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Colorado Avalanche at Buffalo Sabres

Feb 19, 2022 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Colorado Avalanche 5 36
Buffalo Sabres 3 32

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
02:50 BUF Tage Thompson (17) Jeff Skinner (15), Alex Tuch (13) 0 - 1
03:35 COL Nathan MacKinnon (11) Cale Makar (32), Devon Toews (27) 1 - 1
11:18 COL J.T. Compher (9) Nicolas Aube-Kubel (9) 2 - 1
12:42 BUF Tage Thompson (18) Jeff Skinner (16), Rasmus Dahlin (25) 2 - 2
13:02 COL Nazem Kadri (21) Valeri Nichushkin (13) 3 - 2
2nd Period
12:54 BUF Tage Thompson (19) Mattias Samuelsson (1) 3 - 3
3rd Period
08:37 COL Alex Newhook (11) Mikko Rantanen (32) 4 - 3
19:08 COL Mikko Rantanen (26) Unassisted 5 - 3

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
18:44 BUF Peyton Krebs Slashing 2
2nd Period
13:40 BUF Mattias Samuelsson Interference 2
3rd Period
09:11 COL Erik Johnson Tripping 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Colorado Avalanche 52 43 36 5 4.6 51.7
Buffalo Sabres 52 40 32 3 2.7 48.3

How the game went

10864202Start2nd3rdBuffalo Sabres aheadColorado Avalanche 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 Colorado Avalanche had.

Expected goals

Colorado Avalanche: 4.6 expected, 5 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 2.7 expected, 3 scored

01234Start2nd3rdEndCOL goal, 3:35 of 1st, a 4% chanceCOL goal, 11:18 of 1st, a 14% chanceCOL goal, 13:02 of 1st, a 7% chanceCOL goal, 8:37 of 3rd, a 15% chanceCOL goal, 19:08 of 3rd, a 64% chanceBUF goal, 2:50 of 1st, a 6% chanceBUF goal, 12:42 of 1st, a 8% chanceBUF goal, 12:54 of 2nd, a 21% chanceCOL 4.6BUF 2.7

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

Colorado Avalanche
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.

Colorado Avalanche

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Gabriel Landeskog · Nathan MacKinnon · Mikko Rantanen14:0757.970.41-1
Nazem Kadri · Andre Burakovsky · Valeri Nichushkin11:1972.296.81-0
J.T. Compher · Nicolas Aube-Kubel · Tyson Jost9:2161.581.20-0
Darren Helm · Logan O'Connor · Alex Newhook5:3410.015.30-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Devon Toews · Cale Makar15:2156.568.62-2
Erik Johnson · Ryan Murray11:0542.956.81-0
Jack Johnson · Samuel Girard9:3747.151.51-1

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
96 Mikko Rantanen R 1 1 2 2 0 4 0 20:27 0.30 12-11 1.04-0.55
15 Alex Newhook C 1 0 1 -1 0 3 0 13:21 0.27 8-19 0.39-1.35
29 Nathan MacKinnon C 1 0 1 1 0 5 1 20:16 0.71 11-11 0.89-0.45
37 J.T. Compher L 1 0 1 1 0 3 1 15:15 0.25 13-9 0.86-0.29
91 Nazem Kadri C 1 0 1 1 0 5 0 17:14 0.94 15-6 1.08-0.15
7 Devon Toews D 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 23:37 0.07 21-15 1.57-0.72
8 Cale Makar D 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 23:42 0.08 14-11 1.35-0.59
16 Nicolas Aube-Kubel R 0 1 1 0 0 1 2 10:22 0.25 10-6 0.59-0.14
43 Valeri Nichushkin R 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 16:41 0.15 17-9 1.13-0.11
3 Jack Johnson D 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 16:36 0.05 12-11 0.90-0.74
6 Erik Johnson D 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 17:47 0.09 14-17 0.68-0.74
17 Tyson Jost C 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 15:34 0.16 15-10 0.89-0.37
25 Logan O'Connor R 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 07:11 0.12 2-10 0.26-0.74
28 Ryan Murray D 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 15:20 0.02 12-14 0.73-0.46
28 Andre Burakovsky L 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 16:59 0.15 18-12 1.07-0.49
43 Darren Helm C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 1 07:16 0.14 2-12 0.12-0.99
49 Samuel Girard D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20:18 18-16 1.00-0.94
92 Gabriel Landeskog L 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 20:04 0.20 11-11 0.89-0.61
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Darcy Kuemper W 32 29 3 60:00 2.71 -0.29

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jeff Skinner · Alex Tuch · Tage Thompson12:3645.035.52-1
Victor Olofsson · Peyton Krebs · Dylan Cozens11:5444.021.20-2
Kyle Okposo · Rasmus Asplund · Casey Mittelstadt10:2366.778.20-0
Cody Eakin · John Hayden · Anders Bjork7:4342.939.40-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Henri Jokiharju · Rasmus Dahlin16:5747.436.62-1
Casey Fitzgerald · Mattias Samuelsson12:5073.379.11-1
Mark Pysyk · Jacob Bryson12:4143.826.70-1

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

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
72 Tage Thompson C 3 0 3 1 0 3 0 18:09 0.35 12-11 0.69-0.87
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 2 2 1 0 4 0 17:52 0.25 14-12 0.83-0.99
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 1 1 0 2 0 2 16:55 13-7 0.71-0.33
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 1 1 -1 0 2 1 23:23 0.05 20-23 1.09-1.91
89 Alex Tuch R 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 18:57 0.31 10-11 0.48-0.87
4 Casey Fitzgerald D 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 20:20 0.02 13-8 0.70-0.30
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 16:18 0.37 12-12 0.91-0.67
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 0 0 -2 0 3 0 15:10 0.40 14-9 1.03-0.69
13 Mark Pysyk D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 1 18:14 8-13 0.27-0.87
15 John Hayden C 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 09:17 5-5 0.16-0.25
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 -2 2 1 0 15:37 0.06 12-18 0.29-1.35
20 Cody Eakin C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12:45 3-9 0.08-0.31
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 21:27 19-24 0.96-1.67
24 Anders Bjork L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 10:30 0.16 5-9 0.16-0.47
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 0 0 -3 0 4 0 16:29 0.16 13-17 0.29-1.32
74 Rasmus Asplund C 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 12:40 0.23 12-6 0.83-0.34
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 17:04 0.13 11-14 0.45-0.98
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 16:10 0.24 14-17 0.51-1.24
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
34 Dustin Tokarski L 35 31 4 58:43 3.90 -0.10