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Chicago Blackhawks at Buffalo Sabres

Mar 17, 2018 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Chicago Blackhawks 3 37
Buffalo Sabres 5 32

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
18:10 BUF Benoit Pouliot (13) Rasmus Ristolainen (29), Sam Reinhart (22) 0 - 1
2nd Period
08:15 CHI Jordan Oesterle (5) Patrick Kane (43), Jonathan Toews (31) 1 - 1
11:07 BUF Ryan O'Reilly (20) PP Sam Reinhart (23), Jack Eichel (32) 1 - 2
14:15 CHI Tomas Jurco (4) Alex DeBrincat (21) 2 - 2
3rd Period
00:20 CHI Jonathan Toews (20) Brandon Saad (15), Patrick Kane (44) 3 - 2
02:17 BUF Nick Baptiste (3) Nathan Beaulieu (7), Victor Antipin (10) 3 - 3
18:04 BUF Nick Baptiste (4) Marco Scandella (15), Johan Larsson (11) 3 - 4
19:21 BUF Sam Reinhart (19) Ryan O'Reilly (32) 3 - 5

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
11:55 BUF Brendan Guhle Slashing 2
2nd Period
06:35 BUF Rasmus Ristolainen Interference 2
07:00 CHI Vinnie Hinostroza Tripping 2
09:46 CHI Tomas Jurco Slashing 2
3rd Period
05:50 CHI Duncan Keith Tripping 2
16:03 CHI Brent Seabrook Hooking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Chicago Blackhawks 63 52 38 3 2.9 52.8
Buffalo Sabres 63 47 32 5 3.6 47.2

How the game went

1510505Start2nd3rdBuffalo Sabres aheadChicago Blackhawks 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 Chicago Blackhawks had.

Expected goals

Chicago Blackhawks: 2.9 expected, 3 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 3.6 expected, 5 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndCHI goal, 8:15 of 2nd, a 11% chanceCHI goal, 14:15 of 2nd, a 16% chanceCHI goal, 0:20 of 3rd, a 24% chanceBUF goal, 18:10 of 1st, a 24% chanceBUF goal, 11:07 of 2nd, a 17% chanceBUF goal, 2:17 of 3rd, a 10% chanceBUF goal, 18:04 of 3rd, a 12% chanceBUF goal, 19:21 of 3rd, a 43% chanceBUF 3.6CHI 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

Chicago Blackhawks
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.

Chicago Blackhawks

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jonathan Toews · Patrick Kane · Brandon Saad13:0147.252.81-0
Artem Anisimov · Tomas Jurco · Alex DeBrincat10:4350.045.41-0
Vinnie Hinostroza · Nick Schmaltz · Matthew Highmore9:3275.087.60-1
Patrick Sharp · John Hayden · David Kampf8:1764.341.70-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Duncan Keith · Jan Rutta15:1755.965.41-0
Brent Seabrook · Erik Gustafsson14:0541.928.80-0
Connor Murphy · Jordan Oesterle13:3266.757.60-2

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
19 Jonathan Toews C 1 1 2 0 0 5 0 19:56 0.48 18-21 0.97-1.03
88 Patrick Kane R 0 2 2 1 0 2 0 19:30 0.12 17-23 0.94-0.92
13 Tomas Jurco R 1 0 1 1 2 1 0 11:48 0.17 12-13 0.39-0.54
82 Jordan Oesterle D 1 0 1 -2 0 1 0 17:55 0.11 17-11 0.80-0.70
20 Brandon Saad L 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 18:32 0.42 18-22 0.97-1.04
93 Alex DeBrincat R 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 12:54 0.07 13-12 0.43-0.47
2 Duncan Keith D 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 21:56 0.01 22-20 1.19-0.56
5 Connor Murphy D 0 0 0 -2 0 5 1 17:41 0.22 19-10 0.82-0.66
7 Brent Seabrook D 0 0 0 -1 2 1 1 19:39 0.04 15-24 0.53-1.10
8 Nick Schmaltz C 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 17:00 0.04 17-6 0.84-0.12
10 Patrick Sharp L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 11:54 0.14 14-9 0.49-0.58
15 John Hayden C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 10:34 0.16 12-9 0.44-0.67
15 Matthew Highmore C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 12:08 0.53 12-6 0.75-0.12
24 Vinnie Hinostroza C 0 0 0 -1 2 0 0 13:13 14-4 0.80-0.11
51 Artem Anisimov C 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 16:12 0.11 12-16 0.39-0.49
64 Erik Gustafsson D 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 20:26 0.10 17-20 0.62-1.03
64 David Kampf C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 12:20 0.11 9-7 0.40-0.65
84 Jan Rutta D 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 20:28 0.05 22-17 1.26-0.64
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
30 J-F Berube 31 27 4 58:33 3.20 -0.80

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Ryan O'Reilly · Scott Wilson · Sam Reinhart8:4142.333.50-1
Jason Pominville · Benoit Pouliot · Jack Eichel4:4370.080.90-0
Jordan Nolan · Johan Larsson · Justin Bailey3:4062.546.90-0
Justin Bailey · Nick Baptiste · Evan Rodrigues2:5475.093.71-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Marco Scandella · Rasmus Ristolainen15:3953.751.11-2
Justin Falk · Brendan Guhle13:5840.046.90-0
Nathan Beaulieu · Victor Antipin13:2038.128.61-0

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
13 Sam Reinhart C 1 2 3 1 0 1 0 20:27 0.34 18-23 0.92-1.13
13 Nick Baptiste R 2 0 2 2 0 2 0 13:16 0.34 9-13 0.26-0.68
90 Ryan O'Reilly C 1 1 2 1 0 4 1 24:42 0.66 23-28 1.40-1.26
67 Benoit Pouliot L 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 14:09 0.24 13-13 0.88-0.80
6 Marco Scandella D 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 24:37 0.04 25-20 1.35-1.21
9 Jack Eichel C 0 1 1 -2 0 5 0 18:14 0.51 13-11 0.43-0.42
22 Johan Larsson L 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 15:24 0.08 11-17 0.34-0.71
28 Nathan Beaulieu D 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 15:54 12-16 0.25-0.63
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 1 1 0 2 3 2 24:18 0.22 27-20 1.34-1.18
93 Victor Antipin D 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 15:54 0.03 10-14 0.24-0.63
2 Brendan Guhle D 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 19:23 13-22 0.71-0.80
17 Evan Rodrigues C 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 16:48 0.03 7-11 0.14-0.77
20 Scott Wilson C 0 0 0 -1 0 4 3 17:29 0.26 17-22 0.62-1.05
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 02:56 4-2 0.28-0.03
29 Jason Pominville R 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 16:12 0.25 17-14 1.08-0.51
42 Justin Falk D 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 16:51 0.02 13-20 0.69-0.76
71 Jordan Nolan C 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 08:52 9-5 0.28-0.16
90 Justin Bailey R 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 10:44 0.10 9-9 0.25-0.30
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Chad Johnson 37 34 3 59:50 2.94 -0.06