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Buffalo Sabres at Ottawa Senators

Feb 18, 2020 · Canadian Tire Centre

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 4 27
Ottawa Senators 7 40

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
02:14 BUF Brandon Montour (4) Unassisted 1 - 0
10:12 BUF Brandon Montour (5) Rasmus Ristolainen (24), Victor Olofsson (21) 2 - 0
14:02 OTT Vladislav Namestnikov (13) SH Jean-Gabriel Pageau (15), Mike Reilly (10) 2 - 1
15:07 OTT Artem Anisimov (12) Nick Paul (8), Scott Sabourin (3) 2 - 2
15:16 OTT Drake Batherson (3) Colin White (11), Tyler Ennis (18) 2 - 3
17:31 OTT Artem Anisimov (13) PP Tyler Ennis (19), Mike Reilly (11) 2 - 4
2nd Period
02:36 BUF Kyle Okposo (7) Johan Larsson (10), Brandon Montour (11) 3 - 4
09:00 OTT Jean-Gabriel Pageau (23) Anthony Duclair (15), Brady Tkachuk (19) 3 - 5
13:47 BUF Victor Olofsson (19) PP Rasmus Dahlin (32), Jack Eichel (42) 4 - 5
3rd Period
12:53 OTT Jean-Gabriel Pageau (24) PP Brady Tkachuk (20), Drake Batherson (7) 4 - 6
19:14 OTT Anthony Duclair (22) SH Jean-Gabriel Pageau (16) 4 - 7

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
12:05 OTT Ron Hainsey Hooking 2
15:45 BUF Jeff Skinner Slashing 2
2nd Period
12:54 OTT Team Too many men on the ice 2
16:05 OTT Mike Reilly Hooking 2
3rd Period
12:21 BUF Jake McCabe Hooking 2
17:35 OTT Vladislav Namestnikov Tripping 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 58 49 27 4 2.8 47.7
Ottawa Senators 64 53 40 7 4.6 52.3

How the game went

50510Start2nd3rdOttawa 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: 2.8 expected, 4 scored · Ottawa Senators: 4.6 expected, 7 scored

01234Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 2:14 of 1st, a 15% chanceBUF goal, 10:12 of 1st, a 2% chanceBUF goal, 2:36 of 2nd, a 13% chanceBUF goal, 13:47 of 2nd, a 8% chanceOTT goal, 14:02 of 1st, a 19% chanceOTT goal, 15:07 of 1st, a 10% chanceOTT goal, 15:16 of 1st, a 16% chanceOTT goal, 17:31 of 1st, a 7% chanceOTT goal, 9:00 of 2nd, a 29% chanceOTT goal, 12:53 of 3rd, a 23% chanceOTT goal, 19:14 of 3rd, a 55% chanceOTT 4.6BUF 2.8

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 Eichel15:0048.448.11-1
Kyle Okposo · Johan Larsson · Zemgus Girgensons7:5950.042.71-1
Marcus Johansson · Jimmy Vesey · Curtis Lazar7:1438.929.70-1
Jeff Skinner · Conor Sheary · Evan Rodrigues6:5547.123.50-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Rasmus Ristolainen · Brandon Montour17:5242.952.63-1
Jake McCabe · Henri Jokiharju15:3952.940.80-1
Colin Miller · Rasmus Dahlin13:2240.628.90-1

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
62 Brandon Montour D 2 1 3 2 0 2 0 21:23 0.18 18-21 1.05-0.89
95 Victor Olofsson L 1 1 2 -1 0 6 0 21:40 0.64 17-17 0.95-0.97
8 Kyle Okposo R 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 12:00 0.16 14-10 0.75-0.56
9 Jack Eichel C 0 1 1 -1 0 3 1 22:54 0.27 18-18 0.97-1.01
22 Johan Larsson L 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 12:40 0.11 14-13 0.75-0.57
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 1 1 -2 0 1 2 19:26 0.05 13-19 0.52-1.28
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 25:49 0.31 15-20 0.95-0.86
6 Colin Miller D 0 0 0 -2 0 2 4 16:09 0.05 15-19 0.68-1.28
13 Sam Reinhart C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 22:01 0.11 16-16 0.81-0.86
17 Evan Rodrigues C 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 11:21 0.23 9-11 0.38-0.96
20 Curtis Lazar C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 11:16 0.05 7-12 0.15-0.47
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 18:59 20-17 0.66-0.91
22 Jake McCabe D 0 0 0 -2 2 3 1 17:31 0.16 21-16 0.81-0.88
26 Jimmy Vesey L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 12:28 0.07 9-16 0.28-0.52
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 10:15 0.03 10-13 0.42-0.57
43 Conor Sheary L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 13:07 13-16 0.53-1.15
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 14:32 0.29 14-11 0.67-1.08
90 Marcus Johansson L 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 16:14 0.10 12-15 0.34-0.43
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
40 Carter Hutton L 39 33 6 57:57 4.10 -1.90

Ottawa Senators

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jean-Gabriel Pageau · Anthony Duclair · Brady Tkachuk11:3252.256.01-1
Vladislav Namestnikov · Chris Tierney · Connor Brown9:5652.663.30-0
Tyler Ennis · Colin White · Drake Batherson7:2961.161.21-1
Artem Anisimov · Scott Sabourin · Nick Paul6:5340.929.41-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Ron Hainsey · Thomas Chabot18:0868.888.62-0
Mike Reilly · Nikita Zaitsev15:1951.236.51-1
Cody Goloubef · Andreas Englund4:5916.70.00-1

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

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
44 Jean-Gabriel Pageau C 2 2 4 2 0 5 1 18:03 0.87 15-12 0.96-0.60
51 Artem Anisimov C 2 0 2 0 0 5 1 14:07 0.67 14-18 1.04-0.87
11 Anthony Duclair L 1 1 2 1 0 1 2 17:42 0.20 19-13 1.00-0.60
19 Drake Batherson R 1 1 2 0 0 2 2 12:39 0.27 12-10 0.63-0.60
6 Mike Reilly D 0 2 2 0 2 6 3 19:46 0.21 27-21 0.90-1.20
8 Brady Tkachuk L 0 2 2 0 0 5 6 17:14 0.61 18-13 1.00-0.63
63 Tyler Ennis R 0 2 2 0 0 4 3 11:15 0.26 13-10 0.73-0.61
7 Vladislav Namestnikov C 1 0 1 1 2 2 0 14:57 0.20 12-12 0.42-0.27
16 Colin White C 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 12:37 16-11 1.26-0.65
20 Nick Paul L 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 12:16 0.28 14-18 0.92-0.88
46 Scott Sabourin R 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 07:31 0.01 9-15 0.26-0.72
11 Chris Tierney C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 18:29 0.18 14-11 0.42-0.25
16 Connor Brown R 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 18:19 0.18 12-10 0.52-0.32
22 Nikita Zaitsev D 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 27:38 0.01 25-33 0.81-1.75
24 Andreas Englund D 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 07:06 3-6 0.09-0.29
26 Cody Goloubef D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 09:37 3-7 0.01-0.24
72 Thomas Chabot D 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 28:17 0.12 27-20 2.34-0.82
81 Ron Hainsey D 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 25:34 0.01 27-15 1.95-0.38
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
41 Craig Anderson W 27 23 4 60:00 2.84 -1.16