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New Jersey Devils at Buffalo Sabres

Jan 30, 2021 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
New Jersey Devils 3 34
Buffalo Sabres 4 31

Decided in a shootout.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
2nd Period
09:03 BUF Eric Staal (3) Taylor Hall (7), Brandon Montour (2) 0 - 1
18:35 NJD Ty Smith (2) PP P.K. Subban (2), Pavel Zacha (1) 1 - 1
3rd Period
01:37 NJD Andreas Johnsson (1) Jack Hughes (5), Damon Severson (2) 2 - 1
02:18 BUF Tobias Rieder (3) Cody Eakin (1), Colin Miller (2) 2 - 2
10:56 BUF Victor Olofsson (4) PP Rasmus Dahlin (2), Taylor Hall (8) 2 - 3
14:41 NJD Janne Kuokkanen (1) Michael McLeod (1), Nathan Bastian (2) 3 - 3
Shootout
BUF Jack Eichel Shootout winner 3 - 4

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
07:15 NJD Andreas Johnsson Interference 2
12:15 BUF Eric Staal Slashing 2
12:15 BUF Brandon Montour Tripping 2
2nd Period
00:57 NJD Andreas Johnsson Holding the stick 2
05:58 NJD Miles Wood Slashing 2
12:05 BUF Taylor Hall Holding 2
18:11 BUF Eric Staal Hooking 2
3rd Period
02:55 BUF Jeff Skinner Delaying game puck over glass 2
10:21 NJD Ty Smith Hooking 2
18:08 NJD Damon Severson Tripping 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
New Jersey Devils 59 47 34 3 2.8 50.7
Buffalo Sabres 53 41 31 3 2.8 49.3

How the game went

10505Start2nd3rdOTBuffalo Sabres aheadNew Jersey Devils 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 Buffalo Sabres had taken more, and below it and blue while New Jersey Devils had.

Expected goals

New Jersey Devils: 2.8 expected, 3 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 2.8 expected, 3 scored

012Start2nd3rdOTNJD goal, 18:35 of 2nd, a 3% chanceNJD goal, 1:37 of 3rd, a 6% chanceNJD goal, 14:41 of 3rd, a 11% chanceBUF goal, 9:03 of 2nd, a 8% chanceBUF goal, 2:18 of 3rd, a 3% chanceBUF goal, 10:56 of 3rd, a 6% chanceBUF 2.8NJD 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

New Jersey Devils
Buffalo Sabres

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.

New Jersey Devils

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Andreas Johnsson · Jesper Bratt · Jack Hughes10:1263.269.51-0
Nathan Bastian · Michael McLeod · Janne Kuokkanen6:2154.564.31-1
Kyle Palmieri · Nikita Gusev · Pavel Zacha5:3255.637.50-0
Andreas Johnsson · Nathan Bastian · Jack Hughes4:0850.056.50-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Dmitry Kulikov · Matt Tennyson11:4138.520.10-1
Damon Severson · Ty Smith10:0071.446.91-1
P.K. Subban · Ryan Murray9:4447.150.70-0

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
18 Andreas Johnsson L 1 0 1 1 4 2 0 19:12 0.09 17-10 0.76-0.29
42 Ty Smith D 1 0 1 1 2 2 1 17:50 0.11 18-9 1.17-0.72
59 Janne Kuokkanen C 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 10:52 0.11 9-9 0.30-0.19
11 Nathan Bastian R 0 1 1 0 0 1 3 14:41 0.13 8-9 0.34-0.35
18 Pavel Zacha C 0 1 1 -1 0 4 1 18:29 0.31 7-6 0.39-0.67
20 Michael McLeod C 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 17:02 0.05 11-11 0.55-0.34
76 P.K. Subban D 0 1 1 0 0 5 1 22:40 0.15 13-13 0.46-0.42
78 Damon Severson D 0 1 1 0 2 4 1 24:51 0.17 13-9 0.65-0.86
86 Jack Hughes C 0 1 1 1 0 3 2 23:49 0.38 16-12 0.70-0.46
7 Dmitry Kulikov D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 21:20 0.02 12-13 0.52-0.41
7 Matt Tennyson D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 14:59 0.01 5-12 0.09-0.46
10 Nick Merkley R 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 07:07 2-8 0.12-0.29
11 Miles Wood L 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 10:57 0.29 4-11 0.34-0.46
17 Yegor Sharangovich C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 11:01 3-8 0.12-0.29
21 Kyle Palmieri C 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 18:23 0.28 8-9 0.36-0.82
28 Ryan Murray D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 20:50 0.02 13-16 0.61-0.66
63 Jesper Bratt L 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 19:49 0.32 16-8 0.72-0.29
97 Nikita Gusev L 0 0 0 -1 0 4 0 13:53 0.35 10-7 0.57-0.83
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
41 Scott Wedgewood OTL 31 28 3 64:57 2.85 -0.15

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Eric Staal · Taylor Hall · Dylan Cozens11:1847.650.91-1
Kyle Okposo · Cody Eakin · Tobias Rieder8:5621.46.41-1
Victor Olofsson · Jack Eichel · Tage Thompson7:2842.938.90-0
Jeff Skinner · Victor Olofsson · Jack Eichel3:4275.095.80-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jake McCabe · Rasmus Ristolainen14:2968.279.00-0
Brandon Montour · Henri Jokiharju13:0820.06.50-1
Colin Miller · Rasmus Dahlin12:1763.658.31-1

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
71 Taylor Hall L 0 2 2 0 2 2 0 22:00 0.26 12-12 0.56-0.43
12 Eric Staal C 1 0 1 0 4 1 0 16:08 0.28 11-15 0.47-0.62
13 Tobias Rieder L 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 12:47 0.03 4-11 0.20-0.72
95 Victor Olofsson L 1 0 1 0 0 3 0 21:08 0.24 11-6 0.39-0.31
6 Colin Miller D 0 1 1 0 0 2 4 19:30 0.13 15-11 0.60-0.62
20 Cody Eakin C 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 14:31 4-12 0.05-0.75
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 21:56 0.23 14-10 0.56-0.46
62 Brandon Montour D 0 1 1 0 2 1 0 17:07 0.01 7-19 0.19-0.84
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 11:22 3-12 0.05-0.75
8 Riley Sheahan C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 10:38 0.19 12-6 0.95-0.17
9 Jack Eichel C 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 22:49 0.23 10-5 0.29-0.22
20 Curtis Lazar C 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 12:00 0.56 9-6 0.80-0.20
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 16:00 4-18 0.05-1.01
22 Jake McCabe D 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 19:51 0.02 16-8 1.10-0.29
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 16:30 0.23 10-12 0.45-0.50
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 15:05 0.17 16-7 0.82-0.23
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 26:50 0.11 17-8 1.03-0.30
72 Tage Thompson C 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 11:44 0.13 6-7 0.25-0.38
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Linus Ullmark W 34 31 3 64:57 2.83 -0.17