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Pittsburgh Penguins at Buffalo Sabres

Jan 17, 2025 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Pittsburgh Penguins 5 19
Buffalo Sabres 2 42

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
15:16 BUF Owen Power (6) PP Zach Benson (8), Bowen Byram (18) 0 - 1
2nd Period
01:41 PIT Rickard Rakell (23) PP Bryan Rust (18), Matt Grzelcyk (22) 1 - 1
02:08 PIT Anthony Beauvillier (10) Cody Glass (9) 2 - 1
11:43 PIT Cody Glass (2) PP Philip Tomasino (5), Alex Nedeljkovic (1) 3 - 1
3rd Period
01:09 PIT Bryan Rust (18) PP Matt Grzelcyk (23), Michael Bunting (13) 4 - 1
14:46 BUF Zach Benson (8) Tage Thompson (17), Alex Tuch (19) 4 - 2
17:18 PIT Alex Nedeljkovic (1) Unassisted 5 - 2

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
10:57 BUF Jack Quinn Slashing 2
12:24 PIT Evgeni Malkin High sticking double minor 4
2nd Period
00:31 BUF Rasmus Dahlin High sticking 2
09:50 BUF Henri Jokiharju Tripping 2
12:07 PIT Pierre-Olivier Joseph Slashing 2
18:35 PIT Evgeni Malkin Interference goalkeeper 2
19:26 BUF Tage Thompson Interference 2
3rd Period
04:42 PIT Owen Pickering Delaying game puck over glass 2
09:11 PIT Michael Bunting Roughing 2
09:11 BUF Peyton Krebs Roughing 2
12:03 BUF Jason Zucker Misconduct 10
12:03 PIT Ryan Graves Misconduct 10

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Pittsburgh Penguins 49 33 19 5 2.5 39.1
Buffalo Sabres 80 63 42 2 4.1 60.9

How the game went

5051015202530Start2nd3rdBuffalo Sabres aheadPittsburgh Penguins 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 Pittsburgh Penguins had.

Expected goals

Pittsburgh Penguins: 2.5 expected, 5 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 4.1 expected, 2 scored

01234Start2nd3rdEndPIT goal, 1:41 of 2nd, a 9% chancePIT goal, 2:08 of 2nd, a 6% chancePIT goal, 11:43 of 2nd, a 23% chancePIT goal, 1:09 of 3rd, a 9% chancePIT goal, 17:18 of 3rd, a 44% chanceBUF goal, 15:16 of 1st, a 6% chanceBUF goal, 14:46 of 3rd, a 15% chanceBUF 4.1PIT 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

Pittsburgh Penguins
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.

Pittsburgh Penguins

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Sidney Crosby · Bryan Rust · Rickard Rakell9:2231.815.80-0
Evgeni Malkin · Michael Bunting · Anthony Beauvillier8:4939.150.70-0
Kevin Hayes · Philip Tomasino · Drew O'Connor8:1447.162.20-0
Noel Acciari · Cody Glass · Blake Lizotte6:5433.315.40-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Matt Grzelcyk · Marcus Pettersson9:5544.051.80-0
Erik Karlsson · Owen Pickering9:3743.820.91-0
Ryan Graves · Pierre-Olivier Joseph8:0940.021.90-0

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
12 Cody Glass C 1 1 2 1 0 3 0 12:58 0.28 7-12 0.31-0.57
17 Bryan Rust R 1 1 2 0 0 2 0 18:39 0.26 9-15 0.19-0.51
24 Matt Grzelcyk D 0 2 2 0 0 0 1 24:07 15-27 0.46-0.93
67 Rickard Rakell R 1 0 1 0 0 2 1 15:46 0.24 7-15 0.10-0.51
72 Anthony Beauvillier R 1 0 1 1 0 2 3 13:37 0.38 10-17 0.44-0.38
53 Philip Tomasino R 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 11:01 0.05 8-12 0.25-0.37
58 Michael Bunting L 0 1 1 0 2 0 2 17:17 0.07 11-18 0.55-0.58
7 Pierre-Olivier Joseph D 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 18:38 11-21 0.40-0.73
13 Kevin Hayes R 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 12:01 0.19 8-13 0.25-0.38
18 Drew O'Connor L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 13:33 0.03 8-11 0.25-0.31
26 Marcus Pettersson D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 21:52 14-20 0.70-0.53
27 Ryan Graves D 0 0 0 0 10 0 3 13:13 10-12 0.22-0.28
38 Owen Pickering D 0 0 0 1 2 0 2 14:28 8-17 0.27-0.55
46 Blake Lizotte C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 12:49 0.13 9-12 0.26-0.58
52 Noel Acciari C 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 12:16 0.13 8-11 0.18-0.57
65 Erik Karlsson D 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 22:55 0.02 14-16 0.38-0.86
71 Evgeni Malkin C 0 0 0 1 6 1 0 15:45 0.20 13-16 0.61-0.37
87 Sidney Crosby C 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 18:13 0.08 10-15 0.27-0.51
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
33 Alex Nedeljkovic W 42 40 2 60:00 4.12 +2.12

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jason Zucker · Tage Thompson · Ryan McLeod10:2073.775.00-0
Peyton Krebs · Jack Quinn · Zach Benson8:0275.060.70-0
Alex Tuch · Dylan Cozens · JJ Peterka6:4864.379.80-1
Sam Lafferty · Beck Malenstyn · Tyson Kozak5:3829.420.20-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Henri Jokiharju · Owen Power8:1650.058.60-1
Rasmus Dahlin · Bowen Byram6:2955.696.80-0
Connor Clifton · Mattias Samuelsson5:3027.325.90-0

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
6 Zach Benson L 1 1 2 1 0 2 1 18:22 0.32 16-10 0.40-0.54
25 Owen Power D 1 0 1 -2 0 2 0 22:38 0.24 25-12 1.12-0.52
24 Bowen Byram D 0 1 1 -1 0 3 1 20:15 0.29 16-6 0.54-0.14
72 Tage Thompson C 0 1 1 1 2 7 0 20:46 0.50 20-7 0.72-0.32
89 Alex Tuch R 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 20:23 0.20 11-8 0.55-0.15
10 JJ Peterka R 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 17:49 0.22 12-7 0.54-0.28
17 Jason Zucker L 0 0 0 0 10 2 1 16:23 0.12 17-7 0.65-0.18
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 -1 2 1 0 12:06 0.28 18-6 0.57-0.21
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 -1 2 2 3 14:33 0.04 17-13 0.44-0.48
22 Jack Quinn R 0 0 0 1 2 3 0 17:05 0.27 14-7 0.33-0.38
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 14:53 0.04 13-14 0.31-0.45
24 Sam Lafferty C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 09:06 7-14 0.09-0.38
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 0 0 -2 0 6 1 17:42 1.19 20-6 0.93-0.12
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 1 2 5 3 27:56 0.28 32-18 1.17-0.65
29 Beck Malenstyn L 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 08:18 0.03 6-12 0.09-0.23
48 Tyson Kozak C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 07:04 0.04 6-20 0.06-0.49
71 Ryan McLeod C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 16:56 0.03 21-10 0.79-0.48
75 Connor Clifton D 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 12:30 0.02 9-9 0.22-0.20
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen L 18 14 4 56:29 2.05 -1.95