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Buffalo Sabres at Ottawa Senators

Dec 23, 2019 · Canadian Tire Centre

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 1 44
Ottawa Senators 3 29

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
19:06 OTT Jean-Gabriel Pageau (17) Brady Tkachuk (10), Mark Borowiecki (11) 0 - 1
2nd Period
15:12 BUF Zemgus Girgensons (6) Evan Rodrigues (3) 1 - 1
3rd Period
05:16 OTT Jean-Gabriel Pageau (18) Brady Tkachuk (11), Connor Brown (16) 1 - 2
18:35 OTT Brady Tkachuk (13) Connor Brown (17) 1 - 3

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
2nd Period
00:40 OTT Chris Tierney Hooking 2
03:41 BUF Jimmy Vesey Hooking 2
07:12 BUF Zach Bogosian Tripping 2
3rd Period
05:47 OTT Vladislav Namestnikov Tripping 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 78 58 44 1 3.1 58.6
Ottawa Senators 54 37 30 3 3.0 41.4

How the game went

20151050Start2nd3rdOttawa Senators aheadBuffalo Sabres 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 Ottawa Senators had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 3.1 expected, 1 scored · Ottawa Senators: 3.0 expected, 3 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 15:12 of 2nd, a 8% chanceOTT goal, 19:06 of 1st, a 19% chanceOTT goal, 5:16 of 3rd, a 16% chanceOTT goal, 18:35 of 3rd, a 47% chanceBUF 3.1OTT 3.0

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
Ottawa Senators

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
Sam Reinhart · Victor Olofsson · Jack Eichel14:2948.644.50-2
Marcus Johansson · Jeff Skinner · Jimmy Vesey11:2756.770.90-0
Zemgus Girgensons · Conor Sheary · Evan Rodrigues7:2676.292.61-0
Zemgus Girgensons · Curtis Lazar · Rasmus Asplund4:5840.043.70-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Marco Scandella · Henri Jokiharju8:1275.081.30-0
Jake McCabe · Rasmus Ristolainen5:3460.069.20-1
Rasmus Ristolainen · Rasmus Dahlin4:5675.094.90-0

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
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 16:25 0.10 20-11 0.90-0.26
17 Evan Rodrigues C 0 1 1 1 0 6 1 13:54 0.52 24-7 0.82-0.13
6 Marco Scandella D 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 16:04 0.08 17-11 0.58-0.19
9 Jack Eichel C 0 0 0 -3 0 4 1 22:33 0.31 19-19 0.96-1.02
13 Sam Reinhart C 0 0 0 -3 0 3 5 21:12 0.32 19-19 0.94-1.08
20 Curtis Lazar C 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 09:08 0.12 4-6 0.16-0.20
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 18:19 0.01 18-13 0.67-0.40
22 Jake McCabe D 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 14:11 0.03 15-8 0.69-0.27
24 Zach Bogosian D 0 0 0 0 2 1 2 10:53 0.02 12-13 0.41-0.74
26 Jimmy Vesey L 0 0 0 0 2 4 0 15:46 0.46 22-14 0.73-0.28
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 19:30 0.13 24-13 1.18-0.46
43 Conor Sheary L 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 13:52 0.10 21-8 0.81-0.14
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 0 0 -1 0 5 0 19:35 0.19 26-15 0.92-0.42
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 23:00 0.04 28-16 1.39-0.35
62 Brandon Montour D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 15:06 0.08 16-18 0.37-1.01
74 Rasmus Asplund C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 08:01 0.04 4-6 0.16-0.20
90 Marcus Johansson L 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 21:03 0.10 19-15 0.71-0.36
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 0 0 -3 0 4 1 19:18 0.45 17-18 0.81-1.01
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Linus Ullmark 29 27 2 58:10 2.52 +0.52

Ottawa Senators

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jean-Gabriel Pageau · Connor Brown · Brady Tkachuk12:2150.055.22-0
Nick Paul · J.C. Beaudin · Logan Brown6:3615.42.90-0
Artem Anisimov · Vladislav Namestnikov · Colin White4:5650.020.70-0
Vladislav Namestnikov · Chris Tierney · Anthony Duclair4:4953.853.90-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mark Borowiecki · Thomas Chabot15:2848.642.51-0
Cody Goloubef · Erik Brannstrom10:0252.455.40-0
Cody Goloubef · Thomas Chabot7:2942.123.50-0

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
8 Brady Tkachuk L 1 2 3 3 0 4 2 19:50 0.45 20-22 1.08-0.94
44 Jean-Gabriel Pageau C 2 0 2 2 0 4 2 20:23 0.68 17-26 1.01-1.20
16 Connor Brown R 0 2 2 3 0 3 0 20:56 0.25 18-21 1.02-1.13
90 Mark Borowiecki D 0 1 1 3 0 0 6 25:58 23-25 1.13-0.86
7 Vladislav Namestnikov C 0 0 0 -1 2 0 0 14:14 0.07 11-12 0.25-0.35
11 Chris Tierney C 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 15:49 0.11 13-15 0.34-0.55
11 Anthony Duclair L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 15:24 0.06 11-15 0.25-0.57
16 Colin White C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 14:15 0.17 11-10 0.27-0.25
20 Nick Paul L 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 13:39 0.18 6-21 0.13-1.01
22 Logan Brown C 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 09:56 0.07 5-16 0.16-0.69
24 Andreas Englund D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 3 10:29 3-16 0.02-0.80
26 Cody Goloubef D 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 25:59 0.03 23-34 1.08-1.47
26 Erik Brannstrom D 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 16:18 0.03 14-16 0.45-0.47
48 Maxime Lajoie D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 05:38 0.00 2-6 0.02-0.27
51 Artem Anisimov C 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 14:04 0.04 11-13 0.27-0.35
63 Tyler Ennis R 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 12:56 0.26 10-11 0.26-0.30
64 J.C. Beaudin C 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 08:29 0.07 5-13 0.09-0.58
72 Thomas Chabot D 0 0 0 2 0 3 3 31:45 0.04 27-33 0.72-1.41
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
41 Craig Anderson 44 43 1 59:58 3.09 +2.09