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Vegas Golden Knights at Buffalo Sabres

Jan 14, 2020 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Vegas Golden Knights 2 26
Buffalo Sabres 4 26

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
2nd Period
01:55 VGK Tomas Nosek (6) Chandler Stephenson (7), Shea Theodore (21) 1 - 0
06:32 BUF Kyle Okposo (5) PP Sam Reinhart (22), Conor Sheary (9) 1 - 1
19:41 BUF Sam Reinhart (16) PP Rasmus Ristolainen (17), Jack Eichel (33) 1 - 2
3rd Period
01:43 VGK Reilly Smith (19) PP Shea Theodore (22), William Karlsson (24) 2 - 2
07:57 BUF Jack Eichel (28) Sam Reinhart (23), Colin Miller (6) 2 - 3
19:35 BUF Curtis Lazar (4) Unassisted 2 - 4

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
14:29 VGK Alex Tuch Roughing 2
14:29 BUF Evan Rodrigues Holding 2
2nd Period
03:04 BUF Colin Miller Tripping 2
05:16 VGK Max Pacioretty Interference 2
19:14 VGK Team Too many men on the ice 2
3rd Period
01:36 BUF Colin Miller Tripping 2
01:36 BUF Colin Miller Unsportsmanlike conduct 2
12:53 VGK Nicolas Hague Holding the stick 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Vegas Golden Knights 57 39 26 2 2.3 56.2
Buffalo Sabres 39 33 26 4 2.2 43.8

How the game went

1510505Start2nd3rdBuffalo Sabres aheadVegas Golden Knights 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 Vegas Golden Knights had.

Expected goals

Vegas Golden Knights: 2.3 expected, 2 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 2.2 expected, 4 scored

00.511.52Start2nd3rdEndVGK goal, 1:55 of 2nd, a 10% chanceVGK goal, 1:43 of 3rd, a 6% chanceBUF goal, 6:32 of 2nd, a 8% chanceBUF goal, 19:41 of 2nd, a 10% chanceBUF goal, 7:57 of 3rd, a 10% chanceBUF goal, 19:35 of 3rd, a 44% chanceVGK 2.3BUF 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

Vegas Golden Knights
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.

Vegas Golden Knights

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Max Pacioretty · Mark Stone · Chandler Stephenson10:1763.650.10-0
Reilly Smith · William Karlsson · Jonathan Marchessault10:1147.143.00-1
Paul Stastny · Tomas Nosek · Alex Tuch7:0757.155.60-0
Ryan Reaves · Cody Eakin · William Carrier6:0636.44.40-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Brayden McNabb · Nate Schmidt15:0528.020.70-0
Nick Holden · Shea Theodore14:5760.948.41-1
Deryk Engelland · Nicolas Hague12:1876.276.90-0

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
27 Shea Theodore D 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 23:04 0.13 16-9 0.65-0.54
19 Reilly Smith R 1 0 1 -1 0 4 0 17:57 0.28 12-11 0.40-0.39
92 Tomas Nosek L 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 12:39 0.20 9-4 0.33-0.14
9 Chandler Stephenson C 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 13:47 0.06 11-5 0.51-0.33
71 William Karlsson C 0 1 1 -2 0 1 0 18:43 0.10 13-11 0.37-0.39
3 Brayden McNabb D 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 19:03 8-18 0.28-0.73
5 Deryk Engelland D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 15:47 0.01 16-5 0.41-0.12
5 Nick Holden D 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 18:43 0.02 15-9 0.56-0.54
20 Cody Eakin C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 12:30 0.17 8-8 0.14-0.52
26 Paul Stastny C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 15:47 0.46 9-9 0.37-0.25
28 William Carrier L 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 09:30 0.01 7-12 0.20-0.54
41 Nicolas Hague D 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 15:07 0.02 17-5 0.51-0.12
61 Mark Stone R 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 20:05 0.12 12-5 0.38-0.33
67 Max Pacioretty L 0 0 0 -1 2 5 2 18:49 0.28 14-6 0.44-0.31
75 Ryan Reaves R 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 11:00 10-7 0.26-0.52
81 Jonathan Marchessault R 0 0 0 -2 0 2 2 16:14 0.30 11-9 0.42-0.32
88 Nate Schmidt D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 21:28 10-18 0.37-0.73
89 Alex Tuch R 0 0 0 -1 2 1 2 15:29 0.12 7-9 0.34-0.16
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
29 Marc-Andre Fleury 25 22 3 58:22 1.75 -1.25

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Zemgus Girgensons · Sam Reinhart · Jack Eichel11:3740.049.51-0
Kyle Okposo · Johan Larsson · Curtis Lazar10:3827.339.20-0
Michael Frolik · Marcus Johansson · Conor Sheary7:0657.147.70-1
Jimmy Vesey · Conor Sheary · Evan Rodrigues3:3666.780.90-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jake McCabe · Henri Jokiharju7:430.00.00-0
Rasmus Ristolainen · Lawrence Pilut6:5645.540.40-0
Colin Miller · Brandon Montour5:4550.071.60-0

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 1 2 3 2 0 2 0 19:32 0.26 11-17 0.49-0.58
9 Jack Eichel C 1 1 2 2 0 3 0 20:13 0.18 12-16 0.46-0.57
8 Kyle Okposo R 1 0 1 0 0 3 1 17:55 0.18 5-12 0.21-0.31
20 Curtis Lazar C 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 18:06 0.09 5-11 0.34-0.39
6 Colin Miller D 0 1 1 1 6 0 4 13:13 0.11 7-11 0.32-0.12
43 Conor Sheary L 0 1 1 -1 0 0 0 13:56 0.01 12-12 0.55-0.46
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 1 1 1 0 0 4 20:41 5-13 0.21-0.48
17 Evan Rodrigues C 0 0 0 0 2 3 1 11:35 0.14 8-5 0.44-0.14
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16:28 0.03 14-16 0.78-0.60
20 Lawrence Pilut D 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 14:55 0.01 11-10 0.42-0.35
22 Johan Larsson L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 18:10 0.00 5-12 0.21-0.43
22 Jake McCabe D 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 17:40 2-11 0.01-0.34
26 Jimmy Vesey L 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 09:46 0.39 8-6 0.52-0.15
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 14:12 0.05 15-11 0.71-0.48
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 15:53 0.03 9-13 0.37-0.49
62 Brandon Montour D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 21:55 0.03 10-10 0.35-0.40
67 Michael Frolik R 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 14:10 0.23 11-9 0.31-0.39
90 Marcus Johansson L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 15:21 0.02 10-10 0.31-0.26
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Linus Ullmark 26 24 2 60:00 2.28 +0.28