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Buffalo Sabres at Colorado Avalanche

Dec 15, 2022 · Ball Arena

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 4 21
Colorado Avalanche 2 41

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
00:54 BUF Tage Thompson (24) Casey Mittelstadt (12), Kale Clague (2) 1 - 0
07:08 BUF Alex Tuch (15) PP Rasmus Dahlin (25), Tage Thompson (22) 2 - 0
2nd Period
17:11 BUF Rasmus Dahlin (10) Tyson Jost (6), Victor Olofsson (5) 3 - 0
3rd Period
08:20 COL Mikko Rantanen (20) Valeri Nichushkin (7), Artturi Lehkonen (13) 3 - 1
18:38 COL Evan Rodrigues (7) Valeri Nichushkin (8), Cale Makar (20) 3 - 2
19:02 BUF Dylan Cozens (11) Unassisted 4 - 2

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
01:04 BUF Casey Fitzgerald High sticking 2
06:09 COL Team Too many men on the ice 2
2nd Period
00:55 COL Cale Makar Hooking 2
12:42 BUF Vinnie Hinostroza Interference 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 32 28 21 4 3.2 27.5
Colorado Avalanche 83 60 41 2 4.2 72.5

How the game went

01020304050Start2nd3rdColorado Avalanche 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 Colorado Avalanche had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 3.2 expected, 4 scored · Colorado Avalanche: 4.2 expected, 2 scored

01234Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 0:54 of 1st, a 24% chanceBUF goal, 7:08 of 1st, a 21% chanceBUF goal, 17:11 of 2nd, a 11% chanceBUF goal, 19:02 of 3rd, a 44% chanceCOL goal, 8:20 of 3rd, a 14% chanceCOL goal, 18:38 of 3rd, a 14% chanceCOL 4.2BUF 3.2

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
Colorado Avalanche

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
Alex Tuch · Tage Thompson · Casey Mittelstadt13:1733.329.60-0
Victor Olofsson · Rasmus Asplund · Tyson Jost10:2110.032.81-1
Dylan Cozens · Jack Quinn · JJ Peterka9:4715.429.30-0
Zemgus Girgensons · Vinnie Hinostroza · Peyton Krebs5:1557.151.80-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Kale Clague · Rasmus Dahlin9:0231.364.91-0
Kale Clague · Mattias Samuelsson8:5721.132.00-0
Rasmus Dahlin · Lawrence Pilut6:5536.435.90-0

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
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 1 1 2 1 0 1 0 29:27 0.11 12-27 0.70-0.96
72 Tage Thompson C 1 1 2 2 0 2 0 22:50 0.28 12-27 0.74-1.67
24 Dylan Cozens C 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 18:20 0.09 3-16 0.18-0.53
89 Alex Tuch R 1 0 1 1 0 5 1 21:16 0.70 13-24 0.50-1.40
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 1 1 0 0 3 1 18:05 0.11 13-24 0.74-1.40
17 Tyson Jost C 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 13:54 2-10 0.11-0.22
38 Kale Clague D 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 23:56 0.02 15-33 0.87-0.97
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 1 1 -1 0 0 0 13:40 1-10 0.11-0.28
4 Casey Fitzgerald D 0 0 0 -1 2 0 1 14:24 6-19 0.33-1.46
10 JJ Peterka R 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 15:15 0.04 3-18 0.18-0.76
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 08:30 0.28 8-13 0.41-0.55
20 Lawrence Pilut D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 17:44 0.11 8-24 0.35-1.54
22 Jack Quinn R 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 14:27 0.14 3-17 0.42-0.76
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 1 0 1 4 31:31 0.00 10-34 0.64-1.27
24 Vinnie Hinostroza C 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 10:00 8-15 0.41-0.53
25 Owen Power D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00:00
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 09:37 8-10 0.41-0.45
74 Rasmus Asplund C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13:04 1-12 0.11-0.22
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen W 41 39 2 60:00 4.13 +2.13

Colorado Avalanche

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Artturi Lehkonen · Valeri Nichushkin · Mikko Rantanen9:3073.965.01-2
Andrew Cogliano · J.T. Compher · Logan O'Connor5:1284.687.60-0
Evan Rodrigues · Alex Newhook · Ben Meyers3:5966.758.50-0
J.T. Compher · Valeri Nichushkin · Mikko Rantanen3:4462.568.80-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Devon Toews · Cale Makar16:2974.383.70-0
Erik Johnson · Samuel Girard10:4877.885.90-0
Brad Hunt · Andreas Englund7:0440.027.50-0

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
43 Valeri Nichushkin R 0 2 2 -1 0 3 1 24:21 0.35 29-11 1.99-0.76
17 Evan Rodrigues C 1 0 1 0 0 6 0 18:24 0.70 20-7 0.49-0.27
96 Mikko Rantanen R 1 0 1 -1 0 8 4 27:00 0.90 31-13 1.45-0.68
8 Cale Makar D 0 1 1 -1 2 4 1 28:45 0.24 39-15 2.04-1.12
62 Artturi Lehkonen L 0 1 1 -1 0 4 2 20:21 0.54 25-8 1.31-0.83
6 Erik Johnson D 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 17:39 0.13 21-6 0.73-0.40
7 Devon Toews D 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 27:05 0.03 31-12 1.79-0.42
11 Andrew Cogliano C 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 11:07 0.11 19-3 0.62-0.09
15 Dryden Hunt L 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 06:27 2-5 0.03-0.28
15 Alex Newhook C 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 12:14 0.34 14-4 0.70-0.11
17 Brad Hunt D 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 09:55 0.02 8-3 0.37-0.13
24 Andreas Englund D 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 11:20 0.01 4-5 0.08-0.28
25 Logan O'Connor R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12:42 0.05 15-4 0.46-0.36
37 J.T. Compher L 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 23:43 0.35 25-9 0.85-0.47
49 Samuel Girard D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 2 22:19 0.01 29-9 0.91-0.53
54 Charles Hudon L 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 07:54 2-3 0.01-0.18
59 Ben Meyers C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 12:03 0.38 14-5 0.96-0.21
93 Jean-Luc Foudy C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 05:40 2-3 0.03-0.06
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
40 Alexandar Georgiev L 20 17 3 57:20 1.87 -1.13