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Buffalo Sabres at Colorado Avalanche

Jan 30, 2022 · Ball Arena

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 1 31
Colorado Avalanche 4 36

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
07:49 COL Gabriel Landeskog (19) Mikko Rantanen (30), Valeri Nichushkin (11) 0 - 1
2nd Period
02:37 BUF Dylan Cozens (11) Jeff Skinner (12) 1 - 1
11:15 COL Nazem Kadri (18) Dylan Sikura (1), Alex Newhook (6) 1 - 2
13:03 COL Mikko Rantanen (23) PP Cale Makar (26), Samuel Girard (21) 1 - 3
3rd Period
18:57 COL Valeri Nichushkin (12) Logan O'Connor (11) 1 - 4

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
02:09 BUF John Hayden Tripping 2
12:13 COL Jack Johnson Tripping 2
2nd Period
11:15 BUF Team Delaying game unsuccessful challenge 2
19:10 BUF Kyle Okposo Fighting 5
19:10 COL Logan O'Connor Fighting 5
3rd Period
03:44 COL Mikko Rantanen High sticking 2
07:08 COL Gabriel Landeskog Tripping 2
10:52 BUF Robert Hagg Hooking 2
11:08 BUF Alex Tuch Hooking 2
16:48 COL Valeri Nichushkin Interference 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 59 40 31 1 2.8 54.5
Colorado Avalanche 55 44 36 4 4.3 45.5

How the game went

505Start2nd3rdColorado Avalanche 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 Colorado Avalanche had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 2.8 expected, 1 scored · Colorado Avalanche: 4.3 expected, 4 scored

01234Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 2:37 of 2nd, a 20% chanceCOL goal, 7:49 of 1st, a 12% chanceCOL goal, 11:15 of 2nd, a 27% chanceCOL goal, 13:03 of 2nd, a 10% chanceCOL goal, 18:57 of 3rd, a 60% chanceCOL 4.3BUF 2.8

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
Colorado Avalanche

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 · Dylan Cozens7:3968.483.51-0
Kyle Okposo · Cody Eakin · Victor Olofsson6:0866.720.50-1
Mark Jankowski · John Hayden · Anders Bjork2:59100.0100.00-0
Jeff Skinner · Alex Tuch · Peyton Krebs2:3650.027.10-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Henri Jokiharju · Rasmus Dahlin7:2958.359.20-0
Mark Pysyk · Robert Hagg5:1855.645.00-0
Casey Fitzgerald · Mattias Samuelsson5:1062.540.20-0

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

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
24 Dylan Cozens C 1 0 1 0 0 3 0 20:17 0.36 20-13 1.01-0.54
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 1 1 0 0 7 1 21:36 0.71 19-13 1.01-0.82
4 Casey Fitzgerald D 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 17:23 0.14 22-12 1.00-0.86
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 0 0 -2 5 3 0 17:42 0.71 17-8 0.71-0.70
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 04:59 1-4 0.00-0.20
13 Mark Pysyk D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 13:28 8-12 0.27-0.49
15 John Hayden C 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 12:23 5-15 0.17-0.74
18 Robert Hagg D 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 10:13 0.04 6-8 0.28-0.76
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 1 19:18 0.05 14-16 0.51-1.02
20 Cody Eakin C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 18:11 0.32 14-10 0.61-0.72
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 20:36 16-14 0.92-0.81
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 2 15:31 10-10 0.28-0.98
24 Anders Bjork L 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 13:39 0.12 13-6 0.36-0.10
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 22:05 0.06 19-10 0.58-0.45
77 Mark Jankowski L 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 15:52 0.07 13-11 0.68-0.52
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 13:42 15-14 0.84-0.41
89 Alex Tuch R 0 0 0 -1 2 4 1 24:00 0.19 20-14 1.04-0.91
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 13:28 0.02 8-10 0.15-0.89
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
34 Dustin Tokarski L 35 32 3 57:49 3.68 +0.68

Colorado Avalanche

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Gabriel Landeskog · Valeri Nichushkin · Mikko Rantanen8:1033.352.11-1
J.T. Compher · Tyson Jost · Logan O'Connor7:1457.162.10-0
Nazem Kadri · Dylan Sikura · Alex Newhook6:0971.488.01-0
Andre Burakovsky · Nicolas Aube-Kubel · Mikhail Maltsev3:5750.065.30-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Devon Toews · Cale Makar13:4214.326.70-1
Jack Johnson · Samuel Girard9:1752.928.40-0
Erik Johnson · Kurtis MacDermid7:5645.575.20-0

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
43 Valeri Nichushkin R 1 1 2 1 2 3 3 15:23 0.28 10-18 0.60-0.73
96 Mikko Rantanen R 1 1 2 0 2 2 0 19:22 0.52 7-16 0.56-0.51
91 Nazem Kadri C 1 0 1 1 0 3 0 20:19 0.52 13-13 0.73-0.37
92 Gabriel Landeskog L 1 0 1 0 2 4 0 18:13 0.70 6-19 0.44-0.66
8 Cale Makar D 0 1 1 0 0 3 1 24:27 0.06 14-23 1.08-0.94
9 Dylan Sikura R 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 11:46 0.46 14-6 0.88-0.15
15 Alex Newhook C 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 14:29 0.03 14-12 0.76-0.63
25 Logan O'Connor R 0 1 1 1 5 0 2 15:31 10-11 0.47-0.78
49 Samuel Girard D 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 20:29 0.02 21-14 0.98-0.53
3 Jack Johnson D 0 0 0 1 2 0 2 18:32 19-18 0.90-1.09
6 Erik Johnson D 0 0 0 1 0 3 1 16:03 0.05 7-9 0.39-0.21
7 Devon Toews D 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 26:14 0.11 6-23 0.44-0.91
16 Nicolas Aube-Kubel R 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 08:38 0.13 7-8 0.42-0.37
17 Tyson Jost C 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 12:36 0.11 9-11 0.47-0.74
23 Kurtis MacDermid L 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 13:31 0.16 12-12 0.95-0.64
28 Andre Burakovsky L 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 10:38 0.18 10-10 0.60-0.38
37 J.T. Compher L 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 17:11 0.30 13-10 0.67-0.49
57 Mikhail Maltsev L 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 08:38 0.09 8-7 0.59-0.30
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Darcy Kuemper W 31 30 1 60:00 2.75 +1.75