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Vegas Golden Knights at Buffalo Sabres

Mar 15, 2025 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Vegas Golden Knights 3 19
Buffalo Sabres 4 37

Decided in a shootout.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
12:07 VGK Brett Howden (18) Tanner Pearson (13), Ivan Barbashev (23) 1 - 0
2nd Period
12:06 VGK Pavel Dorofeyev (27) Tomas Hertl (28) 2 - 0
12:13 BUF Ryan McLeod (15) Jacob Bryson (7), Bowen Byram (24) 2 - 1
3rd Period
09:53 BUF Jason Zucker (19) PP Unassisted 2 - 2
17:27 VGK Jack Eichel (21) Mark Stone (41), Alex Pietrangelo (24) 3 - 2
19:46 BUF Rasmus Dahlin (12) Bowen Byram (25), Tage Thompson (25) 3 - 3
Shootout
BUF Alex Tuch Shootout winner 3 - 4

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
2nd Period
05:46 VGK Adin Hill Delaying game puck over glass 2
09:25 BUF Peyton Krebs Instigator 2
09:25 BUF Peyton Krebs Fighting 5
09:25 VGK Brett Howden Fighting 5
09:25 BUF Peyton Krebs Instigator misconduct 10
11:47 VGK Keegan Kolesar Fighting 5
11:47 BUF Jordan Greenway Fighting 5
3rd Period
09:36 VGK Pavel Dorofeyev Tripping 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Vegas Golden Knights 49 34 19 3 2.1 44.0
Buffalo Sabres 70 54 37 3 2.5 56.0

How the game went

05101520Start2nd3rdOTBuffalo Sabres aheadVegas Golden Knights 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 Vegas Golden Knights had.

Expected goals

Vegas Golden Knights: 2.1 expected, 3 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 2.5 expected, 3 scored

00.511.52Start2nd3rdOTVGK goal, 12:07 of 1st, a 16% chanceVGK goal, 12:06 of 2nd, a 11% chanceVGK goal, 17:27 of 3rd, a 23% chanceBUF goal, 12:13 of 2nd, a 5% chanceBUF goal, 9:53 of 3rd, a 17% chanceBUF goal, 19:46 of 3rd, a 3% chanceBUF 2.5VGK 2.1

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

Vegas Golden Knights
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.

Vegas Golden Knights

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Brandon Saad · Tomas Hertl · Pavel Dorofeyev9:2428.610.00-0
Mark Stone · Ivan Barbashev · Jack Eichel5:5261.585.81-1
Tanner Pearson · Keegan Kolesar · Brett Howden4:3328.657.30-0
Reilly Smith · Victor Olofsson · Nicolas Roy4:1140.059.10-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Noah Hanifin · Zach Whitecloud20:4854.371.31-0
Alex Pietrangelo · Nicolas Hague14:4445.251.92-0
Brayden McNabb · Kaedan Korczak14:3134.837.30-1

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 Jack Eichel C 1 0 1 -1 0 2 0 23:04 0.59 20-13 0.79-0.23
16 Pavel Dorofeyev R 1 0 1 1 2 1 0 14:31 0.11 6-14 0.15-0.45
21 Brett Howden C 1 0 1 0 5 1 2 15:10 0.27 5-14 0.30-0.19
7 Alex Pietrangelo D 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 20:58 0.04 17-17 0.59-0.47
48 Tomas Hertl C 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 15:06 8-13 0.15-0.45
49 Ivan Barbashev L 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 17:19 0.34 11-15 0.63-0.18
61 Mark Stone R 0 1 1 -1 0 2 0 22:28 0.08 17-14 0.52-0.37
70 Tanner Pearson L 0 1 1 2 0 2 1 12:00 0.03 10-16 0.41-0.68
3 Brayden McNabb D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 2 19:50 8-20 0.36-0.73
6 Kaedan Korczak D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 4 15:01 8-15 0.36-0.61
10 Nicolas Roy C 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 16:02 12-16 0.29-0.70
15 Noah Hanifin D 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 28:05 0.01 21-19 0.60-0.33
19 Reilly Smith R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15:28 14-20 0.29-0.67
20 Brandon Saad L 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 12:56 0.03 6-13 0.07-0.39
28 Zach Whitecloud D 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 22:16 0.09 20-19 0.65-0.36
41 Nicolas Hague D 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 17:01 0.01 14-22 0.51-0.62
55 Keegan Kolesar R 0 0 0 0 5 2 5 12:34 0.23 8-11 0.43-0.16
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 12:54 0.25 15-9 0.57-0.23
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
33 Adin Hill OTL 37 34 3 65:00 2.50 -0.50

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jason Zucker · Ryan McLeod · Zach Benson11:5366.770.21-0
Alex Tuch · Jordan Greenway · Tage Thompson11:3425.08.60-1
Sam Lafferty · Beck Malenstyn · Tyson Kozak6:3445.561.90-0
Peyton Krebs · Jack Quinn · Jiri Kulich5:0388.9100.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mattias Samuelsson · Rasmus Dahlin14:2351.431.70-2
Jacob Bryson · Bowen Byram14:0868.266.41-0
Connor Clifton · Owen Power12:5243.543.60-0

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
24 Bowen Byram D 0 2 2 2 0 0 2 23:54 0.01 23-10 0.87-0.44
17 Jason Zucker L 1 0 1 2 0 4 2 20:12 0.33 23-11 0.68-0.28
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 1 0 1 -2 0 5 1 26:48 0.31 24-22 0.46-0.89
71 Ryan McLeod C 1 0 1 2 0 3 0 22:05 0.20 25-10 0.69-0.34
72 Tage Thompson C 0 1 1 -2 0 5 2 22:57 0.32 9-22 0.16-0.90
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 16:30 0.06 15-8 0.65-0.34
6 Zach Benson L 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 19:18 0.23 25-11 0.76-0.33
12 Jordan Greenway L 0 0 0 -1 5 0 5 17:09 0.06 10-16 0.17-0.63
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 0 17 0 2 12:09 14-4 0.25-0.02
20 Jiri Kulich C 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 08:08 0.15 11-2 0.19-0.00
22 Jack Quinn R 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 09:57 0.13 14-4 0.26-0.22
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 4 18:16 0.02 19-18 0.34-0.66
24 Sam Lafferty C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 4 12:21 0.21 10-11 0.50-0.42
25 Owen Power D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 19:48 0.01 17-16 0.46-0.42
29 Beck Malenstyn L 0 0 0 -1 0 3 7 14:52 0.04 12-14 0.50-0.47
48 Tyson Kozak C 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 09:04 0.25 7-8 0.40-0.27
75 Connor Clifton D 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 17:43 0.02 14-14 0.35-0.31
89 Alex Tuch R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 23:16 0.12 8-19 0.13-0.73
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen W 19 16 3 63:33 2.08 -0.92