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Buffalo Sabres at Dallas Stars

Dec 31, 2024 · American Airlines Center

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 2 23
Dallas Stars 4 33

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
2nd Period
09:49 DAL Roope Hintz (16) Jason Robertson (18), Thomas Harley (12) 0 - 1
10:20 BUF Jason Zucker (11) Tage Thompson (12), Bowen Byram (17) 1 - 1
3rd Period
02:35 DAL Jason Robertson (9) Unassisted 1 - 2
04:57 BUF Beck Malenstyn (4) Sam Lafferty (2), Ryan McLeod (12) 2 - 2
11:32 DAL Wyatt Johnston (9) Thomas Harley (13) 2 - 3
18:23 DAL Esa Lindell (3) Jason Robertson (19), Casey DeSmith (1) 2 - 4

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
17:12 BUF Connor Clifton Cross checking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 47 36 23 2 2.5 40.2
Dallas Stars 72 54 33 4 4.5 59.8

How the game went

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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 Dallas Stars had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 2.5 expected, 2 scored · Dallas Stars: 4.5 expected, 4 scored

01234Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 10:20 of 2nd, a 56% chanceBUF goal, 4:57 of 3rd, a 18% chanceDAL goal, 9:49 of 2nd, a 6% chanceDAL goal, 2:35 of 3rd, a 12% chanceDAL goal, 11:32 of 3rd, a 6% chanceDAL goal, 18:23 of 3rd, a 39% chanceDAL 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
Dallas Stars

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 · Alex Tuch · Tage Thompson12:3835.938.81-1
Dylan Cozens · Jack Quinn · JJ Peterka11:5045.018.20-1
Peyton Krebs · Jiri Kulich · Zach Benson11:0861.947.90-0
Sam Lafferty · Beck Malenstyn · Ryan McLeod7:5742.984.21-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Rasmus Dahlin · Bowen Byram18:2144.448.61-2
Mattias Samuelsson · Owen Power17:5641.424.10-0
Connor Clifton · Jacob Bryson11:3231.635.91-0

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

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 0 0 4 3 17:04 0.67 14-27 0.97-1.65
29 Beck Malenstyn L 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 11:14 0.18 6-10 0.56-0.15
24 Sam Lafferty C 0 1 1 0 0 3 3 10:08 0.34 6-11 0.56-0.17
24 Bowen Byram D 0 1 1 -1 0 1 3 24:46 0.05 19-26 1.37-1.61
71 Ryan McLeod C 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 12:14 6-12 0.56-0.24
72 Tage Thompson C 0 1 1 -1 0 1 0 18:35 0.08 14-28 0.97-1.68
6 Zach Benson L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 14:54 0.28 14-11 0.63-0.75
10 JJ Peterka R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 15:51 0.14 9-16 0.15-0.85
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 15:26 0.06 13-9 0.63-0.80
20 Jiri Kulich C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 14:50 0.15 14-9 0.63-0.76
22 Jack Quinn R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 15:09 0.04 9-16 0.15-0.85
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 21:10 0.02 12-21 0.33-1.29
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 16:26 0.10 9-15 0.15-0.72
25 Owen Power D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 21:28 0.17 20-19 0.82-1.14
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 -2 0 3 3 22:32 0.05 17-24 1.25-1.45
75 Connor Clifton D 0 0 0 1 2 1 5 14:31 0.01 9-17 0.50-0.62
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15:19 9-21 0.35-0.70
89 Alex Tuch R 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 18:23 0.15 15-28 0.97-1.58
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen L 32 29 3 58:00 3.71 +0.71

Dallas Stars

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jamie Benn · Matt Duchene · Wyatt Johnston15:1467.481.71-0
Oskar Bäck · Mavrik Bourque · Logan Stankoven10:1850.040.90-0
Evgenii Dadonov · Roope Hintz · Jason Robertson9:2266.739.42-2
Colin Blackwell · Sam Steel · Justin Hryckowian5:3328.626.10-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Miro Heiskanen · Ilya Lyubushkin15:1858.564.30-1
Esa Lindell · Nils Lundkvist14:1954.856.01-0
Mathew Dumba · Thomas Harley13:1966.769.00-0

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
21 Jason Robertson L 1 2 3 1 0 2 1 15:15 0.17 17-10 0.74-0.83
55 Thomas Harley D 0 2 2 1 0 1 0 19:59 0.10 16-8 0.87-0.91
23 Esa Lindell D 1 0 1 2 0 3 0 22:00 0.03 22-17 1.01-0.49
24 Roope Hintz C 1 0 1 0 0 3 1 15:32 0.52 18-12 0.88-1.12
53 Wyatt Johnston C 1 0 1 1 0 4 0 21:00 0.49 32-17 2.12-0.47
4 Miro Heiskanen D 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 25:09 0.10 34-21 2.14-1.54
5 Nils Lundkvist D 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 16:37 0.06 20-15 0.66-0.53
10 Oskar Bäck C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15:07 7-8 0.22-0.29
14 Jamie Benn L 0 0 0 1 0 7 0 19:02 1.15 31-18 2.09-0.73
15 Colin Blackwell C 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 10:47 0.17 5-6 0.30-0.24
18 Sam Steel C 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 14:54 0.06 6-10 0.33-0.50
22 Mavrik Bourque C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 13:29 0.06 9-6 0.23-0.25
22 Logan Stankoven C 0 0 0 1 0 4 1 15:54 0.21 13-9 0.44-0.29
24 Mathew Dumba D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 17:15 0.04 10-8 0.64-0.34
33 Evgenii Dadonov L 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 12:41 0.06 15-11 0.56-1.31
46 Ilya Lyubushkin D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 17:02 0.02 26-17 1.49-0.81
49 Justin Hryckowian C 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 07:30 3-6 0.10-0.43
95 Matt Duchene C 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 20:47 0.44 36-16 2.20-0.47
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Casey DeSmith W 23 21 2 60:00 2.52 +0.52