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Buffalo Sabres at Tampa Bay Lightning

Apr 6, 2018 · Amalie Arena

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 5 32
Tampa Bay Lightning 7 34

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
00:30 TBL Anthony Cirelli (4) Yanni Gourde (38) 0 - 1
02:57 BUF Casey Mittelstadt (1) PP Marco Scandella (17), Evan Rodrigues (16) 1 - 1
04:35 TBL Nikita Kucherov (39) Unassisted 1 - 2
06:32 BUF Alex Nylander (1) Brendan Guhle (3), Rasmus Ristolainen (35) 2 - 2
09:40 TBL Yanni Gourde (25) Alex Killorn (30) 2 - 3
2nd Period
01:04 TBL Dan Girardi (6) Nikita Kucherov (61), Ondrej Palat (24) 2 - 4
08:59 BUF Jason Pominville (15) Brendan Guhle (4), Evan Rodrigues (17) 3 - 4
15:58 BUF Jordan Nolan (4) Johan Larsson (13) 4 - 4
18:45 BUF Kyle Okposo (15) PP Jack Eichel (38), Ryan O'Reilly (37) 5 - 4
3rd Period
06:15 TBL Anthony Cirelli (5) Alex Killorn (31), Mikhail Sergachev (31) 5 - 5
07:02 TBL Brayden Point (32) Alex Killorn (32), Yanni Gourde (39) 5 - 6
18:34 TBL Victor Hedman (17) Andrei Vasilevskiy (2) 5 - 7

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
01:16 TBL Victor Hedman Delaying game puck over glass 2
17:22 TBL Cory Conacher High sticking 2
2nd Period
04:24 BUF Marco Scandella Roughing 2
04:24 BUF Marco Scandella Roughing 2
09:55 TBL J.T. Miller High sticking 2
17:46 TBL Alex Killorn Hooking 2
19:50 BUF Marco Scandella High sticking 2
3rd Period
08:19 TBL Cory Conacher Tripping 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 52 41 32 5 2.0 43.6
Tampa Bay Lightning 55 44 34 7 2.6 56.4

How the game went

64202468Start2nd3rdTampa 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: 2.0 expected, 5 scored · Tampa Bay Lightning: 2.6 expected, 7 scored

012Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 2:57 of 1st, a 4% chanceBUF goal, 6:32 of 1st, a 7% chanceBUF goal, 8:59 of 2nd, a 1% chanceBUF goal, 15:58 of 2nd, a 10% chanceBUF goal, 18:45 of 2nd, a 6% chanceTBL goal, 0:30 of 1st, a 11% chanceTBL goal, 4:35 of 1st, a 6% chanceTBL goal, 9:40 of 1st, a 11% chanceTBL goal, 1:04 of 2nd, a 14% chanceTBL goal, 6:15 of 3rd, a 7% chanceTBL goal, 7:02 of 3rd, a 10% chanceTBL goal, 18:34 of 3rd, a 53% chanceTBL 2.6BUF 2.0

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
Kyle Okposo · Scott Wilson · Jack Eichel10:2533.312.50-2
Ryan O'Reilly · Sam Reinhart · Alex Nylander8:2647.139.11-3
Jason Pominville · Evan Rodrigues · Casey Mittelstadt6:5062.544.61-0
Jordan Nolan · Johan Larsson · Nick Baptiste4:5025.065.01-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Rasmus Ristolainen · Brendan Guhle14:3651.736.82-3
Marco Scandella · Casey Nelson13:4815.81.20-3
Justin Falk · Nathan Beaulieu9:2950.068.71-0

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
2 Brendan Guhle D 0 2 2 -2 0 1 3 19:15 0.05 20-17 0.80-0.86
17 Evan Rodrigues C 0 2 2 0 0 2 0 14:17 0.13 9-6 0.43-0.24
8 Kyle Okposo R 1 0 1 -2 0 2 0 18:40 0.12 5-10 0.06-0.44
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 1 0 1 1 0 4 0 13:32 0.12 10-4 0.17-0.09
29 Jason Pominville R 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 15:10 0.07 10-6 0.17-0.24
71 Jordan Nolan C 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 08:58 0.34 6-13 0.41-0.28
92 Alex Nylander L 1 0 1 -3 0 1 0 10:29 0.07 10-10 0.31-0.47
6 Marco Scandella D 0 1 1 -3 6 1 3 20:27 0.07 7-18 0.37-0.65
9 Jack Eichel C 0 1 1 -2 0 4 2 21:39 0.53 8-12 0.39-0.50
22 Johan Larsson L 0 1 1 0 0 1 3 15:43 0.02 11-16 0.50-0.55
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 1 1 -2 0 4 4 26:52 0.11 18-15 0.77-0.77
90 Ryan O'Reilly C 0 1 1 -4 0 2 3 19:36 0.08 9-16 0.31-0.88
8 Casey Nelson D 0 0 0 -3 0 0 2 19:30 3-17 0.01-0.74
13 Nick Baptiste R 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 11:21 0.13 5-11 0.38-0.20
13 Sam Reinhart C 0 0 0 -4 0 1 0 17:43 0.10 10-14 0.31-0.77
20 Scott Wilson C 0 0 0 -2 0 2 2 17:27 0.05 8-14 0.13-0.58
28 Nathan Beaulieu D 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 11:01 0.04 12-11 0.50-0.27
42 Justin Falk D 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 14:26 9-10 0.43-0.21
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Chad Johnson L 33 27 6 57:54 2.12 -3.88

Tampa Bay Lightning

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Ondrej Palat · Nikita Kucherov · Brayden Point9:1353.344.72-1
Alex Killorn · Yanni Gourde · Anthony Cirelli9:1175.082.23-0
Chris Kunitz · Ryan Callahan · Cedric Paquette8:0053.362.50-1
Tyler Johnson · Cory Conacher · J.T. Miller7:3162.576.80-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Anton Stralman · Ryan McDonagh13:5451.760.93-1
Dan Girardi · Victor Hedman12:3447.657.92-1
Braydon Coburn · Mikhail Sergachev6:3175.063.70-1

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
37 Yanni Gourde C 1 2 3 5 0 3 1 13:26 0.21 18-8 0.87-0.47
17 Alex Killorn L 0 3 3 5 2 5 0 16:47 0.26 16-9 0.74-0.55
71 Anthony Cirelli C 2 0 2 4 0 3 0 13:33 0.25 16-6 0.65-0.22
86 Nikita Kucherov R 1 1 2 1 0 4 0 16:28 0.14 9-8 0.36-0.40
5 Dan Girardi D 1 0 1 2 0 2 4 19:54 0.15 12-11 0.45-0.28
21 Brayden Point C 1 0 1 2 0 1 0 18:17 0.21 11-9 0.45-0.43
77 Victor Hedman D 1 0 1 3 2 3 3 26:11 0.11 14-14 0.66-0.36
81 Ondrej Palat L 0 1 1 1 0 3 3 15:40 0.14 11-11 0.47-0.76
98 Mikhail Sergachev D 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 12:39 0.07 13-7 0.33-0.51
10 J.T. Miller C 0 0 0 -1 2 1 2 18:08 0.00 7-10 0.16-0.14
13 Cedric Paquette C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 12:20 0.09 8-8 0.34-0.20
14 Chris Kunitz L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 10:27 0.19 11-8 0.37-0.20
24 Ryan Callahan R 0 0 0 -1 0 2 3 12:31 0.04 10-11 0.35-0.28
27 Ryan McDonagh D 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 22:25 0.02 19-15 0.83-0.49
45 Braydon Coburn D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 11:16 0.05 14-5 0.43-0.12
86 Anton Stralman D 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 21:49 0.02 16-14 0.80-0.49
89 Cory Conacher C 0 0 0 -1 4 1 1 12:37 0.06 6-7 0.17-0.45
90 Tyler Johnson C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 17:25 0.07 9-9 0.30-0.11
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
88 Andrei Vasilevskiy W 32 27 5 59:27 2.08 -2.92