Buffalo Sabres vs. Colorado AvalancheDec 15, 2022

FinalThursday, Dec 15, 2022· Ball Arena

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
BUF	2	1	1	4		BUF	11	9	1	21
COL	0	0	2	2		COL	12	12	17	41

: BUF 32COL 83
: BUF 3.21COL 4.24
PP goals: BUF 1COL 0
Hits: BUF 10COL 24
Blocks: BUF 23COL 4
PIM: BUF 4COL 2
: BUF 30%COL 70%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Buffalo Sabres beat Colorado Avalanche 4–2

Buffalo Sabres beat Colorado Avalanche 4–2 at COL. Tage Thompson (BUF) led the scoring with 1G 1A. BUF's first power-play unit (Tuch, Thompson, Mittelstadt, Dahlin and Cozens) scored 1 power-play goal on 2 attempts in 1:55 together.

Points
Rasmus Dahlin had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 1 shot in 29:27.Dahlin
Points
Tage Thompson had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 2 shots in 22:50.Thompson
Points
Valeri Nichushkin had 2 assists (2 points) on 3 shots in 24:21.Nichushkin
PP1
BUF's first power-play unit (Tuch, Thompson, Mittelstadt, Dahlin and Cozens) scored 1 power-play goal on 2 attempts in 1:55 together.Tuch Thompson Mittelstadt Dahlin Cozens
Usage
Owen Power (BUF) played 0:00, −24:06 down on his 24:06 season average over 78 games.Power
Usage
Kale Clague (BUF) played 23:56, +9:06 up on his 14:50 season average over 32 games.Clague
Goalie
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen (BUF) faced 41 shots and stopped 39 (.951), +9 against a season average of 31.9; the win.Luukkonen
Usage
Mattias Samuelsson (BUF) played 31:31, +9:31 up on his 22:00 season average over 54 games.Samuelsson

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

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

COL
BUF
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 115 of 115 attempts · COL 83 · BUF 32

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

COL
BUF
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

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

: descriptive only, the team with more pressure scored the next goal about half the time. In control: BUF 16% of the game, COL 57%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

COL

BUF

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	BUF	COL
	30	79
	1.71	3.44
	1.69	3.35
	4	17
	5	5
	13	11
	−0.239	+0.239
	16%	57%

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.

Buffalo Sabres

L1Tuch – Thompson – Mittelstadt
13:1733% CF
L2Olofsson – Asplund – Jost
10:2110% CF
L3Cozens – Quinn – Peterka
9:4915% CF
L4Girgensons – Hinostroza – Krebs
5:1557% CF
D1Clague – Dahlin
9:3328% CF
D2Fitzgerald – Samuelsson
6:5030% CF

PP1Tuch – Thompson – Mittelstadt – Dahlin – Cozens
1:55100% CF
PP2Olofsson – Dahlin – Krebs – Quinn – Peterka
0:48
PK1FTuch – Thompson
1:14
PK2FJost – Cozens
0:49
PK1DSamuelsson – Dahlin
1:21
PK2DFitzgerald – Pilut
0:32

Current BUF line combinations →

Colorado Avalanche

L1Lehkonen – Nichushkin – Rantanen
9:3074% CF
L2Cogliano – Compher – O'Connor
5:1285% CF
L3Rodrigues – Newhook – Meyers
3:5967% CF
L4Hudon – Hunt – Foudy
1:380% CF
D1Toews – Makar
16:2974% CF
D2Johnson – Girard
10:4978% CF
D3Hunt – Englund
7:0440% CF

PP1Compher – Lehkonen – Nichushkin – Rantanen – Makar
2:3986% CF
PP2Hudon – Toews – Rodrigues – Girard – Newhook
0:49100% CF
PK1FCogliano – O'Connor
1:37
PK2FLehkonen – Nichushkin
0:25
PK1DJohnson – Toews
1:54
PK2DEnglund – Girard
0:30

Current COL line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

Box score

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

Buffalo Sabres

BUF skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Tage Thompson C	L1	1	1	2	+2	2	0.57	0	1	0	22:50	—	—	31	27
Alex Tuch R	L1	1	0	1	+1	5	1.02	1	2	0	21:16	—	—	35	30
Casey Mittelstadt C	L1	0	1	1	0	3	0.12	1	1	0	18:05	—	—	35	34
Tyson Jost C	L2	0	1	1	0	0	0.00	1	1	0	13:54	—	—	17	40
Victor Olofsson L	L2	0	1	1	-1	0	0.00	0	2	0	13:40	—	—	9	36
Rasmus Asplund C	L2	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	13:04	—	—	8	40
Dylan Cozens C	L3	1	0	1	+1	2	0.66	0	0	0	18:20	—	—	16	31
JJ Peterka R	L3	0	0	0	0	1	0.05	0	0	0	15:15	—	—	14	23
Jack Quinn R	L3	0	0	0	+1	1	0.19	0	0	0	14:27	—	—	15	27
Vinnie Hinostroza C	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	2	10:00	—	—	35	44
Zemgus Girgensons C	L4	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	0	0	0	9:37	—	—	44	52
Peyton Krebs C	L4	0	0	0	0	2	0.30	1	3	0	8:30	—	—	38	47
Rasmus Dahlin D	D1	1	1	2	+1	1	0.16	0	4	0	29:27	—	—	31	41
Kale Clague D	D1	0	1	1	+1	2	0.02	0	2	0	23:56	—	—	31	39
Mattias Samuelsson D	D2	0	0	0	+1	1	0.00	4	4	0	31:31	—	—	23	33
Casey Fitzgerald D	D2	0	0	0	-1	0	0.00	1	3	2	14:24	—	—	24	19
Lawrence Pilut D	—	0	0	0	0	1	0.13	1	0	0	17:44	—	—	26	28
Owen Power D	—	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0:00	—	—	—	—

BUF goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen(start)	W	41	39	2	.951	4.24	60:00

Colorado Avalanche

COL skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Mikko Rantanen R	L1	1	0	1	-1	8	0.98	4	0	0	27:00	—	—	71	74
Valeri Nichushkin R	L1	0	2	2	-1	3	0.45	1	1	0	24:21	—	—	73	72
Artturi Lehkonen L	L1	0	1	1	-1	4	0.59	2	0	0	20:21	—	—	76	63
J.T. Compher L	L2	0	0	0	0	4	0.39	0	0	0	23:43	—	—	74	64
Logan O'Connor R	L2	0	0	0	0	0	0.05	0	0	0	12:42	—	—	79	52
Andrew Cogliano C	L2	0	0	0	0	2	0.06	0	0	0	11:07	—	—	86	89
Evan Rodrigues C	L3	1	0	1	0	6	0.72	0	0	0	18:24	—	—	74	68
Alex Newhook C	L3	0	0	0	0	2	0.28	0	0	0	12:14	—	—	78	84
Ben Meyers C	L3	0	0	0	0	1	0.17	1	0	0	12:03	—	—	74	75
Charles Hudon L	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	0	0	7:54	—	—	40	5
Dryden Hunt L	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	3	0	0	6:27	—	—	29	2
Jean-Luc Foudy C	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	1	0	5:40	—	—	40	10
Cale Makar D	D1	0	1	1	-1	4	0.32	1	0	2	28:45	—	—	72	62
Devon Toews D	D1	0	0	0	0	3	0.06	0	2	0	27:05	—	—	72	78
Samuel Girard D	D2	0	0	0	-2	1	0.02	2	0	0	22:19	—	—	76	71
Erik Johnson D	D2	0	0	0	0	2	0.12	2	0	0	17:39	—	—	78	64
Andreas Englund D	D3	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	5	0	0	11:20	—	—	44	17
Brad Hunt D	D3	0	0	0	+1	1	0.02	2	0	0	9:55	—	—	73	77

COL goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Alexandar Georgiev(start)	L	20	17	3	.850	1.67	57:20

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.

Buffalo Sabres vs. Colorado AvalancheDec 15, 2022

Fantasy takeaways

Buffalo Sabres beat Colorado Avalanche 4–2

Shot map

Shot map

Game flow

Cumulative shot attempts

Shift chart

Shifts

Sequence card

Lines used

Buffalo Sabres

Colorado Avalanche

Scoring summary

1st period

2nd period

3rd period

Box score

Buffalo Sabres

Colorado Avalanche