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Buffalo Sabres at Tampa Bay Lightning

Feb 28, 2018 · Amalie Arena

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 2 34
Tampa Bay Lightning 1 22

Decided in overtime.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
18:03 TBL Cory Conacher (7) Dan Girardi (10), Yanni Gourde (27) 0 - 1
3rd Period
11:47 BUF Evan Rodrigues (6) Jason Pominville (14) 1 - 1
Overtime
01:26 BUF Jason Pominville (10) PP Rasmus Ristolainen (25), Ryan O'Reilly (28) 2 - 1

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
14:42 TBL Cory Conacher Hooking 2
3rd Period
04:57 TBL Yanni Gourde Hooking 2
08:06 BUF Justin Falk Slashing 2
14:53 TBL J.T. Miller Tripping 2
19:40 TBL Adam Erne Illegal check to head 2
Overtime
01:26 TBL Andrei Vasilevskiy Misconduct 10

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 62 49 34 2 2.1 51.1
Tampa Bay Lightning 50 34 22 1 1.9 48.9

How the game went

151050Start2nd3rdOTTampa Bay Lightning 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 Tampa Bay Lightning had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 2.1 expected, 2 scored · Tampa Bay Lightning: 1.9 expected, 1 scored

00.511.52Start2nd3rdOTBUF goal, 11:47 of 3rd, a 4% chanceBUF goal, 1:26 of overtime, a 6% chanceTBL goal, 18:03 of 1st, a 23% chanceBUF 2.1TBL 1.9

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

Buffalo Sabres
Tampa Bay Lightning

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
Ryan O'Reilly · Zemgus Girgensons · Sam Reinhart16:3757.137.60-0
Jason Pominville · Scott Wilson · Evan Rodrigues10:4860.066.71-0
Benoit Pouliot · Johan Larsson · Nick Baptiste9:3245.040.40-0
Jacob Josefson · Jordan Nolan · Seth Griffith8:0946.232.80-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Marco Scandella · Rasmus Ristolainen18:5857.760.10-0
Casey Nelson · Victor Antipin14:2064.544.70-1
Justin Falk · Nathan Beaulieu11:0123.527.01-0

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
29 Jason Pominville R 1 1 2 1 0 7 2 18:19 0.48 16-13 0.56-0.37
17 Evan Rodrigues C 1 0 1 1 0 5 0 15:36 0.36 17-11 0.69-0.27
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 28:28 0.07 19-14 0.67-0.50
90 Ryan O'Reilly C 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 24:57 0.16 13-9 0.31-0.48
6 Marco Scandella D 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 25:37 0.10 17-11 0.44-0.27
8 Casey Nelson D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 18:42 22-18 0.67-0.99
10 Jacob Josefson C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 10:04 0.07 6-13 0.17-0.49
13 Nick Baptiste R 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 12:32 0.21 9-12 0.19-0.28
13 Sam Reinhart C 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 24:08 0.17 14-9 0.40-0.48
20 Scott Wilson C 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 14:16 0.11 18-10 0.78-0.27
22 Johan Larsson L 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 12:52 0.02 9-11 0.19-0.28
23 Seth Griffith C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 10:12 0.05 6-8 0.17-0.36
28 Nathan Beaulieu D 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 13:34 0.02 5-16 0.16-0.27
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 20:54 0.14 15-11 0.53-0.48
42 Justin Falk D 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 12:09 5-16 0.12-0.29
67 Benoit Pouliot L 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 12:58 0.05 9-15 0.19-0.41
71 Jordan Nolan C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 3 08:45 0.08 6-8 0.17-0.36
93 Victor Antipin D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 19:44 0.02 24-15 0.84-0.75
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Chad Johnson 22 21 1 61:23 1.95 +0.95

Tampa Bay Lightning

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Tyler Johnson · J.T. Miller · Adam Erne15:5457.170.40-0
Alex Killorn · Steven Stamkos · Brayden Point10:1838.929.30-0
Chris Kunitz · Cory Conacher · Yanni Gourde6:1775.084.31-0
Ryan Callahan · Michael Bournival · Cedric Paquette5:5628.625.90-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Anton Stralman · Victor Hedman17:1634.329.60-0
Braydon Coburn · Andrej Sustr12:3945.849.00-1
Dan Girardi · Mikhail Sergachev12:2975.088.91-0

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
89 Cory Conacher C 1 0 1 1 2 3 1 09:01 0.34 10-4 0.55-0.12
5 Dan Girardi D 0 1 1 1 0 0 4 20:17 0.03 16-10 0.62-0.15
37 Yanni Gourde C 0 1 1 0 2 2 1 12:41 0.18 19-10 0.71-0.36
10 J.T. Miller C 0 0 0 0 2 0 4 17:40 0.08 16-9 0.72-0.24
13 Cedric Paquette C 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 11:49 0.02 6-11 0.05-0.17
14 Chris Kunitz L 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 11:52 9-9 0.55-0.33
15 Michael Bournival L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 09:20 4-10 0.04-0.15
17 Alex Killorn L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 3 18:36 0.16 19-18 0.34-0.73
21 Brayden Point C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 19:31 0.23 12-16 0.18-0.55
24 Ryan Callahan R 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 14:14 0.03 9-6 0.20-0.09
45 Braydon Coburn D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 15:47 0.05 11-13 0.36-0.38
73 Adam Erne L 0 0 0 0 2 3 1 16:35 0.35 12-9 0.58-0.24
77 Victor Hedman D 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 29:31 0.01 13-28 0.40-1.00
86 Anton Stralman D 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 25:31 0.03 13-23 0.40-0.92
90 Tyler Johnson C 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 18:40 0.13 12-13 0.58-0.50
91 Steven Stamkos C 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 17:38 0.21 8-23 0.18-0.85
92 Andrej Sustr D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 13:08 11-13 0.36-0.38
98 Mikhail Sergachev D 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 16:07 0.07 20-5 0.75-0.07
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
88 Andrei Vasilevskiy 34 32 2 61:26 2.16 +0.16