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Buffalo Sabres at Tampa Bay Lightning

Mar 6, 2025 · Amalie Arena

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 5 33
Tampa Bay Lightning 6 26

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
05:01 TBL Nick Paul (19) Ryan McDonagh (18), Brandon Hagel (39) 0 - 1
05:17 BUF Rasmus Dahlin (11) Ryan McLeod (18), Zach Benson (11) 1 - 1
05:53 TBL Darren Raddysh (4) Zemgus Girgensons (4) 1 - 2
08:20 BUF Alex Tuch (24) Unassisted 2 - 2
17:09 BUF Peyton Krebs (5) Ryan McLeod (19), Zach Benson (12) 3 - 2
2nd Period
00:58 TBL Jake Guentzel (30) Erik Cernak (14), Nikita Kucherov (63) 3 - 3
09:35 BUF Tage Thompson (31) PP Rasmus Dahlin (40), JJ Peterka (32) 4 - 3
12:40 BUF JJ Peterka (19) Unassisted 5 - 3
17:43 TBL Jake Guentzel (31) Brayden Point (33), Nick Paul (16) 5 - 4
18:46 TBL Jake Guentzel (32) PP Brandon Hagel (40), Darren Raddysh (24) 5 - 5
3rd Period
01:40 TBL Oliver Bjorkstrand (17) Yanni Gourde (12), Nikita Kucherov (64) 5 - 6

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
08:23 BUF Tage Thompson High sticking 2
2nd Period
01:57 TBL Erik Cernak Roughing 2
09:15 TBL Gage Goncalves Tripping 2
18:10 BUF Rasmus Dahlin Roughing 2
18:10 TBL Anthony Cirelli Roughing 2
18:10 BUF Rasmus Dahlin Roughing removing opponents helmet 2
3rd Period
10:25 BUF JJ Peterka Holding 2
18:06 TBL Brandon Hagel Tripping 2
19:43 TBL Ryan McDonagh High sticking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 57 44 33 5 2.5 53.3
Tampa Bay Lightning 49 38 26 6 3.1 46.7

How the game went

86420246Start2nd3rdTampa Bay Lightning 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 Tampa Bay Lightning had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 2.5 expected, 5 scored · Tampa Bay Lightning: 3.1 expected, 6 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 5:17 of 1st, a 8% chanceBUF goal, 8:20 of 1st, a 9% chanceBUF goal, 17:09 of 1st, a 17% chanceBUF goal, 9:35 of 2nd, a 4% chanceBUF goal, 12:40 of 2nd, a 6% chanceTBL goal, 5:01 of 1st, a 3% chanceTBL goal, 5:53 of 1st, a 1% chanceTBL goal, 0:58 of 2nd, a 21% chanceTBL goal, 17:43 of 2nd, a 15% chanceTBL goal, 18:46 of 2nd, a 11% chanceTBL goal, 1:40 of 3rd, a 46% chanceTBL 3.1BUF 2.5

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

Buffalo Sabres
Tampa Bay Lightning

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 Kulich12:2157.146.21-1
Alex Tuch · Jordan Greenway · Dylan Cozens8:4140.023.51-0
Alex Tuch · Peyton Krebs · Dylan Cozens4:00100.0100.00-0
Sam Lafferty · Ryan McLeod · Zach Benson3:03100.0100.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mattias Samuelsson · Rasmus Dahlin17:0953.859.02-0
Bowen Byram · Owen Power10:2042.926.21-3
Connor Clifton · Jacob Bryson7:4550.043.61-1

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
10 JJ Peterka R 1 1 2 -1 2 2 0 21:35 0.23 17-14 0.86-0.66
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 1 1 2 2 4 5 1 23:35 0.23 17-12 0.70-0.41
6 Zach Benson L 0 2 2 2 0 2 1 10:57 0.28 6-7 0.53-0.28
71 Ryan McLeod C 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 21:38 0.03 16-16 1.01-1.08
19 Peyton Krebs C 1 0 1 -1 0 2 2 13:47 0.25 16-9 0.64-0.43
72 Tage Thompson C 1 0 1 0 2 5 2 19:19 0.40 15-11 0.69-0.56
89 Alex Tuch R 1 0 1 1 0 4 3 21:00 0.25 13-12 0.57-0.67
12 Jordan Greenway L 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 12:16 0.00 8-10 0.20-0.64
20 Jiri Kulich C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 18:55 0.46 15-13 0.62-0.76
22 Jack Quinn R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 02:25 1-5 0.08-0.27
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 25:12 17-14 0.82-0.43
24 Sam Lafferty C 0 0 0 -2 0 2 4 12:32 0.20 16-10 0.65-0.80
24 Bowen Byram D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 1 20:18 0.01 16-17 0.75-0.93
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 16:54 0.04 12-11 0.65-0.64
25 Owen Power D 0 0 0 -3 0 4 0 17:54 0.08 18-15 0.69-1.32
29 Beck Malenstyn L 0 0 0 -3 0 0 1 09:43 10-8 0.38-0.75
75 Connor Clifton D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 15:36 0.04 14-13 0.75-1.18
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13:55 13-13 0.61-0.77
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen L 26 20 6 57:53 2.85 -3.15

Tampa Bay Lightning

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Nikita Kucherov · Jake Guentzel · Brayden Point10:4244.050.91-2
Nick Paul · Anthony Cirelli · Brandon Hagel10:3946.730.91-0
Yanni Gourde · Oliver Bjorkstrand · Gage Goncalves8:5254.516.50-2
Luke Glendening · Zemgus Girgensons · Mitchell Chaffee7:3330.833.81-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Ryan McDonagh · Erik Cernak9:1625.033.22-2
Darren Raddysh · Emil Lilleberg8:1462.570.71-0
Ryan McDonagh · Darren Raddysh7:4642.953.11-0

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
59 Jake Guentzel C 3 0 3 0 0 3 0 18:27 0.47 14-15 1.03-0.78
20 Nick Paul L 1 1 2 2 0 2 0 15:42 0.12 11-15 0.42-0.63
43 Darren Raddysh D 1 1 2 2 0 3 1 24:47 0.03 19-20 1.08-1.03
38 Brandon Hagel L 0 2 2 1 2 1 0 21:42 0.18 11-16 0.61-0.73
86 Nikita Kucherov R 0 2 2 0 0 1 0 17:18 0.35 15-15 1.45-0.78
28 Oliver Bjorkstrand R 1 0 1 -1 0 2 3 13:53 0.72 13-8 1.10-0.57
21 Brayden Point C 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 16:45 0.27 14-15 1.03-0.78
27 Ryan McDonagh D 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 25:41 14-26 0.71-1.11
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 11:02 0.04 4-11 0.08-0.20
37 Yanni Gourde C 0 1 1 -1 0 2 4 16:47 0.33 16-14 1.21-0.76
81 Erik Cernak D 0 1 1 1 2 2 3 22:10 0.03 13-20 1.28-0.83
41 Luke Glendening C 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 10:49 0.02 4-10 0.08-0.25
41 Mitchell Chaffee R 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 08:42 0.05 7-9 0.13-0.16
71 Anthony Cirelli C 0 0 0 1 2 2 1 17:46 0.11 9-11 0.26-0.55
77 Victor Hedman D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 02:57 2-1 0.02-0.01
78 Emil Lilleberg D 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 17:01 0.03 19-12 1.08-0.53
90 J.J. Moser D 0 0 0 -2 0 3 1 22:53 0.05 17-16 0.86-0.96
93 Gage Goncalves C 0 0 0 -2 2 0 2 11:07 0.04 8-6 0.15-0.53
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
88 Andrei Vasilevskiy W 33 28 5 60:00 2.53 -2.47