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Los Angeles Kings at Buffalo Sabres

Dec 21, 2019 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Los Angeles Kings 2 27
Buffalo Sabres 3 28

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
2nd Period
01:32 LAK Adrian Kempe (7) Blake Lizotte (10), Austin Wagner (4) 1 - 0
07:35 BUF Rasmus Ristolainen (3) Jimmy Vesey (7), Jeff Skinner (8) 1 - 1
16:48 BUF Marco Scandella (3) Sam Reinhart (17) 1 - 2
3rd Period
18:27 BUF Victor Olofsson (16) Sam Reinhart (18), Jack Eichel (27) 1 - 3
19:22 LAK Dustin Brown (8) Drew Doughty (18), Alex Iafallo (12) 2 - 3

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
15:52 BUF Brandon Montour Interference 2
17:08 LAK Tyler Toffoli Tripping 2
2nd Period
18:33 LAK Joakim Ryan Holding 2
3rd Period
05:37 LAK Jeff Carter Tripping 2
06:37 BUF Sam Reinhart Interference 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Los Angeles Kings 56 39 27 2 2.4 59.5
Buffalo Sabres 42 37 28 3 3.0 40.5

How the game went

20151050Start2nd3rdBuffalo Sabres aheadLos Angeles Kings 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 Los Angeles Kings had.

Expected goals

Los Angeles Kings: 2.4 expected, 2 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 3.0 expected, 3 scored

012Start2nd3rdEndLAK goal, 1:32 of 2nd, a 11% chanceLAK goal, 19:22 of 3rd, a 27% chanceBUF goal, 7:35 of 2nd, a 14% chanceBUF goal, 16:48 of 2nd, a 2% chanceBUF goal, 18:27 of 3rd, a 36% chanceBUF 3.0LAK 2.4

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

Los Angeles Kings
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.

Los Angeles Kings

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Dustin Brown · Anze Kopitar · Alex Iafallo10:5243.88.60-1
Tyler Toffoli · Nikolai Prokhorkin · Michael Amadio4:5350.056.60-0
Jeff Carter · Kyle Clifford · Nikolai Prokhorkin4:3450.037.40-0
Tyler Toffoli · Adrian Kempe · Blake Lizotte3:4660.046.70-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Drew Doughty · Joakim Ryan17:4553.837.20-1
Kale Clague · Sean Walker14:4158.342.60-1
Ben Hutton · Matt Roy13:5984.297.41-0

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
9 Adrian Kempe R 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 18:28 0.11 13-10 0.21-0.23
23 Dustin Brown R 1 0 1 -2 0 3 1 17:43 0.47 13-11 0.28-0.55
8 Drew Doughty D 0 1 1 -1 0 2 3 27:15 0.05 15-18 0.35-0.81
9 Alex Iafallo L 0 1 1 -1 0 1 0 19:22 0.02 9-9 0.07-0.53
26 Austin Wagner L 0 1 1 1 0 3 2 12:44 0.20 19-7 0.74-0.31
46 Blake Lizotte C 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 14:45 0.07 17-8 0.34-0.22
3 Matt Roy D 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 16:30 0.01 18-7 0.57-0.23
11 Anze Kopitar C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 22:35 0.11 10-11 0.08-0.55
17 Ben Hutton D 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 15:37 0.04 17-3 0.60-0.01
22 Michael Amadio R 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 10:53 0.22 11-8 0.56-0.48
26 Sean Walker D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 2 19:18 0.22 15-11 0.61-0.77
33 Joakim Ryan D 0 0 0 -1 2 0 0 20:22 0.02 15-13 0.36-0.61
38 Kale Clague D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 17:57 0.03 14-12 0.55-0.76
43 Kyle Clifford L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13:45 0.19 11-6 0.61-0.51
61 Trevor Lewis C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00:26
73 Tyler Toffoli C 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 14:21 0.23 14-11 0.59-0.44
74 Nikolai Prokhorkin L 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 17:24 0.27 15-10 0.64-0.62
77 Jeff Carter C 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 16:16 0.11 9-5 0.44-0.35
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
32 Jonathan Quick 27 25 2 58:19 2.09 +0.09

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Sam Reinhart · Victor Olofsson · Jack Eichel15:2345.066.20-0
Kyle Okposo · Zemgus Girgensons · Curtis Lazar12:0939.145.30-0
Marcus Johansson · Jeff Skinner · Jimmy Vesey7:4050.081.40-0
Marcus Johansson · Jeff Skinner · Rasmus Asplund4:5825.012.50-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jake McCabe · Rasmus Ristolainen13:4857.963.71-0
Zach Bogosian · Rasmus Dahlin11:5530.043.20-0
Marco Scandella · Henri Jokiharju10:1843.824.61-0

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
13 Sam Reinhart C 0 2 2 2 2 2 0 21:33 0.23 11-11 0.39-0.19
6 Marco Scandella D 1 0 1 0 0 2 2 15:57 0.03 7-16 0.05-0.37
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 1 0 1 0 0 3 5 21:19 0.19 14-16 0.84-0.49
95 Victor Olofsson L 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 21:13 0.05 10-12 0.38-0.19
9 Jack Eichel C 0 1 1 2 0 2 0 22:11 0.38 15-12 0.83-0.19
26 Jimmy Vesey L 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 14:14 0.20 9-11 0.58-0.20
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 16:47 0.10 10-13 0.57-0.46
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 0 0 -1 0 4 1 15:22 0.18 11-16 0.65-0.68
17 Evan Rodrigues C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 06:07 0.08 2-9 0.08-0.19
20 Curtis Lazar C 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 15:53 0.19 9-17 0.56-0.71
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 16:48 0.01 9-13 0.08-0.17
22 Jake McCabe D 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 15:46 0.05 11-8 0.62-0.36
24 Zach Bogosian D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 18:04 0.01 11-17 0.74-0.68
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 18:04 0.11 8-16 0.56-0.61
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 18:19 0.06 10-22 0.57-0.87
62 Brandon Montour D 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 11:12 4-8 0.31-0.37
74 Rasmus Asplund C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 3 08:32 2-9 0.06-0.45
90 Marcus Johansson L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 18:39 0.20 7-9 0.13-0.43
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Linus Ullmark 27 25 2 60:00 2.37 +0.37