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New Jersey Devils at Buffalo Sabres

Jan 31, 2021 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
New Jersey Devils 5 37
Buffalo Sabres 3 33

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
00:20 NJD Michael McLeod (2) P.K. Subban (3), Ryan Murray (2) 1 - 0
19:43 NJD Andreas Johnsson (2) Jesper Bratt (1), Ty Smith (6) 2 - 0
2nd Period
14:11 BUF Curtis Lazar (3) Rasmus Ristolainen (4), Jake McCabe (2) 2 - 1
15:23 BUF Rasmus Dahlin (1) PP Victor Olofsson (5), Jack Eichel (8) 2 - 2
19:59 NJD Miles Wood (4) Janne Kuokkanen (2) 3 - 2
3rd Period
03:53 BUF Rasmus Ristolainen (2) PP Victor Olofsson (6), Jack Eichel (9) 3 - 3
10:40 NJD Michael McLeod (3) Miles Wood (3), Nathan Bastian (3) 4 - 3
19:52 NJD Miles Wood (5) Pavel Zacha (2), Damon Severson (3) 5 - 3

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
09:28 NJD Janne Kuokkanen High sticking 2
14:35 BUF Matt Irwin Tripping 2
2nd Period
01:40 NJD Dmitry Kulikov Hooking 2
15:07 NJD Ty Smith Holding 2
3rd Period
01:10 BUF Brandon Montour Slashing 2
02:19 NJD Team Delaying game bench face off violation 2
07:50 BUF Rasmus Dahlin Holding 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
New Jersey Devils 63 53 37 5 6.4 56.3
Buffalo Sabres 59 50 33 3 3.3 43.8

How the game went

051015Start2nd3rdBuffalo 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: 6.4 expected, 5 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 3.3 expected, 3 scored

0246Start2nd3rdEndNJD goal, 0:20 of 1st, a 15% chanceNJD goal, 19:43 of 1st, a 19% chanceNJD goal, 19:59 of 2nd, a 26% chanceNJD goal, 10:40 of 3rd, a 12% chanceNJD goal, 19:52 of 3rd, a 65% chanceBUF goal, 14:11 of 2nd, a 8% chanceBUF goal, 15:23 of 2nd, a 3% chanceBUF goal, 3:53 of 3rd, a 27% chanceNJD 6.4BUF 3.3

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

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 Hughes10:5271.490.31-0
Miles Wood · Nathan Bastian · Michael McLeod10:3060.970.82-0
Pavel Zacha · Janne Kuokkanen · Jesper Boqvist8:2235.741.10-0
Nikita Gusev · Mikhail Maltsev · Yegor Sharangovich8:2147.158.70-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
P.K. Subban · Ryan Murray12:5932.132.41-1
Dmitry Kulikov · Matt Tennyson10:5438.960.01-0
Damon Severson · Ty Smith8:2980.097.51-0

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
11 Miles Wood L 2 1 3 4 0 7 0 14:10 0.85 17-11 1.95-0.70
20 Michael McLeod C 2 0 2 3 0 2 1 17:03 0.39 19-15 2.03-0.85
18 Andreas Johnsson L 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 14:09 0.21 15-7 1.16-0.21
11 Nathan Bastian R 0 1 1 2 0 3 0 13:33 0.81 15-9 1.70-0.65
18 Pavel Zacha C 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 15:58 0.13 5-9 0.28-0.40
28 Ryan Murray D 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 21:50 13-24 0.91-1.38
42 Ty Smith D 0 1 1 1 2 1 0 16:39 0.04 23-8 1.94-0.16
59 Janne Kuokkanen C 0 1 1 1 2 0 1 14:51 8-16 0.63-0.64
63 Jesper Bratt L 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 18:18 0.37 19-9 1.33-0.35
76 P.K. Subban D 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 21:25 0.19 16-19 0.91-1.04
78 Damon Severson D 0 1 1 2 0 3 0 22:39 0.15 24-7 2.14-0.27
7 Dmitry Kulikov D 0 0 0 3 2 1 1 20:37 0.08 24-12 2.11-0.49
7 Matt Tennyson D 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 14:34 0.01 9-14 0.73-0.50
17 Yegor Sharangovich C 0 0 0 1 0 4 0 14:18 0.87 13-10 0.78-0.42
57 Mikhail Maltsev L 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 10:20 0.03 9-9 0.58-0.33
70 Jesper Boqvist C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 11:24 0.15 6-12 0.29-0.45
86 Jack Hughes C 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 18:41 0.45 21-9 1.45-0.35
97 Nikita Gusev L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 13:41 0.07 14-10 0.81-0.42
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Eric Comrie W 33 30 3 60:00 3.35 +0.35

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Taylor Hall · Victor Olofsson · Jack Eichel12:5568.253.70-1
Eric Staal · Jeff Skinner · Dylan Cozens9:3923.514.90-1
Kyle Okposo · Cody Eakin · Tobias Rieder8:2233.36.20-1
Riley Sheahan · Curtis Lazar · Casey Mittelstadt7:4664.753.11-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jake McCabe · Rasmus Ristolainen15:2254.849.51-1
Matt Irwin · Brandon Montour8:5544.014.30-1
Brandon Montour · Rasmus Dahlin8:4628.628.50-0

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
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 1 1 2 -1 0 4 4 28:11 0.50 17-16 1.04-1.21
9 Jack Eichel C 0 2 2 -1 0 7 0 21:57 0.81 15-8 1.09-0.96
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 2 2 -1 0 2 0 20:26 0.20 16-11 1.09-1.19
20 Curtis Lazar C 1 0 1 0 0 2 1 12:29 0.33 11-12 0.44-0.74
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 1 0 1 -2 2 4 2 21:32 0.22 7-18 0.37-1.27
22 Jake McCabe D 0 1 1 0 0 1 4 19:53 0.08 18-14 1.12-1.06
6 Colin Miller D 0 0 0 -2 0 2 0 14:19 0.06 9-13 0.36-1.25
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 09:51 8-16 0.09-1.35
8 Riley Sheahan C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12:01 11-9 0.44-0.59
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 10:40 0.04 12-10 0.44-0.68
12 Eric Staal C 0 0 0 -2 0 2 0 13:45 0.06 7-19 0.31-1.32
13 Tobias Rieder L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 14:02 9-18 0.14-1.60
20 Cody Eakin C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 13:11 9-17 0.09-1.45
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 12:24 0.25 7-14 0.31-0.95
52 Matt Irwin D 0 0 0 -2 2 5 3 13:15 0.09 15-20 0.29-1.77
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 13:51 0.13 4-18 0.16-1.18
62 Brandon Montour D 0 0 0 -1 2 0 0 22:46 0.12 18-29 0.67-2.18
71 Taylor Hall L 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 21:24 0.44 17-8 1.18-0.97
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
40 Carter Hutton L 36 32 4 58:03 4.85 +0.85