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Buffalo Sabres at Vegas Golden Knights

Feb 1, 2022 · T-Mobile Arena

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 2 32
Vegas Golden Knights 5 35

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
00:33 VGK Reilly Smith (12) William Karlsson (8), Jonathan Marchessault (12) 0 - 1
18:19 VGK Brett Howden (7) Mark Stone (20), Max Pacioretty (10) 0 - 2
2nd Period
01:31 VGK Jonathan Marchessault (20) PP Nicolas Roy (14), William Karlsson (9) 0 - 3
04:27 VGK Keegan Kolesar (4) SH Brett Howden (9) 0 - 4
16:00 BUF Alex Tuch (5) Henri Jokiharju (8) 1 - 4
3rd Period
01:14 VGK Mark Stone (8) Max Pacioretty (11), Nolan Patrick (4) 1 - 5
12:23 BUF John Hayden (1) Tage Thompson (16) 2 - 5

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
14:23 BUF Mark Pysyk Holding 2
19:55 BUF Alex Tuch Slashing 2
2nd Period
02:58 VGK Brayden McNabb Hooking 2
07:03 BUF Rasmus Dahlin Interference 2
12:09 VGK Keegan Kolesar Hooking 2
3rd Period
11:22 VGK Max Pacioretty Misconduct 10
11:22 BUF Casey Fitzgerald Misconduct 10
12:42 BUF Rasmus Asplund Holding 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 64 43 32 2 3.0 54.5
Vegas Golden Knights 65 51 35 5 5.4 45.5

How the game went

420246810Start2nd3rdVegas Golden Knights 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 Vegas Golden Knights had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 3.0 expected, 2 scored · Vegas Golden Knights: 5.4 expected, 5 scored

024Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 16:00 of 2nd, a 3% chanceBUF goal, 12:23 of 3rd, a 13% chanceVGK goal, 0:33 of 1st, a 19% chanceVGK goal, 18:19 of 1st, a 8% chanceVGK goal, 1:31 of 2nd, a 7% chanceVGK goal, 4:27 of 2nd, a 18% chanceVGK goal, 1:14 of 3rd, a 15% chanceVGK 5.4BUF 3.0

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
Vegas Golden Knights

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 Thompson7:1471.462.80-0
Cody Eakin · John Hayden · Anders Bjork6:2072.771.70-0
Victor Olofsson · Rasmus Asplund · Peyton Krebs3:4375.090.90-0
Victor Olofsson · Rasmus Asplund · Dylan Cozens3:2775.075.10-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Henri Jokiharju · Rasmus Dahlin12:0463.645.60-1
Mark Pysyk · Robert Hagg7:4969.241.20-0
Casey Fitzgerald · Jacob Bryson6:5373.376.00-0

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
15 John Hayden C 1 0 1 1 0 5 5 11:04 0.59 15-7 0.65-0.39
89 Alex Tuch R 1 0 1 -1 2 4 0 21:02 0.35 19-16 0.64-1.27
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 1 1 0 0 3 2 22:48 0.07 22-16 0.83-1.29
72 Tage Thompson C 0 1 1 -1 0 5 2 19:45 0.95 16-16 0.67-1.54
4 Casey Fitzgerald D 0 0 0 -2 10 1 4 15:51 0.04 16-19 0.99-1.70
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 0 0 -2 0 0 1 16:14 0.08 7-17 0.10-1.70
13 Mark Pysyk D 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 12:12 9-13 0.19-1.06
18 Robert Hagg D 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 14:43 12-8 0.32-0.53
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 -2 0 0 2 16:29 10-13 0.24-1.18
20 Cody Eakin C 0 0 0 -1 0 4 1 15:02 0.11 17-8 0.61-0.46
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 14:39 9-10 0.26-0.91
24 Anders Bjork L 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 14:10 14-13 0.52-0.78
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 16:08 0.18 15-17 0.66-1.40
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 -1 2 1 1 22:11 0.05 24-21 0.82-1.70
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 0 0 -2 0 2 0 17:25 0.04 19-16 0.66-1.51
74 Rasmus Asplund C 0 0 0 0 2 5 1 15:23 0.53 19-7 0.79-0.29
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 14:02 16-9 0.75-0.42
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13:26 15-4 0.69-0.15
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
41 Craig Anderson L 35 30 5 59:39 5.30 +0.30

Vegas Golden Knights

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Reilly Smith · William Karlsson · Jonathan Marchessault10:2157.785.81-1
Evgenii Dadonov · Mattias Janmark · Nicolas Roy9:4156.569.80-0
Max Pacioretty · Mark Stone · Nolan Patrick9:0838.946.41-0
William Carrier · Keegan Kolesar · Brett Howden8:1535.765.80-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Shea Theodore · Kaedan Korczak14:1942.967.10-0
Alex Pietrangelo · Brayden McNabb14:0036.852.80-2
Ben Hutton · Daniil Miromanov13:2951.772.72-0

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
21 Brett Howden C 1 1 2 2 0 2 1 13:17 0.21 8-10 0.47-0.21
61 Mark Stone R 1 1 2 1 0 3 0 16:02 0.51 8-16 0.58-0.71
81 Jonathan Marchessault R 1 1 2 0 0 2 0 14:48 0.46 16-12 1.39-0.22
67 Max Pacioretty L 0 2 2 2 10 1 2 15:01 0.19 10-14 0.70-0.79
71 William Karlsson C 0 2 2 0 0 3 0 15:40 0.38 16-13 1.39-0.26
19 Reilly Smith R 1 0 1 0 0 3 0 15:23 0.47 18-12 1.50-0.39
55 Keegan Kolesar R 1 0 1 1 2 1 4 13:23 0.18 5-12 0.37-0.28
10 Nicolas Roy C 0 1 1 -1 0 2 0 16:44 0.62 14-17 1.23-0.75
41 Nolan Patrick C 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 16:00 0.20 9-15 0.62-0.86
3 Brayden McNabb D 0 0 0 -2 2 2 2 19:09 0.23 15-28 1.18-1.15
6 Kaedan Korczak D 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 16:37 0.01 9-12 1.05-0.52
7 Alex Pietrangelo D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 21:40 0.08 21-26 1.79-1.05
13 Mattias Janmark C 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 15:58 0.69 14-14 1.19-0.68
17 Ben Hutton D 0 0 0 2 0 2 1 18:13 0.03 18-16 1.06-0.41
27 Shea Theodore D 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 22:38 0.04 11-14 1.24-0.64
28 William Carrier L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 4 13:27 0.24 6-16 0.39-0.42
33 Evgenii Dadonov L 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 17:35 0.68 15-13 1.20-0.67
62 Daniil Miromanov D 0 0 0 2 0 4 0 14:25 0.15 17-15 0.95-0.39
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
90 Robin Lehner W 32 30 2 60:00 2.96 +0.96