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Buffalo Sabres at Boston Bruins

Dec 16, 2018 · TD Garden

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 4 27
Boston Bruins 2 37

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
2nd Period
03:18 BUF Jeff Skinner (23) Jack Eichel (30), Rasmus Dahlin (15) 1 - 0
05:18 BOS Steven Kampfer (1) Joakim Nordstrom (2), David Backes (4) 1 - 1
3rd Period
05:43 BUF Jack Eichel (13) Sam Reinhart (22), Rasmus Dahlin (16) 2 - 1
13:21 BOS Torey Krug (3) David Krejci (23), Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson (2) 2 - 2
16:29 BUF Jeff Skinner (24) Jack Eichel (31), Sam Reinhart (23) 3 - 2
19:35 BUF Jack Eichel (14) Sam Reinhart (24), Zemgus Girgensons (5) 4 - 2

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
03:47 BUF Johan Larsson Hooking 2
13:33 BOS Joakim Nordstrom Tripping 2
16:31 BUF Matt Hunwick Ps tripping on breakaway 0
3rd Period
11:08 BUF Brendan Guhle Holding 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 40 32 27 4 2.4 41.2
Boston Bruins 67 53 37 2 4.1 58.8

How the game went

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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 Boston Bruins had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 2.4 expected, 4 scored · Boston Bruins: 4.1 expected, 2 scored

01234Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 3:18 of 2nd, a 7% chanceBUF goal, 5:43 of 3rd, a 3% chanceBUF goal, 16:29 of 3rd, a 12% chanceBUF goal, 19:35 of 3rd, a 61% chanceBOS goal, 5:18 of 2nd, a 5% chanceBOS goal, 13:21 of 3rd, a 7% chanceBOS 4.1BUF 2.4

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
Boston Bruins

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
Jeff Skinner · Sam Reinhart · Jack Eichel13:3156.054.73-1
Johan Larsson · Zemgus Girgensons · Evan Rodrigues12:3547.132.50-0
Jason Pominville · Vladimir Sobotka · Tage Thompson9:3733.312.70-1
Kyle Okposo · Conor Sheary · Casey Mittelstadt9:2033.354.80-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Marco Scandella · Rasmus Ristolainen16:1316.020.20-0
Zach Bogosian · Rasmus Dahlin10:5560.059.82-1
Matt Hunwick · Brendan Guhle7:3725.02.30-0

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 2 2 4 3 0 6 0 19:00 0.37 15-14 0.66-0.72
13 Sam Reinhart C 0 3 3 3 0 2 0 16:46 0.26 15-13 0.68-0.99
53 Jeff Skinner L 2 0 2 2 0 2 1 17:22 0.27 14-14 0.64-1.03
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 2 2 2 0 2 0 19:35 0.05 20-11 0.91-0.56
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 16:58 8-10 0.32-0.73
2 Brendan Guhle D 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 11:59 0.03 8-10 0.09-0.74
6 Marco Scandella D 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 22:07 5-22 0.32-1.04
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 14:15 0.21 6-13 0.36-0.40
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 12:07 0.08 5-10 0.34-0.28
17 Vladimir Sobotka C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 13:36 0.10 7-17 0.16-1.58
17 Evan Rodrigues C 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 16:22 0.22 8-9 0.32-0.66
22 Johan Larsson L 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 16:49 8-10 0.32-0.73
24 Zach Bogosian D 0 0 0 2 0 0 4 24:20 0.01 22-15 1.08-1.33
29 Jason Pominville R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 10:09 6-13 0.13-1.01
43 Conor Sheary L 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 12:11 0.02 6-14 0.36-0.47
48 Matt Hunwick D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 18:24 0.04 9-18 0.21-1.59
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 5 23:22 0.11 6-25 0.34-1.11
72 Tage Thompson C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 3 10:38 7-12 0.16-0.86
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Linus Ullmark 37 35 2 60:00 4.08 +2.08

Boston Bruins

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
David Krejci · Brad Marchand · David Pastrnak11:2976.5100.00-0
Ryan Donato · Danton Heinen · Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson10:0965.084.10-1
Chris Wagner · Sean Kuraly · Noel Acciari9:1671.480.30-0
David Backes · Joakim Nordstrom · Colby Cave5:5330.013.11-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Matt Grzelcyk · Charlie McAvoy15:5451.954.00-2
Torey Krug · Brandon Carlo15:3252.959.20-0
Steven Kampfer · John Moore10:3252.969.81-1

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
44 Steven Kampfer D 1 0 1 0 0 2 2 12:52 0.07 16-8 1.47-0.38
47 Torey Krug D 1 0 1 0 0 4 0 25:58 0.29 20-13 1.27-0.48
20 Joakim Nordstrom C 0 1 1 0 2 0 3 11:31 5-13 0.11-0.91
21 David Backes R 0 1 1 -1 0 3 3 15:09 0.23 7-10 0.62-0.66
23 Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson C 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 14:22 16-9 1.30-0.24
46 David Krejci C 0 1 1 -1 0 1 0 19:05 0.14 17-9 1.00-0.30
8 Ryan Donato C 0 0 0 -2 0 6 1 16:53 0.93 15-10 1.18-0.33
12 Colby Cave C 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 12:19 0.45 8-12 0.62-0.86
14 Chris Wagner R 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 12:04 0.08 13-5 0.36-0.10
24 Matt Grzelcyk D 0 0 0 -2 0 2 1 17:58 0.03 16-13 0.91-0.62
25 Brandon Carlo D 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 20:17 0.15 12-9 0.49-0.31
27 John Moore D 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 17:44 15-13 1.03-0.55
52 Sean Kuraly C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 4 12:57 0.09 11-6 0.39-0.11
52 Noel Acciari C 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 12:51 0.15 11-5 0.36-0.08
58 Danton Heinen L 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 12:26 0.69 15-9 1.30-0.34
63 Brad Marchand L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 22:13 0.22 17-6 1.36-0.13
73 Charlie McAvoy D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 20:14 0.01 21-14 1.15-0.62
88 David Pastrnak R 0 0 0 -2 0 3 0 22:46 0.58 15-11 0.88-0.38
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
40 Tuukka Rask 26 23 3 58:21 1.77 -1.23