STL Robert Bortuzzo Interference 2
17:06 BUF Justin Falk Interference 2
2nd Period
03:29 STL Oskar Sundqvist Tripping 2
06:43 BUF Justin Falk Roughing 2
06:43 STL Brayden Schenn Roughing 2
06:43 STL Brayden Schenn Roughing 2
12:12 BUF Jake McCabe Hooking 2
18:14 BUF Justin Falk Hooking 2
3rd Period
00:54 STL Vladimir Sobotka Hooking 2
Overtime
04:24 BUF Jack Eichel Misconduct 10

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 47 34 24 2 1.5 39.0
St. Louis Blues 71 53 45 3 3.9 61.0

How the game went

05101520Start2nd3rdOTSt. Louis Blues 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 St. Louis Blues had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 1.5 expected, 2 scored · St. Louis Blues: 3.9 expected, 3 scored

0123Start2nd3rdOTBUF goal, 1:42 of 3rd, a 11% chanceBUF goal, 18:33 of 3rd, a 8% chanceSTL goal, 0:40 of 1st, a 6% chanceSTL goal, 16:17 of 2nd, a 19% chanceSTL goal, 4:24 of overtime, a 10% chanceSTL 3.9BUF 1.5

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
St. Louis Blues

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 Eichel8:4852.929.00-2
Benoit Pouliot · Kyle Okposo · Ryan O'Reilly5:5722.28.60-0
Kyle Okposo · Ryan O'Reilly · Zemgus Girgensons4:5116.75.40-0
Scott Wilson · Sam Reinhart · Evan Rodrigues4:1025.024.70-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Marco Scandella · Rasmus Ristolainen17:2243.334.80-1
Zach Bogosian · Jake McCabe14:4438.533.00-1
Josh Gorges · Justin Falk8:2545.020.20-0

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

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
17 Evan Rodrigues C 2 0 2 1 0 3 0 16:29 0.29 8-13 0.30-0.79
6 Marco Scandella D 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 26:35 0.06 13-21 0.30-0.84
13 Sam Reinhart C 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 15:01 0.29 6-10 0.27-0.44
90 Ryan O'Reilly C 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 19:59 0.10 5-17 0.07-0.71
91 Evander Kane L 0 1 1 -3 0 1 3 21:52 0.08 13-13 0.45-0.83
4 Josh Gorges D 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 12:59 9-12 0.18-0.78
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 17:00 6-13 0.06-0.46
9 Jack Eichel C 0 0 0 -3 10 1 2 22:51 0.17 14-13 0.38-0.91
20 Scott Wilson C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 13:11 6-16 0.16-0.77
20 Hudson Fasching R 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 06:47 0.02 3-5 0.04-0.29
22 Johan Larsson L 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 13:25 0.01 6-10 0.15-0.14
22 Jake McCabe D 0 0 0 -1 2 1 2 19:51 0.02 10-18 0.41-0.91
24 Zach Bogosian D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 17:53 10-17 0.41-0.83
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 11:18 0.02 5-7 0.15-0.25
29 Jason Pominville R 0 0 0 -2 0 3 1 16:09 0.16 15-15 0.40-1.09
42 Justin Falk D 0 0 0 0 6 3 5 11:40 0.06 9-15 0.18-1.05
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 -1 0 4 8 29:17 0.10 13-19 0.30-0.57
67 Benoit Pouliot L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15:13 0.10 9-16 0.24-0.62
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
90 Robin Lehner 45 42 3 64:06 3.98 +0.98

St. Louis Blues

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Paul Stastny · Vladimir Sobotka · Vladimir Tarasenko11:2176.085.71-0
Alexander Steen · Brayden Schenn · Dmitrij Jaskin11:0857.157.61-0
Patrik Berglund · Magnus Paajarvi · Ivan Barbashev7:4355.651.30-0
Scottie Upshall · Kyle Brodziak · Oskar Sundqvist5:1028.682.10-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Joel Edmundson · Colton Parayko16:2467.782.72-0
Jay Bouwmeester · Robert Bortuzzo13:5950.075.90-0
Carl Gunnarsson · Vince Dunn11:1553.364.20-0

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
26 Paul Stastny C 1 1 2 1 0 7 2 19:35 0.86 22-9 1.16-0.30
91 Vladimir Tarasenko R 1 1 2 1 0 8 1 22:41 0.59 23-10 1.16-0.31
6 Joel Edmundson D 0 2 2 2 0 4 2 25:49 0.18 21-12 1.34-0.42
10 Brayden Schenn C 1 0 1 1 4 2 0 17:49 0.36 14-10 0.51-0.28
20 Alexander Steen L 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 19:58 0.36 14-10 0.53-0.27
55 Colton Parayko D 0 1 1 3 0 4 4 27:32 0.18 25-10 1.49-0.28
4 Carl Gunnarsson D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12:23 9-7 0.30-0.17
9 Scottie Upshall R 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 10:42 0.04 3-7 0.41-0.22
10 Patrik Berglund C 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 15:17 0.22 8-6 0.18-0.10
17 Vladimir Sobotka C 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 19:47 0.16 21-7 1.13-0.19
19 Jay Bouwmeester D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 18:41 0.01 16-14 0.71-0.42
28 Kyle Brodziak C 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 11:54 0.37 8-6 0.70-0.19
29 Vince Dunn D 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 18:00 0.04 14-10 0.40-0.32
41 Robert Bortuzzo D 0 0 0 -1 2 2 4 17:12 0.07 15-11 0.67-0.18
49 Ivan Barbashev L 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 12:36 0.18 10-9 0.35-0.25
56 Magnus Paajarvi L 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 10:19 0.14 10-4 0.50-0.08
70 Oskar Sundqvist C 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 08:19 4-7 0.37-0.20
93 Dmitrij Jaskin R 0 0 0 1 0 3 2 17:50 0.14 13-11 0.38-0.28
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
34 Jake Allen 24 22 2 64:24 1.52 -0.48