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Chicago Blackhawks at Buffalo Sabres

Dec 27, 2024 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Chicago Blackhawks 2 17
Buffalo Sabres 6 35

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
09:51 BUF Zach Benson (6) Rasmus Dahlin (18), Bowen Byram (15) 0 - 1
12:23 BUF Alex Tuch (10) Tage Thompson (10), Rasmus Dahlin (19) 0 - 2
12:38 BUF Jack Quinn (5) Dylan Cozens (11), JJ Peterka (16) 0 - 3
19:18 BUF Dylan Cozens (8) Jack Quinn (6) 0 - 4
2nd Period
16:39 CHI Tyler Bertuzzi (11) Taylor Hall (12), Connor Bedard (22) 1 - 4
3rd Period
03:06 CHI Seth Jones (3) Patrick Maroon (8), Lukas Reichel (8) 2 - 4
05:48 BUF Alex Tuch (11) Ryan McLeod (11), Sam Lafferty (1) 2 - 5
15:06 BUF Alex Tuch (12) Unassisted 2 - 6

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
2nd Period
02:24 CHI TJ Brodie Hooking 2
12:43 BUF Peyton Krebs Slashing 2
12:43 CHI Kevin Korchinski Roughing 2
3rd Period
03:28 BUF Alex Tuch Tripping 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Chicago Blackhawks 45 32 17 2 1.7 40.8
Buffalo Sabres 62 52 35 6 3.8 59.2

How the game went

05101520Start2nd3rdBuffalo Sabres aheadChicago Blackhawks 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 Chicago Blackhawks had.

Expected goals

Chicago Blackhawks: 1.7 expected, 2 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 3.8 expected, 6 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndCHI goal, 16:39 of 2nd, a 6% chanceCHI goal, 3:06 of 3rd, a 10% chanceBUF goal, 9:51 of 1st, a 7% chanceBUF goal, 12:23 of 1st, a 8% chanceBUF goal, 12:38 of 1st, a 11% chanceBUF goal, 19:18 of 1st, a 7% chanceBUF goal, 5:48 of 3rd, a 2% chanceBUF goal, 15:06 of 3rd, a 14% chanceBUF 3.8CHI 1.7

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

Chicago Blackhawks
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.

Chicago Blackhawks

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Taylor Hall · Tyler Bertuzzi · Connor Bedard12:5256.048.11-2
Patrick Maroon · Philipp Kurashev · Lukas Reichel10:1138.532.61-1
Teuvo Teravainen · Jason Dickinson · Ilya Mikheyev9:4022.20.00-1
Nick Foligno · Ryan Donato · Frank Nazar9:1426.322.10-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Seth Jones · Alex Vlasic9:0733.324.12-1
Connor Murphy · Kevin Korchinski8:2950.049.20-1
Seth Jones · Nolan Allan8:1553.886.40-0

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
3 Seth Jones D 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 23:16 0.22 20-23 0.94-1.27
59 Tyler Bertuzzi L 1 0 1 -1 0 3 1 16:21 0.18 15-14 0.63-0.71
71 Taylor Hall L 0 1 1 -1 0 0 0 16:10 0.01 17-13 0.60-0.91
75 Lukas Reichel L 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 14:31 13-16 0.48-0.88
77 Patrick Maroon L 0 1 1 0 0 1 3 14:06 0.11 13-19 0.48-0.91
98 Connor Bedard C 0 1 1 -1 0 4 2 20:11 0.42 17-18 0.60-1.20
5 Connor Murphy D 0 0 0 -3 0 0 5 21:42 0.03 11-19 0.38-1.12
5 Nolan Allan D 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 19:43 0.02 12-13 0.57-0.40
8 Ryan Donato C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 3 12:34 0.05 8-19 0.31-1.55
14 Kevin Korchinski D 0 0 0 -2 2 1 0 16:51 0.04 17-15 0.44-0.59
16 Jason Dickinson C 0 0 0 -2 0 0 3 14:28 5-10 0.06-0.36
71 Nick Foligno L 0 0 0 -2 0 1 5 13:57 0.09 8-18 0.37-1.31
72 Alex Vlasic D 0 0 0 -2 0 2 0 21:14 0.13 11-27 0.44-2.40
78 TJ Brodie D 0 0 0 -2 2 0 2 15:37 9-19 0.14-1.17
86 Teuvo Teravainen C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 14:37 0.05 4-8 0.01-0.34
91 Frank Nazar C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 14:34 0.22 5-15 0.31-1.09
95 Ilya Mikheyev R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 14:44 5-8 0.09-0.27
96 Philipp Kurashev C 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 11:24 0.14 10-16 0.42-0.88
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
40 Arvid Soderblom 24 22 2 40:00 2.60 +0.60
34 Petr Mrazek L 11 7 4 20:00 1.23 -2.77

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jason Zucker · Alex Tuch · Tage Thompson13:0350.067.93-1
Peyton Krebs · Jiri Kulich · Zach Benson11:5768.288.00-0
Dylan Cozens · Jack Quinn · JJ Peterka11:4659.170.42-0
Sam Lafferty · Beck Malenstyn · Ryan McLeod8:1355.053.50-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mattias Samuelsson · Owen Power16:0362.570.01-1
Rasmus Dahlin · Bowen Byram15:2265.081.13-0
Connor Clifton · Jacob Bryson14:2464.062.51-0

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
89 Alex Tuch R 3 0 3 2 2 3 0 16:26 0.45 9-11 0.62-0.31
22 Jack Quinn R 1 1 2 2 0 4 1 14:48 0.60 14-11 0.91-0.43
24 Dylan Cozens C 1 1 2 2 0 1 0 15:56 0.09 16-11 1.27-0.43
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 2 2 3 0 3 2 21:17 0.07 25-9 1.62-0.27
6 Zach Benson L 1 0 1 1 0 6 0 15:43 0.91 20-7 1.42-0.12
10 JJ Peterka R 0 1 1 3 0 2 0 16:16 0.36 20-11 1.54-0.41
24 Sam Lafferty C 0 1 1 -1 0 0 2 10:53 0.07 11-11 0.37-0.33
24 Bowen Byram D 0 1 1 3 0 0 4 21:37 0.02 15-18 0.91-0.49
71 Ryan McLeod C 0 1 1 -1 0 3 0 11:56 0.24 13-12 0.40-0.55
72 Tage Thompson C 0 1 1 2 0 1 3 16:49 0.03 9-10 0.61-0.35
17 Jason Zucker L 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 16:35 0.04 11-10 0.75-0.35
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 0 2 3 2 15:36 0.18 18-9 0.93-0.40
20 Jiri Kulich C 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 15:55 0.39 20-7 1.19-0.12
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 20:18 0.08 19-12 1.12-0.53
25 Owen Power D 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 20:50 0.20 20-14 1.38-0.42
29 Beck Malenstyn L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 10:58 0.03 13-10 0.39-0.55
75 Connor Clifton D 0 0 0 1 0 1 6 18:52 0.03 20-18 1.06-0.69
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 15:29 17-9 0.85-0.49
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen W 17 15 2 59:46 1.73 -0.27