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Buffalo Sabres at Philadelphia Flyers

Mar 9, 2021 · Wells Fargo Center

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 4 20
Philadelphia Flyers 5 33

Decided in a shootout.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
01:56 PHI James van Riemsdyk (11) Joel Farabee (10), Sean Couturier (9) 0 - 1
04:33 BUF Sam Reinhart (10) Dylan Cozens (2), Taylor Hall (13) 1 - 1
09:39 BUF Riley Sheahan (3) Eric Staal (6), Victor Olofsson (11) 2 - 1
16:39 BUF Sam Reinhart (11) Taylor Hall (14), Rasmus Dahlin (10) 3 - 1
2nd Period
02:58 PHI Kevin Hayes (9) Scott Laughton (8), Justin Braun (2) 3 - 2
06:20 BUF Brandon Montour (1) Curtis Lazar (3), Kyle Okposo (2) 4 - 2
15:05 PHI Claude Giroux (4) Jakub Voracek (13), Ivan Provorov (9) 4 - 3
3rd Period
14:14 PHI Shayne Gostisbehere (4) PP Sean Couturier (10), Joel Farabee (11) 4 - 4
Shootout
PHI Sean Couturier Shootout winner 4 - 5

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
19:02 BUF Cody Eakin High sticking 2
2nd Period
06:35 PHI Kevin Hayes Cross checking 2
09:57 BUF Rasmus Ristolainen High sticking 2
13:00 BUF Brandon Montour Hooking 2
3rd Period
13:06 BUF Jeff Skinner Hooking 2
17:36 PHI Jakub Voracek Tripping 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 37 26 20 4 2.3 33.3
Philadelphia Flyers 72 48 33 4 3.4 66.7

How the game went

0102030Start2nd3rdOTPhiladelphia Flyers 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 Philadelphia Flyers had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 2.3 expected, 4 scored · Philadelphia Flyers: 3.4 expected, 4 scored

0123Start2nd3rdOTBUF goal, 4:33 of 1st, a 7% chanceBUF goal, 9:39 of 1st, a 15% chanceBUF goal, 16:39 of 1st, a 14% chanceBUF goal, 6:20 of 2nd, a 2% chancePHI goal, 1:56 of 1st, a 11% chancePHI goal, 2:58 of 2nd, a 7% chancePHI goal, 15:05 of 2nd, a 16% chancePHI goal, 14:14 of 3rd, a 2% chancePHI 3.4BUF 2.3

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

Buffalo Sabres
Philadelphia Flyers

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 · Dylan Cozens11:3537.557.12-2
Eric Staal · Riley Sheahan · Victor Olofsson9:2850.043.71-0
Jeff Skinner · Curtis Lazar · Casey Mittelstadt9:2244.491.30-0
Kyle Okposo · Cody Eakin · Tobias Rieder7:4214.315.20-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Brandon Montour · Jacob Bryson16:3334.332.41-1
Matt Irwin · Rasmus Ristolainen14:1833.346.21-0
Henri Jokiharju · Rasmus Dahlin13:3926.747.21-0

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 2 0 2 0 0 2 1 20:33 0.23 7-13 0.63-0.57
71 Taylor Hall L 0 2 2 0 0 4 0 20:15 0.79 6-12 0.61-0.57
8 Riley Sheahan C 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 15:36 0.15 11-16 0.69-1.33
62 Brandon Montour D 1 0 1 -1 2 1 4 22:57 0.02 16-25 1.00-1.77
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 10:32 6-22 0.23-0.89
12 Eric Staal C 0 1 1 1 0 2 2 13:24 0.19 13-11 0.84-0.86
20 Curtis Lazar C 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 18:05 0.08 6-8 0.26-0.25
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 14:10 0.01 6-12 0.61-0.51
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 1 1 0 0 1 6 20:19 0.04 5-13 0.27-0.26
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 17:17 0.36 10-14 0.67-1.13
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 14:44 0.02 6-7 0.34-0.05
13 Tobias Rieder L 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 12:24 0.06 6-20 0.23-0.87
20 Cody Eakin C 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 11:53 0.16 4-26 0.16-1.14
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 17:29 4-15 0.17-0.38
52 Matt Irwin D 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 18:39 12-19 0.87-0.82
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 13:40 0.14 6-11 0.34-0.08
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 1 2 1 4 23:51 0.06 9-22 0.71-0.85
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 22:04 0.02 12-24 0.74-1.70
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
31 Jonas Johansson OTL 33 29 4 65:00 3.46 -0.54

Philadelphia Flyers

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
James van Riemsdyk · Sean Couturier · Joel Farabee13:0975.055.41-1
Claude Giroux · Jakub Voracek · Oskar Lindblom12:2258.173.10-1
Kevin Hayes · Scott Laughton · Travis Konecny5:5162.542.11-1
Scott Laughton · Nicolas Aube-Kubel · Nolan Patrick3:5057.130.80-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Justin Braun · Travis Sanheim13:3962.540.91-2
Ivan Provorov · Philippe Myers8:5463.277.50-1
Shayne Gostisbehere · Erik Gustafsson7:2783.372.20-0

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
14 Sean Couturier C 0 2 2 0 0 2 0 21:29 0.32 15-6 0.59-0.49
86 Joel Farabee L 0 2 2 0 0 2 1 18:48 0.16 16-5 0.64-0.47
4 Shayne Gostisbehere D 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 19:47 0.07 15-7 0.66-0.31
13 Kevin Hayes R 1 0 1 -1 2 2 0 15:41 0.11 11-6 0.55-0.55
21 James van Riemsdyk L 1 0 1 0 0 2 3 19:58 0.27 20-5 0.68-0.47
28 Claude Giroux R 1 0 1 0 0 3 0 19:44 0.55 22-13 1.46-0.47
9 Ivan Provorov D 0 1 1 -1 0 1 3 25:39 0.04 24-16 1.56-0.69
21 Scott Laughton C 0 1 1 0 0 3 5 16:20 0.23 11-7 0.38-0.64
61 Justin Braun D 0 1 1 -1 0 0 1 18:10 16-9 0.66-0.95
93 Jakub Voracek R 0 1 1 -1 2 5 0 22:17 0.65 21-16 1.45-0.74
6 Travis Sanheim D 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 23:22 0.21 24-11 1.02-1.05
11 Travis Konecny R 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 13:57 0.07 8-4 0.47-0.30
16 Nicolas Aube-Kubel R 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 11:13 0.09 14-4 0.24-0.35
18 Robert Hagg D 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 08:28 0.08 12-6 0.37-0.36
23 Oskar Lindblom L 0 0 0 -2 0 1 3 17:52 0.29 19-17 1.29-0.84
41 Nolan Patrick C 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 12:53 0.19 17-4 0.67-0.28
51 Philippe Myers D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 11:52 0.04 13-7 0.95-0.26
64 Erik Gustafsson D 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 13:43 0.05 12-2 0.41-0.14
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Brian Elliott W 12 11 1 44:47 1.61 +0.61
79 Carter Hart 8 5 3 20:00 0.74 -2.26