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Buffalo Sabres at New York Rangers

Mar 2, 2021 · Madison Square Garden

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 2 24
New York Rangers 3 19

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
00:28 NYR Pavel Buchnevich (6) Mika Zibanejad (5), Adam Fox (10) 0 - 1
00:55 BUF Sam Reinhart (8) Victor Olofsson (9), Jack Eichel (13) 1 - 1
02:36 NYR Alexis Lafrenière (3) Pavel Buchnevich (9) 1 - 2
2nd Period
09:32 NYR Chris Kreider (10) Ryan Lindgren (8), Adam Fox (11) 1 - 3
16:21 BUF Tobias Rieder (4) Rasmus Dahlin (8), Rasmus Ristolainen (5) 2 - 3

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
10:04 BUF Jack Eichel Tripping 2
12:16 NYR Kevin Rooney Interference 2
2nd Period
04:27 BUF Brandon Montour Holding 2
3rd Period
07:11 NYR Ryan Lindgren Fighting 5
07:11 BUF Dylan Cozens Fighting 5

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 61 44 24 2 2.2 63.2
New York Rangers 39 30 19 3 2.2 36.8

How the game went

20151050Start2nd3rdNew York Rangers 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 York Rangers had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 2.2 expected, 2 scored · New York Rangers: 2.2 expected, 3 scored

00.511.52Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 0:55 of 1st, a 13% chanceBUF goal, 16:21 of 2nd, a 2% chanceNYR goal, 0:28 of 1st, a 15% chanceNYR goal, 2:36 of 1st, a 20% chanceNYR goal, 9:32 of 2nd, a 2% chanceNYR 2.2BUF 2.2

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 York Rangers

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
Sam Reinhart · Victor Olofsson · Jack Eichel13:4752.446.41-1
Riley Sheahan · Jeff Skinner · Curtis Lazar10:4390.997.00-0
Eric Staal · Kyle Okposo · Taylor Hall9:5962.537.60-2
Cody Eakin · Tobias Rieder · Dylan Cozens8:0241.229.91-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Rasmus Ristolainen · Rasmus Dahlin18:2854.232.51-1
Brandon Montour · Jacob Bryson15:3363.961.11-2
Colin Miller · Henri Jokiharju13:5280.087.30-0

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 Tobias Rieder L 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 12:49 0.02 10-11 0.18-0.35
13 Sam Reinhart C 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 19:46 0.33 14-13 0.45-0.44
9 Jack Eichel C 0 1 1 0 2 2 2 19:55 0.05 14-10 0.43-0.33
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 22:52 0.02 15-11 0.48-0.99
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 1 1 0 0 4 4 24:01 0.05 14-15 0.48-1.11
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 17:36 11-11 0.29-0.41
6 Colin Miller D 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 17:12 0.02 17-6 0.41-0.13
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 0 0 -2 0 2 1 12:28 0.29 11-6 0.62-1.03
8 Riley Sheahan C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14:23 0.07 21-2 0.71-0.02
12 Eric Staal C 0 0 0 -2 0 3 0 13:14 0.16 11-7 0.66-1.05
20 Cody Eakin C 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 12:05 0.08 9-10 0.15-0.34
20 Curtis Lazar C 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 15:27 0.14 21-5 0.71-0.11
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 18:08 0.07 17-6 0.37-0.10
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 0 0 1 5 0 2 10:55 7-11 0.15-0.35
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 14:12 0.45 21-3 0.71-0.04
62 Brandon Montour D 0 0 0 -1 2 2 1 17:55 0.15 25-13 1.10-0.67
71 Taylor Hall L 0 0 0 -2 0 1 3 15:38 0.25 14-7 0.78-1.05
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 18:39 0.03 23-13 1.06-0.67
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
40 Carter Hutton L 19 16 3 58:45 2.25 -0.75

New York Rangers

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Chris Kreider · Colin Blackwell · Ryan Strome11:2444.447.20-1
Mika Zibanejad · Pavel Buchnevich · Alexis Lafrenière11:1837.553.72-1
Kevin Rooney · Julien Gauthier · Filip Chytil10:1233.339.00-0
Phillip Di Giuseppe · Brendan Lemieux · Brett Howden7:5526.736.90-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Adam Fox · Ryan Lindgren15:1050.085.51-0
Jack Johnson · Libor Hajek13:4733.325.50-0
Brendan Smith · K'Andre Miller11:4227.330.22-2

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
89 Pavel Buchnevich L 1 1 2 2 0 4 0 18:11 0.78 10-16 1.01-0.89
23 Adam Fox D 0 2 2 1 0 1 0 23:47 0.01 14-18 1.09-0.25
13 Alexis Lafrenière L 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 18:35 0.20 11-18 1.04-0.93
22 Chris Kreider L 1 0 1 0 0 2 1 17:00 0.20 10-12 0.35-0.29
55 Ryan Lindgren D 0 1 1 1 5 0 1 19:14 13-12 1.01-0.17
93 Mika Zibanejad C 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 16:36 0.11 9-16 0.99-0.85
3 Jack Johnson D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 17:50 0.00 8-18 0.24-0.73
7 Brendan Smith D 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 17:07 0.03 8-22 0.53-0.98
15 Colin Blackwell C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 15:41 0.09 9-13 0.26-0.31
16 Julien Gauthier R 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 13:56 0.05 7-12 0.36-0.45
19 K'Andre Miller D 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 20:51 0.03 10-20 0.49-1.03
21 Brett Howden C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 10:26 0.08 4-12 0.16-0.30
22 Ryan Strome C 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 17:56 0.32 11-12 0.35-0.35
25 Kevin Rooney C 0 0 0 0 2 1 2 14:33 0.20 7-14 0.29-0.45
25 Libor Hajek D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 17:28 0.01 11-20 0.31-0.74
28 Brendan Lemieux L 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 11:49 0.05 4-14 0.16-0.30
34 Phillip Di Giuseppe L 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 10:58 0.03 6-13 0.21-0.28
72 Filip Chytil C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 16:08 0.05 8-13 0.33-0.45
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
31 Igor Shesterkin W 24 22 2 59:54 2.21 +0.21