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Columbus Blue Jackets at Buffalo Sabres

Oct 28, 2025 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Columbus Blue Jackets 4 39
Buffalo Sabres 3 38

Decided in overtime.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
06:09 CBJ Egor Chinakhov (2) Unassisted 1 - 0
2nd Period
11:39 BUF Josh Doan (3) Alex Tuch (5), Conor Timmins (3) 1 - 1
14:12 BUF Ryan McLeod (3) Bowen Byram (4), Alex Tuch (6) 1 - 2
19:44 CBJ Zach Werenski (2) PP Kirill Marchenko (4), Sean Monahan (4) 2 - 2
3rd Period
02:40 BUF Josh Dunne (1) Beck Malenstyn (1), Mattias Samuelsson (4) 2 - 3
13:55 CBJ Miles Wood (2) Egor Chinakhov (2), Dante Fabbro (2) 3 - 3
Overtime
02:53 CBJ Miles Wood (3) Zach Werenski (4), Isac Lundeström (2) 4 - 3

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
18:27 CBJ Damon Severson Roughing 2
2nd Period
19:20 BUF Alex Tuch Interference 2
20:00 CBJ Kirill Marchenko Roughing 2
20:00 BUF Bowen Byram Roughing 2
20:00 CBJ Dmitri Voronkov Roughing 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Columbus Blue Jackets 78 56 39 4 3.8 55.2
Buffalo Sabres 65 50 38 3 3.2 44.8

How the game went

151050Start2nd3rdOTBuffalo Sabres aheadColumbus Blue Jackets 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 Columbus Blue Jackets had.

Expected goals

Columbus Blue Jackets: 3.8 expected, 4 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 3.2 expected, 3 scored

0123Start2nd3rdOTCBJ goal, 6:09 of 1st, a 18% chanceCBJ goal, 19:44 of 2nd, a 4% chanceCBJ goal, 13:55 of 3rd, a 10% chanceCBJ goal, 2:53 of overtime, a 16% chanceBUF goal, 11:39 of 2nd, a 24% chanceBUF goal, 14:12 of 2nd, a 1% chanceBUF goal, 2:40 of 3rd, a 19% chanceCBJ 3.8BUF 3.2

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

Columbus Blue Jackets
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.

Columbus Blue Jackets

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Boone Jenner · Kent Johnson · Adam Fantilli12:4658.666.90-0
Sean Monahan · Kirill Marchenko · Dmitri Voronkov12:0159.065.80-1
Miles Wood · Isac Lundeström · Egor Chinakhov11:0348.053.12-0
Charlie Coyle · Mathieu Olivier · Cole Sillinger10:2956.530.80-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Damon Severson · Ivan Provorov17:5748.659.30-1
Zach Werenski · Denton Mateychuk17:5053.348.50-1
Dante Fabbro · Jake Christiansen9:4070.874.40-0

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
11 Miles Wood L 2 0 2 3 0 3 4 13:24 0.42 14-14 0.81-0.63
8 Zach Werenski D 1 1 2 1 0 5 0 27:59 0.13 36-32 2.08-1.97
59 Egor Chinakhov R 1 1 2 2 0 2 1 12:49 0.24 14-13 0.66-0.57
15 Dante Fabbro D 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 14:54 0.03 26-11 1.03-0.28
21 Isac Lundeström C 0 1 1 3 0 1 0 13:48 0.24 13-14 0.65-0.64
23 Sean Monahan C 0 1 1 -1 0 2 1 16:05 0.36 28-19 1.65-0.84
86 Kirill Marchenko R 0 1 1 -1 2 6 0 15:52 0.54 27-19 1.73-0.87
2 Jake Christiansen D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 10:48 0.13 18-9 0.37-0.30
3 Charlie Coyle C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 14:44 0.10 14-10 0.38-0.83
4 Cole Sillinger C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 2 15:33 0.01 15-11 0.38-0.84
5 Denton Mateychuk D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 22:55 25-22 1.04-1.10
9 Ivan Provorov D 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 26:13 0.06 24-24 1.24-0.78
10 Dmitri Voronkov L 0 0 0 -1 2 3 3 13:59 0.63 23-17 1.44-0.79
19 Adam Fantilli C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 4 17:31 0.07 19-17 0.70-0.42
22 Boone Jenner C 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 16:56 0.32 22-18 0.76-0.48
24 Mathieu Olivier R 0 0 0 -1 0 2 3 15:24 0.20 14-14 0.37-0.93
78 Damon Severson D 0 0 0 -2 2 1 2 20:07 0.03 19-22 1.00-1.02
91 Kent Johnson C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 15:38 0.32 19-14 0.63-0.36
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
73 Jet Greaves W 38 35 3 62:53 3.08 +0.08

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Tage Thompson · Jiri Kulich · Zach Benson13:4137.121.80-0
Jason Zucker · Jack Quinn · Noah Ostlund10:5645.856.00-0
Beck Malenstyn · Peyton Krebs · Josh Dunne9:5847.659.61-0
Alex Tuch · Ryan McLeod · Josh Doan9:2659.160.32-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mattias Samuelsson · Rasmus Dahlin16:3239.026.40-0
Conor Timmins · Owen Power16:0531.641.01-2
Michael Kesselring · Bowen Byram15:4542.945.01-0

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
89 Alex Tuch R 0 2 2 0 2 0 0 15:39 0.24 16-14 1.01-0.71
44 Josh Dunne C 1 0 1 1 0 3 1 12:45 0.29 12-15 0.75-0.56
71 Ryan McLeod C 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 16:17 0.01 16-22 1.00-1.14
91 Josh Doan R 1 0 1 1 0 5 0 13:50 0.75 15-11 1.00-0.92
21 Conor Timmins D 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 18:42 17-29 1.63-1.73
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 19:48 0.00 22-26 0.89-1.08
24 Bowen Byram D 0 1 1 1 2 1 0 19:19 0.03 17-20 0.51-0.61
29 Beck Malenstyn L 0 1 1 0 0 2 4 13:48 0.33 12-17 0.75-0.78
6 Zach Benson L 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 19:13 16-29 0.35-1.25
7 Michael Kesselring D 0 0 0 1 0 3 1 17:58 0.05 23-20 0.61-0.61
17 Jason Zucker L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 16:20 0.05 15-16 0.56-0.54
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 12:47 0.03 15-17 0.88-0.77
20 Jiri Kulich C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 19:56 0.20 19-24 0.38-1.21
22 Jack Quinn R 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 16:03 0.30 17-15 0.64-0.37
25 Owen Power D 0 0 0 -2 0 2 0 21:07 0.10 22-26 1.40-1.69
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 23:01 0.15 19-27 0.41-1.04
72 Tage Thompson C 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 19:26 0.40 15-29 0.40-1.53
86 Noah Ostlund C 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 12:16 0.27 12-13 0.51-0.37
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
34 Alex Lyon OTL 39 35 4 62:53 3.69 -0.31