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Buffalo Sabres at Minnesota Wild

Jan 28, 2023 · Xcel Energy Center

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 2 31
Minnesota Wild 3 35

Decided in a shootout.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
02:22 BUF Jack Quinn (8) Unassisted 1 - 0
03:35 MIN Joel Eriksson Ek (18) PP Kirill Kaprizov (32), Mats Zuccarello (29) 1 - 1
2nd Period
09:50 BUF Zemgus Girgensons (5) Kyle Okposo (13), Peyton Krebs (7) 2 - 1
12:39 MIN Jared Spurgeon (9) Frederick Gaudreau (11), Jake Middleton (6) 2 - 2
Shootout
MIN Kirill Kaprizov Shootout winner 2 - 3

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
03:24 BUF Jacob Bryson High sticking 2
10:12 MIN Connor Dewar High sticking 2
12:03 BUF Rasmus Dahlin Hooking 2
16:24 BUF Tage Thompson Hooking 2
2nd Period
05:31 BUF Alex Tuch Tripping 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 54 39 31 2 1.9 53.8
Minnesota Wild 58 47 35 2 3.7 46.2

How the game went

20246810Start2nd3rdOTMinnesota Wild 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 Minnesota Wild had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 1.9 expected, 2 scored · Minnesota Wild: 3.7 expected, 2 scored

0123Start2nd3rdOTBUF goal, 2:22 of 1st, a 9% chanceBUF goal, 9:50 of 2nd, a 11% chanceMIN goal, 3:35 of 1st, a 18% chanceMIN goal, 12:39 of 2nd, a 18% chanceMIN 3.7BUF 1.9

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
Minnesota Wild

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
Kyle Okposo · Zemgus Girgensons · Peyton Krebs10:4171.4100.01-0
Alex Tuch · Tage Thompson · JJ Peterka8:2255.046.20-1
Jeff Skinner · Victor Olofsson · Casey Mittelstadt6:4250.059.80-0
Jeff Skinner · Alex Tuch · Tage Thompson4:4864.345.50-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Henri Jokiharju · Owen Power18:1050.031.10-0
Kale Clague · Rasmus Dahlin15:0363.264.71-0
Jacob Bryson · Ilya Lyubushkin8:0641.245.41-1

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
22 Jack Quinn R 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 11:10 0.10 7-8 0.21-0.37
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 14:58 0.11 7-6 0.26-0.28
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 15:39 0.14 6-5 0.30-0.16
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 16:25 7-3 0.31-0.04
10 JJ Peterka R 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 15:00 0.06 16-12 0.57-0.51
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 17:02 0.24 15-14 0.60-0.46
17 Tyson Jost C 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 11:21 0.07 6-9 0.09-0.46
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 24:52 0.01 23-18 0.57-0.95
25 Owen Power D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 27:56 0.04 20-19 0.60-0.92
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 1 2 3 0 25:56 0.19 18-10 0.80-0.47
38 Kale Clague D 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 17:54 14-10 0.51-0.39
46 Ilya Lyubushkin D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 14:54 10-13 0.52-0.78
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 15:22 0.21 18-16 0.69-0.92
72 Tage Thompson C 0 0 0 -1 2 4 0 20:58 0.41 23-17 0.73-0.96
74 Rasmus Asplund C 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 07:09 3-6 0.12-0.26
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 12:14 0.01 14-14 0.56-0.43
89 Alex Tuch R 0 0 0 -1 2 4 0 22:40 0.17 23-17 0.74-0.97
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 17:19 0.15 15-13 0.60-0.51
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen 35 33 2 65:00 3.65 +1.65

Minnesota Wild

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mats Zuccarello · Kirill Kaprizov · Sam Steel14:2852.665.60-0
Ryan Hartman · Jordan Greenway · Joel Eriksson Ek10:1840.945.90-1
Marcus Foligno · Frederick Gaudreau · Matt Boldy9:5755.662.10-0
Ryan Reaves · Brandon Duhaime · Connor Dewar7:3033.319.80-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jonas Brodin · Mathew Dumba20:2244.449.60-0
Jared Spurgeon · Jake Middleton16:3354.360.81-1
Jon Merrill · Calen Addison9:1720.02.90-1

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
14 Joel Eriksson Ek C 1 0 1 -1 0 6 2 18:27 0.95 10-13 0.36-0.41
46 Jared Spurgeon D 1 0 1 0 0 6 0 25:28 0.57 21-21 0.94-0.67
36 Mats Zuccarello R 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 21:28 0.20 10-10 0.47-0.25
55 Jake Middleton D 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 18:30 0.01 22-16 0.95-0.52
89 Frederick Gaudreau C 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 16:47 0.01 14-12 0.83-0.51
97 Kirill Kaprizov L 0 1 1 0 0 5 4 23:35 0.57 11-10 0.54-0.29
4 Jon Merrill D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 10:45 3-8 0.01-0.20
12 Jordan Greenway L 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 12:53 0.10 11-16 0.53-0.45
12 Matt Boldy L 0 0 0 1 0 6 3 19:36 0.70 13-9 0.72-0.36
17 Marcus Foligno L 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 16:00 0.11 15-12 0.77-0.51
18 Sam Steel C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 21:08 0.05 13-18 0.67-0.56
19 Connor Dewar C 0 0 0 -1 2 0 3 08:51 6-9 0.23-0.43
24 Mathew Dumba D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 22:37 18-20 1.01-0.89
24 Brandon Duhaime L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 09:10 0.05 5-11 0.12-0.50
25 Jonas Brodin D 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 26:16 0.06 17-22 0.89-0.89
33 Calen Addison D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 14:33 2-8 0.01-0.20
38 Ryan Hartman R 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 18:50 0.25 14-18 0.57-0.64
75 Ryan Reaves R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 08:39 0.05 5-12 0.21-0.50
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
29 Marc-Andre Fleury 31 29 2 64:27 1.90 -0.10