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Buffalo Sabres at Boston Bruins

Mar 27, 2021 · TD Garden

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 2 27
Boston Bruins 3 36

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
02:01 BUF Sam Reinhart (12) PP Unassisted 1 - 0
2nd Period
11:41 BOS Matt Grzelcyk (2) David Pastrnak (13), Patrice Bergeron (16) 1 - 1
14:12 BUF Kyle Okposo (2) Steven Fogarty (1), Henri Jokiharju (2) 2 - 1
3rd Period
05:22 BOS Nick Ritchie (9) Charlie McAvoy (17), Jakub Zboril (6) 2 - 2
16:10 BOS Craig Smith (6) David Krejci (17), Nick Ritchie (8) 2 - 3

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
01:16 BOS Connor Clifton Elbowing 2
04:06 BUF Brandon Montour Tripping 2
14:59 BUF Casey Mittelstadt Hooking 2
18:54 BOS David Pastrnak Tripping 2
2nd Period
07:15 BOS Charlie Coyle High sticking 2
15:00 BUF Jean-Sebastien Dea High sticking 2
3rd Period
09:38 BUF Brandon Montour Hooking 2
19:35 BUF Rasmus Ristolainen Interference goalkeeper 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 45 36 27 2 1.7 43.9
Boston Bruins 60 49 36 3 2.4 56.1

How the game went

051015Start2nd3rdBoston Bruins 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 Boston Bruins had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 1.7 expected, 2 scored · Boston Bruins: 2.4 expected, 3 scored

00.511.52Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 2:01 of 1st, a 12% chanceBUF goal, 14:12 of 2nd, a 13% chanceBOS goal, 11:41 of 2nd, a 3% chanceBOS goal, 5:22 of 3rd, a 12% chanceBOS goal, 16:10 of 3rd, a 20% chanceBOS 2.4BUF 1.7

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
Boston Bruins

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 · Casey Mittelstadt6:1655.670.60-0
Jeff Skinner · Victor Olofsson · Dylan Cozens5:4150.032.10-0
Kyle Okposo · Cody Eakin · Steven Fogarty4:5250.074.41-0
Jeff Skinner · Curtis Lazar · Casey Mittelstadt2:4050.012.50-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Henri Jokiharju · Rasmus Dahlin12:5065.056.31-0
Colin Miller · Brandon Montour12:1422.216.70-1
Rasmus Ristolainen · Jacob Bryson11:0247.848.60-1

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 Kyle Okposo R 1 0 1 0 0 1 2 16:02 0.13 7-13 0.35-0.52
13 Sam Reinhart C 1 0 1 -1 0 2 0 19:16 0.13 9-10 0.53-0.31
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 1 1 0 0 3 2 16:17 0.09 14-8 0.64-0.43
28 Steven Fogarty C 0 1 1 -1 0 1 0 09:21 0.02 5-7 0.22-0.25
6 Colin Miller D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 17:36 0.04 4-18 0.11-0.67
8 Riley Sheahan C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 14:55 1-9 0.01-0.15
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 0 0 -1 2 2 0 17:40 0.24 15-15 0.47-0.68
20 Cody Eakin C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 14:24 0.06 7-15 0.37-0.70
20 Curtis Lazar C 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 16:54 0.05 9-11 0.16-0.47
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12:48 0.07 11-12 0.23-0.38
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 21:29 0.06 17-14 0.63-0.64
48 Jean-Sebastien Dea C 0 0 0 -1 2 2 0 05:33 0.24 4-4 0.27-0.27
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 15:09 0.22 18-17 0.41-0.58
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 -1 2 2 2 22:17 0.02 13-20 0.46-0.61
62 Brandon Montour D 0 0 0 -1 4 1 0 19:47 0.03 8-18 0.26-0.65
71 Taylor Hall L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 18:27 0.15 10-10 0.54-0.39
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 18:22 0.01 14-15 0.45-0.51
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 17:00 0.16 14-14 0.36-0.50
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Linus Ullmark 36 33 3 58:05 2.43 -0.57

Boston Bruins

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
David Krejci · Craig Smith · Nick Ritchie11:1279.284.82-0
Patrice Bergeron · David Pastrnak · Trent Frederic10:5363.276.20-0
Charlie Coyle · Anders Bjork · Zach Senyshyn7:5341.748.80-0
Greg McKegg · Chris Wagner · Jack Studnicka2:200.00.00-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Matt Grzelcyk · Charlie McAvoy12:5072.267.21-0
Connor Clifton · Jakub Zboril8:4950.046.30-1
Steven Kampfer · Jeremy Lauzon5:3650.043.70-0

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

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
27 Nick Ritchie L 1 1 2 2 0 5 4 19:00 0.33 23-5 0.86-0.13
15 Craig Smith C 1 0 1 2 0 3 0 17:42 0.32 23-8 0.82-0.27
24 Matt Grzelcyk D 1 0 1 2 0 4 0 21:28 0.08 14-5 0.52-0.23
37 Patrice Bergeron C 0 1 1 1 0 3 2 21:24 0.23 14-7 0.47-0.13
46 David Krejci C 0 1 1 2 0 1 1 21:18 0.01 22-10 0.83-0.29
67 Jakub Zboril D 0 1 1 -1 0 0 2 14:57 0.01 17-15 0.58-0.47
73 Charlie McAvoy D 0 1 1 2 0 2 1 26:32 0.11 20-8 0.76-0.37
88 David Pastrnak R 0 1 1 1 2 5 2 20:18 0.48 14-13 0.51-0.32
3 Charlie Coyle C 0 0 0 1 2 3 1 19:45 0.18 10-12 0.40-0.45
5 Jeremy Lauzon D 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 18:32 0.01 14-14 0.65-0.50
10 Trent Frederic C 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 17:30 0.16 15-13 0.47-0.39
14 Greg McKegg C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 04:04 0-3 0.00-0.16
14 Chris Wagner R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 07:04 0-5 0.00-0.20
24 Anders Bjork L 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 14:20 0.18 8-13 0.41-0.58
44 Steven Kampfer D 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 15:33 0.09 10-10 0.28-0.30
53 Jack Studnicka C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 07:08 0.06 1-7 0.06-0.42
56 Zach Senyshyn R 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 11:50 0.07 8-12 0.40-0.55
75 Connor Clifton D 0 0 0 0 2 1 4 17:11 0.08 17-20 0.69-0.73
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
80 Dan Vladar 27 25 2 59:39 1.75 -0.25