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Vancouver Canucks at Buffalo Sabres

Jan 6, 2026 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Vancouver Canucks 3 37
Buffalo Sabres 5 20

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
02:01 BUF Tage Thompson (21) Bowen Byram (12), Owen Power (10) 0 - 1
11:24 BUF Ryan McLeod (8) SH Alex Tuch (21), Mattias Samuelsson (14) 0 - 2
2nd Period
09:37 BUF Alex Tuch (13) Bowen Byram (13), Josh Norris (9) 0 - 3
3rd Period
06:13 BUF Zach Metsa (1) Beck Malenstyn (4), Jordan Greenway (4) 0 - 4
10:17 VAN Jake DeBrusk (11) PP Kiefer Sherwood (5), Brock Boeser (10) 1 - 4
15:16 VAN Elias Pettersson (11) Brock Boeser (11), Filip Hronek (23) 2 - 4
15:55 VAN Liam Ohgren (3) Marcus Pettersson (8), Linus Karlsson (9) 3 - 4
18:36 BUF Josh Doan (13) Unassisted 3 - 5

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
03:21 BUF Josh Norris Hooking 2
10:49 BUF Bowen Byram Interference 2
2nd Period
05:09 VAN Tom Willander Hooking 2
3rd Period
08:26 BUF Tage Thompson High sticking double minor 4

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Vancouver Canucks 77 59 37 3 4.8 53.5
Buffalo Sabres 44 33 20 5 3.3 46.5

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 Vancouver Canucks had.

Expected goals

Vancouver Canucks: 4.8 expected, 3 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 3.3 expected, 5 scored

01234Start2nd3rdEndVAN goal, 10:17 of 3rd, a 56% chanceVAN goal, 15:16 of 3rd, a 11% chanceVAN goal, 15:55 of 3rd, a 4% chanceBUF goal, 2:01 of 1st, a 17% chanceBUF goal, 11:24 of 1st, a 18% chanceBUF goal, 9:37 of 2nd, a 22% chanceBUF goal, 6:13 of 3rd, a 13% chanceBUF goal, 18:36 of 3rd, a 41% chanceVAN 4.8BUF 3.3

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

Vancouver Canucks
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.

Vancouver Canucks

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jake DeBrusk · Elias Pettersson · Linus Karlsson6:5142.922.10-0
David Kampf · Kiefer Sherwood · Drew O'Connor6:2236.433.40-1
Evander Kane · Brock Boeser · Max Sasson6:1661.537.00-1
Nils Hoglander · Aatu Räty · Liam Ohgren6:0646.220.60-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Filip Hronek · Zeev Buium16:0058.347.30-0
Tyler Myers · Pierre-Olivier Joseph11:2260.939.40-2
Marcus Pettersson · Tom Willander10:4352.625.01-1

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
6 Brock Boeser R 0 2 2 -3 0 3 1 18:34 0.41 18-12 0.60-0.58
40 Elias Pettersson C 1 0 1 -2 0 3 0 18:41 0.58 15-12 0.51-0.69
74 Jake DeBrusk L 1 0 1 -2 0 4 2 16:58 1.10 6-9 0.15-0.56
92 Liam Ohgren L 1 0 1 1 0 4 1 13:09 0.24 11-10 0.28-0.53
17 Filip Hronek D 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 26:20 0.02 18-11 0.63-0.59
26 Marcus Pettersson D 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 18:37 12-14 0.28-0.97
44 Kiefer Sherwood L 0 1 1 -2 0 6 4 17:37 0.55 9-10 0.22-0.67
94 Linus Karlsson C 0 1 1 1 0 3 1 15:25 0.30 9-8 0.29-0.53
5 Tom Willander D 0 0 0 -1 2 1 0 16:40 0.04 11-11 0.25-0.83
7 Pierre-Olivier Joseph D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 15:34 0.05 17-15 0.49-0.73
8 Zeev Buium D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 22:50 0.08 18-15 0.61-0.69
18 Drew O'Connor L 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 12:23 0.25 9-11 0.25-0.66
21 Nils Hoglander L 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 10:53 0.05 11-10 0.29-0.51
54 Aatu Räty C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 12:09 0.08 11-12 0.28-0.55
57 Tyler Myers D 0 0 0 -2 0 2 1 16:26 0.03 16-14 0.45-0.77
63 Max Sasson C 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 14:52 0.21 12-8 0.37-0.75
64 David Kampf C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 13:50 8-8 0.19-0.30
91 Evander Kane L 0 0 0 -2 0 3 0 18:11 0.77 19-10 0.62-0.54
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Thatcher Demko L 19 15 4 58:51 2.40 -1.60

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Tage Thompson · Peyton Krebs · Josh Doan14:1943.578.81-0
Jason Zucker · Alex Tuch · Josh Norris11:1540.956.21-0
Jordan Greenway · Beck Malenstyn · Noah Ostlund6:5260.055.91-1
Ryan McLeod · Jack Quinn · Zach Benson6:4150.036.00-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mattias Samuelsson · Bowen Byram11:1347.867.81-1
Jacob Bryson · Zach Metsa9:5457.154.61-0
Rasmus Dahlin · Owen Power9:3627.846.50-1

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
89 Alex Tuch R 1 1 2 2 0 3 1 19:42 0.49 11-14 0.78-0.35
24 Bowen Byram D 0 2 2 1 2 2 0 24:29 0.08 17-18 0.99-0.49
71 Ryan McLeod C 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 14:30 0.18 7-6 0.20-0.36
72 Tage Thompson C 1 0 1 2 4 1 2 18:37 0.36 10-15 0.93-0.33
73 Zach Metsa D 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 12:16 0.13 10-9 0.22-0.22
91 Josh Doan R 1 0 1 2 0 2 3 18:11 0.34 11-15 0.93-0.31
9 Josh Norris C 0 1 1 1 2 1 0 14:28 0.02 10-15 0.41-0.38
12 Jordan Greenway L 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 10:11 0.00 10-6 0.31-0.23
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 1 1 2 0 1 1 24:36 0.02 18-19 1.06-0.53
25 Owen Power D 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 22:09 0.27 12-16 1.01-0.59
29 Beck Malenstyn L 0 1 1 0 0 0 3 11:56 0.06 9-8 0.29-0.25
6 Zach Benson L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 12:52 0.20 8-12 0.27-0.50
17 Jason Zucker L 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 14:11 11-13 0.78-0.32
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 0 0 2 0 0 4 17:12 0.01 11-15 0.93-0.29
22 Jack Quinn R 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 11:11 0.02 9-9 0.28-0.43
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 21:49 0.21 10-23 0.63-0.70
78 Jacob Bryson D 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 12:50 0.06 13-7 0.66-0.17
86 Noah Ostlund C 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 10:59 0.05 13-10 0.75-0.28
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen W 37 34 3 60:00 4.58 +1.58