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Buffalo Sabres at Vancouver Canucks

Mar 20, 2022 · Rogers Arena

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 3 29
Vancouver Canucks 2 32

Decided in overtime.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
01:50 BUF Casey Mittelstadt (3) Victor Olofsson (18), Colin Miller (12) 1 - 0
2nd Period
02:31 VAN J.T. Miller (25) Conor Garland (19), Luke Schenn (10) 1 - 1
03:55 BUF Jeff Skinner (24) Rasmus Dahlin (30), Casey Mittelstadt (5) 2 - 1
13:32 VAN Bo Horvat (23) PP J.T. Miller (50), Quinn Hughes (46) 2 - 2
Overtime
00:48 BUF Rasmus Dahlin (9) Alex Tuch (17), Tage Thompson (21) 3 - 2

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
09:22 VAN Brad Hunt Interference 2
19:25 BUF Rasmus Dahlin Cross checking 2
2nd Period
02:31 VAN Conor Garland Roughing 2
02:31 BUF Dylan Cozens Roughing 2
03:55 VAN Team Delaying game unsuccessful challenge 2
12:45 BUF Jeff Skinner Hooking 2
3rd Period
15:25 BUF Mattias Samuelsson Tripping 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 50 39 29 3 2.9 55.6
Vancouver Canucks 46 39 32 2 2.9 44.4

How the game went

1210864202Start2nd3rdOTVancouver Canucks 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 Vancouver Canucks had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 2.9 expected, 3 scored · Vancouver Canucks: 2.9 expected, 2 scored

012Start2nd3rdOTBUF goal, 1:50 of 1st, a 10% chanceBUF goal, 3:55 of 2nd, a 15% chanceBUF goal, 0:48 of overtime, a 12% chanceVAN goal, 2:31 of 2nd, a 14% chanceVAN goal, 13:32 of 2nd, a 7% chanceBUF 2.9VAN 2.9

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
Vancouver Canucks

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
Vinnie Hinostroza · Peyton Krebs · Dylan Cozens9:4681.857.30-0
Victor Olofsson · Rasmus Asplund · Casey Mittelstadt9:0458.375.21-0
Kyle Okposo · Cody Eakin · Zemgus Girgensons8:5133.317.60-0
Jeff Skinner · Alex Tuch · Tage Thompson8:2070.664.70-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Henri Jokiharju · Rasmus Dahlin14:1264.060.80-0
Colin Miller · Will Butcher13:2158.847.01-0
Jacob Bryson · Mattias Samuelsson12:5444.465.30-0

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
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 1 1 2 1 0 3 0 13:50 0.21 10-11 0.70-0.79
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 1 1 2 1 2 2 1 22:50 0.19 17-11 1.08-0.79
53 Jeff Skinner L 1 0 1 1 2 5 0 15:03 0.80 17-5 0.88-0.36
6 Colin Miller D 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 14:59 0.04 11-7 0.29-0.29
72 Tage Thompson C 0 1 1 1 0 5 0 18:27 0.63 16-11 0.94-0.58
89 Alex Tuch R 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 18:53 0.31 12-11 0.65-0.58
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 12:15 0.14 8-7 0.43-0.17
4 Will Butcher D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16:05 11-9 0.28-0.42
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 16:56 0.01 6-11 0.30-0.73
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 15:12 0.03 11-5 0.44-0.33
20 Cody Eakin C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 15:48 0.02 4-8 0.10-0.24
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 1 0 1 5 24:03 0.01 19-12 1.18-1.14
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 20:09 0.01 13-12 0.68-0.22
24 Vinnie Hinostroza C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 12:58 14-3 0.59-0.30
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 12:57 0.16 10-2 0.23-0.16
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 12:42 0.20 5-11 0.24-0.75
74 Rasmus Asplund C 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 12:49 0.15 7-11 0.42-0.35
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 19:41 0.01 9-13 0.44-0.71
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
41 Craig Anderson W 32 30 2 60:48 2.86 +0.86

Vancouver Canucks

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Bo Horvat · Brock Boeser · Elias Pettersson12:0650.040.10-0
J.T. Miller · Tanner Pearson · Conor Garland11:5744.459.61-0
Tyler Motte · Juho Lammikko · Matthew Highmore10:4538.544.20-1
Alex Chiasson · Nic Petan · Vasily Podkolzin6:5975.075.20-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Tyler Myers · Oliver Ekman-Larsson16:5848.066.70-0
Luke Schenn · Quinn Hughes14:4552.658.41-0
Brad Hunt · Noah Juulsen12:0435.012.40-0

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
10 J.T. Miller C 1 1 2 0 0 2 1 22:05 0.36 9-15 0.86-0.94
14 Bo Horvat C 1 0 1 -1 0 4 3 21:09 0.40 11-13 0.43-0.68
2 Luke Schenn D 0 1 1 1 0 2 3 18:03 0.10 10-9 0.58-0.41
43 Quinn Hughes D 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 26:13 0.03 11-12 0.65-0.45
83 Conor Garland R 0 1 1 1 2 3 0 17:30 0.45 9-15 0.86-0.91
6 Brock Boeser R 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 17:35 0.48 11-12 0.43-0.67
14 Tyler Motte C 0 0 0 -2 0 0 3 14:12 6-11 0.24-0.29
15 Matthew Highmore C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 13:03 0.13 6-10 0.24-0.27
17 Brad Hunt D 0 0 0 -1 2 2 1 15:44 0.02 9-16 0.22-1.09
19 Nic Petan C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 09:21 0.04 7-2 0.30-0.09
40 Elias Pettersson C 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 21:02 0.48 12-15 0.43-0.96
47 Noah Juulsen D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 13:44 0.03 7-13 0.14-0.95
48 Alex Chiasson R 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 07:57 6-3 0.26-0.12
57 Tyler Myers D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 3 21:39 14-14 1.00-0.47
70 Tanner Pearson L 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 13:45 0.06 8-12 0.86-0.63
83 Juho Lammikko C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 1 13:10 0.08 5-10 0.19-0.27
92 Vasily Podkolzin R 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 08:48 0.22 6-2 0.26-0.09
95 Oliver Ekman-Larsson D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 21:28 0.01 13-16 0.98-0.56
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Thatcher Demko OTL 29 26 3 60:44 2.88 -0.12