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Buffalo Sabres at Ottawa Senators

Dec 31, 2023 · Canadian Tire Centre

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 1 46
Ottawa Senators 5 31

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
06:51 OTT Jakob Chychrun (7) PP Claude Giroux (20), Jake Sanderson (14) 0 - 1
12:38 OTT Zack MacEwen (1) Jacob Bernard-Docker (4), Thomas Chabot (5) 0 - 2
19:46 BUF Tage Thompson (10) Jeff Skinner (12) 1 - 2
2nd Period
07:18 OTT Dominik Kubalik (8) Ridly Greig (7), Thomas Chabot (6) 1 - 3
19:44 OTT Mark Kastelic (1) Erik Brannstrom (7) 1 - 4
3rd Period
15:16 OTT Artem Zub (3) Unassisted 1 - 5

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
05:53 BUF Kyle Okposo Tripping 2
2nd Period
10:52 OTT Thomas Chabot Holding 2
16:41 OTT Drake Batherson Holding 2
3rd Period
07:32 OTT Brady Tkachuk Roughing 2
07:32 BUF Rasmus Dahlin Roughing 2
09:39 OTT Brady Tkachuk Roughing 2
13:19 OTT Mark Kastelic Roughing 2
13:19 BUF Kyle Okposo Roughing 2
15:40 BUF Peyton Krebs Misconduct 10
15:40 OTT Brady Tkachuk Misconduct 10

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 75 56 46 1 3.0 56.4
Ottawa Senators 52 38 31 5 3.0 43.6

How the game went

2520151050510Start2nd3rdOttawa Senators 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 Ottawa Senators had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 3.0 expected, 1 scored · Ottawa Senators: 3.0 expected, 5 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 19:46 of 1st, a 12% chanceOTT goal, 6:51 of 1st, a 13% chanceOTT goal, 12:38 of 1st, a 5% chanceOTT goal, 7:18 of 2nd, a 12% chanceOTT goal, 19:44 of 2nd, a 7% chanceOTT goal, 15:16 of 3rd, a 2% chanceOTT 3.0BUF 3.0

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.

Where the attempts came from

Buffalo Sabres
Ottawa Senators

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
Jordan Greenway · Casey Mittelstadt · Zach Benson11:3650.043.40-0
Jeff Skinner · Alex Tuch · Tage Thompson11:1657.152.71-0
Dylan Cozens · Jack Quinn · JJ Peterka6:4335.315.50-2
Kyle Okposo · Zemgus Girgensons · Peyton Krebs4:5785.780.80-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mattias Samuelsson · Rasmus Dahlin16:2353.645.20-2
Henri Jokiharju · Owen Power12:4051.742.01-0
Connor Clifton · Ryan Johnson12:2263.361.80-1

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 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 19:22 0.13 16-10 0.78-0.54
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 19:31 0.32 18-11 0.88-0.54
6 Zach Benson L 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 15:55 0.19 15-10 0.65-0.60
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 0 0 0 4 2 2 10:56 0.12 17-7 0.69-0.54
10 JJ Peterka R 0 0 0 -4 0 4 0 14:50 0.31 11-17 0.34-0.72
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 20:20 0.16 11-10 0.49-0.60
12 Jordan Greenway L 0 0 0 -1 0 3 6 15:58 0.29 10-13 0.46-0.82
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 0 10 3 0 10:14 0.31 16-7 0.69-0.29
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 1 0 3 4 16:51 0.08 21-18 0.76-1.19
22 Jack Quinn R 0 0 0 -3 0 1 2 15:22 0.01 14-15 0.27-0.82
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 -2 0 2 1 19:27 0.07 17-15 0.68-0.82
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 0 0 -4 0 6 2 13:57 0.29 11-14 0.18-0.59
25 Owen Power D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 18:03 17-14 0.68-0.81
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 -2 2 6 4 25:44 0.21 19-15 0.77-0.71
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 09:26 0.13 17-8 0.57-0.58
33 Ryan Johnson D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 17:25 0.01 23-14 0.87-0.76
75 Connor Clifton D 0 0 0 -1 0 4 2 14:14 0.25 19-12 0.82-0.51
89 Alex Tuch R 0 0 0 1 0 1 4 19:23 0.11 13-10 0.60-0.54
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
27 Devon Levi L 30 26 4 58:04 3.01 -0.99

Ottawa Senators

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Vladimir Tarasenko · Drake Batherson · Tim Stützle11:0234.836.10-0
Claude Giroux · Josh Norris · Brady Tkachuk8:4430.024.40-0
Dominik Kubalik · Parker Kelly · Ridly Greig7:2745.560.01-0
Claude Giroux · Vladimir Tarasenko · Josh Norris1:08100.00.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Travis Hamonic · Jakob Chychrun11:1835.030.30-0
Thomas Chabot · Jacob Bernard-Docker10:1256.554.31-1
Jake Sanderson · Artem Zub9:4330.025.60-0

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
72 Thomas Chabot D 0 2 2 2 2 2 0 21:01 0.29 19-17 1.01-0.77
2 Artem Zub D 1 0 1 1 0 3 2 21:50 0.13 9-18 0.26-0.79
6 Jakob Chychrun D 1 0 1 1 0 3 1 21:18 0.17 20-26 1.28-0.80
19 Zack MacEwen R 1 0 1 2 0 1 3 11:31 0.12 13-16 0.92-0.47
47 Mark Kastelic C 1 0 1 2 2 5 3 10:45 0.33 16-13 0.99-0.42
81 Dominik Kubalik L 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 10:42 0.12 8-8 0.34-0.29
25 Jacob Bernard-Docker D 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 17:01 0.01 16-12 0.89-0.69
26 Erik Brannstrom D 0 1 1 2 0 3 0 15:13 0.72 15-14 1.17-0.38
28 Claude Giroux R 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 18:58 0.20 12-14 0.43-0.48
71 Ridly Greig C 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 13:07 8-9 0.71-0.21
85 Jake Sanderson D 0 1 1 1 0 0 4 19:15 8-17 0.22-0.69
8 Brady Tkachuk L 0 0 0 0 14 3 2 12:11 0.06 10-18 0.22-0.71
9 Josh Norris C 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 14:24 0.20 7-15 0.16-0.51
17 Parker Kelly C 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 15:27 0.20 7-8 0.67-0.29
18 Tim Stützle C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 19:15 0.25 13-21 0.54-1.12
19 Drake Batherson R 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 16:52 0.09 14-18 0.80-0.96
52 Travis Hamonic D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 16:56 15-25 0.88-0.76
91 Vladimir Tarasenko R 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 14:14 0.14 10-16 0.49-0.82
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
31 Anton Forsberg W 46 45 1 60:00 3.04 +2.04