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Buffalo Sabres at Columbus Blue Jackets

Dec 7, 2022 · Nationwide Arena

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 9 30
Columbus Blue Jackets 4 24

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
03:21 BUF Dylan Cozens (10) PP Rasmus Dahlin (22), Tage Thompson (19) 1 - 0
05:32 BUF Tage Thompson (17) Alex Tuch (13) 2 - 0
07:28 BUF Rasmus Dahlin (9) Dylan Cozens (16), Jack Quinn (9) 3 - 0
07:50 BUF Tage Thompson (18) Alex Tuch (14), Jeff Skinner (16) 4 - 0
12:22 BUF Tage Thompson (19) PP Jeff Skinner (17), Dylan Cozens (17) 5 - 0
16:40 BUF Tage Thompson (20) PP Jeff Skinner (18), Rasmus Dahlin (23) 6 - 0
2nd Period
10:49 CBJ Patrik Laine (5) Jack Roslovic (8) 6 - 1
12:04 CBJ Gustav Nyquist (5) Johnny Gaudreau (19), Boone Jenner (10) 6 - 2
16:07 BUF Tage Thompson (21) Alex Tuch (15), Jacob Bryson (6) 7 - 2
17:19 BUF Peyton Krebs (1) Unassisted 8 - 2
19:16 BUF Alex Tuch (13) Jeff Skinner (19), Jacob Bryson (7) 9 - 2
3rd Period
04:47 CBJ Patrik Laine (6) Vladislav Gavrikov (5), Egor Chinakhov (8) 9 - 3
15:49 CBJ Gustav Nyquist (6) Marcus Bjork (4) 9 - 4

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
02:28 CBJ Eric Robinson Hooking 2
10:09 CBJ Sean Kuraly Tripping 2
10:09 CBJ Sean Kuraly Roughing 2
14:54 CBJ Sean Kuraly Tripping 2
15:58 CBJ Jack Roslovic Hooking 2
17:13 BUF JJ Peterka Holding the stick 2
17:13 CBJ Sean Kuraly Roughing 2
17:13 BUF Owen Power Roughing 2
2nd Period
01:15 BUF Owen Power Ps throwing object at puck 0
3rd Period
08:11 CBJ Sean Kuraly Misconduct 10
08:11 BUF Dylan Cozens Cross checking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 48 34 30 9 2.1 52.6
Columbus Blue Jackets 48 38 24 4 3.0 47.4

How the game went

151050Start2nd3rdColumbus Blue Jackets 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 Columbus Blue Jackets had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 2.1 expected, 9 scored · Columbus Blue Jackets: 3.0 expected, 4 scored

012Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 3:21 of 1st, a 6% chanceBUF goal, 5:32 of 1st, a 7% chanceBUF goal, 7:28 of 1st, a 12% chanceBUF goal, 7:50 of 1st, a 16% chanceBUF goal, 12:22 of 1st, a 8% chanceBUF goal, 16:40 of 1st, a 12% chanceBUF goal, 16:07 of 2nd, a 2% chanceBUF goal, 17:19 of 2nd, a 14% chanceBUF goal, 19:16 of 2nd, a 3% chanceCBJ goal, 10:49 of 2nd, a 4% chanceCBJ goal, 12:04 of 2nd, a 11% chanceCBJ goal, 4:47 of 3rd, a 8% chanceCBJ goal, 15:49 of 3rd, a 7% chanceCBJ 3.0BUF 2.1

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
Columbus Blue Jackets

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
Dylan Cozens · Jack Quinn · JJ Peterka12:2840.029.11-2
Kyle Okposo · Zemgus Girgensons · Peyton Krebs11:3772.719.80-0
Victor Olofsson · Tyson Jost · Casey Mittelstadt9:4766.766.80-1
Jeff Skinner · Alex Tuch · Tage Thompson8:4445.827.04-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Henri Jokiharju · Owen Power17:3152.046.13-0
Mattias Samuelsson · Rasmus Dahlin11:1357.739.40-0
Jacob Bryson · Lawrence Pilut9:4961.537.51-2

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

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
72 Tage Thompson C 5 1 6 3 0 9 0 13:56 0.68 14-14 0.52-1.00
89 Alex Tuch R 1 3 4 4 0 3 0 13:19 0.03 12-13 0.34-0.91
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 4 4 4 0 1 0 12:52 0.17 12-13 0.44-0.91
24 Dylan Cozens C 1 2 3 -1 2 1 0 17:21 0.06 8-14 0.21-0.52
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 1 2 3 0 0 2 0 18:48 0.12 18-13 0.49-0.65
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 2 2 -1 0 0 0 16:09 9-10 0.19-0.54
19 Peyton Krebs C 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 14:12 0.14 9-3 0.19-0.18
22 Jack Quinn R 0 1 1 0 0 3 1 18:51 0.28 11-13 0.54-0.52
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 15:37 8-3 0.04-0.18
10 JJ Peterka R 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 16:55 0.08 10-14 0.44-0.60
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 0 0 -2 0 3 0 14:54 0.29 10-8 0.44-0.38
17 Tyson Jost C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 14:04 10-7 0.44-0.30
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 3 0 1 1 23:56 0.02 13-13 0.59-0.69
20 Lawrence Pilut D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 13:52 0.01 8-8 0.16-0.47
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 18:11 0.02 16-17 0.47-0.89
25 Owen Power D 0 0 0 4 2 1 0 23:54 0.03 18-13 0.83-0.76
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 15:18 0.01 9-3 0.05-0.18
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 13:51 0.10 10-6 0.44-0.30
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen W 24 20 4 60:00 2.98 -1.02

Columbus Blue Jackets

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Johnny Gaudreau · Boone Jenner · Kent Johnson8:5562.566.00-0
Jack Roslovic · Patrik Laine · Egor Chinakhov8:2154.570.92-0
Gustav Nyquist · Kirill Marchenko · Cole Sillinger6:5058.384.71-1
Sean Kuraly · Mathieu Olivier · Eric Robinson5:2853.869.40-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Erik Gudbranson · Tim Berni16:1330.830.31-1
Andrew Peeke · Gavin Bayreuther12:4126.333.20-1
Vladislav Gavrikov · Marcus Bjork11:2863.075.43-2

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
14 Gustav Nyquist R 2 0 2 0 0 4 0 14:34 0.38 10-9 0.33-0.22
92 Patrik Laine L 2 0 2 0 0 2 0 15:05 0.37 8-12 0.51-0.50
13 Johnny Gaudreau L 0 1 1 -2 0 3 0 16:20 0.26 13-15 0.80-0.70
22 Boone Jenner C 0 1 1 0 0 2 2 17:47 0.08 14-9 0.80-0.45
44 Vladislav Gavrikov D 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 18:08 18-11 1.08-0.35
47 Marcus Bjork D 0 1 1 0 0 1 2 18:11 0.04 23-13 1.43-0.39
59 Egor Chinakhov R 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 13:13 0.10 6-9 0.36-0.33
96 Jack Roslovic C 0 1 1 1 2 1 0 16:38 0.10 7-10 0.36-0.36
4 Cole Sillinger C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 14:15 0.01 9-10 0.29-0.22
15 Gavin Bayreuther D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 3 17:30 0.18 8-16 0.49-0.55
20 Andrew Peeke D 0 0 0 -3 0 1 2 21:27 0.03 11-20 0.47-0.64
24 Mathieu Olivier R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 07:55 0.37 7-6 0.54-0.24
44 Erik Gudbranson D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 3 22:57 0.02 9-13 0.30-0.44
50 Eric Robinson L 0 0 0 -2 2 1 2 13:06 0.18 9-12 0.61-0.33
52 Sean Kuraly C 0 0 0 -2 18 2 4 10:31 0.23 7-12 0.54-0.33
75 Tim Berni D 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 19:16 5-9 0.22-0.35
86 Kirill Marchenko R 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 17:14 0.58 8-10 0.29-0.09
91 Kent Johnson C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 19:01 0.08 13-9 0.54-0.31
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
90 Elvis Merzlikins L 21 15 6 32:32 1.35 -4.65
70 Joonas Korpisalo 9 6 3 27:28 0.69 -2.31