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Buffalo Sabres at New Jersey Devils

Dec 21, 2025 · Prudential Center

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 3 25
New Jersey Devils 1 27

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
08:51 NJD Jack Hughes (11) Dawson Mercer (13), Colton White (4) 0 - 1
2nd Period
02:26 BUF Josh Norris (4) Rasmus Dahlin (24), Owen Power (7) 1 - 1
16:05 BUF Zach Benson (3) Ryan McLeod (13), Jack Quinn (12) 2 - 1
3rd Period
17:59 BUF Peyton Krebs (1) Tage Thompson (14), Bowen Byram (8) 3 - 1

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
19:48 BUF Zach Benson High sticking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 49 35 25 3 2.5 45.1
New Jersey Devils 70 47 27 1 3.1 54.9

How the game went

505101520Start2nd3rdNew Jersey Devils 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 New Jersey Devils had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 2.5 expected, 3 scored · New Jersey Devils: 3.1 expected, 1 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 2:26 of 2nd, a 16% chanceBUF goal, 16:05 of 2nd, a 12% chanceBUF goal, 17:59 of 3rd, a 73% chanceNJD goal, 8:51 of 1st, a 10% chanceNJD 3.1BUF 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
New Jersey Devils

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
Tage Thompson · Peyton Krebs · Josh Doan13:0234.635.70-1
Alex Tuch · Josh Norris · Noah Ostlund12:1352.243.71-0
Ryan McLeod · Jack Quinn · Zach Benson9:2538.937.41-0
Beck Malenstyn · Josh Dunne · Isak Rosen8:2957.134.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mattias Samuelsson · Rasmus Dahlin15:2328.621.51-0
Michael Kesselring · Owen Power13:0463.335.10-1
Bowen Byram · Zach Metsa10:3652.446.70-0

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
6 Zach Benson L 1 0 1 1 2 1 1 13:05 0.12 18-26 0.52-0.95
9 Josh Norris C 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 15:48 0.16 26-26 0.68-0.94
19 Peyton Krebs C 1 0 1 0 0 3 1 17:54 0.13 28-46 0.75-1.44
22 Jack Quinn R 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 11:07 0.01 16-22 0.54-0.83
24 Bowen Byram D 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 22:18 0.11 30-50 0.74-1.79
25 Owen Power D 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 21:43 0.05 50-38 1.55-1.77
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 1 1 2 0 1 0 22:34 0.10 32-44 1.20-1.08
71 Ryan McLeod C 0 1 1 2 0 2 0 14:47 0.12 20-22 0.56-0.83
72 Tage Thompson C 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 16:48 0.08 26-40 0.75-1.38
7 Michael Kesselring D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 15:41 0.09 38-24 0.68-1.27
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 26:07 12-46 0.25-1.56
27 Isak Rosen R 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 10:44 0.04 16-18 0.35-0.92
29 Beck Malenstyn L 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 13:23 0.01 20-16 0.44-0.74
44 Josh Dunne C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 13:09 0.01 20-24 0.55-0.97
73 Zach Metsa D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 11:54 0.03 22-22 0.65-0.78
86 Noah Ostlund C 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 17:08 0.01 32-26 0.92-0.93
89 Alex Tuch R 0 0 0 1 0 4 2 18:47 0.18 34-32 0.90-1.00
91 Josh Doan R 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 15:03 0.09 20-38 0.66-1.44
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen W 27 26 1 60:00 3.01 +2.01

New Jersey Devils

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Timo Meier · Jesper Bratt · Nico Hischier11:4765.674.20-1
Ondrej Palat · Connor Brown · Cody Glass11:1650.045.30-0
Jack Hughes · Arseny Gritsyuk · Dawson Mercer10:3652.971.01-0
Stefan Noesen · Luke Glendening · Paul Cotter5:0340.011.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Brett Pesce · Luke Hughes18:0954.359.90-1
Dougie Hamilton · Jonas Siegenthaler15:3145.551.30-0
Brenden Dillon · Colton White10:4755.684.21-0

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
86 Jack Hughes C 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 20:57 0.13 28-22 1.05-0.39
45 Colton White D 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 12:03 0.01 24-16 1.30-0.22
91 Dawson Mercer C 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 15:33 0.23 21-24 0.81-0.48
5 Brenden Dillon D 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 14:39 30-22 1.34-0.59
7 Dougie Hamilton D 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 22:48 0.01 46-38 1.20-0.89
11 Stefan Noesen R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 11:36 0.12 12-14 0.25-0.17
12 Cody Glass C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 17:55 0.06 26-30 0.88-0.96
13 Nico Hischier C 0 0 0 -2 0 3 2 19:48 0.40 52-22 2.23-0.74
16 Connor Brown R 0 0 0 -1 0 4 1 19:03 0.36 28-28 0.72-0.94
22 Brett Pesce D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 1 21:11 0.01 44-36 1.75-1.30
28 Timo Meier R 0 0 0 -2 0 7 1 16:19 0.92 44-22 2.18-0.74
41 Luke Glendening C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 08:28 12-22 0.20-0.51
43 Luke Hughes D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 26:36 0.01 52-36 1.76-1.28
47 Paul Cotter L 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 10:22 0.08 18-18 0.43-0.47
63 Jesper Bratt L 0 0 0 -2 0 3 1 19:29 0.45 50-26 2.35-0.92
71 Jonas Siegenthaler D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 17:10 0.02 32-38 0.90-0.89
81 Ondrej Palat L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 12:47 0.16 20-20 0.46-0.56
81 Arseny Gritsyuk R 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 17:09 0.15 22-30 0.81-0.76
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
34 Jake Allen L 24 22 2 56:07 1.27 -0.73