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Buffalo Sabres at New Jersey Devils

Apr 6, 2021 · Prudential Center

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 5 18
New Jersey Devils 3 30

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
04:22 NJD Damon Severson (3) Tyce Thompson (1), Mikhail Maltsev (1) 0 - 1
09:56 BUF Rasmus Asplund (4) Casey Mittelstadt (6) 1 - 1
19:17 BUF Brandon Montour (5) Tage Thompson (3), Colin Miller (4) 2 - 1
19:59 NJD Jesper Bratt (5) PP Travis Zajac (11), Pavel Zacha (14) 2 - 2
2nd Period
11:03 NJD Pavel Zacha (8) Jesper Bratt (16), Miles Wood (5) 2 - 3
15:19 BUF Rasmus Dahlin (3) Riley Sheahan (6), Kyle Okposo (9) 3 - 3
3rd Period
10:20 BUF Casey Mittelstadt (4) PP Rasmus Dahlin (12) 4 - 3
18:29 BUF Rasmus Ristolainen (4) Unassisted 5 - 3

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
19:45 BUF Brandon Montour Tripping 2
2nd Period
06:13 BUF Steven Fogarty Tripping 2
15:54 BUF Colin Miller Delaying game puck over glass 2
3rd Period
02:42 NJD Sami Vatanen Interference 2
09:03 NJD Yegor Sharangovich Tripping 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 30 24 18 5 2.3 34.3
New Jersey Devils 52 45 30 3 3.7 65.7

How the game went

05101520Start2nd3rdNew 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: 2.3 expected, 5 scored · New Jersey Devils: 3.7 expected, 3 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 9:56 of 1st, a 17% chanceBUF goal, 19:17 of 1st, a 16% chanceBUF goal, 15:19 of 2nd, a 10% chanceBUF goal, 10:20 of 3rd, a 14% chanceBUF goal, 18:29 of 3rd, a 43% chanceNJD goal, 4:22 of 1st, a 24% chanceNJD goal, 19:59 of 1st, a 16% chanceNJD goal, 11:03 of 2nd, a 29% chanceNJD 3.7BUF 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
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
Rasmus Asplund · Tage Thompson · Casey Mittelstadt9:5160.073.81-0
Cody Eakin · Tobias Rieder · Steven Fogarty8:0850.026.00-0
Kyle Okposo · Sam Reinhart · Victor Olofsson3:5733.33.10-0
Riley Sheahan · Sam Reinhart · Victor Olofsson2:3750.030.40-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Henri Jokiharju · Rasmus Dahlin16:1744.034.41-1
Rasmus Ristolainen · Jacob Bryson15:1725.039.91-0
Colin Miller · Brandon Montour14:3839.120.51-1

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
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 1 1 2 1 0 1 0 16:47 0.44 7-8 0.69-0.43
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 1 1 2 0 0 1 3 19:09 0.10 11-14 0.59-1.13
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 1 0 1 2 0 2 6 24:21 0.02 4-16 0.48-0.94
62 Brandon Montour D 1 0 1 0 2 2 1 17:48 0.18 9-14 0.22-0.86
74 Rasmus Asplund C 1 0 1 1 0 2 2 14:07 0.17 7-7 0.54-0.36
6 Colin Miller D 0 1 1 0 2 1 0 17:25 0.06 9-17 0.22-1.07
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 16:13 8-13 0.15-0.72
8 Riley Sheahan C 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 16:52 9-13 0.32-1.02
72 Tage Thompson C 0 1 1 2 0 4 1 15:25 0.52 8-7 0.85-0.27
13 Tobias Rieder L 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 16:47 0.07 5-12 0.23-0.57
13 Sam Reinhart C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 19:40 8-25 0.40-1.98
20 Cody Eakin C 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 15:33 4-10 0.08-0.40
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 16:17 0.03 11-14 0.59-1.13
28 Steven Fogarty C 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 15:12 3-10 0.08-0.68
52 Matt Irwin D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 04:52 0-5 0.00-0.33
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 10:53 0.03 2-12 0.03-0.95
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 20:46 4-14 0.48-0.91
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 17:39 0.21 11-19 0.49-1.68
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Linus Ullmark W 30 27 3 60:00 3.74 +0.74

New Jersey Devils

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Janne Kuokkanen · Yegor Sharangovich · Jack Hughes12:5775.065.40-0
Miles Wood · Pavel Zacha · Jesper Bratt10:4477.895.91-0
Travis Zajac · Andreas Johnsson · Nick Merkley9:3050.023.60-2
Michael McLeod · Mikhail Maltsev · Tyce Thompson6:3754.574.91-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
P.K. Subban · Dmitry Kulikov14:5064.779.31-1
Ryan Murray · Damon Severson13:3454.555.10-0
Sami Vatanen · Ty Smith11:4850.042.10-1

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

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
18 Pavel Zacha C 1 1 2 1 0 3 0 18:17 0.46 15-4 1.26-0.05
63 Jesper Bratt L 1 1 2 1 0 2 1 15:56 0.26 15-4 1.26-0.05
78 Damon Severson D 1 0 1 0 0 1 2 21:22 0.26 24-11 1.43-0.56
11 Miles Wood L 0 1 1 1 0 6 0 15:10 0.78 17-6 1.45-0.09
12 Tyce Thompson R 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 09:44 0.22 7-5 0.70-0.21
14 Travis Zajac C 0 1 1 -3 0 0 2 18:42 0.20 8-7 0.26-0.60
57 Mikhail Maltsev L 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 09:38 0.10 7-7 0.72-0.25
7 Dmitry Kulikov D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 19:31 13-6 1.02-0.22
10 Nick Merkley R 0 0 0 -3 0 2 1 11:24 0.11 8-9 0.21-0.70
17 Yegor Sharangovich C 0 0 0 -1 2 3 0 16:27 0.30 12-4 0.55-0.29
18 Andreas Johnsson L 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 13:42 0.07 8-8 0.26-0.60
20 Michael McLeod C 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 10:55 0.07 9-8 0.79-0.25
28 Ryan Murray D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 17:22 0.01 15-11 0.92-0.63
42 Ty Smith D 0 0 0 -2 0 3 0 21:43 0.12 13-7 0.61-0.51
45 Sami Vatanen D 0 0 0 -1 2 2 0 17:05 0.11 11-7 0.85-0.44
59 Janne Kuokkanen C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 18:45 0.28 17-5 0.95-0.39
76 P.K. Subban D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 19:41 0.03 16-6 1.35-0.22
86 Jack Hughes C 0 0 0 -2 0 2 0 21:37 0.34 15-5 0.87-0.39
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
41 Scott Wedgewood L 17 13 4 59:42 1.85 -2.15