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Buffalo Sabres at New Jersey Devils

Feb 23, 2021 · Prudential Center

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 4 37
New Jersey Devils 1 42

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
2nd Period
10:20 BUF Victor Olofsson (7) PP Rasmus Dahlin (6), Sam Reinhart (6) 1 - 0
3rd Period
05:16 BUF Rasmus Asplund (1) Sam Reinhart (7), Jack Eichel (12) 2 - 0
06:50 BUF Dylan Cozens (3) Taylor Hall (10), Eric Staal (4) 3 - 0
19:32 NJD Nikita Gusev (2) P.K. Subban (5), Pavel Zacha (5) 3 - 1
19:59 BUF Cody Eakin (1) Kyle Okposo (1) 4 - 1

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
2nd Period
03:17 NJD Michael McLeod Tripping 2
05:45 BUF Jacob Bryson Tripping 2
08:27 NJD Sami Vatanen Tripping 2
3rd Period
17:10 BUF Victor Olofsson Holding 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 60 50 37 4 3.7 47.1
New Jersey Devils 64 51 42 1 2.8 52.9

How the game went

151050510Start2nd3rdNew Jersey Devils 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 New Jersey Devils had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 3.7 expected, 4 scored · New Jersey Devils: 2.8 expected, 1 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 10:20 of 2nd, a 9% chanceBUF goal, 5:16 of 3rd, a 11% chanceBUF goal, 6:50 of 3rd, a 15% chanceBUF goal, 19:59 of 3rd, a 49% chanceNJD goal, 19:32 of 3rd, a 18% chanceBUF 3.7NJD 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

Buffalo Sabres
New Jersey Devils

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
Eric Staal · Taylor Hall · Dylan Cozens13:3346.952.81-0
Sam Reinhart · Victor Olofsson · Jack Eichel13:1340.045.40-0
Riley Sheahan · Curtis Lazar · Casey Mittelstadt11:0736.453.90-0
Kyle Okposo · Cody Eakin · Rasmus Asplund10:5558.855.10-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Brandon Montour · Rasmus Dahlin16:2146.466.30-0
Matt Irwin · Henri Jokiharju15:0746.746.71-0
Colin Miller · Jacob Bryson14:4553.355.01-0

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
13 Sam Reinhart C 0 2 2 1 0 2 1 17:59 0.21 15-16 0.57-0.56
20 Cody Eakin C 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 14:06 0.24 11-9 0.44-0.46
24 Dylan Cozens C 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 14:33 0.29 15-17 0.80-0.72
74 Rasmus Asplund C 1 0 1 2 0 1 2 12:15 0.11 11-7 0.53-0.35
95 Victor Olofsson L 1 0 1 -1 2 2 1 18:19 0.27 14-16 0.47-0.56
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 1 1 1 0 5 2 13:02 0.12 11-8 0.43-0.38
9 Jack Eichel C 0 1 1 1 0 2 2 17:31 0.38 14-15 0.56-0.48
12 Eric Staal C 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 14:42 0.12 15-17 0.80-0.72
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 23:31 0.09 18-20 1.04-0.78
71 Taylor Hall L 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 17:28 0.23 18-17 0.86-0.72
6 Colin Miller D 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 16:40 0.08 16-15 0.72-0.63
8 Riley Sheahan C 0 0 0 -1 0 4 1 13:27 0.21 8-14 0.67-0.57
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 12:33 0.15 9-14 0.67-0.57
20 Curtis Lazar C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 13:41 0.31 9-14 0.67-0.57
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 18:56 0.05 14-19 0.65-0.84
52 Matt Irwin D 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 19:47 0.03 17-21 0.75-0.99
62 Brandon Montour D 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 19:31 0.17 13-17 0.95-0.56
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 2 2 1 1 17:59 0.12 17-19 0.78-0.71
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Linus Ullmark W 42 41 1 60:00 2.82 +1.82

New Jersey Devils

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Miles Wood · Nathan Bastian · Michael McLeod9:3754.263.90-0
Kyle Palmieri · Andreas Johnsson · Jack Hughes8:0470.095.80-0
Pavel Zacha · Jesper Bratt · Nico Hischier6:5140.020.10-0
Travis Zajac · Nikita Gusev · Janne Kuokkanen6:3550.020.30-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Damon Severson · Ty Smith17:1748.138.60-0
P.K. Subban · Ryan Murray15:2657.641.20-2
Dmitry Kulikov · Sami Vatanen14:1646.959.20-0

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
97 Nikita Gusev L 1 0 1 0 0 3 0 15:16 0.28 14-13 0.35-0.90
18 Pavel Zacha C 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 15:55 0.02 12-17 0.41-0.63
76 P.K. Subban D 0 1 1 -1 0 5 0 19:34 0.14 23-17 0.93-1.39
7 Dmitry Kulikov D 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 17:48 0.06 20-17 0.96-0.54
11 Miles Wood L 0 0 0 -2 0 2 2 13:31 0.23 13-12 0.70-0.55
11 Nathan Bastian R 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 11:14 0.20 16-11 0.81-0.39
13 Nico Hischier C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 18:48 0.13 15-17 0.52-0.85
14 Travis Zajac C 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 15:54 0.02 12-14 0.22-0.79
18 Andreas Johnsson L 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 12:18 0.32 10-4 0.67-0.18
20 Michael McLeod C 0 0 0 -1 2 1 0 12:49 0.28 17-15 0.85-0.55
21 Kyle Palmieri C 0 0 0 -2 0 3 0 19:05 0.28 14-12 0.81-0.59
28 Ryan Murray D 0 0 0 -2 0 3 1 18:15 0.06 20-15 0.80-1.11
42 Ty Smith D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 22:01 0.07 16-14 0.48-0.52
45 Sami Vatanen D 0 0 0 1 2 4 0 17:09 0.11 16-17 0.80-0.54
59 Janne Kuokkanen C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 09:20 0.03 10-7 0.26-0.56
63 Jesper Bratt L 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 15:41 0.17 15-16 0.25-0.77
78 Damon Severson D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 4 24:47 0.04 15-18 0.51-0.85
86 Jack Hughes C 0 0 0 -2 0 4 0 19:09 0.34 17-9 0.87-0.66
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
39 Mackenzie Blackwood L 36 33 3 57:33 3.21 +0.21