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Buffalo Sabres at Pittsburgh Penguins

Dec 10, 2022 · PPG Paints Arena

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 1 38
Pittsburgh Penguins 3 31

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
04:22 PIT Rickard Rakell (12) PP Evgeni Malkin (20), Sidney Crosby (21) 0 - 1
06:51 PIT Sidney Crosby (16) Jake Guentzel (15), Brian Dumoulin (7) 0 - 2
3rd Period
11:00 BUF Peyton Krebs (2) Casey Fitzgerald (2), Zemgus Girgensons (4) 1 - 2
18:22 PIT Sidney Crosby (17) Jake Guentzel (16), Bryan Rust (10) 1 - 3

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
01:01 BUF Tage Thompson Hooking 2
03:21 BUF Victor Olofsson High sticking 2
12:26 PIT Jake Guentzel Interference 2
16:16 PIT Brian Dumoulin Interference 2
3rd Period
05:28 PIT Kris Letang Holding 2
19:59 BUF Rasmus Dahlin Slashing 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 70 53 38 1 3.3 57.3
Pittsburgh Penguins 53 46 31 3 4.0 42.7

How the game went

15105051015Start2nd3rdPittsburgh Penguins 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 Pittsburgh Penguins had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 3.3 expected, 1 scored · Pittsburgh Penguins: 4.0 expected, 3 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 11:00 of 3rd, a 11% chancePIT goal, 4:22 of 1st, a 14% chancePIT goal, 6:51 of 1st, a 8% chancePIT goal, 18:22 of 3rd, a 9% chancePIT 4.0BUF 3.3

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

Buffalo Sabres
Pittsburgh Penguins

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 Peterka12:3766.768.10-1
Alex Tuch · Tage Thompson · Casey Mittelstadt11:5368.470.20-1
Victor Olofsson · Rasmus Asplund · Tyson Jost9:2143.532.10-0
Kyle Okposo · Zemgus Girgensons · Peyton Krebs8:0258.846.21-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Rasmus Dahlin · Owen Power10:0988.282.40-1
Mattias Samuelsson · Rasmus Dahlin9:3870.684.90-0
Kale Clague · Mattias Samuelsson5:4727.34.90-0

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
19 Peyton Krebs C 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 12:41 0.17 14-7 0.45-0.37
4 Casey Fitzgerald D 0 1 1 1 0 1 3 09:04 0.03 10-7 0.41-0.45
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 1 1 1 0 1 4 10:06 0.00 10-7 0.32-0.37
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 11:50 0.04 10-7 0.32-0.37
10 JJ Peterka R 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 18:47 0.27 19-12 0.84-0.50
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 3 18:21 0.14 15-7 0.67-0.30
17 Tyson Jost C 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 12:29 0.11 10-15 0.48-1.21
22 Jack Quinn R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 17:51 0.18 18-10 0.78-0.36
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 8 22:56 0.39 16-19 0.87-0.75
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 0 0 -1 0 4 1 18:02 0.40 17-9 0.72-0.36
25 Owen Power D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 3 26:28 0.12 30-18 1.13-1.31
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 -1 2 3 1 30:19 0.36 29-13 1.50-0.79
38 Kale Clague D 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 12:51 0.11 12-16 0.20-0.79
72 Tage Thompson C 0 0 0 -1 2 6 3 20:05 0.55 14-10 0.65-0.44
74 Rasmus Asplund C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 10:52 0.07 11-15 0.48-1.21
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 12:09 0.02 12-9 0.49-0.68
89 Alex Tuch R 0 0 0 -1 0 3 2 20:06 0.22 15-11 0.67-0.63
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 13:38 0.16 13-13 0.54-1.02
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen 31 28 3 58:23 3.24 +0.24

Pittsburgh Penguins

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Sidney Crosby · Rickard Rakell · Jake Guentzel12:5845.043.61-0
Josh Archibald · Teddy Blueger · Ryan Poehling9:0950.050.80-0
Evgeni Malkin · Jason Zucker · Bryan Rust7:1169.272.80-0
Jeff Carter · Brock McGinn · Kasperi Kapanen6:0230.021.30-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Kris Letang · Pierre-Olivier Joseph16:1328.625.50-1
Brian Dumoulin · Jan Rutta14:4358.659.91-0
Jeff Petry · Marcus Pettersson13:3840.760.50-0

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
87 Sidney Crosby C 2 1 3 2 0 4 1 18:48 0.51 10-13 0.48-0.54
59 Jake Guentzel C 0 2 2 2 2 2 1 19:09 0.33 10-15 0.48-0.53
67 Rickard Rakell R 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 17:57 0.26 10-14 0.45-0.59
2 Brian Dumoulin D 0 1 1 1 2 1 2 18:29 0.03 17-15 0.90-0.65
17 Bryan Rust R 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 16:32 0.25 12-15 0.65-0.27
71 Evgeni Malkin C 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 14:03 0.33 12-17 0.69-0.65
2 Jeff Petry D 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 20:17 0.00 12-19 0.78-0.54
7 Pierre-Olivier Joseph D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 4 17:35 0.01 8-21 0.38-1.15
15 Josh Archibald R 0 0 0 0 0 3 5 12:08 0.26 11-12 0.76-0.61
17 Jason Zucker L 0 0 0 -1 0 4 4 11:59 0.56 13-8 0.90-0.38
25 Ryan Poehling C 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 14:05 0.08 10-12 0.59-0.73
26 Brock McGinn L 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 13:26 0.13 8-19 0.41-0.66
26 Marcus Pettersson D 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 19:55 0.02 15-18 1.07-0.49
42 Kasperi Kapanen R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 4 10:56 8-14 0.52-0.79
58 Kris Letang D 0 0 0 0 2 0 7 22:14 10-23 0.50-1.11
73 Teddy Blueger C 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 16:12 0.34 13-14 0.76-0.72
77 Jeff Carter C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 11:23 0.04 6-11 0.44-0.45
84 Jan Rutta D 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 19:08 0.11 20-14 1.14-0.66
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Casey DeSmith 38 37 1 59:44 3.32 +2.32