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New Jersey Devils at Buffalo Sabres

Feb 2, 2025 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
New Jersey Devils 3 24
Buffalo Sabres 4 34

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
08:11 BUF Tage Thompson (26) Owen Power (22), Bowen Byram (20) 0 - 1
15:50 BUF JJ Peterka (15) Tage Thompson (21), Dennis Gilbert (2) 0 - 2
19:31 BUF Ryan McLeod (12) SH Alex Tuch (21), Rasmus Dahlin (32) 0 - 3
2nd Period
04:38 NJD Paul Cotter (11) Justin Dowling (3), Dougie Hamilton (27) 1 - 3
17:25 BUF Jason Zucker (18) Tage Thompson (22), Rasmus Dahlin (33) 1 - 4
3rd Period
00:18 NJD Paul Cotter (12) Brett Pesce (9) 2 - 4
05:32 NJD Jack Hughes (21) SH Jesper Bratt (43) 3 - 4

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
10:58 BUF Rasmus Dahlin Interference 2
17:48 BUF Bowen Byram Hooking 2
2nd Period
09:48 NJD Dougie Hamilton Interference goalkeeper 2
14:35 BUF Jason Zucker Interference 2
15:13 NJD Stefan Noesen Holding 2
3rd Period
05:11 NJD Stefan Noesen Match penalty 5
11:43 BUF Alex Tuch Interference 2
15:25 BUF Beck Malenstyn Tripping 2
16:42 NJD Timo Meier Interference 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
New Jersey Devils 66 44 24 3 3.5 47.4
Buffalo Sabres 68 53 34 4 3.9 52.6

How the game went

5051015Start2nd3rdBuffalo Sabres aheadNew Jersey Devils 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 New Jersey Devils had.

Expected goals

New Jersey Devils: 3.5 expected, 3 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 3.9 expected, 4 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndNJD goal, 4:38 of 2nd, a 52% chanceNJD goal, 0:18 of 3rd, a 2% chanceNJD goal, 5:32 of 3rd, a 19% chanceBUF goal, 8:11 of 1st, a 34% chanceBUF goal, 15:50 of 1st, a 19% chanceBUF goal, 19:31 of 1st, a 15% chanceBUF goal, 17:25 of 2nd, a 14% chanceBUF 3.9NJD 3.5

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

New Jersey Devils
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.

New Jersey Devils

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Stefan Noesen · Timo Meier · Dawson Mercer9:1957.780.40-0
Tomas Tatar · Justin Dowling · Paul Cotter7:2253.869.02-0
Ondrej Palat · Jesper Bratt · Jack Hughes6:1438.125.70-2
Kurtis MacDermid · Curtis Lazar · Nathan Bastian5:4727.356.70-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Brenden Dillon · Brett Pesce11:5140.966.61-0
Dougie Hamilton · Jonas Siegenthaler10:0953.159.51-1
Johnathan Kovacevic · Luke Hughes9:0745.579.70-0

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
47 Paul Cotter L 2 0 2 2 0 3 4 14:15 0.78 12-11 1.13-0.55
86 Jack Hughes C 1 0 1 -3 0 3 0 20:12 0.75 14-17 0.67-1.19
7 Dougie Hamilton D 0 1 1 -1 2 2 2 19:54 0.29 23-16 1.23-0.84
22 Brett Pesce D 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 19:35 0.10 11-15 0.63-0.32
37 Justin Dowling C 0 1 1 2 0 0 1 11:38 0.05 10-9 1.28-0.55
63 Jesper Bratt L 0 1 1 -3 0 1 3 18:19 0.41 13-17 0.75-1.19
5 Brenden Dillon D 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 21:13 0.02 12-20 0.70-1.13
8 Johnathan Kovacevic D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 15:39 13-16 0.53-0.45
11 Stefan Noesen R 0 0 0 -2 17 2 4 13:02 0.37 16-13 0.51-0.41
11 Nathan Bastian R 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 13:28 4-14 0.21-0.40
20 Curtis Lazar C 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 14:08 6-15 0.24-0.45
23 Kurtis MacDermid L 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 07:59 0.10 3-9 0.21-0.17
28 Timo Meier R 0 0 0 0 2 4 1 18:21 0.20 20-13 0.58-0.14
43 Luke Hughes D 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 18:46 0.07 12-13 0.57-0.17
71 Jonas Siegenthaler D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 16:56 0.01 20-21 1.39-1.37
81 Ondrej Palat L 0 0 0 -3 0 1 1 14:43 0.21 9-13 0.28-0.81
90 Tomas Tatar L 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 13:02 0.04 11-6 1.19-0.36
91 Dawson Mercer C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 19:01 0.10 16-12 0.54-0.13
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
34 Jake Allen L 27 23 4 39:49 3.32 -0.68
50 Nico Daws 7 7 0 19:00 0.24 +0.24

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jason Zucker · Alex Tuch · Dylan Cozens10:1965.060.20-0
Tage Thompson · JJ Peterka · Jiri Kulich6:4945.541.02-2
Beck Malenstyn · Ryan McLeod · Peyton Krebs5:4975.026.10-0
Ryan McLeod · Jack Quinn · Zach Benson3:5760.016.40-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Henri Jokiharju · Jacob Bryson6:3363.649.20-0
Rasmus Dahlin · Bowen Byram6:0647.136.90-1
Mattias Samuelsson · Owen Power6:0272.279.71-0

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
72 Tage Thompson C 1 2 3 1 0 3 1 13:39 0.59 20-28 1.44-1.86
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 2 2 0 2 1 2 20:33 0.03 16-21 1.05-1.30
10 JJ Peterka R 1 0 1 0 0 5 0 16:09 0.36 21-25 1.48-1.82
17 Jason Zucker L 1 0 1 0 2 3 1 17:10 0.37 15-8 0.74-0.30
71 Ryan McLeod C 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 17:31 0.15 9-6 0.04-0.34
6 Dennis Gilbert D 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 06:36 0.01 5-7 0.21-1.06
24 Bowen Byram D 0 1 1 -1 2 1 2 21:31 0.00 15-20 0.34-1.04
25 Owen Power D 0 1 1 2 0 9 2 23:28 0.63 22-14 0.94-0.81
89 Alex Tuch R 0 1 1 1 2 4 2 23:45 0.44 15-10 0.51-0.43
6 Zach Benson L 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 12:09 0.10 5-2 0.10-0.10
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 14:18 11-7 0.10-0.23
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 12:04 0.02 16-4 0.59-0.10
20 Jiri Kulich C 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 15:11 0.33 21-22 1.22-1.65
22 Jack Quinn R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 08:41 8-5 0.37-0.12
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 1 0 2 3 18:05 0.05 16-18 0.65-0.42
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 4 21:08 0.34 16-13 0.55-0.44
29 Beck Malenstyn L 0 0 0 0 2 1 2 14:24 0.07 11-8 0.11-0.19
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13:38 0.01 8-7 0.18-0.43
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen W 24 21 3 60:00 3.52 +0.52