Philadelphia Flyers vs. Buffalo SabresApr 16, 2022

FinalSaturday, Apr 16, 2022· KeyBank Center

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
PHI	2	1	0	3		PHI	7	4	10	21
BUF	0	4	0	4		BUF	9	18	2	29

: PHI 35BUF 53
: PHI 1.86BUF 2.48
PP goals: PHI 0BUF 2
Hits: PHI 14BUF 10
Blocks: PHI 14BUF 6
PIM: PHI 10BUF 10
: PHI 48%BUF 52%

Fantasy takeaways

Generated from the play-by-play, shifts and season context. No opinions, just what changed.

Buffalo Sabres edge Philadelphia Flyers 4–3

Buffalo Sabres beat Philadelphia Flyers 4–3 at home. Rasmus Dahlin (BUF) led the scoring with 1G 1A. BUF's first power-play unit (Skinner, Tuch, Thompson, Mittelstadt and Dahlin) scored 1 power-play goal on 6 attempts in 3:34 together.

Points
Rasmus Dahlin had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 1 shot in 22:33.Dahlin
PP1
BUF's first power-play unit (Skinner, Tuch, Thompson, Mittelstadt and Dahlin) scored 1 power-play goal on 6 attempts in 3:34 together.Skinner Tuch Thompson Mittelstadt Dahlin
New line
New look for BUF: Skinner–Olofsson–Thompson skated 9:45 together at 5v5 as the L1 trio (75% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Skinner Olofsson Thompson
New line
New look for PHI: Frost–Farabee–Brink skated 8:23 together at 5v5 as the L1 trio (44.4% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Frost Farabee Brink
New line
New look for BUF: Girgensons–Hinostroza–Bjork skated 9:36 together at 5v5 as the L2 trio (85.7% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Girgensons Hinostroza Bjork
New line
New look for PHI: Laughton–Lindblom–Konecny skated 6:21 together at 5v5 as the L2 trio (20% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Laughton Lindblom Konecny
Usage
Casey Fitzgerald (BUF) played 12:02, −4:59 down on his 17:01 season average over 35 games.Fitzgerald
Usage
Jacob Bryson (BUF) played 10:54, −7:32 down on his 18:26 season average over 72 games.Bryson

Shot map

Both teams on one rink, filtered by strength and period.

Shot map

Every attempt, sized by expected goals. Goals are rings, shots on goal dots, misses hollow, blocks crosses.

Strength

Period

Team

← PHI attacks left (bottom on phones)BUF attacks right (top on phones) →

BUF
PHI
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 88 of 88 attempts · BUF 53 · PHI 35

Game flow

Cumulative expected goals and shot attempts, with power plays shaded and goals marked.

Cumulative shot attempts

BUF
PHI
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

BUF pressure
PHI pressure
Goal
Control (|PI| > 0.25)

: descriptive only, the team with more pressure scored the next goal about half the time. In control: PHI 19% of the game, BUF 48%.

Shift chart

Every shift, grouped by line and pair; bars are coloured by strength state. Click a player to highlight.

Shifts

BUF

PHI

goals / penalties

Even strength
Power play
Penalty kill
Goal
Penalty

Sequence card

5-on-5 possession-chain numbers from the sequence engine (Draw Equity and control cover all situations).

Sequence card
Stat	PHI	BUF
	22	49
	1.03	1.99
	1.03	1.95
	6	13
	0	2
	13	13
	−0.065	+0.065
	19%	48%

Definitions: sequence xG, transition attempts, Draw Equity, control and the Pressure Index.

Lines used

Detected from who actually shared the ice, with time together. Percentages are the unit's share of shot attempts.

Philadelphia Flyers

L1Frost – Farabee – Brink
8:2344% CF
L2Laughton – Lindblom – Konecny
6:2120% CF
L3van Riemsdyk – Hayes – Tippett
5:4011% CF
L4Thompson – MacEwen – Cates
3:3480% CF
D1Provorov – Zamula
12:3723% CF
D2Connauton – Sanheim
9:5221% CF
D3Yandle – Attard
8:1050% CF

PP1Hayes – Sanheim – Konecny – Farabee – Brink
4:1086% CF
PP2van Riemsdyk – Laughton – Provorov – Tippett – Frost
3:06100% CF
PK1FHayes – Farabee
1:18
PK2FKonecny – Cates
1:00
PK1DSanheim – Provorov
1:58
PK2DConnauton – Attard
0:54

Current PHI line combinations →

Buffalo Sabres

L1Skinner – Olofsson – Thompson
9:4575% CF
L2Girgensons – Hinostroza – Bjork
9:3686% CF
L3Okposo – Asplund – Cozens
7:3589% CF
L4Tuch – Mittelstadt – Krebs
7:2645% CF
D1Samuelsson – Dahlin
14:0661% CF
D2Jokiharju – Power
12:5879% CF
D3Fitzgerald – Bryson
9:1457% CF

PP1Skinner – Tuch – Thompson – Mittelstadt – Dahlin
3:3486% CF
PP2Okposo – Olofsson – Jokiharju – Krebs – Cozens
2:03100% CF
PK1FOkposo – Thompson
2:13
PK2FGirgensons – Cozens
1:26
PK1DJokiharju – Power
3:46
PK2DSamuelsson – Dahlin
2:30

Current BUF line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

1st period

1:41
PHIJoel Farabee (Bobby Brink, Keith Yandle)tip-in0.21 xG
PHI: Yandle, Frost, Farabee, Attard, BrinkBUF: Tuch, Fitzgerald, Mittelstadt, Bryson, Krebs
PHI 1 – 0 BUF
3:55
PHIOwen Tippettbackhand0.17 xG
PHI: van Riemsdyk, Connauton, Hayes, Sanheim, TippettBUF: Skinner, Olofsson, Thompson, Samuelsson, Dahlin
PHI 2 – 0 BUF

2nd period

3:17
BUFKyle OkposoPP (Peyton Krebs, Henri Jokiharju)snap0.19 xG
PHI: Hayes, Sanheim, Lindblom, ZamulaBUF: Okposo, Olofsson, Jokiharju, Krebs, Cozens
PHI 2 – 1 BUF
8:27
BUFRasmus Dahlin (Jeff Skinner, Victor Olofsson)wrist0.08 xG
PHI: van Riemsdyk, Connauton, Hayes, Sanheim, TippettBUF: Skinner, Tuch, Thompson, Samuelsson, Dahlin
PHI 2 – 2 BUF
14:06
PHITravis Konecny (Noah Cates, Travis Sanheim)wrist0.04 xG
PHI: Connauton, Hayes, Sanheim, Konecny, CatesBUF: Tuch, Mittelstadt, Samuelsson, Dahlin, Krebs
PHI 3 – 2 BUF
15:36
BUFVinnie Hinostroza (Zemgus Girgensons, Casey Fitzgerald)wrist0.23 xG
PHI: Thompson, Lindblom, Provorov, MacEwen, ZamulaBUF: Girgensons, Hinostroza, Bjork, Fitzgerald, Bryson
PHI 3 – 3 BUF
17:58
BUFTage ThompsonPP (Casey Mittelstadt, Rasmus Dahlin)wrist0.08 xG
PHI: Laughton, Sanheim, Provorov, FarabeeBUF: Skinner, Tuch, Thompson, Mittelstadt, Dahlin
PHI 3 – 4 BUF

Box score

Skaters grouped by the line they played on; CF% is the 5v5 share of shot attempts while on the ice.

Philadelphia Flyers

PHI skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Joel Farabee L	L1	1	0	1	+1	3	0.31	0	1	0	20:43	—	—	50	75
Bobby Brink R	L1	0	1	1	+1	2	0.23	1	0	0	18:09	—	—	42	68
Morgan Frost C	L1	0	0	0	+1	2	0.21	0	0	0	17:22	—	—	38	56
Travis Konecny R	L2	1	0	1	+1	1	0.04	1	0	2	19:31	—	—	19	29
Scott Laughton C	L2	0	0	0	0	0	0.06	3	0	0	16:34	—	—	29	13
Oskar Lindblom L	L2	0	0	0	-1	1	0.01	0	0	0	11:51	—	—	13	4
Kevin Hayes R	L3	0	0	0	+1	1	0.26	0	0	2	20:01	—	—	15	31
James van Riemsdyk L	L3	0	0	0	0	0	0.08	0	0	0	17:08	—	—	29	35
Owen Tippett R	L3	1	0	1	0	2	0.22	3	0	0	15:03	—	—	29	30
Noah Cates L	L4	0	1	1	+1	0	0.00	3	0	2	10:03	—	—	36	21
Nate Thompson C	L4	0	0	0	-1	1	0.13	0	0	0	9:24	—	—	50	15
Zack MacEwen R	L4	0	0	0	-1	1	0.06	1	0	0	9:16	—	—	46	19
Ivan Provorov D	D1	0	0	0	-1	2	0.05	0	3	2	25:46	—	—	33	24
Egor Zamula D	D1	0	0	0	-1	1	0.01	0	4	0	17:41	—	—	27	9
Travis Sanheim D	D2	0	1	1	+1	2	0.12	1	3	2	23:07	—	—	33	48
Kevin Connauton D	D2	0	0	0	+1	0	0.00	1	3	0	19:54	—	—	17	17
Ronnie Attard D	D3	0	0	0	+1	0	0.00	0	0	0	13:47	—	—	43	45
Keith Yandle D	D3	0	1	1	+1	2	0.06	0	0	0	10:43	—	—	50	74

PHI goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Martin Jones(start)	L	29	25	4	.862	2.48	57:30

Buffalo Sabres

BUF skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Jeff Skinner L	L1	0	1	1	0	2	0.40	0	0	2	18:58	—	—	67	64
Tage Thompson C	L1	1	0	1	0	1	0.09	2	0	2	18:23	—	—	73	72
Victor Olofsson L	L1	0	1	1	-1	2	0.32	0	0	0	14:53	—	—	82	75
Zemgus Girgensons C	L2	0	1	1	+1	4	0.18	2	0	2	13:25	—	—	80	80
Vinnie Hinostroza C	L2	1	0	1	+1	3	0.27	0	1	0	13:22	—	—	77	85
Anders Bjork L	L2	0	0	0	+1	1	0.06	0	0	0	10:52	—	—	86	87
Dylan Cozens C	L3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	16:35	—	—	77	96
Kyle Okposo R	L3	1	0	1	0	1	0.45	0	0	0	16:34	—	—	91	100
Rasmus Asplund C	L3	0	0	0	0	1	0.15	1	0	0	11:17	—	—	73	95
Peyton Krebs C	L4	0	1	1	-2	1	0.05	1	0	0	15:30	—	—	56	36
Alex Tuch R	L4	0	0	0	-1	2	0.14	0	0	2	14:34	—	—	46	35
Casey Mittelstadt C	L4	0	1	1	-2	1	0.04	1	0	0	14:22	—	—	40	32
Mattias Samuelsson D	D1	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	3	0	0	22:45	—	—	60	43
Rasmus Dahlin D	D1	1	1	2	-1	1	0.08	0	1	2	22:33	—	—	61	42
Owen Power D	D2	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	1	0	22:59	—	—	77	96
Henri Jokiharju D	D2	0	1	1	0	7	0.23	0	2	0	22:08	—	—	83	97
Casey Fitzgerald D	D3	0	1	1	0	2	0.02	0	1	0	12:02	—	—	56	49
Jacob Bryson D	D3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	10:54	—	—	60	63

BUF goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Craig Anderson(start)	W	21	18	3	.857	1.86	59:54

Methodology

Shot locations come from the NHL play-by-play, normalised so each shooter attacks the same way, then flipped so the home team attacks right. On-ice stats and lines come from the shift charts: a unit is the exact set of skaters sharing the ice, and CF% is the share of all shot attempts while they were out. Head-to-head cells are 5v5 time against each opponent. Expected goals and the Pressure Index appear as their models are released.