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Colorado Avalanche at Buffalo Sabres

Feb 4, 2020 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Colorado Avalanche 6 27
Buffalo Sabres 1 24

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
13:12 COL Samuel Girard (2) Ryan Graves (12), Joonas Donskoi (16) 1 - 0
13:57 COL Andre Burakovsky (17) Nazem Kadri (16), Nikita Zadorov (9) 2 - 0
19:59 BUF Sam Reinhart (19) Jake McCabe (7), Jack Eichel (35) 2 - 1
2nd Period
01:00 COL Nazem Kadri (18) Valeri Nichushkin (11), Andre Burakovsky (20) 3 - 1
04:23 COL Nikita Zadorov (4) Andre Burakovsky (21), Valeri Nichushkin (12) 4 - 1
10:58 COL Valeri Nichushkin (9) Andre Burakovsky (22), Cale Makar (27) 5 - 1
12:59 COL Mikko Rantanen (17) Nathan MacKinnon (43), Gabriel Landeskog (10) 6 - 1

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
05:09 COL Nazem Kadri Hooking 2
3rd Period
15:04 COL Ryan Graves Delaying game puck over glass 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Colorado Avalanche 53 40 27 6 1.9 55.8
Buffalo Sabres 48 35 24 1 2.3 44.2

How the game went

10505Start2nd3rdBuffalo Sabres aheadColorado Avalanche 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 Colorado Avalanche had.

Expected goals

Colorado Avalanche: 1.9 expected, 6 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 2.3 expected, 1 scored

00.511.52Start2nd3rdEndCOL goal, 13:12 of 1st, a 4% chanceCOL goal, 13:57 of 1st, a 7% chanceCOL goal, 1:00 of 2nd, a 3% chanceCOL goal, 4:23 of 2nd, a 11% chanceCOL goal, 10:58 of 2nd, a 4% chanceCOL goal, 12:59 of 2nd, a 7% chanceBUF goal, 19:59 of 1st, a 8% chanceBUF 2.3COL 1.9

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

Colorado Avalanche
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.

Colorado Avalanche

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Gabriel Landeskog · Nathan MacKinnon · Mikko Rantanen13:5758.651.61-0
Nazem Kadri · Andre Burakovsky · Valeri Nichushkin11:2160.980.94-0
Joonas Donskoi · Matt Nieto · Tyson Jost9:4061.525.91-0
Matt Calvert · J.T. Compher · Pierre-Edouard Bellemare8:1550.040.70-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Erik Johnson · Samuel Girard16:1355.056.01-1
Ryan Graves · Cale Makar16:0850.051.83-0
Ian Cole · Nikita Zadorov14:4062.566.61-0

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

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 Andre Burakovsky L 1 3 4 3 0 1 0 15:16 0.11 16-16 0.92-0.56
43 Valeri Nichushkin R 1 2 3 4 0 3 1 14:47 0.12 18-12 1.03-0.37
91 Nazem Kadri C 1 1 2 3 2 4 0 15:19 0.50 15-12 0.98-0.38
91 Nikita Zadorov D 1 1 2 1 0 2 0 19:13 0.19 17-10 0.84-0.40
49 Samuel Girard D 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 20:03 0.04 15-12 0.42-0.32
96 Mikko Rantanen R 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 16:44 0.17 17-12 0.57-0.53
8 Cale Makar D 0 1 1 3 0 1 0 19:07 0.09 20-19 0.70-0.62
27 Ryan Graves D 0 1 1 4 2 1 2 20:43 0.00 22-21 0.72-0.94
29 Nathan MacKinnon C 0 1 1 0 0 4 2 19:36 0.17 20-19 0.67-0.74
72 Joonas Donskoi R 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 12:17 0.05 11-6 0.13-0.30
92 Gabriel Landeskog L 0 1 1 1 0 2 2 16:35 0.20 18-14 0.66-0.55
6 Erik Johnson D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 21:25 14-12 0.32-0.62
11 Matt Calvert L 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 13:32 0.03 10-8 0.24-0.26
17 Tyson Jost C 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 13:23 0.01 11-8 0.13-0.46
28 Ian Cole D 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 19:49 0.21 18-10 0.89-0.41
37 J.T. Compher L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 13:23 0.02 8-8 0.24-0.26
41 Pierre-Edouard Bellemare L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11:56 7-6 0.17-0.25
83 Matt Nieto L 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 12:52 0.02 8-5 0.11-0.30
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
31 Philipp Grubauer W 24 23 1 60:00 2.27 +1.27

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jimmy Vesey · Sam Reinhart · Jack Eichel15:5162.558.91-1
Michael Frolik · Marcus Johansson · Conor Sheary13:3347.852.80-2
Jeff Skinner · Zemgus Girgensons · Evan Rodrigues10:0323.527.50-3
Zemgus Girgensons · Jean-Sebastien Dea · Rasmus Asplund1:5150.080.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Zach Bogosian · Jake McCabe9:1946.747.81-2
Brandon Montour · Henri Jokiharju7:3740.079.00-0
Jake McCabe · Rasmus Ristolainen7:1411.12.80-0

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 0 1 0 0 5 0 20:20 0.81 20-13 0.74-0.52
9 Jack Eichel C 0 1 1 0 0 4 0 20:47 0.23 21-14 0.78-0.60
22 Jake McCabe D 0 1 1 -1 0 0 1 17:49 9-16 0.23-0.48
6 Colin Miller D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 3 15:23 0.01 13-15 0.62-0.84
17 Evan Rodrigues C 0 0 0 -3 0 0 0 14:24 4-16 0.22-0.61
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 15:34 0.03 11-13 0.48-0.45
20 Lawrence Pilut D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 2 14:38 12-13 0.28-0.40
24 Zach Bogosian D 0 0 0 -3 0 2 2 17:09 0.28 16-17 0.59-0.82
26 Jimmy Vesey L 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 19:42 0.13 21-14 0.78-0.55
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 -3 0 1 1 13:49 0.05 6-16 0.32-0.62
43 Conor Sheary L 0 0 0 -2 0 2 0 20:09 0.05 13-15 0.55-0.43
48 Jean-Sebastien Dea C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 10:07 0.01 5-10 0.16-0.28
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 0 0 -3 0 3 0 17:33 0.26 4-20 0.22-0.81
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 18:25 0.02 11-19 0.43-0.70
62 Brandon Montour D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 17:12 0.07 12-13 0.67-0.20
67 Michael Frolik R 0 0 0 -2 0 0 2 17:18 0.10 14-17 0.53-0.67
74 Rasmus Asplund C 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 09:35 0.15 6-7 0.17-0.17
90 Marcus Johansson L 0 0 0 -2 0 2 0 19:17 0.06 12-17 0.50-0.57
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
40 Carter Hutton L 13 8 5 30:26 1.05 -3.95
31 Jonas Johansson 14 13 1 29:34 0.90 -0.10