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Pittsburgh Penguins at Buffalo Sabres

Apr 17, 2021 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Pittsburgh Penguins 3 41
Buffalo Sabres 2 30

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
10:30 PIT Jared McCann (12) Mike Matheson (10), Cody Ceci (10) 1 - 0
2nd Period
05:57 PIT Evan Rodrigues (6) Teddy Blueger (13) 2 - 0
06:41 BUF Tage Thompson (6) Unassisted 2 - 1
12:15 PIT Bryan Rust (17) PP Sidney Crosby (33), Jake Guentzel (26) 3 - 1
3rd Period
11:44 BUF Casey Mittelstadt (8) PP Rasmus Ristolainen (10), Sam Reinhart (13) 3 - 2

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
03:31 BUF Arttu Ruotsalainen Hooking 2
2nd Period
10:30 BUF Anders Bjork High sticking 2
3rd Period
10:54 PIT Mark Jankowski Holding 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Pittsburgh Penguins 66 54 41 3 2.4 52.9
Buffalo Sabres 54 40 30 2 2.1 47.1

How the game went

2520151050Start2nd3rdBuffalo Sabres aheadPittsburgh Penguins 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 Buffalo Sabres had taken more, and below it and blue while Pittsburgh Penguins had.

Expected goals

Pittsburgh Penguins: 2.4 expected, 3 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 2.1 expected, 2 scored

00.511.52Start2nd3rdEndPIT goal, 10:30 of 1st, a 5% chancePIT goal, 5:57 of 2nd, a 9% chancePIT goal, 12:15 of 2nd, a 14% chanceBUF goal, 6:41 of 2nd, a 11% chanceBUF goal, 11:44 of 3rd, a 14% chancePIT 2.4BUF 2.1

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

Pittsburgh Penguins
Buffalo Sabres

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.

Pittsburgh Penguins

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Sidney Crosby · Bryan Rust · Jake Guentzel14:3360.050.90-0
Teddy Blueger · Evan Rodrigues · Zachary Aston-Reese11:0847.852.31-0
Jeff Carter · Jason Zucker · Jared McCann10:2776.578.41-1
Colton Sceviour · Mark Jankowski · Radim Zohorna6:1133.370.40-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mike Matheson · Cody Ceci16:2059.461.91-1
Kris Letang · Brian Dumoulin15:5454.844.30-0
Marcus Pettersson · John Marino13:4748.167.31-0

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
17 Bryan Rust R 1 0 1 0 0 5 4 20:50 0.43 19-16 0.58-0.93
17 Evan Rodrigues C 1 0 1 1 0 5 0 16:09 0.33 13-16 0.48-0.42
19 Jared McCann L 1 0 1 0 0 5 2 15:22 0.30 14-5 0.41-0.11
5 Cody Ceci D 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 19:34 0.03 21-14 0.48-0.28
8 Mike Matheson D 0 1 1 0 0 7 0 19:03 0.12 21-16 0.46-0.37
59 Jake Guentzel C 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 21:24 0.14 20-15 0.61-0.85
73 Teddy Blueger C 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 16:15 0.17 14-14 0.56-0.42
87 Sidney Crosby C 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 21:03 0.11 20-13 0.63-0.57
2 Brian Dumoulin D 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 20:40 0.08 18-15 0.60-0.83
6 John Marino D 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 17:28 16-18 0.74-0.64
17 Jason Zucker L 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 13:59 0.01 15-9 0.49-0.27
26 Marcus Pettersson D 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 15:26 0.03 14-15 0.73-0.34
27 Zachary Aston-Reese L 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 15:30 0.09 14-15 0.54-0.43
58 Kris Letang D 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 24:20 0.09 18-18 0.56-0.93
63 Radim Zohorna L 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 07:23 0.13 5-11 0.18-0.30
70 Colton Sceviour C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 10:06 0.01 8-9 0.26-0.08
77 Jeff Carter C 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 16:35 0.29 14-10 0.40-0.41
77 Mark Jankowski L 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 08:10 6-11 0.20-0.30
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Tristan Jarry W 30 28 2 59:53 2.07 +0.07

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jeff Skinner · Sam Reinhart · Victor Olofsson13:1259.371.80-0
Anders Bjork · Dylan Cozens · Arttu Ruotsalainen11:4555.059.10-1
Rasmus Asplund · Tage Thompson · Casey Mittelstadt10:4450.057.11-0
Cody Eakin · Tobias Rieder · Steven Fogarty7:0326.78.50-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Henri Jokiharju · Rasmus Dahlin17:5964.578.40-0
Rasmus Ristolainen · Jacob Bryson12:3135.728.40-0
Matt Irwin · Colin Miller11:4346.246.90-1

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
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 17:26 0.30 14-13 0.41-0.36
72 Tage Thompson C 1 0 1 1 0 6 0 14:24 0.20 14-10 0.48-0.25
13 Sam Reinhart C 0 1 1 -1 0 4 0 17:35 0.36 17-18 0.52-0.39
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 1 1 -1 0 1 3 20:13 0.01 10-22 0.32-1.00
6 Colin Miller D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 17:54 16-19 0.63-0.53
13 Tobias Rieder L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11:55 5-16 0.05-0.70
20 Cody Eakin C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10:15 4-11 0.05-0.52
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 21:08 0.07 22-11 0.75-0.19
24 Anders Bjork L 0 0 0 -2 2 2 0 17:10 0.33 14-12 0.70-0.45
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 2 16:06 0.31 13-12 0.73-0.52
25 Arttu Ruotsalainen C 0 0 0 -1 2 1 1 15:21 0.06 12-12 0.53-0.52
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 24:02 0.06 20-17 0.68-0.36
28 Steven Fogarty C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 11:18 0.01 5-17 0.11-0.66
52 Matt Irwin D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 2 16:41 12-16 0.37-0.53
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 16:40 0.17 18-15 0.53-0.30
74 Rasmus Asplund C 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 13:25 0.02 11-11 0.42-0.33
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 20:02 0.01 16-23 0.65-0.95
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 17:01 0.16 17-15 0.58-0.36
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
34 Dustin Tokarski L 41 38 3 57:39 2.39 -0.61