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Vancouver Canucks at Buffalo Sabres

Oct 19, 2021 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Vancouver Canucks 2 34
Buffalo Sabres 5 43

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
05:57 VAN Bo Horvat (1) Tanner Pearson (2), Conor Garland (3) 1 - 0
08:22 BUF Kyle Okposo (2) Zemgus Girgensons (2), Rasmus Dahlin (2) 1 - 1
16:01 VAN Justin Dowling (1) Luke Schenn (1), J.T. Miller (4) 2 - 1
2nd Period
17:37 BUF Zemgus Girgensons (2) Kyle Okposo (1), Dylan Cozens (1) 2 - 2
3rd Period
03:33 BUF Jeff Skinner (1) Colin Miller (3), Dylan Cozens (2) 2 - 3
03:56 BUF Tage Thompson (2) Will Butcher (1), Victor Olofsson (2) 2 - 4
17:05 BUF Rasmus Asplund (1) Colin Miller (4) 2 - 5

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
2nd Period
05:56 BUF Kyle Okposo Hooking 2
13:29 VAN Tanner Pearson High sticking double minor 4
3rd Period
01:01 BUF Rasmus Dahlin Hooking 2
11:40 VAN Brock Boeser Hooking 2
14:14 BUF Rasmus Dahlin Interference 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Vancouver Canucks 44 39 34 2 2.3 42.3
Buffalo Sabres 65 55 43 5 4.2 57.7

How the game went

0510152025Start2nd3rdBuffalo Sabres aheadVancouver Canucks 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 Vancouver Canucks had.

Expected goals

Vancouver Canucks: 2.3 expected, 2 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 4.2 expected, 5 scored

01234Start2nd3rdEndVAN goal, 5:57 of 1st, a 17% chanceVAN goal, 16:01 of 1st, a 16% chanceBUF goal, 8:22 of 1st, a 2% chanceBUF goal, 17:37 of 2nd, a 9% chanceBUF goal, 3:33 of 3rd, a 12% chanceBUF goal, 3:56 of 3rd, a 34% chanceBUF goal, 17:05 of 3rd, a 51% chanceBUF 4.2VAN 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

Vancouver Canucks
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.

Vancouver Canucks

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Brock Boeser · Elias Pettersson · Nils Hoglander11:3155.639.00-0
Tanner Pearson · Bo Horvat · Conor Garland9:2038.523.31-0
Justin Dowling · J.T. Miller · Vasily Podkolzin8:5041.742.31-1
Jason Dickinson · Juho Lammikko · Matthew Highmore6:1012.52.80-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Oliver Ekman-Larsson · Tucker Poolman17:0942.933.40-0
Tyler Myers · Brad Hunt11:1431.827.30-3
Luke Schenn · Jack Rathbone10:1940.030.31-1

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
14 Bo Horvat C 1 0 1 -1 0 1 0 16:08 0.17 6-9 0.24-0.73
37 Justin Dowling C 1 0 1 -2 0 4 0 14:22 0.53 11-17 0.91-1.23
2 Luke Schenn D 0 1 1 0 0 2 2 14:37 0.02 12-16 0.61-1.23
10 J.T. Miller C 0 1 1 -1 0 3 2 19:14 0.21 14-18 0.96-1.13
70 Tanner Pearson L 0 1 1 0 4 4 0 15:56 0.29 6-11 0.22-0.80
83 Conor Garland R 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 14:10 7-9 0.24-0.71
3 Jack Rathbone D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 18:29 0.03 13-17 0.67-1.23
5 Tucker Poolman D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20:56 10-12 0.38-0.62
6 Brock Boeser R 0 0 0 -1 2 3 0 19:09 0.39 14-9 0.41-0.44
15 Matthew Highmore C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 10:34 2-7 0.10-0.32
16 Jason Dickinson C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 10:11 0.01 1-9 0.01-0.34
17 Brad Hunt D 0 0 0 -3 0 5 0 15:51 0.08 9-15 0.40-0.85
21 Nils Hoglander L 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 16:47 0.13 12-8 0.30-0.43
40 Elias Pettersson C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 19:55 0.16 14-9 0.41-0.44
57 Tyler Myers D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 2 20:17 0.02 11-17 0.59-0.87
83 Juho Lammikko C 0 0 0 -2 0 0 1 10:12 1-10 0.01-0.43
92 Vasily Podkolzin R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 12:00 0.18 11-19 0.91-1.15
95 Oliver Ekman-Larsson D 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 25:56 0.11 11-13 0.49-0.64
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Thatcher Demko L 42 38 4 59:16 3.61 -0.39

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Victor Olofsson · Rasmus Asplund · Tage Thompson11:2057.779.01-1
Jeff Skinner · Vinnie Hinostroza · Dylan Cozens10:5570.040.81-1
Anders Bjork · Drake Caggiula · Arttu Ruotsalainen9:4046.218.40-0
Kyle Okposo · Cody Eakin · Zemgus Girgensons8:2877.894.51-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mark Pysyk · Robert Hagg15:2035.032.30-0
Will Butcher · Rasmus Dahlin13:1565.470.92-1
Colin Miller · Jacob Bryson11:1244.441.72-1

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
8 Kyle Okposo R 1 1 2 2 2 4 0 14:01 0.16 9-2 0.49-0.02
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 1 1 2 2 0 4 1 15:04 0.30 9-3 0.49-0.02
6 Colin Miller D 0 2 2 2 0 4 3 21:18 0.09 17-10 0.54-0.47
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 2 2 1 0 0 0 14:31 15-6 0.51-0.60
53 Jeff Skinner L 1 0 1 0 0 4 0 14:27 0.42 14-6 0.41-0.60
72 Tage Thompson C 1 0 1 0 0 6 1 15:15 1.18 15-11 1.74-0.46
74 Rasmus Asplund C 1 0 1 1 0 3 1 18:25 0.54 16-11 1.74-0.46
4 Will Butcher D 0 1 1 1 0 4 1 18:19 0.18 25-9 1.99-0.58
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 1 1 2 4 0 0 16:35 0.05 19-9 1.41-0.58
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 1 1 0 0 4 0 15:12 0.25 15-11 1.74-0.46
8 Drake Caggiula L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 14:55 0.04 6-13 0.08-0.49
13 Mark Pysyk D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20:36 0.04 7-14 0.25-0.53
18 Robert Hagg D 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 20:27 10-14 0.39-0.53
20 Cody Eakin C 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 14:52 0.13 7-8 0.38-0.14
24 Vinnie Hinostroza C 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 13:52 0.09 14-11 0.41-0.66
24 Anders Bjork L 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 14:04 0.14 7-8 0.08-0.42
25 Arttu Ruotsalainen C 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 12:13 0.02 8-8 0.10-0.36
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 19:54 0.04 12-11 0.87-0.47
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
41 Craig Anderson W 34 32 2 60:00 2.29 +0.29