Buffalo Sabres vs. Los Angeles KingsNov 20, 2024

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Goals	1	2	3	T		Shots	1	2	3	T
BUF	0	0	1	1		BUF	9	3	7	19
LAK	0	0	0	0		LAK	6	6	11	23

: BUF 52LAK 67
: BUF 1.66LAK 3.69
PP goals: BUF 1LAK 0
Hits: BUF 19LAK 19
Blocks: BUF 18LAK 14
PIM: BUF 10LAK 6
: BUF 40%LAK 60%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Buffalo Sabres edge Los Angeles Kings 1–0

Buffalo Sabres beat Los Angeles Kings 1–0 at LAK. Jason Zucker (BUF) led the scoring with 1G 0A. BUF's first power-play unit (Zucker, Tuch, Dahlin, Cozens and Peterka) scored 1 power-play goal on 10 attempts in 3:57 together.

PP1
BUF's first power-play unit (Zucker, Tuch, Dahlin, Cozens and Peterka) scored 1 power-play goal on 10 attempts in 3:57 together.Zucker Tuch Dahlin Cozens Peterka
Luck
LAK scored 0 goals on 3.69 expected goals (67 attempts), well short of its chances.
New line
New look for BUF: Aube-Kubel–Malenstyn–Krebs skated 8:20 together at 5v5 as the L2 trio (41.2% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Aube-Kubel Malenstyn Krebs
New line
New look for BUF: Lafferty–Cozens–Benson skated 6:56 together at 5v5 as the L4 trio (53.8% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Lafferty Cozens Benson
New line
New look for BUF: Zucker–Quinn–Kulich skated 7:04 together at 5v5 as the L3 trio (70.6% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Zucker Quinn Kulich
Usage
Alex Tuch (BUF) played 22:23, +3:10 up on his 19:13 season average over 81 games.Tuch
Usage
Brandt Clarke (LAK) played 21:42, +5:29 up on his 16:13 season average over 77 games.Clarke
Usage
Alex Laferriere (LAK) played 21:35, +5:07 up on his 16:28 season average over 76 games.Laferriere

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)LAK attacks right (top on phones) →

LAK
BUF
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 119 of 119 attempts · LAK 67 · BUF 52

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

LAK
BUF
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

LAK 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 22% of the game, LAK 53%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

LAK

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	LAK
	47	55
	1.47	2.76
	1.41	2.60
	10	16
	1	5
	18	24
	−0.044	+0.044
	22%	53%

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 – McLeod – Peterka
8:3253% CF
L2Aube-Kubel – Malenstyn – Krebs
8:2041% CF
L3Zucker – Quinn – Kulich
7:0471% CF
L4Lafferty – Cozens – Benson
6:5654% CF
D1Dahlin – Byram
13:5875% CF
D2Jokiharju – Power
11:3917% CF
D3Clifton – Bryson
8:0043% CF

PP1Zucker – Tuch – Dahlin – Cozens – Peterka
3:57100% CF
PP2Byram – Quinn – Power – Kulich – Benson
0:390% CF
PK1FTuch – McLeod
4:14
PK2FMalenstyn – Benson
2:41
PK1DClifton – Power
3:36
PK2DJokiharju – Byram
1:33

Current BUF line combinations →

Los Angeles Kings

L1Danault – Fiala – Moore
7:4432% CF
L2Kopitar – Kempe – Turcotte
6:5861% CF
L3Foegele – Byfield – Laferriere
6:1767% CF
L4Lewis – Jeannot – Helenius
3:590% CF
D1Gavrikov – Anderson
10:3860% CF
D2Edmundson – Clarke
10:1353% CF
D3Moverare – Spence
8:2370% CF

PP1Kopitar – Fiala – Kempe – Byfield – Laferriere
6:1189% CF
PP2Danault – Foegele – Moore – Turcotte – Clarke
3:2667% CF
PK1FDanault – Moore
1:44
PK2FLewis – Kempe
1:08
PK1DGavrikov – Anderson
3:26
PK2DEdmundson – Spence
0:00

Current LAK line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

3rd period

0:38
BUFJason ZuckerPP (Rasmus Dahlin, Alex Tuch)tip-in0.13 xG
BUF: Zucker, Tuch, Dahlin, Cozens, PeterkaLAK: Danault, Gavrikov, Moore, Anderson
BUF 1 – 0 LAK

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
Alex Tuch R	L1	0	1	1	2	0.36	0	2	2	22:23	—	—	35	27
JJ Peterka R	L1	0	0	0	0	0.06	1	0	0	17:03	—	—	45	35
Ryan McLeod C	L1	0	0	0	3	0.07	0	0	0	16:32	—	—	47	40
Beck Malenstyn L	L2	0	0	0	1	0.02	2	3	0	13:00	—	—	42	22
Peyton Krebs C	L2	0	0	0	0	0.11	1	0	0	12:40	—	—	38	22
Nicolas Aube-Kubel R	L2	0	0	0	0	0.16	2	0	0	11:36	—	—	46	31
Jason Zucker L	L3	1	0	1	3	0.30	1	1	2	13:29	—	—	62	61
Jack Quinn R	L3	0	0	0	2	0.05	0	1	0	10:38	—	—	67	51
Jiri Kulich C	L3	0	0	0	2	0.33	1	0	0	9:58	—	—	57	45
Dylan Cozens C	L4	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	3	0	17:25	—	—	41	29
Zach Benson L	L4	0	0	0	1	0.06	2	1	0	16:38	—	—	40	22
Sam Lafferty C	L4	0	0	0	1	0.07	1	0	0	12:07	—	—	39	22
Rasmus Dahlin D	D1	0	1	1	1	0.00	3	1	2	24:46	—	—	73	77
Bowen Byram D	D1	0	0	0	0	0.01	1	0	2	21:47	—	—	70	70
Owen Power D	D2	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	2	0	22:21	—	—	21	15
Henri Jokiharju D	D2	0	0	0	2	0.05	1	2	2	18:42	—	—	17	7
Connor Clifton D	D3	0	0	0	1	0.01	2	2	0	17:21	—	—	48	30
Jacob Bryson D	D3	0	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	11:46	—	—	47	27

BUF goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen(start)	W	23	23	0	.1000	3.69	59:48

Los Angeles Kings

LAK skaters
Skater	Line			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Kevin Fiala L	L1	3	0.52	0	0	2	20:56	—	—	46	48
Phillip Danault C	L1	1	0.17	1	3	0	17:50	—	—	48	63
Trevor Moore L	L1	4	0.29	0	0	0	15:48	—	—	46	67
Adrian Kempe R	L2	3	0.58	1	1	0	23:09	—	—	60	74
Anze Kopitar C	L2	5	0.86	0	0	0	22:26	—	—	65	79
Alex Turcotte C	L2	1	0.09	1	0	0	12:22	—	—	64	70
Alex Laferriere R	L3	0	0.27	4	0	0	21:35	—	—	64	80
Quinton Byfield R	L3	1	0.47	2	0	4	21:02	—	—	68	82
Warren Foegele L	L3	1	0.33	0	0	0	15:26	—	—	83	91
Tanner Jeannot L	L4	0	0.00	1	2	0	10:54	—	—	35	32
Trevor Lewis C	L4	0	0.00	1	0	0	9:17	—	—	25	4
Samuel Helenius C	L4	0	0.00	2	0	0	4:55	—	—	11	0
Vladislav Gavrikov D	D1	0	0.00	1	3	0	19:40	—	—	44	47
Mikey Anderson D	D1	0	0.00	1	1	0	17:43	—	—	50	61
Brandt Clarke D	D2	0	0.00	1	2	0	21:42	—	—	42	45
Joel Edmundson D	D2	1	0.01	2	0	0	17:17	—	—	52	53
Jordan Spence D	D3	2	0.08	1	1	0	14:23	—	—	72	95
Jacob Moverare D	D3	1	0.01	0	1	0	11:03	—	—	62	81

LAK goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
David Rittich(start)	L	19	18	1	.947	1.66	57:23

Goal anatomy

Animated replays from NHL EDGE tracking, with the entry, passes and shot speed for each goal.

Jason Zucker (BUF PP) 3rd 0:38 · assists Rasmus Dahlin, Alex Tuch · Deflection · 38.7 mph shot.

Jason Zucker · 3rd 0:38 · BUF PP

Play: deflection
Passes: 1
Shot: 38.7 mph
Distance: 9 ft
Type: deflection

Watch on NHL.com → · Tracking-derived via NHL EDGE

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.