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Pittsburgh Penguins at Buffalo Sabres

Mar 27, 2025 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Pittsburgh Penguins 3 25
Buffalo Sabres 7 30

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
00:27 BUF Tage Thompson (36) Zach Benson (15), Rasmus Dahlin (43) 0 - 1
04:44 BUF Peyton Krebs (7) Alex Tuch (25), Connor Clifton (11) 0 - 2
11:11 PIT Sidney Crosby (26) Rickard Rakell (31), Matt Grzelcyk (34) 1 - 2
2nd Period
03:36 BUF Jiri Kulich (13) Bowen Byram (27), Tage Thompson (27) 1 - 3
05:20 BUF Mattias Samuelsson (4) Isak Rosen (1), Rasmus Dahlin (44) 1 - 4
11:34 BUF Jiri Kulich (14) Bowen Byram (28), Jack Quinn (17) 1 - 5
12:02 BUF Tyson Kozak (3) Beck Malenstyn (6), Peyton Krebs (14) 1 - 6
19:34 BUF Alex Tuch (28) Owen Power (30), Tyson Kozak (2) 1 - 7
3rd Period
02:16 PIT Blake Lizotte (10) Unassisted 2 - 7
13:54 PIT Kevin Hayes (11) Conor Timmins (10), Ryan Graves (3) 3 - 7

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
06:41 PIT Sidney Crosby Slashing 2
14:18 BUF Zach Benson High sticking 2
2nd Period
06:23 BUF Connor Clifton Interference 2
09:32 PIT Blake Lizotte High sticking 2
18:05 PIT Connor Dewar Roughing 2
18:05 BUF Rasmus Dahlin Roughing 2
3rd Period
05:53 PIT Connor Dewar Roughing 2
05:53 PIT Connor Dewar Fighting 5
05:53 BUF Jacob Bernard-Docker Fighting 5
14:54 PIT Vladislav Kolyachonok Delaying game puck over glass 2
15:01 BUF Jiri Kulich Tripping 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Pittsburgh Penguins 50 33 26 3 2.0 53.9
Buffalo Sabres 49 39 30 7 2.7 46.1

How the game went

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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 Pittsburgh Penguins had.

Expected goals

Pittsburgh Penguins: 2.0 expected, 3 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 2.7 expected, 7 scored

012Start2nd3rdEndPIT goal, 11:11 of 1st, a 21% chancePIT goal, 2:16 of 3rd, a 21% chancePIT goal, 13:54 of 3rd, a 12% chanceBUF goal, 0:27 of 1st, a 14% chanceBUF goal, 4:44 of 1st, a 14% chanceBUF goal, 3:36 of 2nd, a 17% chanceBUF goal, 5:20 of 2nd, a 6% chanceBUF goal, 11:34 of 2nd, a 5% chanceBUF goal, 12:02 of 2nd, a 4% chanceBUF goal, 19:34 of 2nd, a 12% chanceBUF 2.7PIT 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

Pittsburgh Penguins
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.

Pittsburgh Penguins

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Sidney Crosby · Bryan Rust · Rickard Rakell15:2245.531.81-2
Noel Acciari · Joona Koppanen · Blake Lizotte10:3343.815.20-1
Kevin Hayes · Connor Dewar · Philip Tomasino4:4053.837.80-1
Kevin Hayes · Danton Heinen · Connor Dewar4:1675.035.91-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Kris Letang · Matt Grzelcyk12:4553.346.32-4
Erik Karlsson · Conor Timmins10:5178.979.00-0
Ryan Graves · Vladislav Kolyachonok6:3114.30.00-0

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
13 Kevin Hayes R 1 0 1 0 0 6 4 15:13 0.54 16-10 0.61-0.64
46 Blake Lizotte C 1 0 1 -2 2 2 2 19:00 0.44 14-11 0.64-0.58
87 Sidney Crosby C 1 0 1 -1 2 2 3 22:55 0.22 11-13 0.32-0.57
21 Conor Timmins D 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 18:24 0.06 19-7 0.72-0.28
24 Matt Grzelcyk D 0 1 1 -3 0 1 0 23:12 0.02 16-15 0.72-0.84
27 Ryan Graves D 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 12:39 6-11 0.17-0.73
67 Rickard Rakell R 0 1 1 -2 0 0 4 23:16 11-14 0.32-0.72
6 Ryan Shea D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 11:55 6-9 0.15-0.40
15 Joona Koppanen L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 3 16:08 0.04 10-9 0.49-0.38
17 Bryan Rust R 0 0 0 -1 0 5 0 23:32 0.25 14-13 0.74-0.72
19 Connor Dewar C 0 0 0 -1 9 2 4 12:31 0.14 13-8 0.40-0.59
52 Noel Acciari C 0 0 0 -2 0 0 2 16:26 10-10 0.13-0.44
52 Emil Bemstrom C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 04:20 5-5 0.29-0.22
53 Philip Tomasino R 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 08:45 0.02 9-7 0.27-0.41
58 Kris Letang D 0 0 0 -3 0 3 3 23:13 0.05 18-15 0.77-0.84
58 Danton Heinen L 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 10:52 10-5 0.48-0.46
65 Erik Karlsson D 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 19:27 0.21 15-5 0.57-0.15
74 Vladislav Kolyachonok D 0 0 0 -1 2 0 0 08:30 2-8 0.02-0.58
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
33 Alex Nedeljkovic 18 15 3 34:22 1.39 -1.61
35 Tristan Jarry L 12 8 4 25:20 1.37 -2.63

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Tage Thompson · Jiri Kulich · Zach Benson11:4047.883.02-0
Ryan McLeod · Jack Quinn · JJ Peterka8:5438.535.70-1
Alex Tuch · Peyton Krebs · Isak Rosen7:3050.051.32-1
Beck Malenstyn · Josh Dunne · Tyson Kozak4:1920.04.20-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Connor Clifton · Bowen Byram14:2940.949.41-0
Mattias Samuelsson · Rasmus Dahlin9:4042.143.62-2
Jacob Bernard-Docker · Owen Power9:1237.553.30-1

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

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
20 Jiri Kulich C 2 0 2 3 2 4 1 19:07 0.35 15-13 0.81-0.13
19 Peyton Krebs C 1 1 2 2 0 2 0 15:02 0.43 12-11 0.73-0.63
48 Tyson Kozak C 1 1 2 1 0 2 1 09:07 0.10 5-5 0.22-0.19
72 Tage Thompson C 1 1 2 2 0 3 0 19:53 0.32 12-13 0.75-0.16
89 Alex Tuch R 1 1 2 2 0 1 0 17:41 0.12 10-10 0.61-0.58
24 Bowen Byram D 0 2 2 2 0 1 0 24:01 0.00 13-15 0.58-0.56
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 2 2 1 2 3 1 20:33 0.13 12-15 0.88-0.79
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 17:48 0.06 12-12 0.80-0.77
6 Zach Benson L 0 1 1 3 2 3 0 16:31 0.17 13-12 0.69-0.13
22 Jack Quinn R 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 14:43 0.16 7-12 0.32-0.61
25 Owen Power D 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 17:19 10-13 0.30-0.24
27 Isak Rosen R 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 11:25 0.15 13-12 0.71-0.65
29 Beck Malenstyn L 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 08:55 0.12 6-5 0.22-0.15
75 Connor Clifton D 0 1 1 2 2 2 5 20:28 0.09 13-13 0.79-0.53
10 JJ Peterka R 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 18:45 0.27 6-12 0.39-0.63
25 Jacob Bernard-Docker D 0 0 0 1 5 0 2 16:49 0.01 10-14 0.46-0.24
44 Josh Dunne C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 06:55 1-7 0.01-0.23
71 Ryan McLeod C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 16:58 0.27 5-11 0.27-0.60
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
47 James Reimer W 25 23 3 60:00 2.01 -0.99