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Buffalo Sabres at Vegas Golden Knights

Feb 28, 2020 · T-Mobile Arena

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 2 34
Vegas Golden Knights 4 28

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
02:16 BUF Dominik Kahun (11) Marcus Johansson (19), Jimmy Vesey (11) 1 - 0
11:12 VGK Nicolas Roy (4) Nick Cousins (14), Nick Holden (7) 1 - 1
3rd Period
03:06 VGK William Karlsson (14) Max Pacioretty (33), Chandler Stephenson (14) 1 - 2
05:25 VGK Reilly Smith (26) Paul Stastny (20), Zach Whitecloud (1) 1 - 3
18:11 VGK Reilly Smith (27) Jonathan Marchessault (24) 1 - 4
19:48 BUF Jeff Skinner (13) Brandon Montour (13), Jake McCabe (9) 2 - 4

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
2nd Period
14:18 VGK Jonathan Marchessault Holding 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 67 43 34 2 2.5 54.7
Vegas Golden Knights 49 38 28 4 3.0 45.3

How the game went

1510505Start2nd3rdVegas Golden Knights 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 Vegas Golden Knights had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 2.5 expected, 2 scored · Vegas Golden Knights: 3.0 expected, 4 scored

012Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 2:16 of 1st, a 13% chanceBUF goal, 19:48 of 3rd, a 9% chanceVGK goal, 11:12 of 1st, a 20% chanceVGK goal, 3:06 of 3rd, a 19% chanceVGK goal, 5:25 of 3rd, a 7% chanceVGK goal, 18:11 of 3rd, a 48% chanceVGK 3.0BUF 2.5

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
Vegas Golden Knights

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 Eichel12:4256.032.10-1
Kyle Okposo · Johan Larsson · Zemgus Girgensons11:3750.041.00-0
Wayne Simmonds · Jeff Skinner · Curtis Lazar10:0275.075.81-0
Marcus Johansson · Jimmy Vesey · Dominik Kahun9:0831.647.91-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Rasmus Ristolainen · Brandon Montour18:0929.017.80-0
Jake McCabe · Henri Jokiharju14:1977.389.80-0
Colin Miller · Rasmus Dahlin12:2055.654.41-1

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
21 Dominik Kahun C 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 10:37 0.13 6-16 0.38-0.66
53 Jeff Skinner L 1 0 1 1 0 8 1 15:59 0.73 21-7 0.78-0.32
22 Jake McCabe D 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 17:33 0.13 25-5 1.23-0.07
26 Jimmy Vesey L 0 1 1 -1 0 2 1 13:12 0.07 8-16 0.48-0.76
62 Brandon Montour D 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 21:54 0.02 16-25 0.86-1.58
90 Marcus Johansson L 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 12:54 0.24 8-15 0.59-0.65
6 Colin Miller D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 5 16:56 0.03 17-15 0.55-0.71
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 3 16:26 0.22 14-12 0.52-0.51
9 Jack Eichel C 0 0 0 -3 0 4 0 23:25 0.13 22-16 0.41-1.11
13 Sam Reinhart C 0 0 0 -3 0 1 1 21:11 0.10 21-15 0.39-1.10
20 Curtis Lazar C 0 0 0 1 0 2 3 10:39 0.13 16-5 0.77-0.23
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 19:25 0.03 21-11 0.59-0.52
22 Johan Larsson L 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 14:02 0.12 13-12 0.50-0.51
24 Wayne Simmonds R 0 0 0 1 0 0 6 11:54 16-5 0.77-0.23
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 19:47 0.04 23-16 0.61-0.78
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 14:43 0.01 14-12 0.39-0.51
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 -2 0 5 3 23:36 0.39 14-24 0.41-1.37
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 0 0 -2 0 0 1 17:05 15-13 0.38-0.92
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
40 Carter Hutton 27 24 3 58:42 2.52 -0.48

Vegas Golden Knights

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Max Pacioretty · William Karlsson · Chandler Stephenson13:5648.575.31-0
Nick Cousins · William Carrier · Nicolas Roy10:5630.023.71-1
Paul Stastny · Reilly Smith · Jonathan Marchessault10:3456.369.11-0
Ryan Reaves · Tomas Nosek · Gage Quinney4:100.00.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Alec Martinez · Shea Theodore18:5040.040.30-1
Brayden McNabb · Nate Schmidt17:2445.971.31-0
Nick Holden · Zach Whitecloud15:1952.258.92-1

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
19 Reilly Smith R 2 0 2 2 0 2 1 16:01 0.07 14-8 0.79-0.27
10 Nicolas Roy C 1 0 1 -1 0 3 0 16:19 0.31 9-20 0.46-1.14
71 William Karlsson C 1 0 1 1 0 5 1 19:08 0.56 18-22 0.83-0.36
5 Nick Holden D 0 1 1 1 0 3 3 18:20 0.04 13-12 0.74-0.48
9 Chandler Stephenson C 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 17:36 0.19 21-18 1.20-0.39
21 Nick Cousins C 0 1 1 0 0 0 3 14:15 8-17 0.45-0.73
26 Paul Stastny C 0 1 1 2 0 2 0 15:03 0.41 15-9 0.96-0.30
28 Zach Whitecloud D 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 17:27 0.09 12-12 0.60-0.42
67 Max Pacioretty L 0 1 1 1 0 3 2 17:56 0.18 17-23 0.76-0.50
81 Jonathan Marchessault R 0 1 1 2 2 4 1 17:13 0.27 18-10 1.08-0.44
3 Brayden McNabb D 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 20:48 17-20 0.80-0.32
25 Alec Martinez D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 21:56 16-25 0.79-1.17
27 Shea Theodore D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 20:47 0.03 19-26 1.11-1.38
28 William Carrier L 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 12:50 6-15 0.21-0.72
72 Gage Quinney C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 11:36 0.04 7-10 0.27-0.59
75 Ryan Reaves R 0 0 0 -1 0 2 7 15:20 0.33 11-17 0.52-0.76
88 Nate Schmidt D 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 20:20 19-21 0.97-0.46
92 Tomas Nosek L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 04:43 0-5 0.00-0.15
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
90 Robin Lehner 34 32 2 60:00 2.52 +0.52