Tue, Apr 6, 2021·Prudential Center, Newark
Buffalo Sabres 5, New Jersey Devils 3
Expected result
Based on shot quality alone, New Jersey Devils win this game 71% of the time.
63%
8%
21%
NJD winsBUF wins
Who was on the ice
Model-basedLine matchups and every shift of the game.
NJD forward lines and defence pairs (rows) against BUF's (columns) at 5-on-5. Darker cells shared more ice; the second number is xG for–against in that time. Click a cell to highlight it below.
| Asplund–Thompson–Mittelstadt | Eakin–Rieder–Fogarty | Okposo–Reinhart–Olofsson | Sheahan–Reinhart–Olofsson | Skinner–Reinhart–Olofsson | Eakin–Fogarty–Olofsson | Okposo–Asplund–Mittelstadt | Sheahan–Reinhart–Thompson | Sheahan–Skinner–Fogarty | Okposo–Sheahan–Olofsson | Sheahan–Skinner–Reinhart | Sheahan–Rieder–Asplund | Jokiharju–Dahlin | Ristolainen–Bryson | Miller–Montour | Irwin–Miller | Irwin–Ristolainen | Montour–Bryson | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kuokkanen–Sharangovich–Hughes | 4:110.00–0.15 | 1:290.26–0.00 | 0:500.03–0.00 | 2:590.00–0.15 | 4:440.12–0.13 | 2:250.12–0.00 | 0:500.15–0.00 | 0:540.02–0.00 | ||||||||||
| Wood–Zacha–Bratt | 1:250.01–0.00 | 2:270.14–0.02 | 0:580.43–0.03 | 0:390.00–0.00 | 0:450.00–0.00 | 1:340.52–0.03 | 2:430.14–0.00 | 5:560.62–0.02 | ||||||||||
| Zajac–Johnsson–Merkley | 0:490.02–0.25 | 3:040.06–0.07 | 1:250.03–0.00 | 1:000.00–0.14 | 0:390.00–0.00 | 4:060.02–0.11 | 3:100.06–0.35 | 1:390.08–0.18 | 0:350.02–0.00 | |||||||||
| McLeod–Maltsev–Thompson | 1:490.17–0.20 | 1:040.00–0.00 | 0:390.10–0.00 | 0:350.00–0.00 | 0:470.00–0.01 | 2:420.43–0.20 | 1:220.32–0.00 | 2:040.00–0.03 | ||||||||||
| Zajac–Kuokkanen–Hughes | 0:550.00–0.00 | 0:550.00–0.00 | 0:300.00–0.00 | |||||||||||||||
| Wood–McLeod–Kuokkanen | 0:330.03–0.00 | |||||||||||||||||
| Subban–Kulikov | 2:570.00–0.25 | 2:370.06–0.02 | 1:560.15–0.00 | 0:510.44–0.00 | 1:070.00–0.00 | 4:240.06–0.04 | 5:240.14–0.20 | 2:540.44–0.02 | 1:210.15–0.00 | 0:350.02–0.00 | ||||||||
| Murray–Severson | 2:130.00–0.35 | 3:080.00–0.00 | 0:320.03–0.00 | 2:010.43–0.18 | 1:160.05–0.00 | 0:540.00–0.01 | 0:400.00–0.00 | 7:170.57–0.38 | 1:200.00–0.14 | 4:180.12–0.01 | 0:370.00–0.00 | |||||||
| Vatanen–Smith | 4:230.19–0.00 | 0:420.00–0.07 | 1:270.11–0.01 | 0:300.00–0.00 | 0:330.00–0.00 | 1:280.02–0.07 | 5:190.28–0.13 | 2:390.00–0.20 | 0:560.02–0.00 | |||||||||
| Severson–Smith | 1:000.16–0.00 | 0:330.03–0.00 | 1:520.16–0.00 | 1:330.11–0.00 | ||||||||||||||
| Subban–Smith | 0:370.00–0.00 | 1:070.00–0.00 | ||||||||||||||||
| Vatanen–Murray | 0:410.00–0.00 | 0:590.00–0.00 | 1:100.11–0.00 | 0:410.00–0.00 |
Every shift, one row per player.
NJDBUFFull-height lines are goals; short ticks at the top are shots. Hover to see who was on the ice.
Shift totals
 Rasmus RistolainenBUF | 22 | 24:21 | 1:06 | 2:42 | 3 | 7 |
 Ty SmithNJD | 28 | 21:43 | 0:47 | 2:47 | 5 | 2 |
 Jack HughesNJD | 23 | 21:37 | 0:56 | 2:14 | 5 | 1 |
 Damon SeversonNJD | 23 | 21:22 | 0:56 | 1:42 | 3 | 2 |
 Jacob BrysonBUF | 19 | 20:46 | 1:06 | 2:47 | 1 | 7 |
 P.K. SubbanNJD | 23 | 19:41 | 0:51 | 1:58 | 1 | 2 |
 Sam ReinhartBUF | 24 | 19:40 | 0:49 | 1:26 | 8 | 1 |
 Dmitry KulikovNJD | 25 | 19:31 | 0:47 | 1:58 | 3 | 4 |
 Rasmus DahlinBUF | 19 | 19:09 | 1:00 | 1:50 | 3 | 1 |
 Janne KuokkanenNJD | 23 | 18:45 | 0:49 | 1:22 | 4 | 1 |
 Travis ZajacNJD | 27 | 18:42 | 0:42 | 2:25 | 5 | 9 |
 Pavel ZachaNJD | 22 | 18:17 | 0:50 | 1:50 | 5 | 6 |
 Brandon MontourBUF | 20 | 17:48 | 0:53 | 1:53 | 3 | 2 |
 Victor OlofssonBUF | 22 | 17:39 | 0:48 | 1:22 | 6 | 3 |
 Colin MillerBUF | 21 | 17:25 | 0:50 | 1:53 | 4 | 2 |
 Ryan MurrayNJD | 21 | 17:22 | 0:50 | 1:42 | 2 | 4 |
 Sami VatanenNJD | 23 | 17:05 | 0:45 | 2:04 | 1 | 3 |
 Riley SheahanBUF | 20 | 16:52 | 0:51 | 2:12 | 1 | 5 |
 Tobias RiederBUF | 24 | 16:47 | 0:42 | 1:28 | 2 | 5 |
 Casey MittelstadtBUF | 20 | 16:47 | 0:50 | 2:02 | 3 | 0 |
 Yegor SharangovichNJD | 22 | 16:27 | 0:45 | 1:03 | 2 | 1 |
 Henri JokiharjuBUF | 18 | 16:17 | 0:54 | 1:33 | 2 | 1 |
 Kyle OkposoBUF | 21 | 16:13 | 0:46 | 1:49 | 2 | 2 |
 Jesper BrattNJD | 21 | 15:56 | 0:46 | 1:50 | 5 | 1 |
 Cody EakinBUF | 24 | 15:33 | 0:39 | 1:07 | 2 | 5 |
 Tage ThompsonBUF | 21 | 15:25 | 0:44 | 1:21 | 3 | 1 |
 Steven FogartyBUF | 25 | 15:12 | 0:36 | 1:00 | 1 | 5 |
 Miles WoodNJD | 19 | 15:10 | 0:48 | 1:16 | 2 | 3 |
 Rasmus AsplundBUF | 19 | 14:07 | 0:45 | 1:08 | 2 | 1 |
 Andreas JohnssonNJD | 18 | 13:42 | 0:46 | 1:07 | 4 | 0 |
 Nick MerkleyNJD | 16 | 11:24 | 0:43 | 1:03 | 4 | 0 |
 Michael McLeodNJD | 18 | 10:55 | 0:36 | 1:13 | 2 | 1 |
 Jeff SkinnerBUF | 14 | 10:53 | 0:47 | 1:18 | 2 | 1 |
 Tyce ThompsonNJD | 16 | 9:44 | 0:37 | 1:14 | 0 | 1 |
 Mikhail MaltsevNJD | 16 | 9:38 | 0:36 | 1:07 | 1 | 1 |
 Matt IrwinBUF | 8 | 4:52 | 0:37 | 0:58 | 1 | 0 |