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New Jersey Devils at Buffalo Sabres

Dec 2, 2019 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
New Jersey Devils 1 45
Buffalo Sabres 7 32

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
02:46 BUF Jack Eichel (17) Rasmus Ristolainen (9) 0 - 1
04:59 BUF Jeff Skinner (11) Johan Larsson (3) 0 - 2
06:57 BUF Conor Sheary (4) Jeff Skinner (6), Johan Larsson (4) 0 - 3
16:41 BUF Conor Sheary (5) Johan Larsson (5), Jake McCabe (5) 0 - 4
19:02 BUF Rasmus Asplund (1) Casey Mittelstadt (5) 0 - 5
2nd Period
04:40 BUF Victor Olofsson (11) Brandon Montour (5), Jack Eichel (20) 0 - 6
08:10 NJD Nico Hischier (4) PP Sami Vatanen (6), Nikita Gusev (7) 1 - 6
12:08 BUF Henri Jokiharju (3) PP Victor Olofsson (11), Jack Eichel (21) 1 - 7

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
00:44 NJD Blake Coleman Tripping 2
12:02 BUF Zemgus Girgensons Slashing 2
2nd Period
03:22 NJD P.K. Subban Roughing 2
03:22 BUF Colin Miller Roughing 2
06:31 BUF Zemgus Girgensons Tripping 2
11:06 NJD Kyle Palmieri Tripping 2
3rd Period
06:14 BUF Brandon Montour Tripping 2
17:01 BUF Henri Jokiharju Hooking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
New Jersey Devils 72 60 45 1 3.3 60.2
Buffalo Sabres 41 37 32 7 2.2 39.8

How the game went

3025201510505Start2nd3rdBuffalo 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: 3.3 expected, 1 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 2.2 expected, 7 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndNJD goal, 8:10 of 2nd, a 27% chanceBUF goal, 2:46 of 1st, a 16% chanceBUF goal, 4:59 of 1st, a 6% chanceBUF goal, 6:57 of 1st, a 19% chanceBUF goal, 16:41 of 1st, a 1% chanceBUF goal, 19:02 of 1st, a 6% chanceBUF goal, 4:40 of 2nd, a 10% chanceBUF goal, 12:08 of 2nd, a 5% chanceNJD 3.3BUF 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
Wayne Simmonds · Miles Wood · Kevin Rooney10:3068.259.20-1
Taylor Hall · Pavel Zacha · Jesper Bratt10:0241.218.50-2
Kyle Palmieri · Nico Hischier · Jesper Boqvist9:1764.356.50-0
Travis Zajac · Blake Coleman · Nikita Gusev8:0161.152.00-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Matt Tennyson · Will Butcher13:5853.653.80-0
Andy Greene · Damon Severson7:2668.830.10-2
Andy Greene · P.K. Subban7:1457.142.30-0

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
13 Nico Hischier C 1 0 1 0 0 3 3 16:52 0.72 12-6 0.36-0.26
45 Sami Vatanen D 0 1 1 -3 0 5 3 20:10 0.14 16-11 0.56-0.68
97 Nikita Gusev L 0 1 1 -1 0 3 0 14:18 0.31 13-7 0.34-0.23
4 Andy Greene D 0 0 0 -4 0 0 1 18:48 17-12 0.31-0.71
4 Will Butcher D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 21:24 0.03 19-14 0.75-0.53
7 Matt Tennyson D 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 17:16 0.03 18-18 0.63-0.69
11 Miles Wood L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 15:48 0.05 20-11 0.65-0.42
14 Travis Zajac C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 2 12:08 0.02 14-9 0.35-0.40
18 Pavel Zacha C 0 0 0 -4 0 1 0 14:10 0.08 8-12 0.26-0.88
20 Blake Coleman L 0 0 0 -2 2 1 3 10:39 0.04 11-10 0.25-0.40
21 Kyle Palmieri C 0 0 0 0 2 3 2 15:45 0.48 11-6 0.37-0.26
24 Wayne Simmonds R 0 0 0 -1 0 5 0 19:06 0.53 22-10 0.73-0.39
25 Kevin Rooney C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 14:37 0.15 17-9 0.55-0.37
63 Jesper Bratt L 0 0 0 -2 0 5 0 14:28 0.11 9-10 0.25-0.70
70 Jesper Boqvist C 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 13:58 0.16 12-5 0.42-0.24
71 Taylor Hall L 0 0 0 -3 0 4 0 16:57 0.21 10-10 0.28-0.70
76 P.K. Subban D 0 0 0 -1 2 3 1 19:20 0.11 14-9 0.45-0.44
78 Damon Severson D 0 0 0 -3 0 2 0 19:22 0.07 22-6 0.51-0.45
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
39 Mackenzie Blackwood 17 15 2 39:52 1.15 -0.85
70 Louis Domingue L 15 10 5 20:00 1.09 -3.91

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Marcus Johansson · Jimmy Vesey · Casey Mittelstadt11:4636.815.90-0
Sam Reinhart · Victor Olofsson · Jack Eichel9:5146.771.51-0
Johan Larsson · Jeff Skinner · Conor Sheary7:5063.290.92-0
Zemgus Girgensons · Conor Sheary · Rasmus Asplund2:1666.797.10-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Marco Scandella · Henri Jokiharju7:1543.863.71-0
Zach Bogosian · Marco Scandella6:2427.312.40-0
Colin Miller · Henri Jokiharju6:2245.554.31-0

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
9 Jack Eichel C 1 2 3 3 0 5 0 16:18 0.40 9-10 0.56-0.28
22 Johan Larsson L 0 3 3 2 0 2 0 14:34 0.06 14-12 0.92-0.13
43 Conor Sheary L 2 0 2 3 0 2 1 14:09 0.30 15-12 0.91-0.18
53 Jeff Skinner L 1 1 2 3 0 7 1 13:46 0.68 14-13 0.90-0.23
95 Victor Olofsson L 1 1 2 2 0 1 0 14:12 0.10 7-11 0.53-0.30
20 Henri Jokiharju D 1 0 1 2 2 2 0 16:42 0.10 12-17 0.69-0.56
74 Rasmus Asplund C 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 14:23 0.06 4-16 0.15-0.55
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 16:30 0.02 10-18 0.21-0.72
22 Jake McCabe D 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 18:30 11-11 0.65-0.13
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 1 1 2 0 1 3 17:16 0.08 7-12 0.51-0.32
62 Brandon Montour D 0 1 1 2 2 1 0 14:25 0.02 13-17 0.50-0.42
6 Marco Scandella D 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 17:21 0.01 10-18 0.51-0.67
6 Colin Miller D 0 0 0 2 2 2 0 15:35 0.02 8-15 0.52-0.55
13 Sam Reinhart C 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 15:34 0.15 9-12 0.57-0.43
24 Zach Bogosian D 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 18:57 0.04 9-18 0.12-0.66
26 Jimmy Vesey L 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 19:52 0.13 10-19 0.26-0.71
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 0 4 1 1 12:19 0.05 5-12 0.14-0.37
90 Marcus Johansson L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 19:58 0.02 8-22 0.12-0.82
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Linus Ullmark W 45 44 1 60:00 3.27 +2.27