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Buffalo Sabres at Tampa Bay Lightning

Apr 13, 2025 · Amalie Arena

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 4 25
Tampa Bay Lightning 7 31

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
16:35 TBL Jake Guentzel (39) Brandon Hagel (53), Anthony Cirelli (30) 0 - 1
19:37 BUF Jiri Kulich (15) Tage Thompson (28) 1 - 1
19:52 BUF Connor Clifton (1) Peyton Krebs (18), Jack Quinn (23) 2 - 1
2nd Period
03:02 TBL Ryan McDonagh (4) Brandon Hagel (54), Anthony Cirelli (31) 2 - 2
06:34 TBL Nikita Kucherov (35) Victor Hedman (49), Yanni Gourde (22) 2 - 3
14:21 TBL Conor Geekie (7) Gage Goncalves (11), Nick Paul (19) 2 - 4
16:45 TBL Emil Lilleberg (1) Mitchell Chaffee (6), Gage Goncalves (12) 2 - 5
3rd Period
02:39 TBL Nikita Kucherov (36) Unassisted 2 - 6
08:39 BUF Alex Tuch (35) PP Rasmus Dahlin (50), JJ Peterka (40) 3 - 6
13:12 TBL Jake Guentzel (40) PP Nikita Kucherov (83), Brandon Hagel (55) 3 - 7
18:23 BUF Sam Lafferty (4) Rasmus Dahlin (51) 4 - 7

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
2nd Period
18:41 BUF Jacob Bernard-Docker Interference 2
3rd Period
06:58 TBL Emil Lilleberg Tripping 2
08:08 TBL Zemgus Girgensons Holding 2
12:26 BUF JJ Peterka Delaying game puck over glass 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 55 41 25 4 2.5 44.8
Tampa Bay Lightning 71 62 31 7 5.3 55.2

How the game went

505101520Start2nd3rdTampa 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, 4 scored · Tampa Bay Lightning: 5.3 expected, 7 scored

024Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 19:37 of 1st, a 26% chanceBUF goal, 19:52 of 1st, a 31% chanceBUF goal, 8:39 of 3rd, a 11% chanceBUF goal, 18:23 of 3rd, a 10% chanceTBL goal, 16:35 of 1st, a 23% chanceTBL goal, 3:02 of 2nd, a 4% chanceTBL goal, 6:34 of 2nd, a 41% chanceTBL goal, 14:21 of 2nd, a 42% chanceTBL goal, 16:45 of 2nd, a 1% chanceTBL goal, 2:39 of 3rd, a 19% chanceTBL goal, 13:12 of 3rd, a 24% chanceTBL 5.3BUF 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
Jason Zucker · Peyton Krebs · Jack Quinn12:5320.823.31-1
Alex Tuch · Ryan McLeod · JJ Peterka9:5860.019.70-1
Tage Thompson · Jiri Kulich · Zach Benson8:4250.052.91-1
Sam Lafferty · Beck Malenstyn · Noah Ostlund7:4143.843.60-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mattias Samuelsson · Rasmus Dahlin15:3671.459.91-2
Connor Clifton · Bowen Byram13:2528.120.00-1
Jacob Bryson · Jacob Bernard-Docker13:1142.319.50-2

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
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 2 2 0 0 4 1 24:11 0.11 26-16 0.94-0.78
20 Jiri Kulich C 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 12:56 0.34 14-14 0.70-0.88
24 Sam Lafferty C 1 0 1 0 0 3 1 11:34 0.34 13-11 0.60-0.40
75 Connor Clifton D 1 0 1 -1 0 2 3 19:07 0.31 14-30 0.85-2.37
89 Alex Tuch R 1 0 1 -2 0 1 1 19:04 0.19 15-16 0.28-1.25
10 JJ Peterka R 0 1 1 -1 2 0 0 16:37 0.04 13-10 0.26-0.99
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 1 1 -1 0 0 2 17:48 10-30 0.64-2.43
22 Jack Quinn R 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 14:41 0.16 7-20 0.59-1.73
72 Tage Thompson C 0 1 1 -1 0 3 0 15:43 0.36 17-17 0.78-1.20
6 Zach Benson L 0 0 0 -2 0 0 1 15:22 0.08 19-24 0.84-1.33
17 Jason Zucker L 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 16:22 0.15 8-19 0.62-1.66
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 21:46 0.04 23-17 1.12-1.19
24 Bowen Byram D 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 21:59 0.01 16-32 0.80-1.80
25 Jacob Bernard-Docker D 0 0 0 -2 2 4 0 14:08 0.06 12-16 0.39-1.47
29 Beck Malenstyn L 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 11:45 0.12 12-11 0.54-0.60
71 Ryan McLeod C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 15:47 13-9 0.34-0.80
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 1 15:40 13-17 0.41-1.56
86 Noah Ostlund C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 12:44 0.17 15-11 0.58-0.46
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
47 James Reimer L 31 24 7 60:00 5.37 -1.63

Tampa Bay Lightning

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jake Guentzel · Anthony Cirelli · Brandon Hagel14:3360.061.12-1
Nikita Kucherov · Yanni Gourde · Brayden Point13:3148.371.22-0
Nick Paul · Gage Goncalves · Conor Geekie8:3564.773.91-1
Yanni Gourde · Zemgus Girgensons · Mitchell Chaffee2:3171.472.70-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Nick Perbix · Emil Lilleberg13:5752.983.62-0
Ryan McDonagh · Erik Cernak13:4748.554.62-1
Victor Hedman · J.J. Moser10:2569.073.22-1

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
86 Nikita Kucherov R 2 1 3 2 0 4 0 19:42 1.03 20-19 1.83-0.62
38 Brandon Hagel L 0 3 3 1 0 1 1 20:24 0.39 24-16 1.26-0.80
59 Jake Guentzel C 2 0 2 1 0 4 1 18:16 0.70 24-17 1.26-0.84
71 Anthony Cirelli C 0 2 2 1 0 4 0 20:59 0.43 24-18 1.26-0.91
93 Gage Goncalves C 0 2 2 1 0 1 3 15:51 0.22 16-9 1.35-0.56
27 Ryan McDonagh D 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 18:14 0.06 19-21 1.21-1.03
78 Emil Lilleberg D 1 0 1 2 2 1 1 16:27 0.03 11-10 0.68-0.27
94 Conor Geekie C 1 0 1 -1 0 4 4 12:40 0.88 14-12 1.66-0.58
20 Nick Paul L 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 13:16 0.59 15-9 1.73-0.53
37 Yanni Gourde C 0 1 1 2 0 3 1 18:56 0.19 20-18 1.48-0.65
41 Mitchell Chaffee R 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 10:38 0.12 9-11 0.26-0.45
77 Victor Hedman D 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 21:33 0.15 33-12 2.66-0.72
21 Brayden Point C 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 18:18 0.33 16-16 1.37-0.53
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 09:25 0.08 10-11 0.29-0.31
43 Darren Raddysh D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 09:06 0.03 12-8 0.91-0.28
48 Nick Perbix D 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 17:08 0.06 12-9 0.70-0.19
81 Erik Cernak D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 17:23 0.05 16-22 1.05-1.03
90 J.J. Moser D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18:03 25-22 1.95-1.00
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
31 Jonas Johansson W 25 21 4 60:00 2.50 -1.50