Buffalo Sabres vs. Florida PanthersApr 12, 2025

Final / SOSaturday, Apr 12, 2025· Amerant Bank Arena

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Goals	1	2	3	OT	SO	T		Shots	1	2	3	OT	T
BUF	1	0	1	0	0	2		BUF	7	11	7	3	28
FLA	0	2	0	0	1	3		FLA	9	15	8	2	34

: BUF 54FLA 64
: BUF 2.11FLA 2.84
PP goals: BUF 2FLA 0
Hits: BUF 20FLA 34
Blocks: BUF 13FLA 11
PIM: BUF 17FLA 17
: BUF 38%FLA 62%

Fantasy takeaways

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

Florida Panthers edge Buffalo Sabres 3–2 (SO)

Florida Panthers beat Buffalo Sabres 3–2 in a shootout at home. Rasmus Dahlin (BUF) led the scoring with 1G 1A. BUF's first power-play unit (Zucker, Tuch, Dahlin, Quinn and Peterka) scored 1 power-play goal on 2 attempts in 2:46 together.

Points
Carter Verhaeghe had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 3 shots in 18:58.Verhaeghe
Points
JJ Peterka had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 1 shot in 18:11.Peterka
Points
Rasmus Dahlin had a goal and an assist (2 points) on 6 shots in 28:20.Dahlin
PP1
BUF's first power-play unit (Zucker, Tuch, Dahlin, Quinn and Peterka) scored 1 power-play goal on 2 attempts in 2:46 together.Zucker Tuch Dahlin Quinn Peterka
Usage
Owen Power (BUF) played 13:27, −7:58 down on his 21:25 season average over 78 games.Power
Usage
Evan Rodrigues (FLA) played 19:57, +4:47 up on his 15:10 season average over 81 games.Rodrigues
New line
New look for FLA: Greer–Asplund–Gadjovich skated 5:50 together at 5v5 as the L4 trio (66.7% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Greer Asplund Gadjovich
New line
New look for FLA: Puljujarvi–Boqvist–Sturm skated 9:29 together at 5v5 as the L3 trio (65.4% of the shot attempts), a combination not used in the team's last 5 games.Puljujarvi Boqvist Sturm

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)FLA attacks right (top on phones) →

FLA
BUF
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Showing 118 of 118 attempts · FLA 64 · BUF 54

Game flow

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

Cumulative shot attempts

FLA
BUF
Goal
Power play (shaded)

Pressure Index

FLA 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, FLA 44%.

Shift chart

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

Shifts

FLA

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	FLA
	50	59
	1.55	2.24
	1.50	2.20
	12	8
	6	10
	28	19
	−0.055	+0.055
	22%	44%

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

L1Thompson – Kulich – Benson
11:0353% CF
L2Zucker – Tuch – Krebs
10:5448% CF
L3McLeod – Quinn – Peterka
7:1136% CF
L4Lafferty – Malenstyn – Ostlund
6:0438% CF
D1Samuelsson – Dahlin
10:1759% CF
D2Clifton – Byram
9:4947% CF
D3Bernard-Docker – Power
7:4532% CF

PP1Zucker – Tuch – Dahlin – Quinn – Peterka
2:46100% CF
PK1FMalenstyn – Benson
1:32
PK2FTuch – McLeod
1:09
PK1DDahlin – Byram
1:47
PK2DClifton – Samuelsson
1:39

Current BUF line combinations →

Florida Panthers

L1Marchand – Luostarinen – Lundell
11:1932% CF
L2Verhaeghe – Rodrigues – Samoskevich
10:0675% CF
L3Puljujarvi – Boqvist – Sturm
9:2965% CF
L4Greer – Asplund – Gadjovich
5:5067% CF
D1Jones – Mikkola
16:0155% CF
D2Forsling – Balinskis
14:0553% CF
D3Megna – Schmidt
10:2856% CF

PP1Marchand – Jones – Rodrigues – Lundell – Samoskevich
3:2750% CF
PP2Schmidt – Verhaeghe – Forsling – Puljujarvi – Luostarinen
2:19100% CF
PK1FLuostarinen – Sturm
0:36
PK2FMarchand – Lundell
0:10
PK1DJones – Mikkola
0:36
PK2DMegna – Forsling
0:10

Current FLA line combinations →

Scoring summary

Every goal with the skaters on the ice for it.

Decided in the shootout: BUF 2 – 3 FLA.

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	0	0	0	0	2	0.08	3	1	2	19:25	—	—	52	52
Jiri Kulich C	L1	0	0	0	0	5	0.22	0	0	0	17:20	—	—	54	51
Zach Benson L	L1	0	0	0	0	2	0.16	1	0	2	16:14	—	—	46	40
Alex Tuch R	L2	0	1	1	0	2	0.29	3	1	5	20:34	—	—	53	51
Jason Zucker L	L2	0	1	1	0	2	0.23	0	0	2	17:45	—	—	54	53
Peyton Krebs C	L2	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	4	1	0	16:45	—	—	50	47
JJ Peterka R	L3	1	1	2	-1	1	0.20	0	0	0	18:11	—	—	33	38
Ryan McLeod C	L3	0	0	0	0	0	0.16	0	1	0	16:35	—	—	29	55
Jack Quinn R	L3	0	0	0	0	0	0.05	0	0	0	11:25	—	—	27	61
Beck Malenstyn L	L4	0	0	0	-1	1	0.05	0	2	0	10:12	—	—	43	28
Noah Ostlund C	L4	0	0	0	-2	0	0.00	0	0	0	8:59	—	—	48	23
Sam Lafferty C	L4	0	0	0	-2	0	0.00	1	2	0	8:55	—	—	33	15
Rasmus Dahlin D	D1	1	1	2	-1	6	0.47	2	0	2	28:20	—	—	66	39
Mattias Samuelsson D	D1	0	0	0	-1	1	0.01	1	0	0	22:11	—	—	43	22
Bowen Byram D	D2	0	0	0	-1	3	0.02	1	1	0	23:08	—	—	48	41
Connor Clifton D	D2	0	0	0	-1	2	0.13	2	2	4	20:43	—	—	38	34
Jacob Bernard-Docker D	D3	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	2	2	0	14:51	—	—	39	62
Owen Power D	D3	0	0	0	0	1	0.02	0	0	0	13:27	—	—	45	66

BUF goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen(start)	O	34	32	2	.941	2.84	65:00

Florida Panthers

FLA skaters
Skater	Line	G	A	P	+/-			Hits	Blk	PIM		PP	SH
Anton Lundell C	L1	0	0	0	0	1	0.12	1	0	0	20:09	—	—	33	13
Brad Marchand L	L1	0	0	0	0	2	0.11	0	1	0	19:54	—	—	33	13
Eetu Luostarinen C	L1	0	0	0	0	1	0.03	1	0	0	17:55	—	—	31	3
Mackie Samoskevich R	L2	0	0	0	+1	1	0.18	1	0	2	19:57	—	—	70	83
Evan Rodrigues C	L2	0	1	1	+2	4	0.31	1	0	2	19:57	—	—	77	91
Carter Verhaeghe C	L2	1	1	2	+2	3	0.46	1	0	2	18:58	—	—	70	89
Nico Sturm C	L3	0	0	0	0	2	0.01	2	0	0	15:28	—	—	58	63
Jesse Puljujarvi R	L3	1	0	1	+1	4	0.53	9	1	0	14:48	—	—	59	74
Jesper Boqvist C	L3	0	0	0	0	4	0.43	5	0	0	13:31	—	—	65	71
Jonah Gadjovich L	L4	0	0	0	0	2	0.05	3	0	5	8:39	—	—	55	75
A.J. Greer L	L4	0	0	0	0	2	0.15	2	0	4	8:25	—	—	60	80
Rasmus Asplund C	L4	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	1	0	0	7:22	—	—	70	82
Seth Jones D	D1	0	1	1	+1	3	0.27	0	3	0	26:51	—	—	56	75
Niko Mikkola D	D1	0	0	0	+1	2	0.02	2	1	0	23:07	—	—	53	70
Gustav Forsling D	D2	0	0	0	+1	1	0.09	1	1	0	23:03	—	—	53	52
Uvis Balinskis D	D2	0	1	1	+1	0	0.00	2	0	2	17:40	—	—	54	59
Nate Schmidt D	D3	0	0	0	0	0	0.04	2	2	0	16:38	—	—	57	47
Jaycob Megna D	D3	0	0	0	0	2	0.05	0	2	0	13:52	—	—	50	27

FLA goalies
Goalie	Dec	SA	SV	GA			TOI
Vitek Vanecek(start)	W	28	26	2	.929	2.11	65:00

Goal anatomy

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

Rasmus Dahlin (BUF PP) 1st 19:41 · assists Jason Zucker, JJ Peterka · Rush · carried in · 59.4 mph shot · 2.6 s from entry to goal.

Rasmus Dahlin · 1st 19:41 · BUF PP

Play: rush
Entry: carry
Odd man: No
Passes: 3 (royal road)
Shot: 59.4 mph
Distance: 7 ft
Entry to goal: 2.6 s
Type: one-timer

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Carter Verhaeghe · 2nd 5:00 · FLA

Play: point-shot
Passes: 1
Shot: 37.6 mph
Distance: 68 ft

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Jesse Puljujarvi · 2nd 14:47 · FLA

Play: deflection
Passes: 4 (royal road)
Shot: 55.9 mph
Distance: 7 ft
Type: deflection

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JJ Peterka · 3rd 12:18 · BUF PP

Play: turnover-forecheck
Passes: 0
Shot: 54.8 mph
Distance: 16 ft
Type: one-timer

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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. Florida PanthersApr 12, 2025

Fantasy takeaways

Florida Panthers edge Buffalo Sabres 3–2 (SO)

Shot map

Shot map

Game flow

Cumulative shot attempts

Shift chart

Shifts

Sequence card

Lines used

Buffalo Sabres

Florida Panthers

Scoring summary

1st period

2nd period

3rd period

Box score

Buffalo Sabres

Florida Panthers

Goal anatomy

Rasmus Dahlin · 1st 19:41 · BUF PP

Carter Verhaeghe · 2nd 5:00 · FLA

Jesse Puljujarvi · 2nd 14:47 · FLA

JJ Peterka · 3rd 12:18 · BUF PP