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Minnesota Wild at Buffalo Sabres

Feb 5, 2019 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Minnesota Wild 4 45
Buffalo Sabres 5 39

Decided in a shootout.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
04:31 BUF Evan Rodrigues (7) PP Rasmus Ristolainen (28), Jack Eichel (38) 0 - 1
2nd Period
06:29 MIN Jared Spurgeon (9) Mikael Granlund (32), Jason Zucker (13) 1 - 1
07:32 BUF C.J. Smith (2) Sam Reinhart (34) 1 - 2
11:33 BUF Rasmus Dahlin (6) PP Jack Eichel (39), Casey Mittelstadt (10) 1 - 3
13:43 MIN Jared Spurgeon (10) Luke Kunin (5), Ryan Suter (29) 2 - 3
17:05 MIN Charlie Coyle (10) Luke Kunin (6), Greg Pateryn (2) 3 - 3
3rd Period
06:25 BUF Sam Reinhart (13) Jake McCabe (10) 3 - 4
18:23 MIN Zach Parise (21) Charlie Coyle (18), Ryan Suter (30) 4 - 4
Shootout
BUF Sam Reinhart Shootout winner 4 - 5

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
02:56 MIN Matt Hendricks Holding 2
18:36 BUF Sam Reinhart Hooking 2
2nd Period
01:23 BUF Rasmus Dahlin Hooking 2
10:25 MIN Jonas Brodin Slashing 2
3rd Period
15:01 BUF Tage Thompson Holding 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Minnesota Wild 70 58 45 4 3.3 58.1
Buffalo Sabres 54 45 39 4 2.6 41.9

How the game went

151050510Start2nd3rdOTBuffalo Sabres aheadMinnesota Wild 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 Minnesota Wild had.

Expected goals

Minnesota Wild: 3.3 expected, 4 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 2.6 expected, 4 scored

0123Start2nd3rdOTMIN goal, 6:29 of 2nd, a 15% chanceMIN goal, 13:43 of 2nd, a 1% chanceMIN goal, 17:05 of 2nd, a 31% chanceMIN goal, 18:23 of 3rd, a 22% chanceBUF goal, 4:31 of 1st, a 6% chanceBUF goal, 7:32 of 2nd, a 7% chanceBUF goal, 11:33 of 2nd, a 3% chanceBUF goal, 6:25 of 3rd, a 17% chanceMIN 3.3BUF 2.6

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

Minnesota Wild
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.

Minnesota Wild

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Eric Staal · Jason Zucker · Mikael Granlund14:1459.459.11-0
Zach Parise · Charlie Coyle · Luke Kunin10:5071.483.32-0
Marcus Foligno · Victor Rask · Jordan Greenway9:3256.338.10-0
Matt Hendricks · Marcus Foligno · Kyle Rau2:4650.021.40-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Ryan Suter · Jared Spurgeon18:4754.149.02-0
Greg Pateryn · Jonas Brodin18:0158.659.91-1
Anthony Bitetto · Brad Hunt8:5257.130.80-0

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
46 Jared Spurgeon D 2 0 2 3 0 3 1 27:30 0.22 21-18 0.75-0.76
3 Charlie Coyle C 1 1 2 3 0 4 2 18:31 0.46 19-10 0.91-0.19
22 Ryan Suter D 0 2 2 3 0 2 1 30:10 0.08 28-18 1.26-0.82
71 Luke Kunin C 0 2 2 1 0 2 0 18:28 0.12 13-7 0.70-0.33
9 Zach Parise L 1 0 1 2 0 10 0 22:00 0.88 17-12 0.74-0.44
17 Jason Zucker L 0 1 1 1 0 3 2 20:39 0.21 21-17 0.94-0.67
29 Greg Pateryn D 0 1 1 -1 0 2 0 18:49 0.09 19-13 1.01-0.54
64 Mikael Granlund C 0 1 1 2 0 5 0 23:32 0.33 22-14 0.96-0.62
9 Mikko Koivu C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 03:00 0.01 2-4 0.06-0.04
12 Eric Staal C 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 21:12 0.23 21-15 0.89-0.80
12 Jordan Greenway L 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 17:14 0.16 13-10 0.21-0.37
15 Matt Hendricks C 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 05:56 4-3 0.13-0.16
17 Marcus Foligno L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 5 15:58 0.07 13-11 0.25-0.47
17 Brad Hunt D 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 14:08 0.04 11-7 0.16-0.25
22 Anthony Bitetto D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 10:05 0.01 8-8 0.08-0.26
25 Jonas Brodin D 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 23:50 0.23 21-14 0.86-0.47
37 Kyle Rau C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 05:53 0.15 7-3 0.28-0.16
49 Victor Rask C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 16:11 0.01 10-11 0.13-0.40
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
40 Devan Dubnyk OTL 39 35 4 64:11 2.54 -1.46

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Kyle Okposo · Conor Sheary · Jack Eichel10:2253.846.00-0
Sam Reinhart · Evan Rodrigues · C.J. Smith8:1336.840.91-2
Jason Pominville · Jeff Skinner · Casey Mittelstadt7:5442.918.50-0
Vladimir Sobotka · Zemgus Girgensons · Tage Thompson7:5044.417.10-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Rasmus Ristolainen · Rasmus Dahlin18:2537.552.70-1
Marco Scandella · Jake McCabe14:4250.059.61-0
Zach Bogosian · Lawrence Pilut10:4841.433.30-2

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
13 Sam Reinhart C 1 1 2 0 2 3 0 17:54 0.70 14-19 1.00-0.87
9 Jack Eichel C 0 2 2 0 0 9 1 25:57 0.58 14-18 0.52-0.57
17 Evan Rodrigues C 1 0 1 -1 0 2 1 15:20 0.16 8-17 0.55-0.91
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 1 0 1 0 2 3 0 25:01 0.16 12-19 0.48-0.38
47 C.J. Smith L 1 0 1 -1 0 3 0 09:44 0.18 7-14 0.54-0.86
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 1 1 0 0 3 2 16:10 0.35 11-13 0.32-0.24
22 Jake McCabe D 0 1 1 0 0 0 4 22:55 14-14 0.60-0.47
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 1 1 -1 0 1 3 24:29 0.04 12-22 0.45-0.72
6 Marco Scandella D 0 0 0 2 0 2 2 18:18 0.03 13-15 0.63-0.70
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 13:03 7-9 0.25-0.38
17 Vladimir Sobotka C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 17:40 0.03 9-13 0.24-0.56
20 Lawrence Pilut D 0 0 0 -2 0 2 0 11:37 0.06 12-19 0.43-0.87
24 Zach Bogosian D 0 0 0 -3 0 0 1 20:12 15-21 0.51-1.04
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 2 15:07 0.02 7-9 0.17-0.37
29 Jason Pominville R 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 12:12 0.03 10-13 0.11-0.27
43 Conor Sheary L 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 16:00 0.02 13-11 0.67-0.35
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 18:04 0.14 12-15 0.17-0.31
72 Tage Thompson C 0 0 0 -1 2 2 2 09:17 0.07 5-9 0.09-0.45
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Linus Ullmark W 45 41 4 65:00 3.27 -0.73