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San Jose Sharks at Buffalo Sabres

Mar 4, 2025 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
San Jose Sharks 6 28
Buffalo Sabres 2 22

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
2nd Period
01:01 SJS Timothy Liljegren (6) William Eklund (33), Jake Walman (25) 1 - 0
05:13 BUF JJ Peterka (18) PP Rasmus Dahlin (39), Jack Quinn (14) 1 - 1
18:22 SJS Nico Sturm (7) Collin Graf (4), Klim Kostin (6) 2 - 1
3rd Period
02:19 SJS William Eklund (13) Tyler Toffoli (18), Shakir Mukhamadullin (4) 3 - 1
06:55 BUF Tage Thompson (30) JJ Peterka (31), Connor Clifton (9) 3 - 2
07:58 SJS Macklin Celebrini (19) Shakir Mukhamadullin (5), Will Smith (19) 4 - 2
12:49 SJS Will Smith (11) Fabian Zetterlund (19) 5 - 2
18:01 SJS Tyler Toffoli (24) Jake Walman (26), Timothy Liljegren (6) 6 - 2

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
10:49 BUF Alex Tuch Roughing 2
14:54 BUF Dylan Cozens High sticking 2
2nd Period
04:00 SJS Jack Thompson Holding 2
09:16 BUF Rasmus Dahlin Roughing 2
09:16 SJS Luke Kunin Roughing 2
13:32 SJS Barclay Goodrow Interference 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
San Jose Sharks 63 47 28 6 3.4 50.5
Buffalo Sabres 56 32 22 2 2.0 49.5

How the game went

1510505Start2nd3rdBuffalo Sabres aheadSan Jose Sharks 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 San Jose Sharks had.

Expected goals

San Jose Sharks: 3.4 expected, 6 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 2.0 expected, 2 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndSJS goal, 1:01 of 2nd, a 10% chanceSJS goal, 18:22 of 2nd, a 15% chanceSJS goal, 2:19 of 3rd, a 1% chanceSJS goal, 7:58 of 3rd, a 8% chanceSJS goal, 12:49 of 3rd, a 8% chanceSJS goal, 18:01 of 3rd, a 38% chanceBUF goal, 5:13 of 2nd, a 8% chanceBUF goal, 6:55 of 3rd, a 4% chanceSJS 3.4BUF 2.0

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

San Jose Sharks
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.

San Jose Sharks

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Fabian Zetterlund · Will Smith · Macklin Celebrini10:1768.474.41-0
Tyler Toffoli · Alexander Wennberg · William Eklund9:4060.942.62-0
Barclay Goodrow · Luke Kunin · Nico Sturm7:1238.951.40-0
Klim Kostin · Ty Dellandrea · Collin Graf4:5214.314.10-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mario Ferraro · Shakir Mukhamadullin16:5146.248.21-0
Jake Walman · Timothy Liljegren10:3550.048.12-0
Marc-Edouard Vlasic · Jack Thompson10:0956.341.20-0

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

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
2 Will Smith C 1 1 2 2 0 2 0 16:13 0.10 20-7 1.00-0.19
27 Timothy Liljegren D 1 1 2 3 0 4 1 17:21 0.20 15-12 0.87-0.74
27 William Eklund L 1 1 2 4 0 3 0 17:24 0.37 22-11 0.74-0.34
73 Tyler Toffoli C 1 1 2 3 0 4 2 15:20 0.09 15-11 0.28-0.62
85 Shakir Mukhamadullin D 0 2 2 2 0 0 0 22:34 0.01 16-19 0.34-0.40
96 Jake Walman D 0 2 2 3 0 1 0 22:56 0.17 16-18 0.83-0.93
71 Macklin Celebrini C 1 0 1 2 0 3 1 16:11 1.01 18-9 0.88-0.50
78 Nico Sturm C 1 0 1 1 0 3 2 13:27 0.25 10-12 0.54-0.29
10 Klim Kostin C 0 1 1 1 0 1 2 10:59 0.27 2-8 0.23-0.49
20 Fabian Zetterlund L 0 1 1 0 0 1 3 16:19 0.08 15-8 0.62-0.23
51 Collin Graf R 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 14:17 0.14 2-9 0.23-0.49
10 Ty Dellandrea C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 4 12:16 0.06 2-11 0.14-0.56
21 Alexander Wennberg C 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 17:07 0.04 16-13 0.35-0.37
23 Barclay Goodrow C 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 14:18 0.09 9-16 0.38-0.36
26 Jack Thompson D 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 13:33 0.03 15-15 0.69-0.63
38 Mario Ferraro D 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 26:05 0.01 18-16 0.69-0.33
44 Marc-Edouard Vlasic D 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 13:28 12-10 0.38-0.41
71 Luke Kunin C 0 0 0 -1 2 1 2 14:59 0.12 7-19 0.31-0.72
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
40 Alexandar Georgiev W 22 20 2 60:00 1.96 -0.04

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Tage Thompson · JJ Peterka · Jiri Kulich10:2060.038.01-0
Alex Tuch · Jordan Greenway · Dylan Cozens8:0852.654.00-0
Ryan McLeod · Jack Quinn · Zach Benson6:3142.946.50-2
Sam Lafferty · Beck Malenstyn · Peyton Krebs6:0025.045.90-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mattias Samuelsson · Rasmus Dahlin12:2450.041.30-0
Connor Clifton · Jacob Bryson8:2057.142.61-2
Bowen Byram · Owen Power7:3233.316.40-3

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 1 1 2 -1 0 2 0 19:41 0.13 16-10 0.27-0.49
72 Tage Thompson C 1 0 1 0 0 2 3 20:11 0.19 15-11 0.27-0.49
22 Jack Quinn R 0 1 1 -4 0 0 1 13:33 10-12 0.22-0.45
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 1 1 -1 2 2 1 26:43 0.08 22-19 1.02-0.90
75 Connor Clifton D 0 1 1 -1 0 2 4 17:04 0.27 13-9 0.44-0.29
6 Zach Benson L 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 12:18 0.07 9-10 0.24-0.20
12 Jordan Greenway L 0 0 0 -2 0 0 6 16:17 0.11 15-17 1.02-0.89
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 11:30 5-9 0.21-0.18
20 Jiri Kulich C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 2 16:43 0.04 15-13 0.28-0.61
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 21:09 0.03 20-18 0.83-0.48
24 Sam Lafferty C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 10:48 4-10 0.19-0.32
24 Bowen Byram D 0 0 0 -4 0 1 0 18:51 0.02 11-16 0.56-1.08
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 0 0 -2 2 5 2 14:51 0.63 17-13 1.02-0.81
25 Owen Power D 0 0 0 -3 0 0 0 17:53 0.02 11-18 0.27-0.71
29 Beck Malenstyn L 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 11:25 0.05 5-8 0.21-0.18
71 Ryan McLeod C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 13:04 0.06 8-11 0.22-0.35
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 15:31 14-12 0.62-0.34
89 Alex Tuch R 0 0 0 -2 2 2 0 19:03 0.27 14-14 0.69-0.74
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen L 27 22 5 57:25 3.05 -1.95