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Columbus Blue Jackets at Buffalo Sabres

Feb 4, 2025 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Columbus Blue Jackets 2 29
Buffalo Sabres 3 21

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
10:07 BUF Bowen Byram (6) Jason Zucker (21), Alex Tuch (22) 0 - 1
2nd Period
01:47 CBJ Kent Johnson (16) James van Riemsdyk (14), Ivan Provorov (19) 1 - 1
12:17 BUF Alex Tuch (17) Dennis Gilbert (3), Bowen Byram (21) 1 - 2
18:56 BUF Alex Tuch (18) Rasmus Dahlin (34), Jason Zucker (22) 1 - 3
3rd Period
12:38 CBJ Ivan Provorov (5) Damon Severson (15), Luca Del Bel Belluz (6) 2 - 3

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
00:03 BUF Dennis Gilbert Fighting 5
00:03 CBJ Mathieu Olivier Fighting 5
2nd Period
08:07 BUF Dylan Cozens Tripping 2
12:55 CBJ Damon Severson Slashing 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Columbus Blue Jackets 61 42 29 2 1.7 51.0
Buffalo Sabres 58 36 21 3 2.5 49.0

How the game went

50510Start2nd3rdBuffalo Sabres aheadColumbus Blue Jackets 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 Columbus Blue Jackets had.

Expected goals

Columbus Blue Jackets: 1.7 expected, 2 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 2.5 expected, 3 scored

00.511.52Start2nd3rdEndCBJ goal, 1:47 of 2nd, a 6% chanceCBJ goal, 12:38 of 3rd, a 12% chanceBUF goal, 10:07 of 1st, a 15% chanceBUF goal, 12:17 of 2nd, a 5% chanceBUF goal, 18:56 of 2nd, a 7% chanceBUF 2.5CBJ 1.7

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

Columbus Blue Jackets
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.

Columbus Blue Jackets

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Dmitri Voronkov · Cole Sillinger · Adam Fantilli13:2848.129.30-1
James van Riemsdyk · Kent Johnson · Luca Del Bel Belluz10:1461.971.52-0
Mathieu Olivier · Justin Danforth · Zachary Aston-Reese8:5926.777.00-0
Sean Kuraly · Kevin Labanc · Mikael Pyyhtia8:3241.713.20-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Ivan Provorov · Denton Mateychuk16:0637.126.20-1
Damon Severson · Jake Christiansen13:5536.417.30-1
Jack Johnson · Jordan Harris13:2368.068.81-1

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
9 Ivan Provorov D 1 1 2 0 0 3 1 28:27 0.18 24-24 0.69-0.56
91 Kent Johnson C 1 0 1 2 0 4 0 17:48 0.23 16-10 0.48-0.33
21 James van Riemsdyk L 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 15:41 0.00 14-11 0.41-0.25
65 Luca Del Bel Belluz C 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 14:38 14-9 0.41-0.20
78 Damon Severson D 0 1 1 0 2 2 0 18:29 0.03 9-16 0.23-0.71
2 Jake Christiansen D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 3 17:34 13-15 0.38-0.60
3 Jack Johnson D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 17:39 0.02 23-10 0.83-0.44
4 Cole Sillinger C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 19:43 0.04 13-15 0.27-0.66
5 Denton Mateychuk D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 19:50 0.09 14-23 0.20-0.61
10 Dmitri Voronkov L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 21:13 0.13 20-16 0.52-0.82
15 Justin Danforth R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 3 12:59 0.01 8-14 0.43-0.31
19 Adam Fantilli C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 3 21:25 0.29 17-18 0.41-0.84
24 Mathieu Olivier R 0 0 0 -1 5 2 3 13:12 0.06 12-15 0.51-0.34
27 Zachary Aston-Reese L 0 0 0 0 0 5 1 13:02 0.36 10-11 0.43-0.11
43 Jordan Harris D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 14:24 0.14 19-8 0.61-0.28
52 Sean Kuraly C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 12:01 0.11 11-8 0.16-0.27
62 Kevin Labanc R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 10:50 0.00 8-7 0.13-0.25
82 Mikael Pyyhtia L 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 11:39 6-10 0.06-0.42
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
90 Elvis Merzlikins L 21 18 3 57:26 2.13 -0.87

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jack Quinn · JJ Peterka · Jiri Kulich7:3266.765.70-0
Jason Zucker · Alex Tuch · Dylan Cozens7:0247.459.10-0
Jason Zucker · Alex Tuch · Peyton Krebs6:3125.040.51-1
JJ Peterka · Isak Rosen · Jiri Kulich6:2540.063.40-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Rasmus Dahlin · Bowen Byram11:5362.578.41-1
Henri Jokiharju · Owen Power8:1633.319.70-1
Connor Clifton · Jacob Bryson5:5523.144.40-0

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
89 Alex Tuch R 2 1 3 1 0 5 1 22:15 0.30 18-22 0.51-0.71
24 Bowen Byram D 1 1 2 1 0 1 2 22:27 0.20 20-13 0.91-0.35
17 Jason Zucker L 0 2 2 2 0 0 0 16:52 0.02 15-18 0.62-0.50
6 Dennis Gilbert D 0 1 1 1 5 0 1 08:41 7-7 0.14-0.27
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 23:36 0.02 25-18 0.84-0.50
6 Zach Benson L 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 16:26 0.49 10-6 0.52-0.32
10 JJ Peterka R 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 18:25 0.14 17-15 0.44-0.35
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 1 0 1 4 16:26 0.07 12-16 0.35-0.50
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 13:27 0.05 13-14 0.23-0.40
20 Jiri Kulich C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 17:31 0.30 18-15 0.44-0.35
22 Jack Quinn R 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 15:22 0.17 15-9 0.38-0.20
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 0 0 0 2 0 6 15:15 10-12 0.43-0.20
25 Owen Power D 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 19:04 0.10 12-13 0.28-0.29
27 Isak Rosen R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 11:46 0.02 11-13 0.38-0.26
29 Beck Malenstyn L 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 06:58 0.01 5-8 0.02-0.26
71 Ryan McLeod C 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 22:19 0.07 13-16 0.70-0.57
75 Connor Clifton D 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 14:40 0.08 10-19 0.31-0.49
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 16:30 0.09 9-16 0.48-0.51
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
47 James Reimer W 29 27 2 60:00 1.71 -0.29