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Buffalo Sabres at Boston Bruins

Nov 21, 2019 · TD Garden

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 2 38
Boston Bruins 3 27

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
05:25 BUF Rasmus Ristolainen (1) PP Jack Eichel (13), Victor Olofsson (9) 1 - 0
13:52 BOS Brad Marchand (14) Zdeno Chara (5), David Pastrnak (16) 1 - 1
2nd Period
14:45 BOS Brad Marchand (15) PP Matt Grzelcyk (5), Danton Heinen (6) 1 - 2
3rd Period
01:56 BOS David Pastrnak (20) PP Danton Heinen (7), Patrice Bergeron (12) 1 - 3
12:58 BUF Brandon Montour (2) Conor Sheary (3), Rasmus Dahlin (13) 2 - 3

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
05:05 BOS Sean Kuraly Tripping 2
14:14 BOS Chris Wagner Roughing 2
14:14 BOS Chris Wagner Fighting 5
14:14 BUF Curtis Lazar Roughing 2
14:14 BUF Curtis Lazar Fighting 5
2nd Period
04:44 BOS Matt Grzelcyk Hooking 2
13:15 BUF Rasmus Asplund Holding 2
15:16 BOS Charlie Coyle Hooking 2
3rd Period
00:32 BUF Jake McCabe Holding 2
03:33 BOS Joakim Nordstrom Tripping 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 69 52 38 2 3.4 62.2
Boston Bruins 44 33 27 3 2.6 37.8

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: 3.4 expected, 2 scored · Boston Bruins: 2.6 expected, 3 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 5:25 of 1st, a 25% chanceBUF goal, 12:58 of 3rd, a 2% chanceBOS goal, 13:52 of 1st, a 9% chanceBOS goal, 14:45 of 2nd, a 29% chanceBOS goal, 1:56 of 3rd, a 18% chanceBUF 3.4BOS 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

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
Jimmy Vesey · Sam Reinhart · Jack Eichel13:1264.028.20-1
Jeff Skinner · Conor Sheary · Evan Rodrigues8:3666.781.90-0
Victor Olofsson · Rasmus Asplund · Casey Mittelstadt7:0857.164.40-0
Johan Larsson · Zemgus Girgensons · Curtis Lazar6:1070.086.60-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jake McCabe · Rasmus Ristolainen16:3560.048.30-1
Brandon Montour · Rasmus Dahlin13:4069.661.81-0
Marco Scandella · Henri Jokiharju11:0457.163.50-0

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 -1 0 5 1 25:41 0.62 21-16 0.54-0.64
62 Brandon Montour D 1 0 1 1 0 4 0 19:42 0.09 20-9 0.46-0.30
9 Jack Eichel C 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 24:20 0.13 20-14 0.44-0.87
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 21:40 0.05 19-8 0.44-0.39
43 Conor Sheary L 0 1 1 1 0 4 1 15:34 0.45 20-7 0.81-0.13
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 1 1 0 0 4 0 16:14 0.28 12-12 0.74-0.59
6 Marco Scandella D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 13:15 0.02 12-9 0.95-0.54
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 15:25 0.15 13-9 0.69-0.32
13 Sam Reinhart C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 21:58 0.20 16-12 0.33-0.85
17 Evan Rodrigues C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 14:29 0.23 15-8 0.64-0.16
20 Curtis Lazar C 0 0 0 0 7 0 2 07:52 7-4 0.06-0.03
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 16:17 0.01 17-13 1.02-0.69
22 Johan Larsson L 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 12:30 0.12 13-5 0.31-0.16
22 Jake McCabe D 0 0 0 -1 2 1 2 20:16 0.02 22-13 0.49-0.63
26 Jimmy Vesey L 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 16:45 0.23 18-9 0.44-0.85
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 10:23 9-6 0.17-0.18
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 16:51 0.41 18-9 0.67-0.26
74 Rasmus Asplund C 0 0 0 0 2 4 1 09:31 0.37 8-7 0.55-0.41
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Linus Ullmark L 27 24 3 58:23 2.61 -0.39

Boston Bruins

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Patrice Bergeron · Brad Marchand · David Pastrnak11:0945.562.61-0
Charlie Coyle · Danton Heinen · Anders Bjork7:3753.362.80-1
David Krejci · Chris Wagner · Jake DeBrusk4:1037.512.40-0
David Krejci · Joakim Nordstrom · Jake DeBrusk3:580.00.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Zdeno Chara · Charlie McAvoy17:4847.870.41-0
Matt Grzelcyk · Brandon Carlo10:5434.825.90-1
Connor Clifton · Urho Vaakanainen7:1026.718.50-0

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
63 Brad Marchand L 2 0 2 1 0 2 2 19:20 0.38 10-16 0.63-0.41
88 David Pastrnak R 1 1 2 1 0 7 1 20:02 0.68 14-24 0.75-0.65
58 Danton Heinen L 0 2 2 -1 0 1 0 15:02 0.02 9-14 0.36-0.81
24 Matt Grzelcyk D 0 1 1 -1 2 1 2 20:06 0.13 11-20 0.30-0.54
33 Zdeno Chara D 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 25:50 0.03 15-19 1.11-0.66
37 Patrice Bergeron C 0 1 1 1 0 4 3 18:16 0.36 10-12 0.63-0.38
3 Charlie Coyle C 0 0 0 -1 2 2 0 14:30 0.26 12-10 0.51-0.45
14 Chris Wagner R 0 0 0 0 7 0 1 13:51 7-13 0.28-0.31
18 Urho Vaakanainen D 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 13:44 0.01 8-18 0.19-0.76
20 Joakim Nordstrom C 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 14:09 0.06 3-9 0.11-0.32
24 Anders Bjork L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 11:30 0.06 9-11 0.36-0.54
25 Brandon Carlo D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 19:41 0.02 15-22 0.39-0.71
26 Par Lindholm C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 06:18 2-2 0.21-0.01
46 David Krejci C 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 16:39 10-25 0.29-0.95
52 Sean Kuraly C 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 11:47 0.24 6-12 0.38-0.31
73 Charlie McAvoy D 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 25:28 0.09 13-20 1.05-0.51
74 Jake DeBrusk L 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 14:45 0.27 10-18 0.29-0.71
75 Connor Clifton D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 12:42 6-15 0.16-0.74
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
40 Tuukka Rask W 38 36 2 60:00 3.41 +1.41