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Colorado Avalanche at Buffalo Sabres

Dec 3, 2024 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Colorado Avalanche 5 41
Buffalo Sabres 4 30

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
03:22 BUF Tage Thompson (12) Connor Clifton (5), Alex Tuch (15) 0 - 1
06:39 BUF Tage Thompson (13) Jason Zucker (10), Bowen Byram (11) 0 - 2
06:50 BUF JJ Peterka (8) Zach Benson (4), Dylan Cozens (6) 0 - 3
11:49 BUF Beck Malenstyn (2) Nicolas Aube-Kubel (1) 0 - 4
2nd Period
02:24 COL Nathan MacKinnon (8) Unassisted 1 - 4
3rd Period
01:19 COL Joel Kiviranta (5) Calvin de Haan (2), Logan O'Connor (3) 2 - 4
04:30 COL Logan O'Connor (3) Samuel Girard (13) 3 - 4
07:39 COL Nathan MacKinnon (9) Mikko Rantanen (20), Devon Toews (7) 4 - 4
15:38 COL Artturi Lehkonen (5) Calvin de Haan (3), Nathan MacKinnon (30) 5 - 4

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
03:22 COL Team Delaying game unsuccessful challenge 2
09:31 COL Calvin de Haan Tripping 2
12:57 BUF Zach Benson Slashing 2
2nd Period
19:09 COL Nikolai Kovalenko Delaying game puck over glass 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Colorado Avalanche 77 63 41 5 3.7 59.3
Buffalo Sabres 58 44 30 4 3.6 40.7

How the game went

2520151050510Start2nd3rdBuffalo Sabres aheadColorado Avalanche 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 Buffalo Sabres had taken more, and below it and blue while Colorado Avalanche had.

Expected goals

Colorado Avalanche: 3.7 expected, 5 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 3.6 expected, 4 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndCOL goal, 2:24 of 2nd, a 11% chanceCOL goal, 1:19 of 3rd, a 20% chanceCOL goal, 4:30 of 3rd, a 25% chanceCOL goal, 7:39 of 3rd, a 5% chanceCOL goal, 15:38 of 3rd, a 40% chanceBUF goal, 3:22 of 1st, a 39% chanceBUF goal, 6:39 of 1st, a 6% chanceBUF goal, 6:50 of 1st, a 15% chanceBUF goal, 11:49 of 1st, a 11% chanceCOL 3.7BUF 3.6

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

Colorado Avalanche
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.

Colorado Avalanche

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Artturi Lehkonen · Nathan MacKinnon · Mikko Rantanen17:2660.455.03-2
Logan O'Connor · Joel Kiviranta · Ivan Ivan8:5377.885.81-0
Valeri Nichushkin · Casey Mittelstadt · Nikolai Kovalenko6:4764.777.80-1
Chris Wagner · Parker Kelly · Nikita Prishchepov2:1660.068.10-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Devon Toews · Cale Makar19:3947.929.82-2
Samuel Girard · Sam Malinski13:3163.085.91-0
Calvin de Haan · John Ludvig12:0955.232.00-2

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

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
29 Nathan MacKinnon C 2 1 3 1 0 9 2 23:33 0.66 33-23 1.91-1.54
25 Logan O'Connor R 1 1 2 1 0 3 2 15:37 0.37 18-6 0.82-0.24
44 Calvin de Haan D 0 2 2 0 2 7 2 14:55 0.13 22-14 1.13-0.90
22 Joel Kiviranta L 1 0 1 2 0 2 4 13:36 0.27 18-6 0.82-0.09
62 Artturi Lehkonen L 1 0 1 1 0 3 0 24:33 0.81 36-28 1.93-2.54
7 Devon Toews D 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 28:27 0.08 29-25 1.32-2.10
49 Samuel Girard D 0 1 1 2 0 3 1 17:33 0.23 22-12 1.32-0.16
96 Mikko Rantanen R 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 25:58 0.30 34-30 1.89-2.40
3 John Ludvig D 0 0 0 -2 0 4 2 14:11 0.08 22-14 0.65-0.89
8 Cale Makar D 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 27:20 0.20 27-25 1.33-2.10
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 1 12:00 0.13 12-14 0.56-1.27
14 Chris Wagner R 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 06:16 0.11 6-5 0.15-0.10
15 Nikolai Kovalenko R 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 09:35 0.12 17-8 0.98-0.31
17 Parker Kelly C 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 10:12 0.02 7-6 0.18-0.07
43 Valeri Nichushkin R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 17:37 0.12 17-14 0.70-0.48
70 Sam Malinski D 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 16:43 0.08 24-10 1.36-0.14
82 Ivan Ivan C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 12:17 0.03 17-8 0.62-0.39
85 Nikita Prishchepov C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 03:37 4-2 0.08-0.03
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
41 Scott Wedgewood W 22 22 0 48:11 2.51 +2.51
40 Alexandar Georgiev 8 4 4 11:49 1.15 -2.85

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Dylan Cozens · JJ Peterka · Zach Benson11:4534.632.21-2
Jason Zucker · Alex Tuch · Tage Thompson11:2238.748.92-1
Nicolas Aube-Kubel · Beck Malenstyn · Peyton Krebs9:4742.347.61-1
Ryan McLeod · Jack Quinn · Jiri Kulich5:3452.967.20-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Rasmus Dahlin · Bowen Byram13:1048.456.01-0
Henri Jokiharju · Owen Power10:2745.250.80-0
Connor Clifton · Jacob Bryson9:0640.048.03-1

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
72 Tage Thompson C 2 0 2 1 0 5 1 20:52 0.73 13-22 1.02-1.03
10 JJ Peterka R 1 0 1 -1 0 2 0 18:20 0.20 11-23 0.51-1.46
29 Beck Malenstyn L 1 0 1 0 0 2 4 11:02 0.15 12-15 0.42-0.38
6 Zach Benson L 0 1 1 -1 2 2 0 14:53 0.26 9-19 0.51-1.21
16 Nicolas Aube-Kubel R 0 1 1 0 0 2 2 11:44 0.22 12-16 0.42-0.38
17 Jason Zucker L 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 20:54 0.18 17-21 1.15-1.15
24 Bowen Byram D 0 1 1 -1 0 2 0 26:30 0.08 22-33 0.91-1.80
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 1 1 -1 0 1 0 18:52 0.16 11-22 0.51-1.44
75 Connor Clifton D 0 1 1 1 0 0 4 16:06 12-20 0.85-1.21
89 Alex Tuch R 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 20:20 0.23 13-26 1.02-1.21
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 12:25 0.06 13-15 0.34-0.38
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 3 17:27 0.02 19-26 1.48-0.87
20 Jiri Kulich C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 12:22 0.44 10-14 1.11-0.56
22 Jack Quinn R 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 10:23 0.59 14-8 1.20-0.50
25 Owen Power D 0 0 0 -3 0 0 0 21:54 0.01 18-30 0.47-1.53
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 17:16 0.07 15-16 0.82-0.64
71 Ryan McLeod C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 13:02 0.23 15-18 1.24-0.96
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 14:54 14-21 1.78-1.04
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen L 41 36 5 58:44 3.76 -1.24