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Buffalo Sabres at St. Louis Blues

Jan 9, 2020 · Enterprise Center

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 1 19
St. Louis Blues 5 31

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
04:47 STL Robert Thomas (8) Tyler Bozak (12), Alexander Steen (9) 0 - 1
13:29 STL Tyler Bozak (10) Robert Thomas (15), Niko Mikkola (1) 0 - 2
2nd Period
04:22 BUF Jack Eichel (27) Sam Reinhart (21), Rasmus Dahlin (21) 1 - 2
10:17 STL David Perron (19) PP Brayden Schenn (19), Jaden Schwartz (23) 1 - 3
3rd Period
05:36 STL Alexander Steen (1) Robert Thomas (16), Tyler Bozak (13) 1 - 4
15:18 STL Alexander Steen (2) Ryan O'Reilly (32) 1 - 5

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
2nd Period
09:01 BUF Rasmus Asplund High sticking 2
3rd Period
09:15 STL Alex Pietrangelo High sticking 2
14:50 STL Zachary Sanford Roughing 2
14:50 BUF Rasmus Ristolainen Roughing 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 36 31 19 1 1.6 45.2
St. Louis Blues 48 37 31 5 2.0 54.8

How the game went

05101520Start2nd3rdSt. Louis Blues 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 St. Louis Blues had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 1.6 expected, 1 scored · St. Louis Blues: 2.0 expected, 5 scored

00.511.5Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 4:22 of 2nd, a 7% chanceSTL goal, 4:47 of 1st, a 6% chanceSTL goal, 13:29 of 1st, a 5% chanceSTL goal, 10:17 of 2nd, a 5% chanceSTL goal, 5:36 of 3rd, a 25% chanceSTL goal, 15:18 of 3rd, a 3% chanceSTL 2.0BUF 1.6

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
St. Louis Blues

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
Michael Frolik · Marcus Johansson · Conor Sheary9:4526.730.20-0
Kyle Okposo · Johan Larsson · Zemgus Girgensons9:2820.025.30-1
Jimmy Vesey · Sam Reinhart · Jack Eichel8:2766.772.80-0
Sam Reinhart · Jack Eichel · Rasmus Asplund6:3044.458.91-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Rasmus Ristolainen · Lawrence Pilut10:0447.145.50-1
Colin Miller · Lawrence Pilut6:5544.449.20-0
Brandon Montour · Henri Jokiharju6:5272.773.00-1

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 Jack Eichel C 1 0 1 0 0 3 0 21:54 0.46 17-10 0.95-0.31
13 Sam Reinhart C 0 1 1 0 0 4 1 22:25 0.16 18-11 0.97-0.33
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 1 1 0 0 2 2 19:41 0.19 7-13 0.31-0.35
6 Colin Miller D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 15:56 6-11 0.31-0.35
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 12:21 0.07 4-10 0.10-0.31
20 Curtis Lazar C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 11:29 0.07 6-9 0.22-0.45
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 14:27 0.03 12-8 0.56-0.27
20 Lawrence Pilut D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 2 19:42 0.15 13-14 0.51-0.58
22 Johan Larsson L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 3 14:03 0.02 5-10 0.12-0.29
24 Zach Bogosian D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 15:13 0.01 8-11 0.27-0.32
26 Jimmy Vesey L 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 17:02 0.06 13-8 0.48-0.20
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 -3 0 0 4 11:37 3-12 0.10-0.62
43 Conor Sheary L 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 17:12 0.09 9-13 0.38-0.35
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 19:48 0.03 11-14 0.55-0.58
62 Brandon Montour D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 2 15:19 0.02 9-9 0.41-0.29
67 Michael Frolik R 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 16:44 0.10 7-13 0.22-0.33
74 Rasmus Asplund C 0 0 0 -1 2 0 0 13:00 0.04 6-11 0.27-0.53
90 Marcus Johansson L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 19:19 0.08 11-13 0.56-0.36
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Linus Ullmark L 30 26 4 59:32 1.93 -2.07

St. Louis Blues

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
David Perron · Ryan O'Reilly · Zachary Sanford13:0655.637.80-1
Brayden Schenn · Jaden Schwartz · Jordan Kyrou12:1466.771.90-0
Alexander Steen · Tyler Bozak · Robert Thomas11:1962.567.13-0
Oskar Sundqvist · Mackenzie MacEachern · Ivan Barbashev8:3033.323.80-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Alex Pietrangelo · Vince Dunn18:0660.049.10-1
Jay Bouwmeester · Justin Faulk17:4448.129.60-0
Robert Bortuzzo · Niko Mikkola12:5066.776.43-0

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
20 Alexander Steen L 2 1 3 4 0 5 1 14:52 0.34 10-7 0.52-0.26
18 Robert Thomas C 1 2 3 3 0 1 0 14:27 0.11 10-8 0.52-0.37
21 Tyler Bozak C 1 2 3 3 0 3 1 13:25 0.11 13-7 0.58-0.30
57 David Perron L 1 0 1 -1 0 3 2 16:49 0.13 11-11 0.25-0.48
10 Brayden Schenn C 0 1 1 0 0 4 1 16:28 0.37 13-8 0.43-0.26
71 Jaden Schwartz L 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 17:20 0.33 13-9 0.43-0.33
77 Niko Mikkola D 0 1 1 3 0 0 1 15:51 12-7 0.61-0.20
90 Ryan O'Reilly C 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 18:49 11-9 0.23-0.38
7 Alex Pietrangelo D 0 0 0 0 2 1 2 23:32 0.07 15-12 0.42-0.45
13 Zachary Sanford L 0 0 0 -1 2 0 1 14:04 11-8 0.23-0.38
19 Jay Bouwmeester D 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 23:14 0.01 13-16 0.34-0.82
20 Mackenzie MacEachern L 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 10:24 0.08 6-9 0.18-0.49
25 Jordan Kyrou R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13:00 12-6 0.39-0.15
29 Vince Dunn D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 19:06 0.06 15-10 0.42-0.43
41 Robert Bortuzzo D 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 14:12 0.04 12-6 0.61-0.19
49 Ivan Barbashev L 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 13:28 6-8 0.18-0.45
70 Oskar Sundqvist C 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 14:34 0.21 4-9 0.14-0.52
72 Justin Faulk D 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 23:11 0.10 13-15 0.34-0.81
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
50 Jordan Binnington W 19 18 1 59:14 1.59 +0.59