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Carolina Hurricanes at Buffalo Sabres

Dec 15, 2017 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Carolina Hurricanes 5 34
Buffalo Sabres 4 41

Decided in overtime.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
2nd Period
10:16 CAR Justin Williams (7) Brock McGinn (8), Jordan Staal (11) 1 - 0
10:46 BUF Jack Eichel (9) Evander Kane (15), Jake McCabe (6) 1 - 1
3rd Period
01:20 BUF Jake McCabe (2) Evander Kane (16), Jack Eichel (17) 1 - 2
03:00 CAR Jordan Staal (8) Jaccob Slavin (5), Justin Williams (15) 2 - 2
04:03 CAR Derek Ryan (6) Brett Pesce (5) 3 - 2
06:57 CAR Elias Lindholm (9) Derek Ryan (11), Sebastian Aho (15) 4 - 2
09:24 BUF Jack Eichel (10) Jake McCabe (7), Kyle Okposo (9) 4 - 3
09:34 BUF Jack Eichel (11) Evander Kane (17) 4 - 4
Overtime
02:15 CAR Jaccob Slavin (3) Elias Lindholm (9), Sebastian Aho (16) 5 - 4

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
05:50 BUF Kyle Okposo Hooking 2
11:24 CAR Justin Faulk Hooking 2
16:20 CAR Brock McGinn Interference goalkeeper 2
19:15 BUF Zemgus Girgensons Hooking 2
19:15 CAR Jeff Skinner Embellishment 2
20:00 BUF Nathan Beaulieu Slashing 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Carolina Hurricanes 56 49 34 5 2.9 44.4
Buffalo Sabres 66 53 41 4 3.0 55.6

How the game went

051015Start2nd3rdOTBuffalo Sabres aheadCarolina Hurricanes 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 Carolina Hurricanes had.

Expected goals

Carolina Hurricanes: 2.9 expected, 5 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 3.0 expected, 4 scored

012Start2nd3rdOTCAR goal, 10:16 of 2nd, a 29% chanceCAR goal, 3:00 of 3rd, a 31% chanceCAR goal, 4:03 of 3rd, a 20% chanceCAR goal, 6:57 of 3rd, a 9% chanceCAR goal, 2:15 of overtime, a 5% chanceBUF goal, 10:46 of 2nd, a 9% chanceBUF goal, 1:20 of 3rd, a 14% chanceBUF goal, 9:24 of 3rd, a 2% chanceBUF goal, 9:34 of 3rd, a 3% chanceBUF 3.0CAR 2.9

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

Carolina Hurricanes
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.

Carolina Hurricanes

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Justin Williams · Jordan Staal · Brock McGinn12:0872.072.82-1
Marcus Kruger · Joakim Nordstrom · Phillip Di Giuseppe7:5940.036.20-0
Victor Rask · Teuvo Teravainen · Sebastian Aho6:0620.011.10-0
Jeff Skinner · Elias Lindholm · Derek Ryan6:0050.033.90-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jaccob Slavin · Brett Pesce17:3548.770.53-2
Justin Faulk · Haydn Fleury11:4821.78.10-1
Trevor van Riemsdyk · Noah Hanifin10:1468.886.11-0

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
10 Derek Ryan C 1 1 2 -1 0 3 0 16:39 0.23 8-16 0.43-0.60
11 Jordan Staal C 1 1 2 1 0 2 1 21:05 0.51 21-13 1.45-0.46
14 Justin Williams R 1 1 2 1 0 4 1 18:47 0.48 24-15 1.55-0.58
28 Elias Lindholm C 1 1 2 0 0 1 0 15:29 0.09 5-13 0.32-0.45
74 Jaccob Slavin D 1 1 2 1 0 4 0 24:19 0.17 21-27 1.41-0.81
20 Sebastian Aho C 0 2 2 1 0 4 0 15:23 0.56 8-21 0.73-1.13
22 Brett Pesce D 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 23:40 0.02 22-24 1.44-0.76
26 Brock McGinn L 0 1 1 1 2 4 4 14:12 0.22 20-7 1.12-0.41
15 Noah Hanifin D 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 20:19 0.04 17-10 0.84-0.35
16 Marcus Kruger C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11:49 0.12 10-15 0.35-0.65
20 Joakim Nordstrom C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 13:36 0.07 8-17 0.32-0.68
24 Haydn Fleury D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 1 16:10 8-21 0.13-1.43
34 Phillip Di Giuseppe L 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 10:12 0.11 8-14 0.32-0.59
49 Victor Rask C 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 12:34 5-13 0.13-0.75
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 16:13 0.10 8-6 0.19-0.18
57 Trevor van Riemsdyk D 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 12:48 0.03 11-5 0.57-0.09
72 Justin Faulk D 0 0 0 -1 2 3 2 21:20 0.06 9-25 0.33-1.54
86 Teuvo Teravainen C 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 16:12 0.04 7-13 0.17-0.75
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
30 Cam Ward W 41 37 4 62:13 3.05 -0.95

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Kyle Okposo · Ryan O'Reilly · Zemgus Girgensons13:3051.950.40-0
Jason Pominville · Evander Kane · Jack Eichel10:5570.069.43-2
Benoit Pouliot · Sam Reinhart · Evan Rodrigues8:0857.166.00-0
Johan Larsson · Scott Wilson · Hudson Fasching5:4540.08.10-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Marco Scandella · Rasmus Ristolainen19:3255.042.70-1
Jake McCabe · Victor Antipin13:5553.858.23-1
Zach Bogosian · Nathan Beaulieu13:3152.247.80-1

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

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
9 Jack Eichel C 3 1 4 1 0 11 1 19:57 0.37 18-8 0.91-0.44
22 Jake McCabe D 1 2 3 1 0 1 1 18:28 0.14 18-14 1.05-0.73
91 Evander Kane L 0 3 3 1 0 4 3 20:43 0.41 21-10 1.02-0.45
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 1 1 1 2 4 1 17:20 0.20 21-15 0.90-0.70
6 Marco Scandella D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 23:46 0.01 24-18 0.98-1.19
13 Sam Reinhart C 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 13:54 0.41 13-7 0.52-0.23
17 Evan Rodrigues C 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 13:18 0.10 11-7 0.46-0.23
20 Scott Wilson C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 2 09:03 0.02 6-9 0.16-0.57
20 Hudson Fasching R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 07:25 4-6 0.04-0.46
22 Johan Larsson L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 11:55 0.09 7-12 0.20-0.64
24 Zach Bogosian D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 18:35 0.01 16-13 0.60-0.55
28 Nathan Beaulieu D 0 0 0 -1 2 0 0 14:39 14-11 0.49-0.44
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 -1 2 5 1 17:02 0.47 17-18 0.74-1.16
29 Jason Pominville R 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 15:37 0.10 19-11 1.04-0.80
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 26:25 0.05 23-19 0.90-1.19
67 Benoit Pouliot L 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 14:17 0.03 9-10 0.47-0.29
90 Ryan O'Reilly C 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 23:22 0.13 19-19 0.87-1.10
93 Victor Antipin D 0 0 0 2 0 4 1 14:59 0.45 15-13 0.88-0.62
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Chad Johnson OTL 34 29 5 62:15 2.92 -2.08