Minnesota Wild at Buffalo Sabres

Nov 27, 2024 · KeyBank Center

Team	Goals	Shots
Minnesota Wild	1	30
Buffalo Sabres	0	39

Scoring

Time	Team	Goal	Assists	Score
1st Period
06:55	MIN	Kirill Kaprizov (14)	Joel Eriksson Ek (5), Matt Boldy (12)	1 - 0

Penalties

Time	Team	Player	Penalty	Min
1st Period
07:32	MIN	Jon Merrill	Hooking	2
16:06	MIN	Yakov Trenin	High sticking	2

Shot attempts

Team	Attempts (Corsi)	Unblocked (Fenwick)	On goal	Goals	Expected goals	5-on-5 CF%
Minnesota Wild	54	39	30	1	2.1	44.3
Buffalo Sabres	89	54	39	0	3.2	55.7

How the game went

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

Expected goals

Minnesota Wild: 2.1 expected, 1 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 3.2 expected, 0 scored

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

Minnesota Wild

Buffalo Sabres

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.

Minnesota Wild

Lines and pairings

Forward line	Time	CF%	xGF%	Goals
Joel Eriksson Ek · Kirill Kaprizov · Matt Boldy	13:05	66.7	76.2	1-0
Marcus Johansson · Ryan Hartman · Marco Rossi	12:38	45.5	43.3	0-0
Marcus Foligno · Frederick Gaudreau · Yakov Trenin	8:52	29.4	10.4	0-0
Travis Boyd · Devin Shore · Ben Jones	6:21	23.8	63.6	0-0

Defence pair	Time	CF%	xGF%	Goals
Jake Middleton · Brock Faber	18:51	45.2	55.8	1-0
Jared Spurgeon · Declan Chisholm	18:19	46.7	48.5	0-0
Zach Bogosian · Jon Merrill	11:26	42.3	62.7	0-0

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
97	Kirill Kaprizov	L	1	0	1	1	0	3	0	22:15	0.24	25-12	0.98-0.20
12	Matt Boldy	L	0	1	1	1	0	2	0	20:17	0.07	20-11	0.54-0.18
14	Joel Eriksson Ek	C	0	1	1	1	0	4	1	19:34	0.11	18-10	0.41-0.14
4	Jon Merrill	D	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	16:05	0.03	12-18	0.78-0.67
7	Brock Faber	D	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	22:15	0.11	19-25	0.61-0.69
13	Yakov Trenin	C	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	13:45		10-18	0.36-0.67
17	Marcus Foligno	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	12:05		5-12	0.05-0.42
19	Devin Shore	C	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	09:05	0.44	5-23	0.46-0.61
23	Marco Rossi	C	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	16:36	0.19	20-20	0.80-0.71
24	Zach Bogosian	D	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	14:37	0.13	11-17	0.78-0.47
38	Ryan Hartman	R	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	15:38	0.21	19-23	0.74-0.85
39	Ben Jones	C	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	09:19	0.04	8-21	0.56-0.40
46	Jared Spurgeon	D	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	22:10	0.09	21-25	0.69-0.73
47	Declan Chisholm	D	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	20:09	0.06	23-26	0.71-0.81
55	Jake Middleton	D	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	24:49		22-26	0.63-0.56
72	Travis Boyd	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	06:54		5-16	0.46-0.26
89	Frederick Gaudreau	C	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	14:30	0.28	9-17	0.33-0.70
90	Marcus Johansson	L	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	15:57	0.09	18-20	0.61-0.74

#	Goalie	Decision	Shots against	Saves	Goals against	TOI	xGA	Saved above xG
32	Filip Gustavsson	W, SO	39	39	0	60:00	3.20	+3.20

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward line	Time	CF%	xGF%	Goals
Alex Tuch · Tage Thompson · JJ Peterka	13:48	68.8	72.3	0-1
Peyton Krebs · Dylan Cozens · Zach Benson	13:48	50.0	19.0	0-0
Jason Zucker · Jack Quinn · Jiri Kulich	10:49	42.4	24.5	0-0
Sam Lafferty · Beck Malenstyn · Ryan McLeod	8:37	58.3	97.6	0-0

Defence pair	Time	CF%	xGF%	Goals
Rasmus Dahlin · Bowen Byram	17:18	54.8	49.5	0-0
Henri Jokiharju · Owen Power	14:24	44.8	33.8	0-0
Connor Clifton · Jacob Bryson	11:00	54.2	32.8	0-0

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	+/-	Shots	Hits	TOI	xG	CF-CA	xGF-xGA
6	Zach Benson	L	0	1	1	16:15	0.05	18-17	0.32-0.55
10	JJ Peterka	R	-1	1	1	20:16	0.25	27-10	0.82-0.26
17	Jason Zucker	L	0	1	0	14:55	0.07	15-21	0.39-1.25
19	Peyton Krebs	C	0	1	2	15:00	0.01	17-16	0.12-0.51
20	Henri Jokiharju	D	-1	1	0	18:15	0.00	16-19	0.60-0.84
20	Jiri Kulich	C	0	5	1	14:18	0.29	18-21	0.65-1.25
22	Jack Quinn	R	0	6	1	14:40	0.54	18-21	0.75-1.29
24	Sam Lafferty	C	0	0	1	09:42		7-7	0.30-0.04
24	Bowen Byram	D	0	1	0	21:25	0.00	28-23	0.79-0.64
24	Dylan Cozens	C	0	2	3	19:31	0.11	17-17	0.12-0.55
25	Owen Power	D	0	1	0	24:27	0.20	25-21	0.80-0.82
26	Rasmus Dahlin	D	-1	3	1	26:35	0.18	30-21	0.81-0.72
29	Beck Malenstyn	L	0	2	0	11:00	0.08	8-6	0.42-0.04
71	Ryan McLeod	C	0	0	0	11:14	0.13	9-6	0.42-0.04
72	Tage Thompson	C	-1	6	0	19:43	0.50	24-10	0.77-0.26
75	Connor Clifton	D	0	2	3	13:35	0.07	21-13	0.45-0.62
78	Jacob Bryson	D	0	0	0	11:57		15-11	0.29-0.55
89	Alex Tuch	R	-1	6	1	19:45	0.70	27-10	0.95-0.26

#	Goalie	Decision	Shots against	Saves	Goals against	TOI	xGA	Saved above xG
1	Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen	L	30	29	1	57:27	2.11	+1.11