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Buffalo Sabres at Colorado Avalanche

Feb 26, 2020 · Pepsi Center

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 2 33
Colorado Avalanche 3 34

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
14:24 COL Gabriel Landeskog (17) PP J.T. Compher (18), Nathan MacKinnon (52) 0 - 1
16:21 BUF Zemgus Girgensons (12) Kyle Okposo (9), Johan Larsson (11) 1 - 1
2nd Period
07:15 COL Martin Kaut (1) PP Vladislav Kamenev (7), Samuel Girard (27) 1 - 2
14:56 BUF Curtis Lazar (5) Jake McCabe (8), Michael Frolik (8) 2 - 2
3rd Period
11:54 COL J.T. Compher (10) Joonas Donskoi (17), Tyson Jost (12) 2 - 3

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
01:21 COL Ryan Graves Tripping 2
13:30 BUF Henri Jokiharju Tripping 2
2nd Period
05:38 BUF Rasmus Dahlin Slashing 2
18:47 COL Pierre-Edouard Bellemare Holding 2
3rd Period
16:13 BUF Brandon Montour Hooking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 56 43 33 2 2.3 40.2
Colorado Avalanche 80 53 34 3 5.4 59.8

How the game went

50510152025Start2nd3rdColorado Avalanche 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 Colorado Avalanche had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 2.3 expected, 2 scored · Colorado Avalanche: 5.4 expected, 3 scored

024Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 16:21 of 1st, a 13% chanceBUF goal, 14:56 of 2nd, a 10% chanceCOL goal, 14:24 of 1st, a 12% chanceCOL goal, 7:15 of 2nd, a 29% chanceCOL goal, 11:54 of 3rd, a 12% chanceCOL 5.4BUF 2.3

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
Colorado Avalanche

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 Eichel11:4150.054.20-1
Kyle Okposo · Johan Larsson · Zemgus Girgensons11:0750.052.71-0
Wayne Simmonds · Marcus Johansson · Jeff Skinner8:4333.318.80-0
Michael Frolik · Jimmy Vesey · Curtis Lazar6:3633.336.51-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Colin Miller · Rasmus Dahlin17:3656.348.40-1
Rasmus Ristolainen · Brandon Montour16:3922.23.50-0
Jake McCabe · Henri Jokiharju12:3848.157.22-0

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
20 Curtis Lazar C 1 0 1 1 0 2 3 12:10 0.10 7-13 0.13-0.34
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 14:50 0.13 14-12 0.60-0.40
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 15:40 0.35 14-14 0.60-0.62
22 Johan Larsson L 0 1 1 1 0 1 3 16:45 0.02 11-19 0.37-0.76
22 Jake McCabe D 0 1 1 2 0 2 1 17:11 0.05 14-17 0.76-0.67
67 Michael Frolik R 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 10:48 0.00 6-12 0.13-0.30
6 Colin Miller D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 3 19:37 0.09 18-15 0.59-0.67
9 Jack Eichel C 0 0 0 -1 0 6 0 19:42 0.27 17-15 0.77-0.53
13 Sam Reinhart C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 19:37 0.47 14-16 0.55-0.59
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 2 2 1 0 15:00 0.04 13-18 0.76-0.75
24 Wayne Simmonds R 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 12:53 0.01 8-21 0.13-0.78
26 Jimmy Vesey L 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 09:39 0.01 6-15 0.13-0.49
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 -1 2 0 2 23:47 0.05 22-17 0.62-0.73
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 13:07 0.13 9-21 0.13-0.78
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 24:13 0.01 8-32 0.03-0.94
62 Brandon Montour D 0 0 0 0 2 3 2 18:47 0.10 11-30 0.06-0.80
90 Marcus Johansson L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14:11 0.07 9-18 0.13-0.66
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 0 0 -1 0 5 0 19:01 0.39 14-15 0.55-0.61
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
40 Carter Hutton L 34 31 3 58:31 3.69 +0.69

Colorado Avalanche

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Gabriel Landeskog · Nathan MacKinnon · Valeri Nichushkin13:5481.595.00-0
Joonas Donskoi · J.T. Compher · Tyson Jost10:2969.259.71-0
Vladislav Namestnikov · Pierre-Edouard Bellemare · Martin Kaut7:0440.031.70-1
Matt Nieto · Vladislav Kamenev · Logan O'Connor3:4444.476.10-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Ian Cole · Nikita Zadorov14:1262.966.71-1
Ryan Graves · Cale Makar13:5369.079.80-0
Erik Johnson · Samuel Girard12:0847.650.60-1

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
37 J.T. Compher L 1 1 2 1 0 3 0 21:18 0.23 20-9 0.51-0.36
87 Martin Kaut R 1 0 1 -2 0 2 1 11:13 0.43 10-10 0.36-0.33
92 Gabriel Landeskog L 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 22:26 0.54 23-10 0.84-0.39
17 Tyson Jost C 0 1 1 1 0 5 1 17:42 0.34 20-8 0.51-0.35
29 Nathan MacKinnon C 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 22:22 0.23 25-11 0.88-0.53
49 Samuel Girard D 0 1 1 -1 0 1 0 18:28 0.04 13-17 0.46-0.66
72 Joonas Donskoi R 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 14:15 0.07 20-10 0.54-0.35
81 Vladislav Kamenev C 0 1 1 -1 0 1 1 05:52 0.05 7-10 0.30-0.31
6 Erik Johnson D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 18:36 0.07 19-15 0.51-0.45
7 Vladislav Namestnikov C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 3 12:17 0.11 10-15 0.33-0.43
8 Cale Makar D 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 22:35 0.17 24-13 0.75-0.45
25 Logan O'Connor R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 08:33 0.18 9-13 0.41-0.43
27 Ryan Graves D 0 0 0 0 2 3 2 18:58 0.16 25-14 0.86-0.33
28 Ian Cole D 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 18:41 0.04 25-13 1.04-0.47
41 Pierre-Edouard Bellemare L 0 0 0 -1 2 3 0 15:34 0.28 12-16 0.59-0.47
43 Valeri Nichushkin R 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 16:59 0.25 24-7 0.79-0.06
83 Matt Nieto L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 11:33 12-10 0.79-0.25
91 Nikita Zadorov D 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 18:41 0.05 22-14 0.93-0.47
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
39 Pavel Francouz W 33 31 2 59:57 2.30 +0.30