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New Jersey Devils at Buffalo Sabres

Jan 8, 2019 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
New Jersey Devils 1 21
Buffalo Sabres 5 33

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
01:28 NJD Blake Coleman (13) Miles Wood (9), Travis Zajac (14) 1 - 0
2nd Period
01:39 BUF Jeff Skinner (29) Tage Thompson (4) 1 - 1
04:14 BUF C.J. Smith (1) Johan Larsson (3), Kyle Okposo (11) 1 - 2
10:42 BUF Casey Mittelstadt (6) Zach Bogosian (7), Rasmus Dahlin (17) 1 - 3
16:00 BUF Jake McCabe (3) SH Evan Rodrigues (10), Vladimir Sobotka (4) 1 - 4
17:45 BUF Lawrence Pilut (1) Conor Sheary (9), Rasmus Ristolainen (22) 1 - 5

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
02:50 BUF Rasmus Dahlin High sticking 2
2nd Period
14:29 BUF Jeff Skinner Slashing 2
3rd Period
03:36 BUF Casey Mittelstadt Hooking 2
13:05 BUF Evan Rodrigues Roughing 2
13:05 NJD Stefan Noesen Roughing 2
13:05 NJD Stefan Noesen Roughing 2
17:34 BUF Lawrence Pilut Misconduct 10
17:34 NJD Miles Wood Misconduct 10
18:35 BUF Rasmus Ristolainen Holding 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
New Jersey Devils 45 34 21 1 2.2 35.2
Buffalo Sabres 65 46 33 5 2.7 64.8

How the game went

0510152025Start2nd3rdBuffalo Sabres aheadNew Jersey Devils 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 New Jersey Devils had.

Expected goals

New Jersey Devils: 2.2 expected, 1 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 2.7 expected, 5 scored

012Start2nd3rdEndNJD goal, 1:28 of 1st, a 7% chanceBUF goal, 1:39 of 2nd, a 5% chanceBUF goal, 4:14 of 2nd, a 3% chanceBUF goal, 10:42 of 2nd, a 25% chanceBUF goal, 16:00 of 2nd, a 15% chanceBUF goal, 17:45 of 2nd, a 2% chanceBUF 2.7NJD 2.2

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

New Jersey Devils
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.

New Jersey Devils

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Travis Zajac · Blake Coleman · Miles Wood12:2837.531.01-1
Kyle Palmieri · Jesper Bratt · Nico Hischier10:3331.839.60-2
Blake Pietila · Stefan Noesen · Pavel Zacha6:309.18.40-0
Brian Boyle · Drew Stafford · Brett Seney4:3350.053.50-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Sami Vatanen · Steven Santini13:4727.638.71-1
Andy Greene · Damon Severson13:3834.821.40-1
Ben Lovejoy · Will Butcher11:1538.158.70-0

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

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
20 Blake Coleman L 1 0 1 0 0 2 2 17:02 0.10 9-16 0.24-0.56
11 Miles Wood L 0 1 1 0 10 0 0 17:33 0.13 9-18 0.24-0.74
14 Travis Zajac C 0 1 1 -1 0 0 0 20:51 11-17 0.27-0.59
4 Andy Greene D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 1 20:07 13-21 0.60-1.20
4 Will Butcher D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 19:26 0.06 12-15 0.64-0.33
11 Brian Boyle C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 14:59 0.15 8-8 0.36-0.18
11 Stefan Noesen R 0 0 0 0 4 1 2 11:03 0.04 3-15 0.15-0.49
13 Nico Hischier C 0 0 0 -2 0 3 0 17:28 0.34 12-18 0.87-1.18
16 Steven Santini D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 17:10 0.09 10-27 0.54-0.88
18 Drew Stafford R 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 10:49 0.25 11-8 0.62-0.34
18 Pavel Zacha C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 16:11 0.17 6-13 0.26-0.44
21 Ben Lovejoy D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 17:20 9-18 0.54-0.81
21 Kyle Palmieri C 0 0 0 -3 0 2 0 18:13 0.16 7-20 0.61-1.08
45 Sami Vatanen D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20:32 0.06 11-21 0.71-0.66
56 Blake Pietila L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 3 12:47 0.22 6-18 0.29-0.62
62 Brett Seney L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 10:39 5-11 0.27-0.25
63 Jesper Bratt L 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 14:59 0.17 9-15 0.75-0.92
78 Damon Severson D 0 0 0 -1 0 4 1 21:00 0.25 9-16 0.25-1.06
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
30 Keith Kinkaid 33 28 5 59:51 2.68 -2.32

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Conor Sheary · Sam Reinhart · Evan Rodrigues12:0872.755.91-0
Vladimir Sobotka · Jeff Skinner · Tage Thompson11:1760.057.71-1
Kyle Okposo · Johan Larsson · C.J. Smith11:1272.262.71-0
Jason Pominville · Zemgus Girgensons · Casey Mittelstadt7:4757.165.01-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Zach Bogosian · Rasmus Dahlin16:0970.664.61-0
Marco Scandella · Jake McCabe14:0666.774.50-0
Rasmus Ristolainen · Lawrence Pilut13:0962.556.33-1

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
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 1 0 1 1 2 3 1 11:25 0.37 10-7 0.49-0.38
20 Lawrence Pilut D 1 0 1 2 10 3 0 16:09 0.06 15-11 0.52-0.65
22 Jake McCabe D 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 20:08 0.15 15-9 0.87-0.53
47 C.J. Smith L 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 12:18 0.21 13-5 0.46-0.27
53 Jeff Skinner L 1 0 1 0 2 3 0 16:38 0.30 19-11 0.92-0.61
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 1 1 1 0 2 2 13:55 0.26 15-5 0.70-0.27
17 Vladimir Sobotka C 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 15:25 0.01 18-10 0.73-0.50
17 Evan Rodrigues C 0 1 1 2 2 1 1 16:25 0.15 16-8 0.54-0.47
22 Johan Larsson L 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 18:07 0.23 15-7 0.70-0.30
24 Zach Bogosian D 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 21:57 0.06 24-12 0.79-0.66
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 1 1 1 2 3 0 20:13 0.08 28-14 0.84-0.71
43 Conor Sheary L 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 14:23 0.23 19-6 0.60-0.43
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 1 1 2 2 1 4 20:59 0.01 17-11 0.76-0.43
72 Tage Thompson C 0 1 1 0 0 6 1 15:41 0.39 17-11 0.72-0.61
6 Marco Scandella D 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 19:54 0.11 19-9 1.16-0.32
13 Sam Reinhart C 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 14:45 0.05 19-6 0.56-0.43
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 14:41 0.05 8-10 0.49-0.33
29 Jason Pominville R 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 09:32 8-8 0.49-0.30
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
40 Carter Hutton 21 20 1 60:00 2.17 +1.17