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Buffalo Sabres at New Jersey Devils

Mar 16, 2021 · Prudential Center

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 2 35
New Jersey Devils 3 27

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
17:40 NJD Yegor Sharangovich (6) Damon Severson (8), Travis Zajac (8) 0 - 1
2nd Period
06:13 BUF Tobias Rieder (5) Brandon Montour (5), Kyle Okposo (4) 1 - 1
07:10 BUF Jeff Skinner (2) Casey Mittelstadt (4), Brandon Montour (6) 2 - 1
10:39 NJD Sami Vatanen (1) Janne Kuokkanen (7), Ryan Murray (4) 2 - 2
3rd Period
04:52 NJD Miles Wood (9) PP Jesper Bratt (10), P.K. Subban (11) 2 - 3

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
13:30 BUF Cody Eakin Hooking 2
18:15 NJD Dmitry Kulikov Holding 2
2nd Period
03:51 NJD Sami Vatanen Interference 2
11:05 BUF Jeff Skinner Roughing 2
11:05 NJD Nathan Bastian Roughing 2
3rd Period
03:37 BUF Colin Miller Slashing 2
06:33 BUF Brandon Davidson Hooking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 49 43 35 2 3.6 47.4
New Jersey Devils 48 40 27 3 3.5 52.6

How the game went

86420246Start2nd3rdNew 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: 3.6 expected, 2 scored · New Jersey Devils: 3.5 expected, 3 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 6:13 of 2nd, a 7% chanceBUF goal, 7:10 of 2nd, a 10% chanceNJD goal, 17:40 of 1st, a 13% chanceNJD goal, 10:39 of 2nd, a 2% chanceNJD goal, 4:52 of 3rd, a 16% chanceBUF 3.6NJD 3.5

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 · Tobias Rieder · Sam Reinhart8:1135.336.20-0
Jeff Skinner · Curtis Lazar · Casey Mittelstadt7:5275.097.91-0
Kyle Okposo · Cody Eakin · Victor Olofsson7:5053.351.10-0
Riley Sheahan · Taylor Hall · Tage Thompson2:5740.012.40-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Colin Miller · Rasmus Dahlin12:3231.634.50-0
Brandon Montour · Henri Jokiharju11:2559.152.72-1
Brandon Davidson · Rasmus Ristolainen10:4860.050.40-1

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
62 Brandon Montour D 0 2 2 1 0 0 1 19:35 17-13 1.00-1.29
13 Tobias Rieder L 1 0 1 1 0 4 0 12:01 0.32 10-13 0.52-0.46
53 Jeff Skinner L 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 14:56 0.14 8-5 0.56-0.05
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 1 1 0 0 3 1 15:41 0.54 14-13 0.85-1.15
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 16:03 0.14 9-7 0.61-0.06
6 Colin Miller D 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 19:51 0.10 8-15 0.47-0.91
8 Riley Sheahan C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 1 15:28 0.04 5-12 0.30-1.57
12 Eric Staal C 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 16:05 0.92 11-14 0.57-0.48
13 Sam Reinhart C 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 20:13 0.18 12-15 0.57-0.84
20 Cody Eakin C 0 0 0 1 2 1 2 11:50 0.07 11-10 0.69-0.80
20 Curtis Lazar C 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 12:54 0.42 8-3 0.69-0.02
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 16:06 14-16 0.97-0.88
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 22:19 0.02 7-15 0.38-0.73
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 4 24:07 0.12 15-10 0.86-0.85
71 Taylor Hall L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 12:07 0.05 5-8 0.13-1.11
72 Tage Thompson C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 10:38 0.19 7-9 0.52-1.08
88 Brandon Davidson D 0 0 0 -1 2 1 4 16:48 0.02 13-14 0.86-1.14
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 18:02 0.36 11-13 0.79-1.02
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
31 Jonas Johansson L 27 24 3 58:01 3.49 +0.49

New Jersey Devils

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Kyle Palmieri · Miles Wood · Pavel Zacha10:2942.348.20-1
Travis Zajac · Janne Kuokkanen · Yegor Sharangovich9:0961.572.61-0
Jesper Bratt · Nathan Bastian · Jack Hughes5:1375.082.40-0
Andreas Johnsson · Jesper Bratt · Jack Hughes3:3242.941.50-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Damon Severson · Ty Smith14:0940.743.61-1
P.K. Subban · Dmitry Kulikov13:3365.270.40-1
Sami Vatanen · Ryan Murray11:5652.442.21-0

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

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
11 Miles Wood L 1 0 1 -1 0 5 0 16:27 0.80 13-15 0.94-0.98
17 Yegor Sharangovich C 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 18:38 0.16 9-7 0.83-0.40
45 Sami Vatanen D 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 14:31 0.08 11-11 0.38-0.57
14 Travis Zajac C 0 1 1 1 0 2 3 20:26 0.18 8-10 0.81-0.53
28 Ryan Murray D 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 18:13 12-11 0.57-0.58
59 Janne Kuokkanen C 0 1 1 2 0 3 0 16:26 0.47 11-7 0.87-0.42
63 Jesper Bratt L 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 13:47 0.28 15-7 1.10-0.54
76 P.K. Subban D 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 22:28 0.03 17-10 1.53-0.67
78 Damon Severson D 0 1 1 0 0 1 3 24:01 0.07 13-18 0.98-1.08
7 Dmitry Kulikov D 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 17:35 0.04 15-9 1.49-0.68
11 Nathan Bastian R 0 0 0 1 2 2 7 12:59 0.45 12-7 0.87-0.30
18 Andreas Johnsson L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 07:31 6-6 0.28-0.50
18 Pavel Zacha C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 18:21 0.14 12-17 0.92-1.02
21 Kyle Palmieri C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 18:53 0.40 12-17 0.91-1.00
42 Ty Smith D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 17:14 0.02 13-16 0.81-1.02
57 Mikhail Maltsev L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 08:29 0.03 3-4 0.04-0.19
86 Jack Hughes C 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 17:40 0.19 18-9 1.11-0.61
97 Nikita Gusev L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 08:51 0.13 3-4 0.01-0.27
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
39 Mackenzie Blackwood W 35 33 2 60:00 3.65 +1.65