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Buffalo Sabres at Vegas Golden Knights

Dec 19, 2022 · T-Mobile Arena

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 3 18
Vegas Golden Knights 2 43

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
2nd Period
01:53 BUF Jeff Skinner (16) Alex Tuch (20), Lawrence Pilut (2) 1 - 0
07:15 BUF Tage Thompson (26) Casey Fitzgerald (3) 2 - 0
13:28 BUF Lawrence Pilut (1) Kyle Okposo (10), Peyton Krebs (4) 3 - 0
3rd Period
03:54 VGK Chandler Stephenson (8) Michael Amadio (2), Alec Martinez (5) 3 - 1
17:38 VGK Reilly Smith (17) Alex Pietrangelo (20), William Karlsson (16) 3 - 2

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
03:59 VGK Keegan Kolesar Boarding 2
08:18 BUF Ilya Lyubushkin Boarding 2
13:58 BUF Ilya Lyubushkin Interference 2
3rd Period
09:47 BUF Mattias Samuelsson Delaying game puck over glass 2
13:03 BUF Kyle Okposo Ps tripping on breakaway 0

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 45 36 18 3 3.1 44.6
Vegas Golden Knights 72 57 43 2 4.7 55.4

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 Vegas Golden Knights had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 3.1 expected, 3 scored · Vegas Golden Knights: 4.7 expected, 2 scored

01234Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 1:53 of 2nd, a 7% chanceBUF goal, 7:15 of 2nd, a 13% chanceBUF goal, 13:28 of 2nd, a 2% chanceVGK goal, 3:54 of 3rd, a 14% chanceVGK goal, 17:38 of 3rd, a 4% chanceVGK 4.7BUF 3.1

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
Vegas Golden Knights

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
Jeff Skinner · Alex Tuch · Tage Thompson12:0748.336.22-0
Kyle Okposo · Zemgus Girgensons · Peyton Krebs7:4560.024.31-0
Victor Olofsson · Casey Mittelstadt · Dylan Cozens6:1146.729.70-1
Dylan Cozens · Jack Quinn · JJ Peterka5:5111.113.50-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mattias Samuelsson · Rasmus Dahlin17:0935.122.80-0
Kale Clague · Ilya Lyubushkin10:3323.59.70-0
Casey Fitzgerald · Lawrence Pilut7:4364.746.12-1

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
20 Lawrence Pilut D 1 1 2 1 0 1 0 13:31 0.03 12-8 0.41-0.51
53 Jeff Skinner L 1 0 1 2 0 1 1 16:26 0.14 15-18 0.56-1.09
72 Tage Thompson C 1 0 1 2 0 3 1 17:57 0.26 14-17 0.56-0.99
4 Casey Fitzgerald D 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 15:33 14-10 0.54-0.52
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 14:22 0.12 10-9 0.30-0.73
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 11:02 0.00 12-7 0.29-0.72
89 Alex Tuch R 0 1 1 2 0 2 1 18:44 0.08 15-18 0.56-1.08
10 JJ Peterka R 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 09:27 2-14 0.03-0.64
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 17:23 10-11 0.31-0.76
17 Tyson Jost C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 12:46 0.03 5-9 0.15-0.40
22 Jack Quinn R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 09:45 2-11 0.03-0.37
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 0 2 3 2 28:30 0.05 17-29 0.42-1.30
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 18:18 0.08 9-20 0.35-1.02
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 29:03 0.11 22-28 0.81-1.34
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 13:29 0.23 14-6 0.46-0.45
38 Kale Clague D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16:45 11-14 0.34-1.21
46 Ilya Lyubushkin D 0 0 0 -1 4 0 4 15:37 8-16 0.20-1.29
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 15:22 0.22 13-10 0.46-0.76
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen W 43 41 2 60:00 4.68 +2.68

Vegas Golden Knights

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Reilly Smith · William Karlsson · Jonathan Marchessault13:1266.773.10-1
William Carrier · Keegan Kolesar · Nicolas Roy8:5764.791.60-0
Mark Stone · Chandler Stephenson · Michael Amadio5:5960.070.51-0
Phil Kessel · Mark Stone · Chandler Stephenson4:290.00.00-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Alec Martinez · Alex Pietrangelo18:0856.473.20-0
Brayden McNabb · Daniil Miromanov12:3250.067.31-1
Ben Hutton · Nicolas Hague10:0376.982.20-1

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

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
9 Chandler Stephenson C 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 21:20 0.22 13-12 0.69-0.44
19 Reilly Smith R 1 0 1 0 0 5 1 22:28 0.56 22-9 1.05-0.33
7 Alex Pietrangelo D 0 1 1 1 0 4 1 28:43 0.11 27-17 1.58-0.50
22 Michael Amadio R 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 13:34 0.13 16-13 0.98-0.56
25 Alec Martinez D 0 1 1 -1 0 3 1 20:07 0.09 24-20 1.48-0.61
71 William Karlsson C 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 20:56 0.37 19-10 0.92-0.36
3 Brayden McNabb D 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 17:25 0.05 15-11 0.97-0.35
8 Phil Kessel R 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 08:33 0.26 1-8 0.02-0.27
10 Nicolas Roy C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 16:54 0.27 15-16 1.13-0.44
15 Jake Leschyshyn C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 06:29 0.02 5-6 0.31-0.18
17 Ben Hutton D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 12:58 0.17 10-8 0.62-0.35
28 William Carrier L 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 14:33 0.60 16-12 1.39-0.36
41 Nicolas Hague D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 14:46 0.02 13-7 0.62-0.27
46 Jonas Rondbjerg R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 08:34 0.03 3-6 0.04-0.20
55 Keegan Kolesar R 0 0 0 0 2 3 4 10:24 0.40 11-8 0.90-0.16
61 Mark Stone R 0 0 0 1 0 5 1 22:41 0.69 14-14 0.78-0.44
62 Daniil Miromanov D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17:28 11-18 0.72-0.62
81 Jonathan Marchessault R 0 0 0 0 0 8 1 22:39 0.71 20-10 0.99-0.36
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
33 Adin Hill L 18 15 3 57:28 1.35 -1.65