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Buffalo Sabres at Vancouver Canucks

Jan 21, 2025 · Rogers Arena

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 3 26
Vancouver Canucks 2 34

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
17:34 BUF Tage Thompson (21) Jiri Kulich (3) 1 - 0
2nd Period
03:05 VAN Phillip Di Giuseppe (1) Carson Soucy (6), J.T. Miller (24) 1 - 1
10:29 VAN Elias Pettersson (11) Quinn Hughes (39), Brock Boeser (14) 1 - 2
3rd Period
08:42 BUF Jiri Kulich (8) JJ Peterka (23), Rasmus Dahlin (27) 2 - 2
13:33 BUF JJ Peterka (11) Rasmus Dahlin (28), Jiri Kulich (4) 3 - 2

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
2nd Period
03:45 BUF Jack Quinn Tripping 2
16:58 VAN Quinn Hughes Holding 2
3rd Period
00:27 VAN Carson Soucy Hooking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 56 43 26 3 2.2 57.4
Vancouver Canucks 53 42 34 2 2.9 42.6

How the game went

10864202Start2nd3rdVancouver Canucks 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 Vancouver Canucks had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 2.2 expected, 3 scored · Vancouver Canucks: 2.9 expected, 2 scored

012Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 17:34 of 1st, a 4% chanceBUF goal, 8:42 of 3rd, a 9% chanceBUF goal, 13:33 of 3rd, a 12% chanceVAN goal, 3:05 of 2nd, a 10% chanceVAN goal, 10:29 of 2nd, a 20% chanceVAN 2.9BUF 2.2

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
Vancouver Canucks

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
Tage Thompson · JJ Peterka · Jiri Kulich14:1369.261.23-1
Peyton Krebs · Jack Quinn · Zach Benson12:2553.358.40-0
Alex Tuch · Dylan Cozens · Tyson Kozak10:5438.957.80-0
Sam Lafferty · Beck Malenstyn · Tyson Kozak2:06100.0100.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Rasmus Dahlin · Bowen Byram13:4475.980.13-0
Mattias Samuelsson · Owen Power9:5446.736.60-0
Connor Clifton · Dennis Gilbert6:2926.72.30-2

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
20 Jiri Kulich C 1 2 3 1 0 3 2 17:47 0.53 29-19 1.15-1.49
10 JJ Peterka R 1 1 2 1 0 4 0 21:08 0.19 28-19 1.12-1.53
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 2 2 3 0 1 0 23:10 0.11 28-9 1.34-0.28
72 Tage Thompson C 1 0 1 2 0 5 0 19:17 0.28 27-14 1.12-0.79
6 Dennis Gilbert D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 1 07:48 0.01 6-11 0.06-0.99
6 Zach Benson L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17:21 0.10 12-9 0.38-0.20
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 21:42 0.15 10-9 0.34-0.25
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 10:03 0.01 12-6 0.47-0.29
22 Jack Quinn R 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 17:58 0.07 9-7 0.34-0.17
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18:10 0.01 12-12 0.42-0.53
24 Sam Lafferty C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 06:28 6-6 0.06-0.74
24 Bowen Byram D 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 22:44 0.07 26-14 1.16-0.33
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 16:38 0.33 14-12 0.62-0.34
25 Owen Power D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 23:01 0.04 18-14 0.60-0.63
29 Beck Malenstyn L 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 07:48 0.02 2-1 0.02-0.00
48 Tyson Kozak C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 16:06 0.16 13-12 0.58-0.31
75 Connor Clifton D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 4 11:04 6-13 0.16-1.00
89 Alex Tuch R 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 19:47 0.10 12-13 0.58-0.34
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen W 34 32 2 60:00 2.89 +0.89

Vancouver Canucks

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
J.T. Miller · Conor Garland · Pius Suter12:0129.229.60-0
Brock Boeser · Jake DeBrusk · Elias Pettersson11:1453.673.11-1
Teddy Blueger · Danton Heinen · Kiefer Sherwood10:2058.347.90-1
Phillip Di Giuseppe · Nils Hoglander · Max Sasson7:2445.515.50-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Carson Soucy · Filip Hronek12:5232.043.61-0
Derek Forbort · Vincent Desharnais11:1346.733.30-0
Mark Friedman · Quinn Hughes9:5528.619.40-1

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
34 Phillip Di Giuseppe L 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 10:18 0.24 9-8 0.33-0.33
40 Elias Pettersson C 1 0 1 -1 0 3 0 17:54 0.31 17-19 1.21-0.64
6 Brock Boeser R 0 1 1 -1 0 8 1 17:28 1.03 17-17 1.21-0.62
7 Carson Soucy D 0 1 1 1 2 2 0 17:39 0.03 12-21 0.54-0.59
10 J.T. Miller C 0 1 1 1 0 4 1 20:14 0.30 12-18 0.57-0.73
43 Quinn Hughes D 0 1 1 -2 2 2 0 26:10 0.07 19-22 1.30-1.18
17 Filip Hronek D 0 0 0 -1 0 4 0 23:31 0.10 15-27 0.63-0.91
21 Nils Hoglander L 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 09:37 8-6 0.29-0.28
22 Pius Suter C 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 17:47 0.15 8-20 0.30-0.82
27 Derek Forbort D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 17:15 0.04 11-12 0.39-0.37
44 Kiefer Sherwood L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 5 15:27 0.06 7-9 0.21-0.35
51 Mark Friedman D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 15:01 0.04 9-15 0.25-0.70
58 Danton Heinen L 0 0 0 -2 0 1 1 14:03 0.12 7-8 0.21-0.34
63 Max Sasson C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 09:41 5-9 0.05-0.37
73 Teddy Blueger C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 13:32 0.05 7-8 0.21-0.38
73 Vincent Desharnais D 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 17:39 14-11 0.97-0.45
74 Jake DeBrusk L 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 15:11 0.30 15-19 1.21-0.65
83 Conor Garland R 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 19:18 0.04 8-21 0.33-0.85
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Thatcher Demko L 26 23 3 58:15 2.19 -0.81