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Buffalo Sabres at Washington Capitals

Dec 14, 2024 · Capital One Arena

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 2 21
Washington Capitals 4 31

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
01:36 BUF Jason Zucker (8) Jordan Greenway (4), Ryan McLeod (9) 1 - 0
17:09 WSH Tom Wilson (12) PP John Carlson (18), Connor McMichael (12) 1 - 1
2nd Period
05:11 WSH Tom Wilson (13) PP Jakob Chychrun (11) 1 - 2
07:24 BUF Jiri Kulich (4) Bowen Byram (13), Tage Thompson (8) 2 - 2
3rd Period
11:05 WSH Dylan Strome (10) John Carlson (19), Taylor Raddysh (9) 2 - 3
18:30 WSH Jakob Chychrun (9) John Carlson (20), Pierre-Luc Dubois (17) 2 - 4

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
16:20 BUF Owen Power Holding 2
2nd Period
04:06 BUF Zach Benson Tripping 2
06:20 BUF Dylan Cozens Fighting 5
06:20 WSH Martin Fehérváry Fighting 5
11:55 WSH Brandon Duhaime Boarding 2
13:11 BUF Bowen Byram Interference 2
18:35 WSH Connor McMichael Hooking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 59 39 21 2 2.5 53.0
Washington Capitals 59 48 31 4 4.5 47.0

How the game went

420246Start2nd3rdWashington Capitals 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 Washington Capitals had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 2.5 expected, 2 scored · Washington Capitals: 4.5 expected, 4 scored

01234Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 1:36 of 1st, a 9% chanceBUF goal, 7:24 of 2nd, a 13% chanceWSH goal, 17:09 of 1st, a 9% chanceWSH goal, 5:11 of 2nd, a 4% chanceWSH goal, 11:05 of 3rd, a 7% chanceWSH goal, 18:30 of 3rd, a 52% chanceWSH 4.5BUF 2.5

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
Washington Capitals

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
Jason Zucker · Jordan Greenway · Ryan McLeod11:1752.256.01-1
Nicolas Aube-Kubel · Beck Malenstyn · Peyton Krebs7:3942.924.00-0
Tage Thompson · Jiri Kulich · Zach Benson7:2050.036.51-0
Dylan Cozens · Jiri Kulich · Zach Benson5:4055.054.30-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mattias Samuelsson · Owen Power14:1953.650.90-1
Bowen Byram · Ryan Johnson10:5455.643.70-0
Connor Clifton · Dennis Gilbert7:1335.736.11-0

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
17 Jason Zucker L 1 0 1 -1 0 4 1 15:33 0.66 17-15 0.95-0.64
20 Jiri Kulich C 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 18:36 0.20 19-15 0.77-0.69
12 Jordan Greenway L 0 1 1 -1 0 1 5 14:51 0.08 13-12 0.72-0.55
24 Bowen Byram D 0 1 1 0 2 1 0 26:29 0.05 26-23 1.30-1.55
71 Ryan McLeod C 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 17:52 14-13 0.85-0.62
72 Tage Thompson C 0 1 1 1 0 1 3 19:12 0.12 14-13 0.36-0.69
6 Dennis Gilbert D 0 0 0 2 0 0 5 11:37 10-12 0.61-0.35
6 Zach Benson L 0 0 0 1 2 2 0 18:58 0.17 18-16 0.84-0.90
10 JJ Peterka R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 16:31 0.08 14-9 0.36-0.65
16 Nicolas Aube-Kubel R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 09:46 8-8 0.14-0.44
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 13:30 0.07 8-8 0.30-0.44
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 18:36 0.07 19-14 0.89-0.64
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 0 0 -1 5 2 1 12:15 0.22 16-12 0.68-0.86
25 Owen Power D 0 0 0 -1 2 1 0 28:33 0.10 24-23 0.81-1.34
29 Beck Malenstyn L 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 10:21 0.04 6-11 0.14-0.57
33 Ryan Johnson D 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 14:45 0.30 21-13 0.81-1.08
75 Connor Clifton D 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 14:32 0.19 7-10 0.37-0.36
89 Alex Tuch R 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 16:51 0.16 11-8 0.34-0.84
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen L 30 27 3 57:18 3.10 +0.10

Washington Capitals

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Tom Wilson · Pierre-Luc Dubois · Aliaksei Protas11:2330.869.00-0
Dylan Strome · Taylor Raddysh · Connor McMichael10:3863.669.11-1
Nic Dowd · Brandon Duhaime · Ivan Miroshnichenko8:2950.048.50-0
Lars Eller · Andrew Mangiapane · Hendrix Lapierre6:4735.323.50-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Matt Roy · Rasmus Sandin11:5241.735.80-2
Trevor van Riemsdyk · Martin Fehérváry8:5050.038.60-0
John Carlson · Jakob Chychrun8:1250.086.91-0

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
74 John Carlson D 0 3 3 2 0 1 0 23:59 0.18 16-18 1.11-0.43
43 Tom Wilson R 2 0 2 0 0 2 6 19:38 0.18 5-11 0.26-0.14
6 Jakob Chychrun D 1 1 2 2 0 5 0 22:27 0.30 14-16 0.67-0.64
17 Dylan Strome C 1 0 1 0 0 5 0 15:19 0.44 15-8 1.00-0.43
14 Taylor Raddysh R 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 11:44 0.34 15-9 1.10-0.45
77 Connor McMichael L 0 1 1 1 2 1 1 17:43 0.22 17-14 1.05-0.53
80 Pierre-Luc Dubois C 0 1 1 1 0 1 2 16:06 0.17 6-15 0.43-0.17
3 Matt Roy D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 6 20:29 0.02 16-22 0.75-1.19
20 Lars Eller C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 13:54 0.16 14-18 0.54-1.02
21 Aliaksei Protas L 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 18:52 0.26 8-10 0.45-0.10
22 Hendrix Lapierre C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 07:30 6-11 0.24-0.79
24 Brandon Duhaime L 0 0 0 1 2 3 2 14:51 0.27 14-19 0.79-0.72
26 Nic Dowd C 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 18:16 0.22 16-18 0.96-0.85
26 Andrew Mangiapane L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 10:41 0.02 11-13 0.41-0.94
38 Rasmus Sandin D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 2 17:55 12-20 0.64-0.87
42 Martin Fehérváry D 0 0 0 0 5 2 2 17:50 0.04 19-17 1.15-0.73
57 Trevor van Riemsdyk D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17:21 0.00 17-13 0.95-0.63
63 Ivan Miroshnichenko L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 11:25 0.25 14-13 0.66-0.59
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
48 Logan Thompson W 21 19 2 60:00 2.51 +0.51