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Buffalo Sabres at Boston Bruins

Mar 17, 2025 · TD Garden

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 3 30
Boston Bruins 2 20

Decided in overtime.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
04:19 BUF Peyton Krebs (6) PP Jack Quinn (15), Owen Power (27) 1 - 0
13:00 BOS Pavel Zacha (14) Morgan Geekie (14), David Pastrnak (49) 1 - 1
15:13 BOS Morgan Geekie (23) Parker Wotherspoon (5) 1 - 2
2nd Period
12:48 BUF Owen Power (7) Ryan McLeod (22), Bowen Byram (26) 2 - 2
Overtime
04:49 BUF Alex Tuch (26) PP Owen Power (28), Jack Quinn (16) 3 - 2

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
02:35 BOS Mark Kastelic Tripping 2
07:31 BUF Sam Lafferty Roughing removing opponents helmet 2
08:41 BUF Connor Clifton Boarding 2
11:37 BUF Jordan Greenway Fighting 5
11:37 BOS Nikita Zadorov Fighting 5
2nd Period
01:08 BOS David Pastrnak High sticking 2
19:52 BOS Ian Mitchell Tripping 2
Overtime
02:51 BOS Marat Khusnutdinov Tripping 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 66 42 30 3 2.6 60.3
Boston Bruins 42 32 20 2 2.6 39.7

How the game went

201510505Start2nd3rdOTBoston Bruins 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 Boston Bruins had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 2.6 expected, 3 scored · Boston Bruins: 2.6 expected, 2 scored

012Start2nd3rdOTBUF goal, 4:19 of 1st, a 16% chanceBUF goal, 12:48 of 2nd, a 5% chanceBUF goal, 4:49 of overtime, a 10% chanceBOS goal, 13:00 of 1st, a 22% chanceBOS goal, 15:13 of 1st, a 17% chanceBOS 2.6BUF 2.6

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
Boston Bruins

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
Jason Zucker · Ryan McLeod · Zach Benson12:3556.349.91-1
Alex Tuch · Jordan Greenway · Tage Thompson10:0969.275.60-0
Brett Murray · Peyton Krebs · Jack Quinn9:3764.79.70-1
Sam Lafferty · Beck Malenstyn · Tyson Kozak6:5857.141.20-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mattias Samuelsson · Rasmus Dahlin14:4952.642.70-0
Bowen Byram · Owen Power13:2568.863.71-0
Connor Clifton · Jacob Bryson8:4282.472.30-0

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
25 Owen Power D 1 2 3 1 0 2 0 22:41 0.06 15-11 0.46-0.72
22 Jack Quinn R 0 2 2 -1 0 1 0 14:48 0.01 15-10 0.11-0.67
19 Peyton Krebs C 1 0 1 -1 0 4 1 17:26 0.44 15-7 0.11-0.59
89 Alex Tuch R 1 0 1 0 0 5 0 22:20 0.53 11-5 0.48-0.50
24 Bowen Byram D 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 24:01 15-9 0.44-0.57
71 Ryan McLeod C 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 23:57 0.14 9-10 0.38-0.46
6 Zach Benson L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 17:03 0.17 11-7 0.40-0.39
12 Jordan Greenway L 0 0 0 0 5 0 2 12:14 10-4 0.46-0.15
17 Jason Zucker L 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 20:12 0.28 9-7 0.38-0.39
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 19:06 11-11 0.43-0.99
24 Sam Lafferty C 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 08:36 0.05 9-6 0.15-0.21
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 24:33 0.30 12-11 0.35-0.46
29 Beck Malenstyn L 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 11:48 0.06 11-9 0.18-0.56
48 Tyson Kozak C 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 10:07 0.03 11-8 0.17-0.58
57 Brett Murray L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 11:20 11-9 0.06-0.67
72 Tage Thompson C 0 0 0 0 0 6 4 21:15 0.48 10-4 0.48-0.15
75 Connor Clifton D 0 0 0 0 2 1 3 14:20 0.02 18-6 0.32-0.10
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 16:38 0.02 17-11 0.24-0.69
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen W 20 18 2 64:49 2.59 +0.59

Boston Bruins

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
David Pastrnak · Pavel Zacha · Morgan Geekie10:3460.069.52-0
Vinni Lettieri · Casey Mittelstadt · Cole Koepke8:3933.361.30-0
Patrick Brown · Mark Kastelic · John Beecher6:4525.08.40-0
Elias Lindholm · Jakub Lauko · Marat Khusnutdinov5:3750.063.80-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Nikita Zadorov · Henri Jokiharju14:2957.145.80-0
Andrew Peeke · Mason Lohrei12:4530.859.41-0
Parker Wotherspoon · Ian Mitchell11:4021.464.20-1

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

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
39 Morgan Geekie C 1 1 2 2 0 2 1 20:33 0.23 13-13 0.94-0.40
18 Pavel Zacha C 1 0 1 2 0 1 1 19:47 0.30 16-8 1.20-0.33
29 Parker Wotherspoon D 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 19:55 6-14 0.62-0.26
88 David Pastrnak R 0 1 1 2 2 4 0 20:51 0.80 15-15 1.37-0.43
6 Mason Lohrei D 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 21:11 0.09 10-22 0.83-0.42
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18:23 3-14 0.07-0.15
14 Ian Mitchell D 0 0 0 -1 2 0 0 16:18 0.05 5-14 0.36-0.21
18 John Beecher C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 11:08 0.07 4-10 0.09-0.20
20 Andrew Peeke D 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 22:36 0.09 8-18 0.57-0.39
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 0 0 1 0 2 4 22:41 0.02 16-10 0.57-0.49
28 Elias Lindholm C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 2 18:54 0.44 7-12 0.77-0.45
38 Patrick Brown C 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 10:05 3-9 0.02-0.20
45 Cole Koepke L 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 15:14 3-12 0.07-0.10
47 Mark Kastelic C 0 0 0 0 2 0 4 10:20 0.01 4-11 0.09-0.46
91 Nikita Zadorov D 0 0 0 0 5 2 2 22:27 0.23 13-10 0.58-0.46
92 Marat Khusnutdinov C 0 0 0 -1 2 1 0 12:43 0.07 8-10 0.31-0.16
94 Jakub Lauko C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 4 11:39 0.06 7-7 0.31-0.41
95 Vinni Lettieri C 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 13:58 0.12 4-11 0.07-0.09
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
70 Joonas Korpisalo OTL 30 27 3 64:49 2.58 -0.42