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Vegas Golden Knights at Calgary Flames

Mar 8, 2020 · Scotiabank Saddledome

Team Goals Shots
Vegas Golden Knights 5 32
Calgary Flames 3 22

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
05:24 VGK Tomas Nosek (8) Ryan Reaves (7), Nick Holden (8) 1 - 0
11:49 VGK Nick Holden (6) Nick Cousins (15), Brandon Pirri (2) 2 - 0
2nd Period
03:39 VGK Max Pacioretty (32) PP William Karlsson (30), Paul Stastny (21) 3 - 0
08:23 CGY Milan Lucic (8) Unassisted 3 - 1
16:32 CGY Dillon Dube (6) PP Mikael Backlund (29), Milan Lucic (12) 3 - 2
3rd Period
17:00 CGY Matthew Tkachuk (23) Andrew Mangiapane (15), Erik Gustafsson (23) 3 - 3
18:50 VGK Shea Theodore (12) Alec Martinez (12), Chandler Stephenson (15) 4 - 3
19:42 VGK Jonathan Marchessault (21) Reilly Smith (26), William Karlsson (31) 5 - 3

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
2nd Period
02:42 CGY Mark Giordano Tripping 2
15:00 VGK Alec Martinez Holding 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Vegas Golden Knights 71 45 32 5 3.7 66.7
Calgary Flames 36 26 22 3 1.6 33.3

How the game went

3020100Start2nd3rdCalgary Flames 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 Calgary Flames had taken more, and below it and blue while Vegas Golden Knights had.

Expected goals

Vegas Golden Knights: 3.7 expected, 5 scored · Calgary Flames: 1.6 expected, 3 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndVGK goal, 5:24 of 1st, a 20% chanceVGK goal, 11:49 of 1st, a 16% chanceVGK goal, 3:39 of 2nd, a 14% chanceVGK goal, 18:50 of 3rd, a 2% chanceVGK goal, 19:42 of 3rd, a 47% chanceCGY goal, 8:23 of 2nd, a 5% chanceCGY goal, 16:32 of 2nd, a 5% chanceCGY goal, 17:00 of 3rd, a 5% chanceVGK 3.7CGY 1.6

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
Calgary Flames

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
Paul Stastny · Reilly Smith · Jonathan Marchessault14:3063.655.90-0
Max Pacioretty · William Karlsson · Nicolas Roy14:0571.478.70-0
Brandon Pirri · Nick Cousins · Chandler Stephenson12:1962.579.91-1
Ryan Reaves · William Carrier · Tomas Nosek8:1775.078.91-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Alec Martinez · Shea Theodore21:3356.460.21-1
Brayden McNabb · Nate Schmidt20:3669.752.00-0
Nick Holden · Zach Whitecloud13:3675.090.02-1

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
5 Nick Holden D 1 1 2 1 0 1 0 14:05 0.16 21-7 1.43-0.16
71 William Karlsson C 0 2 2 1 0 2 0 17:28 0.52 26-10 1.08-0.29
27 Shea Theodore D 1 0 1 0 0 5 0 22:47 0.26 23-17 0.76-0.49
67 Max Pacioretty L 1 0 1 1 0 4 0 17:17 0.26 29-10 1.14-0.29
81 Jonathan Marchessault R 1 0 1 1 0 3 0 18:23 0.28 23-15 0.86-0.84
92 Tomas Nosek L 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 11:20 0.23 7-3 0.49-0.17
9 Chandler Stephenson C 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 16:02 0.08 12-7 0.62-0.19
19 Reilly Smith R 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 17:09 0.30 22-12 0.77-0.61
21 Nick Cousins C 0 1 1 0 0 3 1 14:41 0.35 13-7 0.70-0.19
25 Alec Martinez D 0 1 1 0 2 1 0 22:00 0.06 23-17 0.74-0.49
26 Paul Stastny C 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 17:58 0.04 23-15 0.86-0.84
73 Brandon Pirri C 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 13:32 0.01 10-6 0.59-0.15
75 Ryan Reaves R 0 1 1 1 0 1 3 10:15 0.07 7-2 0.49-0.12
3 Brayden McNabb D 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 23:13 0.07 25-10 0.89-0.80
10 Nicolas Roy C 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 16:05 0.38 26-13 1.09-0.52
28 William Carrier L 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 08:46 0.03 6-2 0.46-0.12
28 Zach Whitecloud D 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 15:14 0.03 21-7 1.43-0.16
88 Nate Schmidt D 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 21:44 0.06 23-10 0.87-0.80
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
90 Robin Lehner W 22 19 3 60:00 1.58 -1.42

Calgary Flames

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Johnny Gaudreau · Elias Lindholm · Sean Monahan16:3440.734.00-0
Mikael Backlund · Andrew Mangiapane · Matthew Tkachuk14:1940.541.01-2
Milan Lucic · Derek Ryan · Dillon Dube10:4214.312.41-0
Milan Lucic · Sam Bennett · Dillon Dube2:1433.30.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mark Giordano · TJ Brodie14:1432.336.30-2
Derek Forbort · Erik Gustafsson9:5922.221.61-1
Derek Forbort · Rasmus Andersson8:2942.912.00-0

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
17 Milan Lucic L 1 1 2 1 0 2 7 16:51 0.12 5-21 0.22-0.73
19 Matthew Tkachuk L 1 0 1 -2 0 2 1 19:37 0.16 16-25 0.98-1.31
65 Dillon Dube C 1 0 1 1 0 1 4 15:29 0.05 3-18 0.07-0.65
11 Mikael Backlund C 0 1 1 -1 0 4 4 17:27 0.55 17-27 0.98-1.47
26 Andrew Mangiapane L 0 1 1 -1 0 3 1 16:37 0.23 15-24 0.91-1.45
64 Erik Gustafsson D 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 21:32 0.03 7-27 0.32-1.30
4 Rasmus Andersson D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 24:59 0.02 17-19 0.57-0.63
9 Sam Bennett C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 08:12 0.03 4-7 0.04-0.37
10 Derek Ryan C 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 14:20 3-14 0.14-0.69
13 Johnny Gaudreau L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 20:20 0.04 11-19 0.28-0.56
15 Noah Hanifin D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 02:00 2-2 0.07-0.06
23 Sean Monahan C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 20:11 0.10 11-21 0.28-0.59
27 Derek Forbort D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 20:10 0.02 11-25 0.28-1.00
28 Elias Lindholm C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 2 21:21 0.22 14-21 0.37-0.72
36 Zac Rinaldo C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 5 04:45 1-4 0.03-0.31
55 Mark Giordano D 0 0 0 -3 2 0 1 25:48 15-34 0.86-1.70
77 Mark Jankowski L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 05:56 2-3 0.04-0.28
78 TJ Brodie D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 23:59 16-29 0.79-1.40
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
33 David Rittich L 31 27 4 59:29 3.20 -0.80