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Nashville Predators at Buffalo Sabres

Apr 1, 2022 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Nashville Predators 3 25
Buffalo Sabres 4 35

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
02:14 BUF Peyton Krebs (7) Dylan Cozens (22), Victor Olofsson (20) 0 - 1
04:32 NSH Filip Forsberg (38) Matt Duchene (34), Ryan Johansen (33) 1 - 1
06:58 BUF Tage Thompson (29) Jeff Skinner (21), Alex Tuch (20) 1 - 2
13:22 BUF Tage Thompson (30) Alex Tuch (21) 1 - 3
17:23 NSH Michael McCarron (7) Matt Benning (11), Eeli Tolvanen (12) 2 - 3
19:01 NSH Jeremy Lauzon (2) Matt Duchene (35), Ryan Johansen (34) 3 - 3
2nd Period
14:25 BUF Victor Olofsson (15) PP Dylan Cozens (23), Peyton Krebs (10) 3 - 4

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
07:14 NSH Yakov Trenin Tripping 2
2nd Period
03:32 BUF Tage Thompson Tripping 2
12:53 NSH Team Too many men on the ice 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Nashville Predators 44 33 25 3 2.3 46.3
Buffalo Sabres 51 44 35 4 3.0 53.8

How the game went

2024681012Start2nd3rdBuffalo Sabres aheadNashville Predators 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 Nashville Predators had.

Expected goals

Nashville Predators: 2.3 expected, 3 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 3.0 expected, 4 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndNSH goal, 4:32 of 1st, a 33% chanceNSH goal, 17:23 of 1st, a 10% chanceNSH goal, 19:01 of 1st, a 21% chanceBUF goal, 2:14 of 1st, a 9% chanceBUF goal, 6:58 of 1st, a 7% chanceBUF goal, 13:22 of 1st, a 5% chanceBUF goal, 14:25 of 2nd, a 7% chanceBUF 3.0NSH 2.3

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

Nashville Predators
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.

Nashville Predators

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Matt Duchene · Ryan Johansen · Filip Forsberg12:3354.264.22-0
Colton Sissons · Yakov Trenin · Tanner Jeannot6:4833.315.30-1
Mikael Granlund · Luke Kunin · Eeli Tolvanen5:2462.586.90-0
Nick Cousins · Michael McCarron · Philip Tomasino5:190.00.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Roman Josi · Alexandre Carrier13:2557.954.71-0
Mattias Ekholm · Jeremy Lauzon12:3330.433.21-1
Matt Benning · Jeremy Davies9:3656.359.51-1

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
12 Ryan Johansen C 0 2 2 2 0 2 0 17:11 0.09 14-11 1.00-0.52
95 Matt Duchene C 0 2 2 2 0 2 0 20:36 0.22 15-14 0.96-0.61
5 Jeremy Lauzon D 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 19:35 0.22 8-19 0.36-0.86
9 Filip Forsberg L 1 0 1 2 0 3 1 19:03 0.46 15-15 0.96-0.60
47 Michael McCarron C 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 15:52 0.10 7-13 0.30-0.87
17 Eeli Tolvanen R 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 10:50 0.12 11-6 0.54-0.35
33 Matt Benning D 0 1 1 0 0 2 4 14:18 0.02 10-8 0.44-0.32
4 Jeremy Davies D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 11:55 0.13 10-10 0.44-0.57
13 Yakov Trenin C 0 0 0 -1 2 1 0 14:25 0.04 6-11 0.12-0.51
14 Mattias Ekholm D 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 23:26 0.09 15-21 0.70-0.95
15 Colton Sissons C 0 0 0 -2 0 0 1 14:25 7-9 0.15-0.49
21 Nick Cousins C 0 0 0 -2 0 0 1 12:28 5-12 0.13-0.68
45 Alexandre Carrier D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 20:11 0.02 12-15 0.65-0.82
53 Philip Tomasino R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 10:57 0.11 7-11 0.35-0.75
59 Roman Josi D 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 26:56 0.01 18-13 0.81-0.93
64 Mikael Granlund C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 16:46 8-10 0.23-0.34
71 Luke Kunin C 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 13:14 0.24 11-11 0.37-0.64
84 Tanner Jeannot L 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 16:25 0.38 6-6 0.11-0.30
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
74 Juuse Saros 35 31 4 57:55 2.51 -1.49

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Kyle Okposo · Cody Eakin · Zemgus Girgensons11:1040.041.20-1
Vinnie Hinostroza · Peyton Krebs · Dylan Cozens10:5771.473.51-0
Jeff Skinner · Alex Tuch · Tage Thompson5:5975.071.62-1
Victor Olofsson · Rasmus Asplund · Casey Mittelstadt5:3025.025.20-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Casey Fitzgerald · Mattias Samuelsson15:2246.261.20-0
Henri Jokiharju · Rasmus Dahlin14:2859.355.42-1
Mark Pysyk · Jacob Bryson12:3958.851.21-2

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 1 2 4 0 15:23 0.27 12-12 0.66-0.48
19 Peyton Krebs C 1 1 2 1 0 4 0 14:05 0.32 12-5 0.54-0.30
95 Victor Olofsson L 1 1 2 0 0 2 0 13:48 0.12 2-10 0.10-0.27
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 2 2 0 0 3 0 16:35 0.25 13-9 0.54-0.60
89 Alex Tuch R 0 2 2 1 0 3 0 14:28 0.53 15-3 1.05-0.21
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 1 1 1 0 5 2 18:31 0.26 13-15 0.70-0.68
4 Casey Fitzgerald D 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 19:54 0.03 13-16 0.69-0.54
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 0 0 -2 0 2 3 18:12 0.09 13-15 0.53-0.82
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 13:37 0.02 7-4 0.55-0.10
13 Mark Pysyk D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 13:35 0.02 11-7 0.39-0.37
20 Cody Eakin C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 15:06 0.12 11-13 0.48-0.59
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 24:03 0.04 19-12 1.14-0.82
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 23:45 15-16 0.86-0.48
24 Vinnie Hinostroza C 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 15:28 0.02 13-8 0.54-0.37
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 20:35 0.05 18-14 0.98-0.80
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 -2 0 3 3 14:40 0.19 9-13 0.41-0.65
74 Rasmus Asplund C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 11:18 0.23 8-4 0.57-0.10
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 14:57 11-9 0.39-0.44
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
41 Craig Anderson 25 22 3 60:00 2.23 -0.77