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Buffalo Sabres at New York Rangers

Apr 27, 2021 · Madison Square Garden

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 1 37
New York Rangers 3 41

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
2nd Period
02:22 NYR Brendan Smith (5) Unassisted 0 - 1
19:56 BUF Sam Reinhart (22) PP Casey Mittelstadt (9) 1 - 1
3rd Period
09:49 NYR Alexis Lafrenière (10) Ryan Strome (31), Adam Fox (42) 1 - 2
13:49 NYR Mika Zibanejad (20) PP Chris Kreider (10), Ryan Strome (32) 1 - 3

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
2nd Period
19:27 NYR Filip Chytil Tripping 2
3rd Period
03:12 BUF Jeff Skinner Holding 2
06:57 NYR Kevin Rooney Boarding 2
06:57 NYR Kevin Rooney Fighting 5
06:57 BUF Dylan Cozens Fighting 5
11:08 BUF Tage Thompson Cross checking 2
12:24 BUF Drake Caggiula Delaying game puck over glass 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 62 46 37 1 3.8 53.0
New York Rangers 66 59 41 3 5.0 47.0

How the game went

151050510Start2nd3rdNew 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: 3.8 expected, 1 scored · New York Rangers: 5.0 expected, 3 scored

024Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 19:56 of 2nd, a 20% chanceNYR goal, 2:22 of 2nd, a 4% chanceNYR goal, 9:49 of 3rd, a 14% chanceNYR goal, 13:49 of 3rd, a 9% chanceNYR 5.0BUF 3.8

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
Jeff Skinner · Sam Reinhart · Victor Olofsson13:0156.340.30-0
Rasmus Asplund · Tage Thompson · Casey Mittelstadt11:5442.943.90-0
Riley Sheahan · Tobias Rieder · Drake Caggiula9:0963.274.90-0
Anders Bjork · Dylan Cozens · Arttu Ruotsalainen7:1050.064.40-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Henri Jokiharju · Rasmus Dahlin18:2654.537.80-0
Rasmus Ristolainen · Mattias Samuelsson14:1548.373.00-0
Will Borgen · Jacob Bryson12:3350.042.70-1

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
13 Sam Reinhart C 1 0 1 0 0 3 0 20:06 0.53 20-16 0.75-0.98
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 18:00 0.34 11-14 1.08-0.99
8 Riley Sheahan C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 15:38 0.16 14-10 1.08-0.62
8 Drake Caggiula L 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 13:12 0.14 16-9 1.41-0.48
13 Tobias Rieder L 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 09:41 0.75 12-8 0.94-0.33
17 Will Borgen D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 3 15:12 0.02 15-15 0.97-0.95
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 21:12 0.04 18-16 0.86-1.56
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 19:27 16-15 1.27-0.38
24 Anders Bjork L 0 0 0 -2 0 3 1 12:57 0.17 8-9 0.34-0.37
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 0 0 -1 5 0 2 09:11 7-7 0.34-0.19
25 Arttu Ruotsalainen C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 10:33 0.16 10-7 0.48-0.19
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 24:05 0.27 23-17 1.53-1.45
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 0 0 0 2 6 0 17:15 0.39 18-17 0.65-1.16
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 23:06 0.06 18-18 1.14-0.44
72 Tage Thompson C 0 0 0 0 2 4 0 16:50 0.56 11-14 0.84-0.96
74 Rasmus Asplund C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 16:05 0.10 13-15 1.17-1.10
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 15:14 0.02 16-13 0.71-0.77
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 19:04 0.09 19-15 0.65-0.97
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen L 41 38 3 57:47 4.68 +1.68

New York Rangers

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Colin Blackwell · Ryan Strome · Artemi Panarin11:2352.454.50-0
Mika Zibanejad · Pavel Buchnevich · Alexis Lafrenière11:0739.139.20-0
Chris Kreider · Filip Chytil · Kaapo Kakko9:5163.274.61-0
Kevin Rooney · Brett Howden · Vitali Kravtsov6:5125.03.80-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Brendan Smith · K'Andre Miller16:3648.448.02-0
Adam Fox · Libor Hajek12:3637.943.70-0
Ryan Lindgren · Zac Jones8:2954.530.60-0

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
22 Ryan Strome C 0 2 2 1 0 1 0 20:27 0.24 15-13 1.09-0.82
7 Brendan Smith D 1 0 1 2 0 4 3 20:22 0.21 15-17 0.82-0.95
13 Alexis Lafrenière L 1 0 1 1 0 2 2 14:57 0.27 13-19 0.55-0.97
93 Mika Zibanejad C 1 0 1 0 0 3 2 20:33 0.48 10-16 0.42-0.77
22 Chris Kreider L 0 1 1 1 0 5 4 16:58 0.98 16-9 1.11-0.43
23 Adam Fox D 0 1 1 0 0 1 2 26:58 0.09 21-27 1.65-1.48
6 Zac Jones D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11:05 10-7 0.26-0.46
10 Artemi Panarin L 0 0 0 1 0 5 0 22:12 0.68 17-16 1.28-1.01
15 Colin Blackwell C 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 14:12 0.58 11-13 0.87-1.20
19 K'Andre Miller D 0 0 0 2 0 4 2 21:58 0.05 19-18 0.92-1.22
21 Brett Howden C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 09:39 3-11 0.03-0.98
25 Kevin Rooney C 0 0 0 0 7 1 2 09:35 0.04 4-9 0.05-0.64
25 Libor Hajek D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 15:38 0.02 14-21 1.14-1.44
55 Ryan Lindgren D 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 19:11 0.05 15-16 0.79-0.94
72 Filip Chytil C 0 0 0 1 2 4 1 14:34 0.56 18-15 1.23-1.01
84 Kaapo Kakko R 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 12:47 0.28 15-7 1.04-0.29
89 Pavel Buchnevich L 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 18:18 0.01 12-21 0.56-0.98
91 Vitali Kravtsov R 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 08:35 0.09 7-10 0.14-0.64
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
31 Igor Shesterkin W 37 36 1 59:32 3.86 +2.86