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Buffalo Sabres at Colorado Avalanche

Jan 2, 2025 · Ball Arena

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 5 21
Colorado Avalanche 6 29

Decided in overtime.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
13:17 BUF Jason Zucker (12) PP Jack Quinn (9), Tage Thompson (13) 1 - 0
17:10 BUF Bowen Byram (5) Jason Zucker (16), Dylan Cozens (12) 2 - 0
2nd Period
11:08 BUF Jason Zucker (13) PP Tage Thompson (14), Rasmus Dahlin (21) 3 - 0
14:58 COL Cale Makar (12) Jonathan Drouin (5), Devon Toews (13) 3 - 1
3rd Period
01:05 COL Ross Colton (12) Samuel Girard (16) 3 - 2
01:27 BUF Zach Benson (7) Peyton Krebs (8), JJ Peterka (17) 4 - 2
04:17 COL Mikko Rantanen (22) PP Nathan MacKinnon (48), Casey Mittelstadt (17) 4 - 3
16:09 BUF Jason Zucker (14) Tage Thompson (15) 5 - 3
17:34 COL Cale Makar (13) Nathan MacKinnon (49), Devon Toews (14) 5 - 4
19:52 COL Jonathan Drouin (3) Nathan MacKinnon (50), Mikko Rantanen (34) 5 - 5
Overtime
00:48 COL Devon Toews (3) Unassisted 5 - 6

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
12:18 COL Josh Manson High sticking 2
2nd Period
10:12 COL Ross Colton Cross checking 2
17:03 BUF Zach Benson Delaying game puck over glass 2
3rd Period
01:27 COL Team Delaying game unsuccessful challenge 2
03:04 BUF Alex Tuch Hooking 2
03:19 BUF Dylan Cozens Tripping 2
03:45 BUF Connor Clifton Cross checking 2
03:45 COL Artturi Lehkonen Roughing 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 39 28 21 5 2.5 45.5
Colorado Avalanche 58 49 29 6 2.9 54.5

How the game went

051015Start2nd3rdOTColorado Avalanche 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 Colorado Avalanche had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 2.5 expected, 5 scored · Colorado Avalanche: 2.9 expected, 6 scored

012Start2nd3rdOTBUF goal, 13:17 of 1st, a 12% chanceBUF goal, 17:10 of 1st, a 12% chanceBUF goal, 11:08 of 2nd, a 15% chanceBUF goal, 1:27 of 3rd, a 3% chanceBUF goal, 16:09 of 3rd, a 50% chanceCOL goal, 14:58 of 2nd, a 9% chanceCOL goal, 1:05 of 3rd, a 20% chanceCOL goal, 4:17 of 3rd, a 9% chanceCOL goal, 17:34 of 3rd, a 4% chanceCOL goal, 19:52 of 3rd, a 14% chanceCOL goal, 0:48 of overtime, a 19% chanceCOL 2.9BUF 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
Colorado Avalanche

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 · Tage Thompson · Dylan Cozens13:0040.073.92-1
Alex Tuch · Jack Quinn · Jiri Kulich9:4533.36.20-1
Sam Lafferty · Beck Malenstyn · Ryan McLeod9:1341.255.30-0
Peyton Krebs · JJ Peterka · Zach Benson6:1385.799.41-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mattias Samuelsson · Owen Power16:0347.859.81-2
Rasmus Dahlin · Bowen Byram13:5146.718.60-0
Connor Clifton · Jacob Bryson8:3146.768.01-0

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 3 1 4 1 0 4 2 18:14 0.92 10-12 0.85-0.30
72 Tage Thompson C 0 3 3 -1 0 4 0 19:43 0.40 11-12 0.87-0.30
6 Zach Benson L 1 0 1 1 2 1 1 09:34 0.07 7-2 0.13-0.02
24 Bowen Byram D 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 21:15 0.12 9-9 0.22-0.43
10 JJ Peterka R 0 1 1 1 0 2 2 11:53 0.10 7-5 0.13-0.19
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 08:42 8-4 0.18-0.10
22 Jack Quinn R 0 1 1 -1 0 0 1 15:22 6-10 0.09-0.49
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 1 1 -2 2 1 3 18:52 0.01 9-12 0.85-0.30
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 1 1 -2 0 1 1 23:17 0.08 7-12 0.09-0.44
20 Jiri Kulich C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 16:36 0.02 6-7 0.04-0.39
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 3 24:27 12-15 1.06-0.82
24 Sam Lafferty C 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 10:11 7-10 0.68-0.55
25 Owen Power D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 22:06 0.03 14-15 1.24-0.75
29 Beck Malenstyn L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 3 15:59 0.17 7-12 0.68-0.67
71 Ryan McLeod C 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 15:17 0.51 8-13 0.68-0.69
75 Connor Clifton D 0 0 0 1 2 0 4 12:59 8-10 0.41-0.24
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 13:20 0.00 10-11 0.47-0.28
89 Alex Tuch R 0 0 0 -2 2 0 1 19:24 0.05 4-9 0.07-0.44
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen OTL 29 23 6 60:48 2.91 -3.09

Colorado Avalanche

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Parker Kelly · Logan O'Connor · Joel Kiviranta7:4840.011.00-1
Nathan MacKinnon · Jonathan Drouin · Mikko Rantanen7:4450.030.31-1
Artturi Lehkonen · Nathan MacKinnon · Mikko Rantanen7:2636.436.20-1
Jonathan Drouin · Ross Colton · Casey Mittelstadt5:0190.999.40-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Devon Toews · Cale Makar14:2360.084.41-0
Josh Manson · Samuel Girard9:0950.053.31-1
Keaton Middleton · Sam Malinski4:4071.421.80-0

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
7 Devon Toews D 1 2 3 3 0 4 0 27:14 0.44 14-10 0.53-0.73
29 Nathan MacKinnon C 0 3 3 2 0 3 1 26:16 0.53 11-15 0.52-0.99
8 Cale Makar D 2 0 2 3 0 5 1 28:17 0.32 12-10 0.50-0.18
92 Jonathan Drouin L 1 1 2 3 0 2 1 22:46 0.18 15-9 0.58-0.71
96 Mikko Rantanen R 1 1 2 1 0 3 2 25:34 0.27 11-13 0.54-0.98
79 Ross Colton C 1 0 1 1 2 2 2 14:24 0.42 17-3 0.73-0.07
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 17:29 0.15 17-3 0.74-0.05
49 Samuel Girard D 0 1 1 0 0 1 2 20:32 0.10 17-12 0.86-0.45
17 Parker Kelly C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 5 12:13 7-9 0.12-0.66
22 Joel Kiviranta L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 4 10:39 6-11 0.08-0.72
22 Jere Innala L 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 07:06 0.12 2-2 0.12-0.00
24 Oskar Olausson R 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 07:57 0.09 3-4 0.18-0.04
25 Logan O'Connor R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 10:47 0.16 7-10 0.12-0.71
42 Josh Manson D 0 0 0 -1 2 1 4 17:59 0.06 11-13 0.53-0.62
62 Artturi Lehkonen L 0 0 0 2 2 0 1 22:01 10-8 0.59-0.26
67 Keaton Middleton D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 4 09:41 0.04 5-6 0.08-1.07
70 Sam Malinski D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 13:42 0.02 13-9 0.45-0.45
71 Juuso Parssinen C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 07:01 2-3 0.12-0.04
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
41 Scott Wedgewood 18 14 4 41:27 1.69 -2.31
39 Mackenzie Blackwood W 3 2 1 16:12 0.80 -0.20