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Colorado Avalanche at Buffalo Sabres

Oct 11, 2018 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Colorado Avalanche 6 30
Buffalo Sabres 1 31

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
10:55 COL Tyson Jost (1) PP Tyson Barrie (1), Mikko Rantanen (4) 1 - 0
13:20 COL Colin Wilson (3) PP Samuel Girard (3), J.T. Compher (1) 2 - 0
16:30 COL Carl Soderberg (3) Gabriel Bourque (1) 3 - 0
2nd Period
17:05 BUF Nathan Beaulieu (1) Rasmus Dahlin (1) 3 - 1
17:33 COL Nathan MacKinnon (4) Mikko Rantanen (5) 4 - 1
3rd Period
15:23 COL Alexander Kerfoot (1) Tyson Barrie (2) 5 - 1
17:01 COL Nathan MacKinnon (5) Mikko Rantanen (6) 6 - 1

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
09:16 BUF Jake McCabe Hooking 2
11:24 BUF Carter Hutton Tripping 2
17:17 COL Team Too many men on the ice 2
19:02 COL Nathan MacKinnon Hooking 2
2nd Period
03:23 BUF Nathan Beaulieu Tripping 2
04:35 COL Alexander Kerfoot Interference 2
12:12 COL Vladislav Kamenev Interference 2
14:35 COL Nikita Zadorov Boarding 2
19:58 BUF Johan Larsson Slashing 2
3rd Period
06:33 COL Matt Calvert Hooking 2
10:49 COL Alexander Kerfoot Holding 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Colorado Avalanche 43 41 30 6 3.1 42.4
Buffalo Sabres 58 48 31 1 3.1 57.6

How the game went

10505101520Start2nd3rdBuffalo Sabres aheadColorado Avalanche 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 Colorado Avalanche had.

Expected goals

Colorado Avalanche: 3.1 expected, 6 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 3.1 expected, 1 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndCOL goal, 10:55 of 1st, a 11% chanceCOL goal, 13:20 of 1st, a 44% chanceCOL goal, 16:30 of 1st, a 11% chanceCOL goal, 17:33 of 2nd, a 9% chanceCOL goal, 15:23 of 3rd, a 11% chanceCOL goal, 17:01 of 3rd, a 12% chanceBUF goal, 17:05 of 2nd, a 1% chanceBUF 3.1COL 3.1

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

Colorado Avalanche
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.

Colorado Avalanche

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Gabriel Landeskog · Nathan MacKinnon · Mikko Rantanen10:1631.834.02-0
Colin Wilson · Alexander Kerfoot · Tyson Jost8:5083.373.90-0
Carl Soderberg · Gabriel Bourque · Matt Nieto7:4436.469.91-0
Matt Calvert · J.T. Compher · Vladislav Kamenev5:3550.030.30-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Patrik Nemeth · Nikita Zadorov10:3936.438.81-0
Ian Cole · Tyson Barrie9:3447.147.01-0
Erik Johnson · Samuel Girard7:4664.374.11-0

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
96 Mikko Rantanen R 0 3 3 2 0 1 1 17:13 0.20 7-18 0.40-0.91
29 Nathan MacKinnon C 2 0 2 2 2 4 0 19:20 0.34 7-18 0.40-0.91
8 Tyson Barrie D 0 2 2 2 0 0 1 19:58 0.08 12-15 0.77-1.05
14 Alexander Kerfoot C 1 0 1 1 4 3 1 12:47 0.29 12-4 0.60-0.21
17 Tyson Jost C 1 0 1 1 0 3 0 16:22 0.45 11-3 0.60-0.18
22 Colin Wilson C 1 0 1 0 0 5 2 10:36 0.65 11-2 0.50-0.17
34 Carl Soderberg C 1 0 1 1 0 3 1 14:24 0.26 4-9 0.36-0.20
37 J.T. Compher L 0 1 1 -1 0 1 0 14:17 0.07 6-9 0.17-0.45
49 Samuel Girard D 0 1 1 2 0 2 0 15:20 0.02 14-15 0.82-0.76
57 Gabriel Bourque L 0 1 1 1 0 2 6 15:15 0.06 4-8 0.36-0.18
2 Patrik Nemeth D 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 19:29 5-14 0.22-0.40
6 Erik Johnson D 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 21:17 9-7 0.44-0.19
11 Matt Calvert L 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 11:40 0.13 6-8 0.28-0.44
28 Ian Cole D 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 21:38 0.01 9-16 0.49-0.75
81 Vladislav Kamenev C 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 07:02 0.01 5-9 0.17-0.53
83 Matt Nieto L 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 16:15 0.12 4-7 0.36-0.16
91 Nikita Zadorov D 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 15:55 7-12 0.33-0.36
92 Gabriel Landeskog L 0 0 0 2 0 4 0 17:19 0.39 7-16 0.40-0.80
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
40 Semyon Varlamov W 31 30 1 59:53 3.08 +2.08

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Conor Sheary · Sam Reinhart · Jack Eichel8:4364.379.30-1
Jeff Skinner · Tage Thompson · Casey Mittelstadt5:2172.776.90-0
Jason Pominville · Zemgus Girgensons · Evan Rodrigues4:5033.336.40-1
Kyle Okposo · Patrik Berglund · Jeff Skinner4:3855.655.30-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Marco Scandella · Rasmus Ristolainen10:4062.551.80-2
Jake McCabe · Rasmus Dahlin9:2327.325.60-1
Nathan Beaulieu · Casey Nelson9:1260.050.70-0

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
28 Nathan Beaulieu D 1 0 1 1 2 2 0 15:10 0.22 14-5 0.65-0.21
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 18:09 0.25 15-12 0.96-0.69
6 Marco Scandella D 0 0 0 -3 0 2 0 17:42 0.05 16-10 0.57-0.59
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 0 0 -1 0 2 2 20:34 0.46 9-9 0.31-0.44
8 Casey Nelson D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 13:59 9-9 0.52-0.40
9 Jack Eichel C 0 0 0 -1 0 5 0 20:03 0.22 11-6 0.74-0.24
10 Patrik Berglund C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 13:23 0.18 11-9 0.35-0.55
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 13:37 0.21 11-6 0.55-0.24
13 Sam Reinhart C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 21:00 0.46 11-8 0.74-0.34
17 Evan Rodrigues C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 14:08 0.02 5-6 0.18-0.42
22 Johan Larsson L 0 0 0 -2 2 0 0 11:44 6-7 0.16-0.59
22 Jake McCabe D 0 0 0 -2 2 0 0 15:15 0.17 5-9 0.21-0.61
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 1 13:02 0.09 5-6 0.15-0.39
29 Jason Pominville R 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 08:02 0.04 5-5 0.15-0.31
43 Conor Sheary L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 18:06 0.02 9-6 0.65-0.19
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 17:14 0.43 16-10 0.65-0.46
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 -2 0 4 3 27:07 0.12 17-11 0.55-0.57
72 Tage Thompson C 0 0 0 1 0 3 4 14:10 0.18 15-6 0.58-0.45
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
40 Carter Hutton L 30 24 6 60:00 3.07 -2.93