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Buffalo Sabres at Columbus Blue Jackets

Feb 20, 2022 · Nationwide Arena

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 3 36
Columbus Blue Jackets 7 39

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
04:47 CBJ Dean Kukan (2) Egor Chinakhov (5), Max Domi (15) 0 - 1
15:05 BUF Mark Pysyk (2) Victor Olofsson (17), Dylan Cozens (14) 1 - 1
17:14 BUF Tage Thompson (20) Alex Tuch (14) 2 - 1
17:24 CBJ Boone Jenner (21) Jakub Voracek (32), Patrik Laine (16) 2 - 2
2nd Period
03:28 CBJ Dean Kukan (3) Gavin Bayreuther (8), Brendan Gaunce (1) 2 - 3
08:16 CBJ Zach Werenski (8) Oliver Bjorkstrand (18), Boone Jenner (18) 2 - 4
17:43 CBJ Brendan Gaunce (2) Patrik Laine (17), Dean Kukan (3) 2 - 5
19:28 BUF Kyle Okposo (12) Peyton Krebs (6), Casey Mittelstadt (2) 3 - 5
3rd Period
19:24 CBJ Gustav Nyquist (13) Sean Kuraly (10), Vladislav Gavrikov (20) 3 - 6
19:56 CBJ Justin Danforth (3) Brendan Gaunce (2) 3 - 7

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
05:48 BUF Henri Jokiharju Tripping 2
11:44 BUF Alex Tuch Hooking 2
2nd Period
04:45 CBJ Brendan Gaunce High sticking 2
19:28 CBJ Vladislav Gavrikov Roughing 2
19:28 BUF Peyton Krebs Roughing 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 59 47 36 3 3.2 50.5
Columbus Blue Jackets 60 52 39 7 3.6 49.5

How the game went

051015Start2nd3rdColumbus Blue Jackets 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 Columbus Blue Jackets had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 3.2 expected, 3 scored · Columbus Blue Jackets: 3.6 expected, 7 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 15:05 of 1st, a 16% chanceBUF goal, 17:14 of 1st, a 4% chanceBUF goal, 19:28 of 2nd, a 17% chanceCBJ goal, 4:47 of 1st, a 10% chanceCBJ goal, 17:24 of 1st, a 16% chanceCBJ goal, 3:28 of 2nd, a 1% chanceCBJ goal, 8:16 of 2nd, a 7% chanceCBJ goal, 17:43 of 2nd, a 14% chanceCBJ goal, 19:24 of 3rd, a 53% chanceCBJ goal, 19:56 of 3rd, a 11% chanceCBJ 3.6BUF 3.2

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
Columbus Blue Jackets

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 · Alex Tuch · Tage Thompson11:3047.430.71-2
Cody Eakin · John Hayden · Anders Bjork7:5621.445.80-1
Victor Olofsson · Rasmus Asplund · Dylan Cozens7:4970.665.30-0
Kyle Okposo · Casey Mittelstadt · Peyton Krebs5:5254.565.01-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Henri Jokiharju · Jacob Bryson16:5746.246.12-1
Casey Fitzgerald · Mattias Samuelsson12:4054.244.30-3
Mark Pysyk · Robert Hagg12:3450.070.81-1

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
8 Kyle Okposo R 1 0 1 0 0 3 2 18:29 0.41 18-15 1.31-0.88
13 Mark Pysyk D 1 0 1 -1 0 1 0 15:05 0.16 12-13 0.72-0.44
72 Tage Thompson C 1 0 1 -3 0 4 0 18:19 0.18 10-14 0.26-0.75
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 18:23 0.42 13-16 0.83-0.82
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 11:53 0.03 12-9 0.69-0.74
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 1 1 -1 0 3 0 16:57 0.52 22-8 1.38-0.71
89 Alex Tuch R 0 1 1 -2 2 2 2 16:51 0.10 13-10 0.30-0.53
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 1 1 -2 0 4 0 14:51 0.39 19-12 0.89-1.01
4 Casey Fitzgerald D 0 0 0 -3 0 1 3 18:46 0.09 14-15 0.76-1.05
15 John Hayden C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 3 10:46 0.10 4-14 0.17-0.25
18 Robert Hagg D 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 15:56 0.04 13-14 0.74-0.35
20 Cody Eakin C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 10:24 0.02 5-11 0.17-0.18
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 -1 2 2 1 25:06 0.09 20-26 1.03-1.34
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 -3 0 4 1 19:49 0.16 20-12 0.97-0.93
24 Anders Bjork L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 11:09 3-17 0.15-0.51
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 0 0 -3 0 0 0 14:32 12-11 0.26-0.67
74 Rasmus Asplund C 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 14:57 0.46 22-11 1.50-0.60
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 22:47 0.03 23-22 1.05-1.08
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
41 Craig Anderson L 38 32 6 59:00 3.03 -2.97

Columbus Blue Jackets

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jakub Voracek · Boone Jenner · Patrik Laine13:2143.537.21-1
Sean Kuraly · Max Domi · Egor Chinakhov11:2254.554.31-0
Gustav Nyquist · Oliver Bjorkstrand · Cole Sillinger9:5145.045.60-1
Brendan Gaunce · Jack Roslovic · Justin Danforth6:3368.882.22-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Zach Werenski · Andrew Peeke16:3853.337.71-0
Vladislav Gavrikov · Adam Boqvist12:4068.073.70-1
Dean Kukan · Gavin Bayreuther9:1852.960.92-1

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
46 Dean Kukan D 2 1 3 2 0 4 0 16:54 0.18 13-19 1.03-1.18
16 Brendan Gaunce C 1 2 3 3 2 3 2 07:41 0.34 14-5 0.75-0.13
22 Boone Jenner C 1 1 2 3 0 2 1 20:36 0.38 12-16 0.68-0.84
92 Patrik Laine L 0 2 2 1 0 4 3 20:18 0.25 15-13 0.63-0.78
8 Zach Werenski D 1 0 1 3 0 4 0 25:02 0.21 19-21 0.59-1.00
14 Gustav Nyquist R 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 17:06 0.07 11-18 0.53-0.91
15 Justin Danforth R 1 0 1 2 0 3 1 06:59 0.16 12-6 0.59-0.13
11 Max Domi C 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 16:10 0.06 13-16 0.81-0.91
15 Gavin Bayreuther D 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 10:06 0.13 10-10 0.65-0.52
28 Oliver Bjorkstrand R 0 1 1 0 0 1 2 15:35 0.19 10-16 0.53-0.74
44 Vladislav Gavrikov D 0 1 1 0 2 1 1 23:25 0.06 21-19 1.24-0.81
52 Sean Kuraly C 0 1 1 2 0 1 4 17:10 0.11 14-13 0.80-0.80
59 Egor Chinakhov R 0 1 1 0 0 4 1 15:50 0.44 13-15 0.81-0.91
93 Jakub Voracek R 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 17:43 0.07 11-15 0.46-0.82
4 Cole Sillinger C 0 0 0 -2 0 2 0 13:25 0.21 11-14 0.47-0.83
20 Andrew Peeke D 0 0 0 2 0 2 1 24:32 0.05 19-18 0.61-0.99
34 Adam Boqvist D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 16:31 0.02 18-15 1.01-0.78
96 Jack Roslovic C 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 10:57 0.16 14-6 0.63-0.13
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
30 J-F Berube W 36 33 3 60:00 3.16 +0.16