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Buffalo Sabres at Tampa Bay Lightning

Feb 23, 2023 · Amalie Arena

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 6 23
Tampa Bay Lightning 5 41

Decided in overtime.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
02:19 TBL Steven Stamkos (26) Brayden Point (29), Nikita Kucherov (60) 0 - 1
11:41 BUF Zemgus Girgensons (7) Rasmus Dahlin (47), Tyson Jost (14) 1 - 1
2nd Period
09:36 BUF Tage Thompson (37) PP Jeff Skinner (33), Rasmus Dahlin (48) 2 - 1
12:20 BUF Tage Thompson (38) Jeff Skinner (34) 3 - 1
12:36 TBL Victor Hedman (5) Patrick Maroon (9), Nick Paul (11) 3 - 2
13:25 BUF Jack Quinn (10) Peyton Krebs (9), Casey Mittelstadt (26) 4 - 2
3rd Period
05:48 TBL Brayden Point (34) Victor Hedman (35), Brandon Hagel (26) 4 - 3
06:18 BUF Tage Thompson (39) Unassisted 5 - 3
08:33 TBL Anthony Cirelli (8) Erik Cernak (10), Brayden Point (30) 5 - 4
14:54 TBL Ross Colton (13) PP Steven Stamkos (35), Brayden Point (31) 5 - 5
Overtime
01:41 BUF Ilya Lyubushkin (1) SH Unassisted 6 - 5

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
2nd Period
00:24 TBL Brandon Hagel Tripping 2
06:26 BUF Mattias Samuelsson Holding 2
08:51 TBL Nick Paul Interference 2
3rd Period
13:45 BUF Team Too many men on the ice 2
19:52 BUF Henri Jokiharju Delaying game puck over glass 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 49 36 23 6 2.4 43.3
Tampa Bay Lightning 68 59 41 5 5.0 56.7

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 Tampa Bay Lightning had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 2.4 expected, 6 scored · Tampa Bay Lightning: 5.0 expected, 5 scored

01234Start2nd3rdOTBUF goal, 11:41 of 1st, a 9% chanceBUF goal, 9:36 of 2nd, a 11% chanceBUF goal, 12:20 of 2nd, a 13% chanceBUF goal, 13:25 of 2nd, a 11% chanceBUF goal, 6:18 of 3rd, a 15% chanceBUF goal, 1:41 of overtime, a 12% chanceTBL goal, 2:19 of 1st, a 6% chanceTBL goal, 12:36 of 2nd, a 9% chanceTBL goal, 5:48 of 3rd, a 9% chanceTBL goal, 8:33 of 3rd, a 27% chanceTBL goal, 14:54 of 3rd, a 11% chanceTBL 5.0BUF 2.4

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
Tampa Bay Lightning

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 Thompson11:3028.623.22-1
Kyle Okposo · Zemgus Girgensons · Tyson Jost10:2846.756.61-1
Casey Mittelstadt · Peyton Krebs · Jack Quinn7:1846.242.31-0
Victor Olofsson · Dylan Cozens · JJ Peterka5:3946.232.60-2
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mattias Samuelsson · Rasmus Dahlin19:2045.036.02-2
Henri Jokiharju · Owen Power17:4350.046.60-0
Jacob Bryson · Ilya Lyubushkin7:5640.08.10-1

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
72 Tage Thompson C 3 0 3 1 0 4 3 17:16 0.54 7-16 0.48-1.38
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 2 2 1 0 1 6 27:03 0.03 21-28 1.10-1.94
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 2 2 1 0 1 0 16:46 0.06 8-18 0.45-1.41
22 Jack Quinn R 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 12:57 0.11 12-12 0.27-0.84
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 1 0 1 0 0 2 5 17:45 0.19 10-12 0.45-0.42
46 Ilya Lyubushkin D 1 0 1 1 0 2 4 12:26 0.13 5-7 0.16-0.51
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 13:16 0.11 14-11 0.72-0.63
17 Tyson Jost C 0 1 1 0 0 2 2 14:25 0.13 9-11 0.35-0.38
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 1 1 1 0 0 6 15:21 0.10 12-13 0.56-0.63
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 15:25 0.02 9-12 0.41-0.32
10 JJ Peterka R 0 0 0 -2 0 1 1 10:11 0.19 10-13 0.41-1.20
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 0 2 4 1 21:54 0.07 17-21 0.80-1.12
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 1 2 1 3 25:04 0.06 19-25 1.06-1.88
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 0 0 -2 0 2 3 15:07 0.47 15-18 0.75-1.58
25 Owen Power D 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 24:31 0.11 17-19 0.89-1.22
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 2 10:12 5-10 0.04-0.81
89 Alex Tuch R 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 19:03 8-19 0.53-1.51
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 13:04 0.05 12-10 0.72-0.92
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Eric Comrie W 41 36 5 61:41 4.94 -0.06

Tampa Bay Lightning

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Patrick Maroon · Nick Paul · Ross Colton9:3766.775.31-0
Corey Perry · Vladislav Namestnikov · Pierre-Edouard Bellemare8:0962.557.10-1
Nikita Kucherov · Brayden Point · Brandon Hagel7:3063.268.60-1
Steven Stamkos · Nikita Kucherov · Brayden Point7:1952.659.61-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Victor Hedman · Nick Perbix9:3453.862.52-0
Erik Cernak · Mikhail Sergachev7:0862.581.31-0
Victor Hedman · Mikhail Sergachev6:0957.156.60-2

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
21 Brayden Point C 1 3 4 0 0 2 2 21:36 0.56 25-16 1.79-0.73
77 Victor Hedman D 1 1 2 1 0 7 3 26:03 0.43 23-18 1.38-0.86
91 Steven Stamkos C 1 1 2 -2 0 5 2 19:22 0.92 17-16 0.90-0.65
71 Anthony Cirelli C 1 0 1 -1 0 1 0 18:54 0.41 9-13 0.75-0.66
79 Ross Colton C 1 0 1 1 0 4 5 13:15 0.31 13-6 0.87-0.24
20 Nick Paul L 0 1 1 1 2 1 3 14:02 0.36 16-7 1.01-0.25
38 Brandon Hagel L 0 1 1 0 2 2 2 18:36 0.17 16-15 1.31-0.77
77 Patrick Maroon L 0 1 1 1 0 1 2 11:15 0.28 13-6 0.87-0.24
81 Erik Cernak D 0 1 1 1 0 2 4 19:34 0.08 18-11 1.35-0.41
86 Nikita Kucherov R 0 1 1 -2 0 6 0 20:27 0.76 25-16 1.65-0.73
7 Vladislav Namestnikov C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 2 10:31 0.17 9-5 0.53-0.37
17 Alex Killorn L 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 16:46 8-14 0.65-0.80
24 Haydn Fleury D 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 13:13 0.07 14-9 0.97-0.25
28 Ian Cole D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 4 16:51 0.03 19-9 1.32-0.50
41 Pierre-Edouard Bellemare L 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 10:43 0.22 6-6 0.35-0.39
48 Nick Perbix D 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 15:15 11-13 0.62-0.77
90 Corey Perry R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 11:48 0.14 8-6 0.53-0.26
98 Mikhail Sergachev D 0 0 0 -2 0 2 5 25:48 0.06 25-24 1.82-1.27
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
88 Andrei Vasilevskiy OTL 23 17 6 61:41 2.36 -3.64