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Buffalo Sabres at Chicago Blackhawks

Mar 28, 2022 · United Center

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 6 37
Chicago Blackhawks 5 21

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
07:53 CHI Calvin de Haan (2) Taylor Raddysh (10), Dominik Kubalik (12) 0 - 1
13:44 CHI Sam Lafferty (5) Jake McCabe (15), Reese Johnson (4) 0 - 2
16:55 CHI Jonathan Toews (10) PP Philipp Kurashev (12), Dominik Kubalik (13) 0 - 3
2nd Period
01:21 CHI Seth Jones (5) Alex DeBrincat (26), Dylan Strome (21) 0 - 4
04:50 BUF Victor Olofsson (13) PP Dylan Cozens (20), Henri Jokiharju (11) 1 - 4
10:24 BUF Victor Olofsson (14) Jeff Skinner (20) 2 - 4
14:32 BUF Kyle Okposo (17) Dylan Cozens (21), Will Butcher (5) 3 - 4
3rd Period
02:39 BUF Vinnie Hinostroza (11) Rasmus Dahlin (33), Tage Thompson (23) 4 - 4
10:56 CHI Alex DeBrincat (38) PP Patrick Kane (58), Dylan Strome (22) 4 - 5
17:46 BUF Alex Tuch (9) Victor Olofsson (19), Casey Mittelstadt (9) 5 - 5
19:48 BUF Tage Thompson (28) PP Rasmus Dahlin (34), Alex Tuch (19) 6 - 5

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
15:22 BUF Casey Fitzgerald Tripping 2
2nd Period
03:24 CHI Caleb Jones Holding 2
3rd Period
06:35 CHI Boris Katchouk Tripping 2
09:40 BUF Vinnie Hinostroza Cross checking 2
18:51 CHI Dylan Strome Hooking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 68 47 37 6 2.9 67.0
Chicago Blackhawks 38 25 21 5 1.6 33.0

How the game went

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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 Chicago Blackhawks had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 2.9 expected, 6 scored · Chicago Blackhawks: 1.6 expected, 5 scored

012Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 4:50 of 2nd, a 13% chanceBUF goal, 10:24 of 2nd, a 8% chanceBUF goal, 14:32 of 2nd, a 8% chanceBUF goal, 2:39 of 3rd, a 21% chanceBUF goal, 17:46 of 3rd, a 13% chanceBUF goal, 19:48 of 3rd, a 6% chanceCHI goal, 7:53 of 1st, a 4% chanceCHI goal, 13:44 of 1st, a 8% chanceCHI goal, 16:55 of 1st, a 16% chanceCHI goal, 1:21 of 2nd, a 9% chanceCHI goal, 10:56 of 3rd, a 7% chanceBUF 2.9CHI 1.6

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
Chicago Blackhawks

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
Victor Olofsson · Rasmus Asplund · Casey Mittelstadt11:4673.372.00-1
Jeff Skinner · Vinnie Hinostroza · Tage Thompson7:3588.286.61-0
Kyle Okposo · Peyton Krebs · Dylan Cozens6:5666.793.71-0
Kyle Okposo · Cody Eakin · Zemgus Girgensons5:2250.073.70-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Henri Jokiharju · Rasmus Dahlin17:5865.588.31-0
Jacob Bryson · Mattias Samuelsson13:4560.953.11-2
Will Butcher · Casey Fitzgerald13:0073.979.81-1

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
95 Victor Olofsson L 2 1 3 1 0 5 0 14:53 0.33 17-4 0.56-0.14
72 Tage Thompson C 1 1 2 0 0 3 0 17:58 0.18 21-5 0.98-0.16
89 Alex Tuch R 1 1 2 0 0 2 2 16:05 0.29 13-9 0.43-0.15
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 2 2 0 0 1 1 13:25 0.12 10-8 0.67-0.28
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 2 2 2 0 5 2 26:10 0.24 26-10 1.44-0.13
8 Kyle Okposo R 1 0 1 1 0 3 1 16:16 0.40 13-7 0.98-0.13
24 Vinnie Hinostroza C 1 0 1 0 2 1 4 14:35 0.21 20-9 0.79-0.36
4 Will Butcher D 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 15:09 0.10 21-7 1.02-0.22
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 1 1 1 0 3 1 17:08 0.20 18-6 0.66-0.15
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 1 1 1 0 1 2 22:36 0.05 19-11 1.00-0.13
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 1 1 1 0 4 0 18:16 0.33 23-7 1.13-0.16
4 Casey Fitzgerald D 0 0 0 0 2 3 4 16:50 0.10 21-8 0.93-0.32
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 14:02 0.16 9-9 0.61-0.29
20 Cody Eakin C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13:45 10-10 0.29-0.18
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 3 18:09 0.01 14-11 0.34-0.31
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 12:28 0.13 9-9 0.29-0.18
74 Rasmus Asplund C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 12:42 14-4 0.42-0.14
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 16:44 0.01 17-11 0.48-0.43
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
34 Dustin Tokarski W 21 16 5 60:00 1.53 -3.47

Chicago Blackhawks

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Patrick Kane · Dylan Strome · Alex DeBrincat13:0340.933.41-1
Sam Lafferty · Boris Katchouk · Reese Johnson12:5031.667.01-0
Jonathan Toews · Dominik Kubalik · Taylor Raddysh11:1528.09.71-1
Tyler Johnson · Henrik Borgstrom · Philipp Kurashev7:0036.40.00-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Erik Gustafsson · Seth Jones11:3547.419.91-2
Calvin de Haan · Riley Stillman11:2010.52.60-0
Jake McCabe · Caleb Jones11:0325.027.81-0

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
93 Alex DeBrincat R 1 1 2 0 0 1 2 17:48 0.07 9-14 0.27-0.56
17 Dylan Strome C 0 2 2 0 2 1 0 17:48 0.14 9-15 0.27-0.64
81 Dominik Kubalik L 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 13:32 7-18 0.11-1.03
3 Seth Jones D 1 0 1 -1 0 5 2 25:11 0.16 14-17 0.33-0.88
19 Jonathan Toews C 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 15:12 0.19 8-18 0.11-1.03
24 Sam Lafferty C 1 0 1 1 0 2 4 18:31 0.21 8-15 0.39-0.15
44 Calvin de Haan D 1 0 1 0 0 2 4 21:39 0.06 9-27 0.12-1.03
14 Taylor Raddysh R 0 1 1 -1 0 0 3 17:10 8-21 0.11-1.16
22 Jake McCabe D 0 1 1 -1 0 1 2 23:46 0.05 9-24 0.24-1.19
52 Reese Johnson C 0 1 1 0 0 2 5 17:33 0.11 7-18 0.33-0.33
88 Patrick Kane R 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 18:01 0.27 9-15 0.27-0.64
96 Philipp Kurashev C 0 1 1 -1 0 0 0 10:36 7-11 0.13-0.75
13 Henrik Borgstrom C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 08:08 5-8 0.05-0.61
61 Boris Katchouk L 0 0 0 0 2 2 5 15:56 0.22 6-16 0.26-0.26
61 Riley Stillman D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 15:12 3-21 0.09-0.88
64 Erik Gustafsson D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 13:58 0.01 11-11 0.29-0.70
82 Caleb Jones D 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 17:25 0.05 12-18 0.48-0.53
90 Tyler Johnson C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 08:25 4-8 0.00-0.66
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
32 Kevin Lankinen L 37 31 6 59:46 2.84 -3.16