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Buffalo Sabres at Boston Bruins

May 1, 2021 · TD Garden

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 2 19
Boston Bruins 6 43

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
01:21 BOS Craig Smith (11) David Krejci (27), Taylor Hall (21) 0 - 1
12:35 BUF Riley Sheahan (4) SH Jacob Bryson (7), Casey Mittelstadt (10) 1 - 1
16:38 BOS Sean Kuraly (3) Nick Ritchie (11) 1 - 2
2nd Period
05:36 BOS Patrice Bergeron (19) Jeremy Lauzon (7), Brad Marchand (34) 1 - 3
3rd Period
03:18 BOS Nick Ritchie (13) Matt Grzelcyk (12), Kevan Miller (3) 1 - 4
05:31 BOS Craig Smith (12) Mike Reilly (25), David Krejci (28) 1 - 5
07:02 BUF Arttu Ruotsalainen (5) Rasmus Asplund (4), Casey Mittelstadt (11) 2 - 5
14:05 BOS Craig Smith (13) PP David Krejci (29), Taylor Hall (22) 2 - 6

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
10:28 BUF Riley Sheahan Holding 2
12:27 BUF Mattias Samuelsson Tripping 2
2nd Period
08:34 BOS Sean Kuraly Slashing 2
19:09 BUF Dylan Cozens Slashing 2
3rd Period
07:45 BUF Rasmus Dahlin Cross checking 2
07:45 BOS Brad Marchand Roughing 2
07:45 BOS David Pastrnak Roughing 2
13:39 BUF Will Borgen Interference 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 34 26 19 2 1.5 36.4
Boston Bruins 61 54 43 6 4.0 63.6

How the game went

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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 Boston Bruins had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 1.5 expected, 2 scored · Boston Bruins: 4.0 expected, 6 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 12:35 of 1st, a 10% chanceBUF goal, 7:02 of 3rd, a 41% chanceBOS goal, 1:21 of 1st, a 10% chanceBOS goal, 16:38 of 1st, a 10% chanceBOS goal, 5:36 of 2nd, a 10% chanceBOS goal, 3:18 of 3rd, a 9% chanceBOS goal, 5:31 of 3rd, a 17% chanceBOS goal, 14:05 of 3rd, a 10% chanceBOS 4.0BUF 1.5

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
Boston Bruins

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 · Casey Mittelstadt · Arttu Ruotsalainen8:1858.367.81-0
Anders Bjork · Drake Caggiula · Dylan Cozens7:1429.416.40-2
Jeff Skinner · Sam Reinhart · Victor Olofsson6:4430.88.10-2
Riley Sheahan · Tobias Rieder · Tage Thompson4:20100.0100.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Henri Jokiharju · Rasmus Dahlin18:5844.852.61-0
Will Borgen · Jacob Bryson13:5222.710.00-2
Rasmus Ristolainen · Mattias Samuelsson9:1225.06.00-2

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 0 2 2 1 0 0 1 15:27 7-10 0.69-0.64
8 Riley Sheahan C 1 0 1 1 2 1 1 11:54 0.10 7-2 0.23-0.02
25 Arttu Ruotsalainen C 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 15:03 0.54 10-11 0.74-1.13
74 Rasmus Asplund C 0 1 1 0 0 1 2 13:44 0.12 9-12 0.72-0.62
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 1 1 -1 0 2 2 24:03 0.06 11-23 0.17-1.49
8 Drake Caggiula L 0 0 0 -2 0 0 3 14:20 7-16 0.19-0.93
13 Tobias Rieder L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 07:46 0.11 3-3 0.13-0.04
13 Sam Reinhart C 0 0 0 -2 0 2 0 19:40 0.14 4-23 0.04-1.52
17 Will Borgen D 0 0 0 -2 2 0 4 16:07 5-17 0.08-0.74
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 20:50 0.03 14-17 1.05-1.01
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 -3 2 0 2 15:11 3-11 0.03-0.69
24 Anders Bjork L 0 0 0 -2 0 2 2 20:27 0.07 8-25 0.24-1.14
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 0 0 -2 2 2 0 17:32 0.11 9-18 0.26-1.03
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 1 2 2 1 22:58 0.11 14-18 0.95-0.95
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 0 0 -2 0 2 0 14:41 0.05 8-9 0.16-0.51
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 3 17:59 0.04 9-12 0.21-1.14
72 Tage Thompson C 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 11:03 0.07 6-4 0.25-0.13
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 0 0 -3 0 0 1 14:49 6-14 0.09-1.32
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen L 29 26 3 40:00 2.75 -0.25
34 Dustin Tokarski 14 11 3 20:00 1.26 -1.74

Boston Bruins

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Charlie Coyle · Sean Kuraly · Nick Ritchie12:2445.840.32-1
Curtis Lazar · Jake DeBrusk · Karson Kuhlman11:2466.784.30-0
Patrice Bergeron · Brad Marchand · David Pastrnak9:0375.090.51-0
David Krejci · Craig Smith · Taylor Hall8:38100.0100.02-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jeremy Lauzon · Charlie McAvoy15:0273.159.71-1
Mike Reilly · Connor Clifton15:0166.792.12-0
Kevan Miller · Matt Grzelcyk14:1745.551.92-0

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
15 Craig Smith C 3 0 3 2 0 5 2 12:15 0.70 10-0 0.61-0.00
46 David Krejci C 0 3 3 2 0 1 0 14:40 0.09 12-1 0.65-0.00
27 Nick Ritchie L 1 1 2 0 0 2 3 17:03 0.23 11-14 0.58-0.89
71 Taylor Hall L 0 2 2 2 0 1 0 13:08 0.14 13-1 0.65-0.00
37 Patrice Bergeron C 1 0 1 0 0 2 1 15:33 0.37 13-4 0.60-0.06
52 Sean Kuraly C 1 0 1 1 2 5 5 15:47 0.56 12-16 0.63-0.95
5 Jeremy Lauzon D 0 1 1 0 0 2 3 19:16 0.04 26-10 1.64-0.68
6 Mike Reilly D 0 1 1 2 0 0 2 19:35 0.04 12-6 0.82-0.08
24 Matt Grzelcyk D 0 1 1 1 0 3 1 17:52 0.12 11-12 0.55-0.49
63 Brad Marchand L 0 1 1 0 2 2 2 14:54 0.22 12-5 0.60-0.11
86 Kevan Miller D 0 1 1 2 0 1 5 18:07 0.03 15-15 1.27-0.54
3 Charlie Coyle C 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 17:36 0.00 13-14 0.68-0.89
20 Curtis Lazar C 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 14:48 0.51 12-8 1.13-0.26
20 Karson Kuhlman C 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 14:49 0.44 13-8 1.13-0.24
73 Charlie McAvoy D 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 21:16 0.12 20-7 0.91-0.59
74 Jake DeBrusk L 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 16:53 0.10 13-7 1.18-0.22
75 Connor Clifton D 0 0 0 2 0 2 2 17:02 0.04 14-6 0.83-0.11
88 David Pastrnak R 0 0 0 0 2 4 3 15:17 0.21 13-6 0.60-0.11
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Jeremy Swayman W 19 17 2 60:00 1.56 -0.44