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Vegas Golden Knights at Buffalo Sabres

Oct 8, 2018 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Vegas Golden Knights 2 37
Buffalo Sabres 4 17

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
14:31 BUF Jack Eichel (2) PP Rasmus Ristolainen (2), Kyle Okposo (1) 0 - 1
2nd Period
04:58 BUF Jack Eichel (3) Sam Reinhart (2), Conor Sheary (1) 0 - 2
07:48 VGK Erik Haula (1) William Karlsson (1), Jonathan Marchessault (2) 1 - 2
08:15 BUF Marco Scandella (1) Kyle Okposo (2), Patrik Berglund (1) 1 - 3
09:43 BUF Jason Pominville (1) Evan Rodrigues (1), Zemgus Girgensons (1) 1 - 4
3rd Period
10:47 VGK Jonathan Marchessault (2) William Karlsson (2) 2 - 4

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
00:54 VGK Paul Stastny Slashing 2
13:45 VGK Paul Stastny Slashing 2
2nd Period
02:20 BUF Casey Nelson Slashing 2
3rd Period
05:36 BUF Tage Thompson Hooking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Vegas Golden Knights 67 53 37 2 2.5 60.0
Buffalo Sabres 35 29 17 4 1.8 40.0

How the game went

302520151050Start2nd3rdBuffalo Sabres aheadVegas Golden Knights 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 Vegas Golden Knights had.

Expected goals

Vegas Golden Knights: 2.5 expected, 2 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 1.8 expected, 4 scored

00.511.52Start2nd3rdEndVGK goal, 7:48 of 2nd, a 2% chanceVGK goal, 10:47 of 3rd, a 1% chanceBUF goal, 14:31 of 1st, a 6% chanceBUF goal, 4:58 of 2nd, a 11% chanceBUF goal, 8:15 of 2nd, a 1% chanceBUF goal, 9:43 of 2nd, a 20% chanceVGK 2.5BUF 1.8

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

Vegas Golden Knights
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.

Vegas Golden Knights

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Reilly Smith · William Karlsson · Jonathan Marchessault13:3658.353.91-1
Paul Stastny · Max Pacioretty · Erik Haula13:2045.546.80-0
Oscar Lindberg · Ryan Carpenter · Tomas Nosek5:3970.048.00-1
Ryan Reaves · William Carrier · Pierre-Edouard Bellemare4:2542.911.20-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Brayden McNabb · Colin Miller16:1161.579.10-0
Nick Holden · Jon Merrill14:1464.754.80-1
Deryk Engelland · Shea Theodore13:0957.733.01-2

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
81 Jonathan Marchessault R 1 1 2 1 0 5 0 19:22 0.29 18-10 0.56-0.44
71 William Karlsson C 0 2 2 1 0 1 1 19:12 0.15 17-10 0.56-0.44
56 Erik Haula L 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 18:09 0.10 12-12 0.25-0.25
3 Brayden McNabb D 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 19:39 0.10 17-11 0.82-0.22
4 Jon Merrill D 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 16:56 0.05 12-9 0.30-0.29
5 Deryk Engelland D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 17:13 0.05 15-13 0.31-0.69
5 Nick Holden D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 16:25 0.03 11-8 0.29-0.31
6 Colin Miller D 0 0 0 1 0 3 1 24:09 0.23 21-11 1.06-0.21
19 Reilly Smith R 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 19:03 0.09 18-10 0.73-0.44
22 Ryan Carpenter C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 12:51 0.22 12-5 0.49-0.32
24 Oscar Lindberg L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 13:22 0.02 10-5 0.45-0.32
26 Paul Stastny C 0 0 0 0 4 4 1 19:40 0.36 13-13 0.42-0.26
27 Shea Theodore D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 21:44 0.18 20-12 0.55-0.67
28 William Carrier L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 9 09:14 0.26 7-5 0.22-0.19
41 Pierre-Edouard Bellemare L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 09:45 6-5 0.20-0.19
67 Max Pacioretty L 0 0 0 0 0 3 5 18:33 0.17 13-12 0.42-0.25
75 Ryan Reaves R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 09:52 7-5 0.22-0.16
92 Tomas Nosek L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 13:56 0.18 11-4 0.46-0.34
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
29 Marc-Andre Fleury 17 13 4 58:09 1.27 -2.73

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Conor Sheary · Sam Reinhart · Jack Eichel11:5152.065.51-2
Kyle Okposo · Patrik Berglund · Jeff Skinner11:4440.060.01-0
Jason Pominville · Zemgus Girgensons · Evan Rodrigues9:4850.049.31-0
Remi Elie · Tage Thompson · Casey Mittelstadt5:4311.11.60-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Marco Scandella · Rasmus Ristolainen17:5134.832.01-1
Jake McCabe · Rasmus Dahlin14:3630.441.31-1
Nathan Beaulieu · Casey Nelson11:2855.657.50-0

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
9 Jack Eichel C 2 0 2 -1 0 4 1 19:11 0.32 14-15 0.62-0.33
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 2 2 1 0 0 2 18:00 0.02 6-13 0.18-0.23
6 Marco Scandella D 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 22:20 0.01 9-15 0.24-0.43
29 Jason Pominville R 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 10:24 0.20 8-8 0.31-0.32
10 Patrik Berglund C 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 17:00 0.11 8-12 0.25-0.30
13 Sam Reinhart C 0 1 1 -1 0 1 2 19:28 0.20 16-16 0.69-0.50
17 Evan Rodrigues C 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 17:13 0.05 8-11 0.31-0.42
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 1 1 1 0 1 2 14:53 0.05 8-9 0.31-0.41
43 Conor Sheary L 0 1 1 -1 0 2 0 15:12 0.20 14-12 0.66-0.32
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 25:40 0.03 10-19 0.22-0.63
8 Casey Nelson D 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 17:28 0.00 12-13 0.48-0.50
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10:34 2-13 0.02-0.71
22 Jake McCabe D 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 19:43 9-18 0.52-0.53
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 18:37 0.01 11-19 0.39-0.72
28 Nathan Beaulieu D 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 14:04 0.02 13-12 0.53-0.50
38 Remi Elie L 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 09:22 0.01 1-10 0.01-0.53
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 18:24 0.05 8-16 0.21-0.40
72 Tage Thompson C 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 08:27 0.01 3-9 0.03-0.52
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
40 Carter Hutton 37 35 2 60:00 2.48 +0.48