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Buffalo Sabres at Pittsburgh Penguins

May 6, 2021 · PPG Paints Arena

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 4 23
Pittsburgh Penguins 8 34

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
02:45 BUF Drake Caggiula (2) Riley Sheahan (9) 1 - 0
09:57 PIT Jeff Carter (13) Jared McCann (17), Frederick Gaudreau (5) 1 - 1
11:39 PIT Jeff Carter (14) PP Jason Zucker (8), Kasperi Kapanen (19) 1 - 2
2nd Period
03:32 BUF Tage Thompson (8) Casey Mittelstadt (12) 2 - 2
04:36 PIT Jeff Carter (15) Marcus Pettersson (7), Frederick Gaudreau (6) 2 - 3
05:13 BUF Drake Caggiula (3) Colin Miller (8), Rasmus Ristolainen (13) 3 - 3
06:26 PIT Brian Dumoulin (4) Kris Letang (37), Sidney Crosby (38) 3 - 4
07:25 PIT Jared McCann (14) Frederick Gaudreau (7) 3 - 5
3rd Period
03:02 PIT Jeff Carter (16) Jared McCann (18) 3 - 6
06:25 PIT Sidney Crosby (24) Kris Letang (38), Jake Guentzel (34) 3 - 7
09:45 BUF Jeff Skinner (7) PP Tage Thompson (6), Rasmus Ristolainen (14) 4 - 7
13:05 PIT Kasperi Kapanen (11) Evgeni Malkin (20), Jason Zucker (9) 4 - 8

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
10:18 BUF Arttu Ruotsalainen Tripping 2
2nd Period
19:16 PIT Brian Dumoulin Holding 2
3rd Period
07:58 PIT Jason Zucker Delaying game puck over glass 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 37 29 23 4 2.1 36.8
Pittsburgh Penguins 50 40 34 8 3.2 63.2

How the game went

051015Start2nd3rdPittsburgh Penguins 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 Pittsburgh Penguins had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 2.1 expected, 4 scored · Pittsburgh Penguins: 3.2 expected, 8 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 2:45 of 1st, a 8% chanceBUF goal, 3:32 of 2nd, a 17% chanceBUF goal, 5:13 of 2nd, a 7% chanceBUF goal, 9:45 of 3rd, a 14% chancePIT goal, 9:57 of 1st, a 12% chancePIT goal, 11:39 of 1st, a 20% chancePIT goal, 4:36 of 2nd, a 18% chancePIT goal, 6:26 of 2nd, a 2% chancePIT goal, 7:25 of 2nd, a 8% chancePIT goal, 3:02 of 3rd, a 9% chancePIT goal, 6:25 of 3rd, a 11% chancePIT goal, 13:05 of 3rd, a 8% chancePIT 3.2BUF 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

Buffalo Sabres
Pittsburgh Penguins

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
Sam Reinhart · Anders Bjork · Victor Olofsson15:1147.134.00-3
Rasmus Asplund · Tage Thompson · Casey Mittelstadt12:1426.322.11-2
Jeff Skinner · Dylan Cozens · Arttu Ruotsalainen9:4342.911.90-2
Riley Sheahan · Brett Murray · Drake Caggiula9:3758.376.91-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Rasmus Ristolainen · Mattias Samuelsson19:1225.925.60-2
Henri Jokiharju · Rasmus Dahlin19:0238.522.22-2
Colin Miller · Jacob Bryson12:2247.441.31-3

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
8 Drake Caggiula L 2 0 2 2 0 4 0 13:09 0.23 8-9 0.48-0.32
72 Tage Thompson C 1 1 2 -1 0 3 1 15:00 0.20 5-15 0.31-1.24
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 2 2 -2 0 1 8 21:36 0.03 8-21 0.41-1.19
53 Jeff Skinner L 1 0 1 -1 0 1 0 12:53 0.20 7-8 0.15-0.54
6 Colin Miller D 0 1 1 -2 0 0 1 13:38 0.02 9-10 0.45-0.63
8 Riley Sheahan C 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 13:28 8-10 0.48-0.46
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 1 1 -1 0 2 1 15:58 0.13 5-14 0.31-1.10
13 Sam Reinhart C 0 0 0 -3 0 4 0 19:45 0.36 8-11 0.31-0.61
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 20:27 0.01 10-16 0.31-1.08
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 1 21:07 7-20 0.41-1.19
24 Anders Bjork L 0 0 0 -3 0 1 0 19:15 0.07 8-15 0.31-0.85
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 1 14:36 0.30 7-13 0.07-0.73
25 Arttu Ruotsalainen C 0 0 0 -2 2 0 1 13:41 0.06 7-13 0.07-0.73
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 24:05 0.08 12-18 0.33-1.08
57 Brett Murray L 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 11:10 0.21 8-8 0.41-0.26
74 Rasmus Asplund C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 14:03 0.10 5-17 0.31-1.25
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 2 15:40 10-11 0.47-0.63
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 0 0 -3 0 2 1 19:08 0.13 8-11 0.31-0.61
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
32 Michael Houser L 34 26 8 60:00 3.27 -4.73

Pittsburgh Penguins

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Sidney Crosby · Bryan Rust · Jake Guentzel14:3770.063.12-1
Evgeni Malkin · Jason Zucker · Kasperi Kapanen12:3565.061.81-1
Jeff Carter · Frederick Gaudreau · Jared McCann12:1860.085.84-0
Colton Sceviour · Teddy Blueger · Zachary Aston-Reese9:1056.371.80-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Kris Letang · Brian Dumoulin21:0467.974.52-1
Marcus Pettersson · John Marino16:1460.072.51-0
Cody Ceci · Mark Friedman13:3957.162.33-2

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

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
77 Jeff Carter C 4 0 4 4 0 5 1 17:16 0.64 9-7 0.86-0.15
19 Jared McCann L 1 2 3 4 0 2 1 14:13 0.38 9-7 0.86-0.15
89 Frederick Gaudreau C 0 3 3 4 0 0 0 13:34 9-6 0.86-0.14
42 Kasperi Kapanen R 1 1 2 0 0 2 0 14:47 0.13 13-8 0.73-0.46
87 Sidney Crosby C 1 1 2 1 0 3 0 17:17 0.25 15-7 0.66-0.38
17 Jason Zucker L 0 2 2 0 2 3 1 14:47 0.19 14-7 0.87-0.45
58 Kris Letang D 0 2 2 2 0 4 3 24:46 0.25 21-10 0.99-0.39
2 Brian Dumoulin D 1 0 1 1 2 1 1 22:48 0.02 21-9 1.01-0.30
26 Marcus Pettersson D 0 1 1 2 0 1 0 18:29 0.01 15-10 1.29-0.52
59 Jake Guentzel C 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 16:59 0.23 14-6 0.66-0.38
71 Evgeni Malkin C 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 15:01 0.40 14-7 0.87-0.45
5 Cody Ceci D 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 17:44 0.12 13-10 0.70-0.38
6 John Marino D 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 21:06 0.02 14-8 1.22-0.41
17 Bryan Rust R 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 17:06 16-6 0.69-0.38
27 Zachary Aston-Reese L 0 0 0 -1 0 3 4 13:17 0.42 11-8 0.52-0.19
51 Mark Friedman D 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 13:39 0.02 12-9 0.60-0.36
70 Colton Sceviour C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 11:24 0.14 10-7 0.62-0.19
73 Teddy Blueger C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 12:00 0.03 10-8 0.52-0.19
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Tristan Jarry W 23 19 4 60:00 2.15 -1.85