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Boston Bruins at Buffalo Sabres

Jan 28, 2025 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Boston Bruins 2 27
Buffalo Sabres 7 33

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
12:44 BOS Mason Lohrei (3) Unassisted 1 - 0
13:39 BUF Tage Thompson (23) Dylan Cozens (15), JJ Peterka (25) 1 - 1
2nd Period
04:43 BUF Tage Thompson (24) Ryan McLeod (15), Mattias Samuelsson (6) 1 - 2
06:32 BUF JJ Peterka (12) Owen Power (20), Tage Thompson (19) 1 - 3
3rd Period
03:13 BUF Tage Thompson (25) Rasmus Dahlin (29), Bowen Byram (19) 1 - 4
10:13 BOS Brad Marchand (18) PP Elias Lindholm (17), David Pastrnak (36) 2 - 4
10:43 BUF JJ Peterka (13) Jiri Kulich (5) 2 - 5
14:26 BUF JJ Peterka (14) Unassisted 2 - 6
19:47 BUF Zach Benson (9) PP Jack Quinn (10), Dylan Cozens (16) 2 - 7

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
2nd Period
10:34 BUF Mattias Samuelsson Hooking 2
18:58 BOS Brad Marchand Slashing 2
3rd Period
07:34 BOS Pavel Zacha High sticking 2
08:51 BUF Dylan Cozens Tripping 2
18:25 BOS Nikita Zadorov Roughing 2
18:25 BOS Nikita Zadorov Misconduct 10

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Boston Bruins 67 49 27 2 3.1 54.1
Buffalo Sabres 60 44 33 7 2.7 45.9

How the game went

1050510Start2nd3rdBuffalo Sabres aheadBoston Bruins 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 Boston Bruins had.

Expected goals

Boston Bruins: 3.1 expected, 2 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 2.7 expected, 7 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndBOS goal, 12:44 of 1st, a 8% chanceBOS goal, 10:13 of 3rd, a 16% chanceBUF goal, 13:39 of 1st, a 8% chanceBUF goal, 4:43 of 2nd, a 10% chanceBUF goal, 6:32 of 2nd, a 2% chanceBUF goal, 3:13 of 3rd, a 2% chanceBUF goal, 10:43 of 3rd, a 18% chanceBUF goal, 14:26 of 3rd, a 4% chanceBUF goal, 19:47 of 3rd, a 12% chanceBOS 3.1BUF 2.7

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

Boston Bruins
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.

Boston Bruins

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
David Pastrnak · Pavel Zacha · Morgan Geekie12:5640.043.40-1
Brad Marchand · Charlie Coyle · Matthew Poitras8:4957.958.20-2
Justin Brazeau · Cole Koepke · John Beecher8:3145.023.81-1
Elias Lindholm · Trent Frederic · Vinni Lettieri7:1168.497.90-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Parker Wotherspoon · Mason Lohrei18:3860.056.31-1
Nikita Zadorov · Andrew Peeke16:3348.842.30-3
Jordan Oesterle · Michael Callahan12:4347.162.10-1

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

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
6 Mason Lohrei D 1 0 1 -1 0 2 0 23:16 0.25 18-10 0.93-0.41
63 Brad Marchand L 1 0 1 -3 2 4 1 15:17 0.41 15-10 0.95-0.47
28 Elias Lindholm C 0 1 1 -1 0 1 0 15:07 0.12 16-9 0.72-0.09
88 David Pastrnak R 0 1 1 -2 0 2 0 19:04 0.28 13-15 0.71-0.47
3 Charlie Coyle C 0 0 0 -3 0 1 2 16:05 0.24 15-12 0.67-0.66
10 Trent Frederic C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 2 13:42 0.44 22-13 1.20-0.67
16 Justin Brazeau R 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 13:04 0.01 13-13 0.25-0.59
18 Pavel Zacha C 0 0 0 -2 2 1 1 18:01 0.20 11-15 0.57-0.49
18 John Beecher C 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 12:48 0.03 17-11 0.53-0.42
20 Andrew Peeke D 0 0 0 -3 0 1 1 21:07 0.03 25-21 0.85-0.99
29 Parker Wotherspoon D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 21:27 16-12 0.54-0.47
39 Morgan Geekie C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 1 17:32 0.16 10-17 0.28-0.44
45 Cole Koepke L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 10:51 0.25 16-12 0.43-0.42
51 Matthew Poitras C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 14:49 0.18 16-15 0.93-0.82
79 Michael Callahan D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 15:29 0.01 19-18 1.27-0.53
82 Jordan Oesterle D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 15:19 0.10 21-20 1.01-0.59
91 Nikita Zadorov D 0 0 0 -3 12 4 0 21:02 0.09 22-21 0.76-0.99
95 Vinni Lettieri C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 10:51 0.31 15-11 0.79-0.45
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Jeremy Swayman L 32 26 6 59:47 2.68 -3.32

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jason Zucker · Alex Tuch · Dylan Cozens12:5065.445.70-0
Ryan McLeod · Peyton Krebs · Jack Quinn10:4760.025.80-0
Tage Thompson · JJ Peterka · Jiri Kulich10:0038.141.63-0
Beck Malenstyn · Tyson Kozak · Zach Benson5:3445.530.50-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mattias Samuelsson · Owen Power16:3157.152.42-1
Rasmus Dahlin · Bowen Byram16:1344.837.81-0
Henri Jokiharju · Jacob Bryson10:3738.122.20-0

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
10 JJ Peterka R 3 1 4 6 0 4 0 16:08 0.31 12-22 0.67-0.78
72 Tage Thompson C 3 1 4 6 0 6 0 15:43 0.53 10-20 0.60-0.75
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 2 2 1 2 5 3 18:58 0.25 21-18 0.62-0.77
6 Zach Benson L 1 0 1 -1 0 2 0 10:56 0.27 10-9 0.53-0.44
20 Jiri Kulich C 0 1 1 4 0 1 0 13:51 0.07 8-18 0.42-0.60
22 Jack Quinn R 0 1 1 0 0 3 2 18:08 0.30 14-11 0.35-0.76
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 1 1 1 2 0 4 20:35 0.01 22-22 0.79-0.68
24 Bowen Byram D 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 22:58 15-27 0.70-0.93
25 Owen Power D 0 1 1 2 0 2 2 20:46 0.04 25-16 1.00-0.58
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 22:44 0.01 16-20 0.51-1.09
71 Ryan McLeod C 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 16:27 0.11 15-15 0.63-0.77
17 Jason Zucker L 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 18:31 0.17 18-17 0.50-0.79
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 15:08 0.28 12-8 0.47-0.47
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 14:51 14-20 0.64-1.01
29 Beck Malenstyn L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 3 07:42 7-8 0.32-0.54
48 Tyson Kozak C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 3 09:08 0.13 7-13 0.33-0.55
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 14:20 10-18 0.34-1.18
89 Alex Tuch R 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 19:44 0.22 19-18 0.54-0.71
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen W 27 25 2 60:00 3.13 +1.13