Hockey Terminal
Be a GM

← All games

Buffalo Sabres at Pittsburgh Penguins

Nov 19, 2018 · PPG Paints Arena

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 5 40
Pittsburgh Penguins 4 40

Decided in overtime.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
08:46 PIT Derick Brassard (2) Patric Hornqvist (4) 0 - 1
11:43 BUF Tage Thompson (1) Sam Reinhart (12), Rasmus Ristolainen (8) 1 - 1
16:15 PIT Phil Kessel (10) Tanner Pearson (2), Evgeni Malkin (19) 1 - 2
2nd Period
01:24 PIT Jake Guentzel (7) Patric Hornqvist (5) 1 - 3
05:00 PIT Tanner Pearson (1) Jack Johnson (5), Evgeni Malkin (20) 1 - 4
10:39 BUF Zach Bogosian (2) Jeff Skinner (8), Jack Eichel (19) 2 - 4
18:12 BUF Casey Nelson (1) Kyle Okposo (7), Conor Sheary (5) 3 - 4
3rd Period
11:12 BUF Casey Mittelstadt (3) Kyle Okposo (8), Zach Bogosian (2) 4 - 4
Overtime
00:45 BUF Jack Eichel (5) Rasmus Ristolainen (9) 5 - 4

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
04:16 PIT Olli Maatta High sticking 2
16:50 BUF Jake McCabe Boarding 2
16:50 BUF Jake McCabe Fighting 5
16:50 PIT Riley Sheahan Fighting 5
2nd Period
05:42 BUF Zach Bogosian Hooking 2
07:13 BUF Marco Scandella High sticking 2
3rd Period
02:44 PIT Derick Brassard Hooking 2
13:40 PIT Chad Ruhwedel Hooking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 65 50 40 5 3.1 56.7
Pittsburgh Penguins 54 47 40 4 4.2 43.3

How the game went

1050510Start2nd3rdOTPittsburgh Penguins 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 Pittsburgh Penguins had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 3.1 expected, 5 scored · Pittsburgh Penguins: 4.2 expected, 4 scored

01234Start2nd3rdOTBUF goal, 11:43 of 1st, a 8% chanceBUF goal, 10:39 of 2nd, a 5% chanceBUF goal, 18:12 of 2nd, a 3% chanceBUF goal, 11:12 of 3rd, a 6% chanceBUF goal, 0:45 of overtime, a 7% chancePIT goal, 8:46 of 1st, a 9% chancePIT goal, 16:15 of 1st, a 8% chancePIT goal, 1:24 of 2nd, a 20% chancePIT goal, 5:00 of 2nd, a 23% chancePIT 4.2BUF 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

Buffalo Sabres
Pittsburgh Penguins

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
Vladimir Sobotka · Sam Reinhart · Tage Thompson11:2975.088.51-0
Jason Pominville · Jeff Skinner · Jack Eichel10:5354.243.71-1
Patrik Berglund · Johan Larsson · Zemgus Girgensons9:4947.142.60-0
Kyle Okposo · Conor Sheary · Casey Mittelstadt9:0961.563.72-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jake McCabe · Rasmus Ristolainen13:0363.247.61-0
Zach Bogosian · Rasmus Dahlin11:4457.749.92-3
Rasmus Ristolainen · Rasmus Dahlin4:5150.037.20-0

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
9 Jack Eichel C 1 1 2 1 0 6 1 18:24 0.50 15-11 0.64-0.77
24 Zach Bogosian D 1 1 2 0 2 5 0 19:35 0.15 29-14 1.65-1.01
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 2 2 0 0 2 0 12:50 0.02 9-9 0.32-0.51
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 2 2 2 0 2 6 26:56 0.03 20-14 0.73-0.75
8 Casey Nelson D 1 0 1 0 0 2 2 15:18 0.04 13-12 0.62-0.76
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 12:51 0.13 12-9 0.52-0.51
72 Tage Thompson C 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 15:21 0.13 15-11 0.76-0.67
13 Sam Reinhart C 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 16:42 0.21 14-4 0.77-0.09
43 Conor Sheary L 0 1 1 2 0 2 1 12:36 0.25 10-6 0.43-0.19
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 1 1 -1 0 3 0 15:35 0.30 15-13 0.60-1.09
6 Marco Scandella D 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 09:33 3-4 0.05-0.32
10 Patrik Berglund C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 16:31 0.20 8-9 0.34-0.46
17 Vladimir Sobotka C 0 0 0 1 0 4 4 14:48 0.41 13-4 0.67-0.09
22 Johan Larsson L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 15:03 0.07 13-15 0.48-1.04
22 Jake McCabe D 0 0 0 1 7 1 2 20:39 0.00 16-9 0.46-0.39
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 -2 0 2 4 22:49 0.15 21-24 1.04-1.58
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 -1 0 4 3 15:44 0.25 13-15 0.53-1.04
29 Jason Pominville R 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 15:00 0.23 16-12 0.74-0.77
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
40 Carter Hutton W 40 36 4 60:45 4.14 +0.14

Pittsburgh Penguins

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Evgeni Malkin · Phil Kessel · Tanner Pearson13:3446.242.22-1
Patric Hornqvist · Derick Brassard · Jake Guentzel11:3742.360.52-1
Riley Sheahan · Bryan Rust · Zachary Aston-Reese8:1250.047.10-0
Derek Grant · Daniel Sprong · Dominik Simon8:0528.626.30-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Kris Letang · Brian Dumoulin11:3344.460.01-0
Jamie Oleksiak · Olli Maatta10:1145.058.62-0
Jack Johnson · Chad Ruhwedel8:118.314.40-2

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

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
70 Tanner Pearson L 1 1 2 0 0 4 6 16:31 0.46 14-19 0.60-0.88
70 Patric Hornqvist R 0 2 2 1 0 4 0 17:16 0.70 12-18 0.95-0.74
71 Evgeni Malkin C 0 2 2 -1 0 4 2 21:05 0.44 17-18 0.94-0.92
8 Phil Kessel R 1 0 1 0 0 4 0 20:40 0.66 17-15 1.05-0.78
59 Jake Guentzel C 1 0 1 1 0 6 3 16:14 0.70 16-16 1.37-0.72
61 Derick Brassard C 1 0 1 1 2 4 1 16:20 0.31 13-18 1.04-0.68
3 Jack Johnson D 0 1 1 -1 0 1 3 18:38 0.02 9-15 0.57-0.54
2 Brian Dumoulin D 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 20:17 0.03 17-21 1.19-1.02
3 Olli Maatta D 0 0 0 1 2 2 2 21:19 0.05 14-16 0.73-0.79
4 Jamie Oleksiak D 0 0 0 3 0 1 4 13:30 0.03 12-15 0.84-0.56
5 Chad Ruhwedel D 0 0 0 -3 2 1 3 16:31 0.00 9-15 0.32-0.76
8 Riley Sheahan C 0 0 0 0 5 1 2 11:57 0.01 6-7 0.33-0.25
10 Daniel Sprong R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 4 09:44 0.16 4-5 0.22-0.29
17 Bryan Rust R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 5 13:51 0.13 5-12 0.18-0.43
27 Zachary Aston-Reese L 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 13:05 0.25 7-9 0.33-0.33
38 Derek Grant C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 4 13:42 0.18 3-10 0.11-0.47
51 Dominik Simon C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 09:11 2-6 0.10-0.34
58 Kris Letang D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 26:24 0.05 18-20 1.17-0.88
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Casey DeSmith OTL 40 35 5 60:45 3.05 -1.95