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Buffalo Sabres at Boston Bruins

Jan 5, 2019 · TD Garden

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 1 32
Boston Bruins 2 41

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
10:10 BOS Chris Wagner (5) Noel Acciari (2) 0 - 1
2nd Period
02:00 BOS David Backes (4) Tuukka Rask (1) 0 - 2
3rd Period
17:22 BUF Rasmus Ristolainen (5) Unassisted 1 - 2

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
06:32 BUF Remi Elie Interference 2
3rd Period
07:42 BOS Matt Grzelcyk Hooking 2
12:39 BUF Jake McCabe Tripping 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 57 46 32 1 1.6 49.1
Boston Bruins 65 54 41 2 3.6 50.9

How the game went

051015Start2nd3rdBoston Bruins 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 Boston Bruins had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 1.6 expected, 1 scored · Boston Bruins: 3.6 expected, 2 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 17:22 of 3rd, a 3% chanceBOS goal, 10:10 of 1st, a 9% chanceBOS goal, 2:00 of 2nd, a 14% chanceBOS 3.6BUF 1.6

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
Vladimir Sobotka · Conor Sheary · Tage Thompson11:5938.127.20-0
Jeff Skinner · Sam Reinhart · Evan Rodrigues11:0552.241.70-2
Kyle Okposo · Johan Larsson · C.J. Smith8:4747.618.60-0
Jason Pominville · Remi Elie · Casey Mittelstadt5:3245.542.50-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Zach Bogosian · Lawrence Pilut16:2150.037.40-0
Jake McCabe · Rasmus Ristolainen14:1947.628.70-1
Marco Scandella · Rasmus Dahlin12:3551.520.90-0

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
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 1 0 1 0 0 2 1 23:03 0.12 16-14 0.43-0.62
6 Marco Scandella D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17:16 0.01 20-20 0.50-1.46
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 13:42 0.09 16-13 0.25-0.82
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 11:49 0.07 16-11 0.42-0.55
13 Sam Reinhart C 0 0 0 -2 0 3 2 19:14 0.15 19-16 0.61-0.86
17 Vladimir Sobotka C 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 17:56 8-17 0.32-1.03
17 Evan Rodrigues C 0 0 0 -2 0 4 2 18:11 0.13 15-14 0.51-0.64
20 Lawrence Pilut D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 20:08 0.10 24-19 0.76-0.85
22 Johan Larsson L 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 17:22 0.03 15-17 0.27-0.89
22 Jake McCabe D 0 0 0 -1 2 1 1 17:18 0.01 10-17 0.19-0.60
24 Zach Bogosian D 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 22:18 0.02 16-22 0.43-0.90
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 20:02 0.01 22-20 0.73-1.55
29 Jason Pominville R 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 08:38 0.03 9-11 0.30-0.46
38 Remi Elie L 0 0 0 0 2 1 7 10:31 0.12 9-11 0.34-0.37
43 Conor Sheary L 0 0 0 1 0 4 2 14:47 0.31 13-13 0.38-0.86
47 C.J. Smith L 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 12:30 0.11 14-16 0.26-0.83
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 0 0 -2 0 6 0 18:21 0.26 18-14 0.54-0.73
72 Tage Thompson C 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 14:06 0.01 10-15 0.36-0.90
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Linus Ullmark 41 39 2 58:48 3.53 +1.53

Boston Bruins

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Patrice Bergeron · Brad Marchand · David Pastrnak12:3750.065.00-1
David Backes · David Krejci · Jake DeBrusk11:2743.569.90-0
Chris Wagner · Sean Kuraly · Noel Acciari10:4852.271.21-0
Ryan Donato · Danton Heinen · Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson10:0761.147.50-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Zdeno Chara · Brandon Carlo16:5850.072.02-1
Kevan Miller · Matt Grzelcyk16:3343.848.20-0
John Moore · Torey Krug11:2845.861.00-0

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
14 Chris Wagner R 1 0 1 1 0 6 2 14:26 0.59 17-12 1.39-0.39
21 David Backes R 1 0 1 1 0 5 2 14:26 0.49 12-16 0.81-0.37
52 Noel Acciari C 0 1 1 1 0 1 6 15:20 0.07 13-17 0.93-0.62
8 Ryan Donato C 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 12:04 0.32 11-7 0.25-0.28
23 Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 13:08 0.10 12-8 0.30-0.30
24 Matt Grzelcyk D 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 20:30 0.02 19-23 0.81-0.71
25 Brandon Carlo D 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 21:16 0.13 20-18 1.39-0.51
27 John Moore D 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 16:17 0.09 19-16 0.84-0.37
33 Zdeno Chara D 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 21:32 0.00 23-18 1.61-0.47
37 Patrice Bergeron C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 2 17:31 0.24 18-15 0.94-0.31
46 David Krejci C 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 14:53 0.13 14-14 0.89-0.29
47 Torey Krug D 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 16:36 0.19 15-13 0.72-0.35
52 Sean Kuraly C 0 0 0 1 0 4 2 14:39 0.66 13-16 0.98-0.54
58 Danton Heinen L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12:19 11-8 0.25-0.30
63 Brad Marchand L 0 0 0 0 0 4 3 19:58 0.21 22-17 1.10-0.40
74 Jake DeBrusk L 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 14:08 0.19 10-13 0.65-0.28
86 Kevan Miller D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 21:13 0.01 16-23 0.59-0.66
88 David Pastrnak R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 3 17:44 0.11 15-16 0.45-0.46
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
40 Tuukka Rask 32 31 1 60:00 1.57 +0.57