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Pittsburgh Penguins at Buffalo Sabres

Mar 23, 2022 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Pittsburgh Penguins 3 26
Buffalo Sabres 4 33

Decided in a shootout.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
17:15 BUF Tage Thompson (26) Mattias Samuelsson (4) 0 - 1
2nd Period
00:26 PIT Sidney Crosby (23) PP Bryan Rust (30), Jake Guentzel (33) 1 - 1
15:56 BUF Zemgus Girgensons (8) Kyle Okposo (21) 1 - 2
18:46 PIT Evgeni Malkin (13) Bryan Rust (31) 2 - 2
3rd Period
01:01 BUF Tage Thompson (27) Alex Tuch (18), Jeff Skinner (19) 2 - 3
15:04 PIT Kris Letang (7) PP Evgeni Malkin (15), Sidney Crosby (43) 3 - 3
Shootout
BUF Tage Thompson Shootout winner 3 - 4

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
11:01 PIT Chad Ruhwedel Tripping 2
14:27 PIT Kasperi Kapanen Tripping 2
18:43 BUF Team Too many men on the ice 2
2nd Period
18:55 PIT Jake Guentzel Tripping 2
3rd Period
13:51 BUF Vinnie Hinostroza Holding 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Pittsburgh Penguins 48 38 26 3 2.4 43.0
Buffalo Sabres 56 43 33 3 2.8 57.0

How the game went

2024681012Start2nd3rdOTBuffalo Sabres aheadPittsburgh Penguins 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 Pittsburgh Penguins had.

Expected goals

Pittsburgh Penguins: 2.4 expected, 3 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 2.8 expected, 3 scored

012Start2nd3rdOTPIT goal, 0:26 of 2nd, a 8% chancePIT goal, 18:46 of 2nd, a 8% chancePIT goal, 15:04 of 3rd, a 13% chanceBUF goal, 17:15 of 1st, a 5% chanceBUF goal, 15:56 of 2nd, a 11% chanceBUF goal, 1:01 of 3rd, a 7% chanceBUF 2.8PIT 2.4

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

Pittsburgh Penguins
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.

Pittsburgh Penguins

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Evgeni Malkin · Bryan Rust · Danton Heinen11:0938.545.51-2
Jeff Carter · Rickard Rakell · Kasperi Kapanen8:1557.185.70-0
Sidney Crosby · Jake Guentzel · Evan Rodrigues7:1642.931.40-0
Brian Boyle · Teddy Blueger · Radim Zohorna6:180.00.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Kris Letang · Brian Dumoulin16:0161.138.70-0
Mike Matheson · John Marino14:3526.925.41-1
Chad Ruhwedel · Marcus Pettersson12:0450.056.40-1

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
71 Evgeni Malkin C 1 1 2 -1 0 1 0 20:29 0.14 13-16 0.61-0.71
87 Sidney Crosby C 1 1 2 -1 0 3 0 20:53 0.29 13-12 0.48-0.64
17 Bryan Rust R 0 2 2 -1 0 4 0 20:49 0.26 11-18 0.59-0.88
58 Kris Letang D 1 0 1 0 0 2 1 25:30 0.25 13-10 0.29-0.44
59 Jake Guentzel C 0 1 1 -1 2 4 0 21:12 0.53 13-13 0.47-0.65
2 Brian Dumoulin D 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 23:59 0.03 13-11 0.34-0.61
5 Chad Ruhwedel D 0 0 0 -1 2 0 2 14:59 13-14 0.59-0.55
6 John Marino D 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 21:08 0.04 9-20 0.38-1.14
8 Mike Matheson D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 19:35 0.13 8-22 0.42-1.14
11 Brian Boyle C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 09:07 0-10 0.00-0.62
17 Evan Rodrigues C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14:31 0.05 11-9 0.37-0.59
26 Marcus Pettersson D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 1 17:23 0.13 13-14 0.71-0.56
42 Kasperi Kapanen R 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 14:25 0.12 9-7 0.28-0.12
58 Danton Heinen L 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 13:10 0.17 12-18 0.62-0.81
63 Radim Zohorna L 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 07:03 0-9 0.00-0.55
67 Rickard Rakell R 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 16:26 0.19 11-5 0.37-0.03
73 Teddy Blueger C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10:15 0-10 0.00-0.65
77 Jeff Carter C 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 18:06 0.03 8-7 0.27-0.18
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Casey DeSmith OTL 33 30 3 65:00 2.72 -0.28

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Kyle Okposo · Cody Eakin · Zemgus Girgensons12:3563.666.51-0
Victor Olofsson · Rasmus Asplund · Casey Mittelstadt10:2564.771.90-0
Jeff Skinner · Alex Tuch · Tage Thompson10:1460.776.41-0
Vinnie Hinostroza · Peyton Krebs · Dylan Cozens9:1241.716.80-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Henri Jokiharju · Rasmus Dahlin14:5359.157.10-1
Jacob Bryson · Mattias Samuelsson13:1352.266.03-0
Mark Pysyk · Colin Miller11:3758.870.80-0

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
72 Tage Thompson C 2 0 2 2 0 5 0 18:43 0.54 20-11 0.98-0.28
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 1 0 1 1 0 2 2 14:59 0.27 9-4 0.46-0.21
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 1 1 1 0 4 1 18:43 0.19 9-5 0.46-0.31
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 1 1 3 0 2 0 18:42 0.02 13-14 0.79-0.55
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 1 1 2 0 2 0 18:00 0.20 18-13 0.96-0.31
89 Alex Tuch R 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 20:17 0.33 17-13 0.91-0.31
6 Colin Miller D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13:39 11-8 0.30-0.18
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 18:33 0.19 11-8 0.66-0.35
13 Mark Pysyk D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15:11 0.04 11-11 0.29-0.33
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 11:53 0.01 6-7 0.09-0.34
20 Cody Eakin C 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 16:27 8-6 0.45-0.24
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 24:34 0.11 14-13 0.57-0.67
24 Vinnie Hinostroza C 0 0 0 -1 2 1 0 11:58 0.01 6-9 0.09-0.40
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 14:42 0.16 6-9 0.09-0.49
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 -1 0 4 0 28:06 0.19 21-10 1.08-0.49
74 Rasmus Asplund C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13:31 12-9 0.66-0.44
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 19:46 0.08 20-12 1.31-0.50
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 0 0 1 0 4 0 14:20 0.42 13-8 0.71-0.40
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
41 Craig Anderson W 26 23 3 65:00 2.32 -0.68