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Boston Bruins at Buffalo Sabres

Apr 6, 2025 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Boston Bruins 3 20
Buffalo Sabres 6 37

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
03:37 BOS Elias Lindholm (16) David Pastrnak (55), Henri Jokiharju (5) 1 - 0
14:27 BOS Morgan Geekie (29) David Pastrnak (56) 2 - 0
2nd Period
07:35 BUF Tage Thompson (41) Zach Benson (17), Bowen Byram (29) 2 - 1
10:49 BUF Alex Tuch (33) Rasmus Dahlin (47), JJ Peterka (38) 2 - 2
16:38 BOS Casey Mittelstadt (14) PP David Pastrnak (57), Mason Lohrei (28) 3 - 2
18:31 BUF Rasmus Dahlin (15) Alex Tuch (29), Peyton Krebs (16) 3 - 3
3rd Period
01:59 BUF Jason Zucker (21) Bowen Byram (30), Peyton Krebs (17) 3 - 4
05:51 BUF Tage Thompson (42) Jiri Kulich (8), Owen Power (33) 3 - 5
19:14 BUF Tage Thompson (43) Unassisted 3 - 6

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
06:03 BOS John Beecher Hooking 2
15:12 BOS Nikita Zadorov Slashing 2
2nd Period
15:48 BUF JJ Peterka Holding 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Boston Bruins 42 28 20 3 2.0 37.1
Buffalo Sabres 70 51 37 6 4.4 62.9

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 Boston Bruins had.

Expected goals

Boston Bruins: 2.0 expected, 3 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 4.4 expected, 6 scored

01234Start2nd3rdEndBOS goal, 3:37 of 1st, a 26% chanceBOS goal, 14:27 of 1st, a 17% chanceBOS goal, 16:38 of 2nd, a 53% chanceBUF goal, 7:35 of 2nd, a 35% chanceBUF goal, 10:49 of 2nd, a 5% chanceBUF goal, 18:31 of 2nd, a 7% chanceBUF goal, 1:59 of 3rd, a 5% chanceBUF goal, 5:51 of 3rd, a 12% chanceBUF goal, 19:14 of 3rd, a 43% chanceBUF 4.4BOS 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

Boston Bruins
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.

Boston Bruins

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Elias Lindholm · David Pastrnak · Morgan Geekie10:2548.058.52-1
Jakub Lauko · Cole Koepke · John Beecher6:1523.16.40-1
Vinni Lettieri · Marat Khusnutdinov · Fraser Minten5:4144.441.30-0
Pavel Zacha · Vinni Lettieri · Casey Mittelstadt5:1163.679.20-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Nikita Zadorov · Henri Jokiharju17:3141.759.92-1
Parker Wotherspoon · Michael Callahan14:5044.852.90-2
Andrew Peeke · Mason Lohrei14:3327.08.40-1

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
88 David Pastrnak R 0 3 3 0 0 2 1 19:04 0.12 16-14 0.72-0.59
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 1 0 1 -2 0 1 0 17:57 0.53 8-13 0.35-0.58
28 Elias Lindholm C 1 0 1 0 0 5 0 17:27 0.38 15-14 0.70-0.55
39 Morgan Geekie C 1 0 1 -1 0 4 1 20:35 0.32 15-18 0.75-0.73
6 Mason Lohrei D 0 1 1 -3 0 0 0 20:47 11-29 0.19-1.91
20 Henri Jokiharju D 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 20:03 11-15 0.55-0.46
18 Pavel Zacha C 0 0 0 -2 0 0 2 16:50 0.22 9-17 0.35-0.61
18 John Beecher C 0 0 0 -1 2 0 2 10:05 0.03 6-14 0.04-0.83
20 Andrew Peeke D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 3 19:39 0.07 12-29 0.27-1.74
23 Fabian Lysell R 0 0 0 -3 0 1 0 12:23 0.09 4-16 0.11-0.68
29 Parker Wotherspoon D 0 0 0 -2 0 2 1 19:04 0.04 14-18 0.46-0.38
45 Cole Koepke L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 11:44 5-14 0.16-0.79
79 Michael Callahan D 0 0 0 -3 0 1 0 17:30 0.01 13-17 0.43-0.43
91 Nikita Zadorov D 0 0 0 1 2 0 4 20:38 11-14 0.61-0.35
92 Marat Khusnutdinov C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 13:20 0.03 7-16 0.05-0.68
93 Fraser Minten C 0 0 0 -2 0 0 1 14:22 8-14 0.14-0.47
94 Jakub Lauko C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 11:48 4-15 0.04-0.71
95 Vinni Lettieri C 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 15:02 0.14 11-18 0.35-0.71
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
70 Joonas Korpisalo L 36 31 5 57:42 3.25 -1.75

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Tage Thompson · Jiri Kulich · Zach Benson13:1870.674.72-1
Sam Lafferty · Beck Malenstyn · Noah Ostlund10:0976.934.80-0
Alex Tuch · Ryan McLeod · JJ Peterka8:0650.073.01-0
Jason Zucker · Peyton Krebs · Jack Quinn6:2346.277.11-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mattias Samuelsson · Rasmus Dahlin13:2773.386.00-0
Jacob Bernard-Docker · Owen Power12:2879.299.11-0
Connor Clifton · Bowen Byram12:1448.157.51-1

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
72 Tage Thompson C 3 0 3 2 0 6 1 20:28 0.67 28-10 1.71-0.47
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 1 1 2 3 0 4 1 22:31 0.36 18-7 0.66-0.24
89 Alex Tuch R 1 1 2 2 0 2 0 16:42 0.20 12-9 0.23-0.14
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 2 2 2 0 2 1 12:57 0.21 13-8 0.79-0.20
24 Bowen Byram D 0 2 2 1 0 2 0 21:51 0.01 23-19 1.10-0.85
17 Jason Zucker L 1 0 1 2 0 4 1 15:03 0.45 10-8 0.48-0.20
6 Zach Benson L 0 1 1 1 0 4 3 16:56 0.21 25-10 1.44-0.47
10 JJ Peterka R 0 1 1 1 2 2 0 15:34 0.14 13-14 0.34-0.35
20 Jiri Kulich C 0 1 1 2 0 3 0 18:08 0.51 24-10 1.37-0.47
25 Owen Power D 0 1 1 3 0 2 0 20:21 0.04 28-8 1.19-0.03
22 Jack Quinn R 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 12:34 0.08 9-14 0.52-0.42
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 19:53 14-9 0.50-0.36
24 Sam Lafferty C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 13:17 13-3 0.20-0.23
25 Jacob Bernard-Docker D 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 14:54 0.16 21-11 0.92-0.25
29 Beck Malenstyn L 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 12:10 0.01 13-3 0.37-0.23
71 Ryan McLeod C 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 15:32 0.08 12-15 0.27-0.35
75 Connor Clifton D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 16:39 0.02 18-18 0.92-0.79
86 Noah Ostlund C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13:40 0.08 11-4 0.19-0.23
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen W 20 17 3 60:00 1.99 -1.01