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Buffalo Sabres at Washington Capitals

Jan 22, 2021 · Capital One Arena

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 3 27
Washington Capitals 4 32

Decided in a shootout.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
12:33 BUF Eric Staal (1) Victor Olofsson (2) 1 - 0
16:18 WSH Nicklas Backstrom (3) Tom Wilson (3), Brenden Dillon (1) 1 - 1
2nd Period
04:14 WSH Nic Dowd (2) Jakub Vrana (2), John Carlson (3) 1 - 2
10:43 BUF Dylan Cozens (1) Unassisted 2 - 2
13:07 WSH Jakub Vrana (3) Zdeno Chara (1), T.J. Oshie (4) 2 - 3
13:49 BUF Riley Sheahan (1) Jeff Skinner (1), Curtis Lazar (1) 3 - 3
Shootout
WSH John Carlson Shootout winner 3 - 4

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
17:03 WSH Conor Sheary Slashing 2
2nd Period
10:49 BUF Tage Thompson Hooking 2
10:49 WSH Jakub Vrana Tripping 2
3rd Period
04:53 WSH T.J. Oshie Hooking 2
19:50 BUF Rasmus Ristolainen Holding 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 57 46 27 3 2.3 53.8
Washington Capitals 52 40 32 3 2.0 46.2

How the game went

10505Start2nd3rdOTWashington Capitals 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 Washington Capitals had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 2.3 expected, 3 scored · Washington Capitals: 2.0 expected, 3 scored

00.511.52Start2nd3rdOTBUF goal, 12:33 of 1st, a 12% chanceBUF goal, 10:43 of 2nd, a 3% chanceBUF goal, 13:49 of 2nd, a 13% chanceWSH goal, 16:18 of 1st, a 13% chanceWSH goal, 4:14 of 2nd, a 11% chanceWSH goal, 13:07 of 2nd, a 21% chanceBUF 2.3WSH 2.0

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
Washington Capitals

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
Taylor Hall · Sam Reinhart · Jack Eichel16:2870.488.90-0
Cody Eakin · Tobias Rieder · Dylan Cozens10:2857.155.51-1
Riley Sheahan · Jeff Skinner · Curtis Lazar8:5250.069.41-0
Eric Staal · Victor Olofsson · Tage Thompson6:2660.053.81-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Brandon Montour · Henri Jokiharju16:0540.739.80-0
Jake McCabe · Rasmus Ristolainen15:2965.480.63-1
Colin Miller · Rasmus Dahlin7:2660.064.30-1

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
8 Riley Sheahan C 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 12:53 0.21 8-8 0.38-0.17
12 Eric Staal C 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 12:54 0.14 11-10 0.38-0.44
24 Dylan Cozens C 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 13:24 0.03 8-10 0.22-0.30
20 Curtis Lazar C 0 1 1 1 0 0 3 13:12 0.03 9-10 0.38-0.17
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 12:15 0.12 9-12 0.40-0.25
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 1 1 -1 0 4 0 14:25 0.34 10-11 0.35-0.61
6 Colin Miller D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 18:13 15-7 0.70-0.35
9 Jack Eichel C 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 23:31 0.24 20-9 0.85-0.09
13 Tobias Rieder L 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 13:30 0.17 9-10 0.22-0.36
13 Sam Reinhart C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 22:54 0.02 20-12 0.79-0.36
20 Cody Eakin C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 16:35 0.05 12-14 0.34-0.71
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 22:28 0.07 14-19 0.36-0.50
22 Jake McCabe D 0 0 0 2 0 2 1 23:22 0.06 22-12 1.03-0.24
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 -2 0 2 0 10:08 0.04 6-7 0.44-0.50
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 2 2 2 5 26:39 0.03 23-15 0.93-0.40
62 Brandon Montour D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 25:44 0.15 18-24 0.37-0.82
71 Taylor Hall L 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 25:08 0.57 21-10 0.94-0.18
72 Tage Thompson C 0 0 0 -1 2 0 0 08:34 10-10 0.51-0.57
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Linus Ullmark OTL 32 29 3 65:00 2.07 -0.93

Washington Capitals

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Carl Hagelin · Nic Dowd · Garnet Hathaway13:2240.017.10-0
Nicklas Backstrom · Tom Wilson · Jakub Vrana9:3945.869.31-0
T.J. Oshie · Lars Eller · Richard Panik8:2138.58.90-1
Brian Pinho · Conor Sheary · Daniel Sprong6:2954.527.40-2
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
John Carlson · Brenden Dillon18:4744.851.31-0
Zdeno Chara · Nick Jensen15:5525.010.30-2
Justin Schultz · Jonas Siegenthaler15:2663.073.00-1

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
19 Jakub Vrana L 1 1 2 3 2 3 0 18:44 0.28 20-18 1.03-0.32
19 Nicklas Backstrom C 1 0 1 1 0 3 0 20:56 0.28 17-18 0.72-0.32
26 Nic Dowd C 1 0 1 1 0 1 3 19:10 0.11 9-14 0.23-0.70
5 Brenden Dillon D 0 1 1 1 0 1 2 23:31 0.01 13-16 0.40-0.38
33 Zdeno Chara D 0 1 1 -1 0 1 2 19:08 0.03 11-20 0.45-1.23
43 Tom Wilson R 0 1 1 1 0 4 0 12:57 0.35 12-13 0.60-0.24
74 John Carlson D 0 1 1 2 0 6 3 28:37 0.26 14-21 0.52-0.65
77 T.J. Oshie R 0 1 1 0 2 2 3 17:45 0.10 13-11 0.44-0.62
3 Nick Jensen D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 19:12 0.04 7-18 0.24-1.11
4 Justin Schultz D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 19:08 0.12 22-10 0.76-0.16
10 Daniel Sprong R 0 0 0 -2 0 2 0 10:14 0.02 7-5 0.14-0.23
16 Richard Panik R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 13:19 0.06 7-12 0.11-0.69
20 Lars Eller C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 17:29 0.23 10-12 0.37-0.67
21 Garnet Hathaway R 0 0 0 1 0 1 5 16:19 0.09 9-17 0.23-0.77
43 Conor Sheary L 0 0 0 -2 2 0 0 09:52 0.02 7-9 0.15-0.42
62 Carl Hagelin L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 19:52 8-13 0.11-0.55
64 Brian Pinho C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 07:26 0.02 7-5 0.09-0.23
71 Jonas Siegenthaler D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 4 20:13 0.01 17-13 0.43-0.31
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
41 Vitek Vanecek W 27 24 3 64:57 2.28 -0.72