Tue, Dec 31, 2024·American Airlines Center, Dallas
Buffalo Sabres 2, Dallas Stars 4
Expected result
Based on shot quality alone, Dallas Stars win this game 89% of the time.
85%
DAL winsBUF wins
Who was on the ice
Model-basedLine matchups and every shift of the game.
DAL 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.
| Zucker–Tuch–Thompson | Cozens–Quinn–Peterka | Krebs–Kulich–Benson | Lafferty–Malenstyn–McLeod | Tuch–Thompson–Kulich | Dahlin–Byram | Samuelsson–Power | Clifton–Bryson | Clifton–Byram | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benn–Duchene–Johnston | 8:051.68–0.29 | 1:330.20–0.12 | 2:180.12–0.17 | 0:500.00–0.00 | 5:330.95–0.14 | 4:570.45–0.26 | 1:550.48–0.00 | 0:510.08–0.00 | |
| Bäck–Bourque–Stankoven | 1:000.00–0.02 | 3:080.00–0.00 | 2:380.05–0.24 | 1:400.00–0.05 | 1:190.00–0.17 | 5:370.16–0.13 | 2:480.00–0.01 | ||
| Dadonov–Hintz–Robertson | 0:520.07–0.46 | 3:190.26–0.00 | 1:360.19–0.00 | 2:200.03–0.13 | 3:520.38–0.46 | 1:450.00–0.00 | 2:320.13–0.13 | ||
| Blackwell–Steel–Hryckowian | 1:310.01–0.11 | 1:100.00–0.00 | 1:140.08–0.00 | 1:100.00–0.08 | 3:100.00–0.12 | 1:340.08–0.00 | |||
| Blackwell–Hintz–Steel | 1:470.19–0.04 | 0:390.00–0.04 | 0:360.19–0.00 | ||||||
| Blackwell–Steel–Bäck | |||||||||
| Heiskanen–Lyubushkin | 6:281.42–0.39 | 0:540.03–0.05 | 4:020.12–0.16 | 0:580.00–0.13 | 0:540.00–0.00 | 5:070.75–0.21 | 3:570.19–0.05 | 3:460.71–0.14 | |
| Lindell–Lundkvist | 2:260.13–0.04 | 6:210.36–0.07 | 1:240.00–0.20 | 2:330.03–0.26 | 5:240.23–0.37 | 5:260.14–0.21 | 2:150.09–0.00 | ||
| Dumba–Harley | 1:010.00–0.00 | 2:130.14–0.04 | 3:050.24–0.11 | 2:470.00–0.08 | 4:070.00–0.10 | 4:220.49–0.01 | 3:340.00–0.04 | ||
| Heiskanen–Harley | 0:430.07–0.46 | 0:510.00–0.00 | 1:030.15–0.46 | 0:340.06–0.00 | |||||
| Lindell–Heiskanen | 1:080.08–0.00 | 0:550.19–0.00 | 0:540.12–0.00 | ||||||
| Dumba–Lindell | 1:130.00–0.00 | 0:420.00–0.00 | 0:370.00–0.00 | ||||||
| Dumba–Heiskanen | 0:520.08–0.11 | 0:570.15–0.11 | |||||||
| Lindell–Harley | 0:430.01–0.00 | ||||||||
| Lundkvist–Harley | 0:480.00–0.05 | 0:570.00–0.00 |
Every shift, one row per player.
DALBUFFull-height lines are goals; short ticks at the top are shots. Hover to see who was on the ice.
Shift totals
 Miro HeiskanenDAL | 24 | 25:09 | 1:03 | 1:45 | 3 | 2 |
 Bowen ByramBUF | 30 | 24:46 | 0:50 | 1:29 | 3 | 4 |
 Rasmus DahlinBUF | 30 | 22:32 | 0:45 | 1:08 | 3 | 5 |
 Esa LindellDAL | 24 | 22:00 | 0:55 | 1:39 | 2 | 2 |
 Owen PowerBUF | 28 | 21:28 | 0:46 | 1:18 | 1 | 4 |
 Mattias SamuelssonBUF | 28 | 21:10 | 0:45 | 1:35 | 2 | 6 |
 Wyatt JohnstonDAL | 22 | 21:00 | 0:57 | 1:42 | 1 | 2 |
 Matt DucheneDAL | 22 | 20:47 | 0:57 | 2:47 | 1 | 3 |
 Thomas HarleyDAL | 25 | 19:59 | 0:48 | 1:23 | 2 | 2 |
 Jamie BennDAL | 22 | 19:02 | 0:52 | 1:42 | 3 | 2 |
 Tage ThompsonBUF | 22 | 18:35 | 0:51 | 1:32 | 3 | 0 |
 Alex TuchBUF | 23 | 18:23 | 0:48 | 1:26 | 4 | 2 |
 Mathew DumbaDAL | 23 | 17:15 | 0:45 | 1:33 | 1 | 3 |
 Jason ZuckerBUF | 22 | 17:04 | 0:47 | 1:18 | 4 | 0 |
 Ilya LyubushkinDAL | 20 | 17:02 | 0:51 | 1:25 | 1 | 1 |
 Nils LundkvistDAL | 21 | 16:37 | 0:47 | 1:39 | 1 | 2 |
 Dylan CozensBUF | 21 | 16:26 | 0:47 | 1:49 | 2 | 2 |
 Logan StankovenDAL | 18 | 15:54 | 0:53 | 1:16 | 1 | 2 |
 JJ PeterkaBUF | 21 | 15:51 | 0:45 | 1:17 | 2 | 3 |
 Roope HintzDAL | 24 | 15:32 | 0:39 | 1:39 | 5 | 3 |
 Peyton KrebsBUF | 23 | 15:26 | 0:40 | 1:13 | 3 | 4 |
 Jacob BrysonBUF | 20 | 15:19 | 0:46 | 2:16 | 1 | 4 |
 Jason RobertsonDAL | 21 | 15:15 | 0:44 | 1:43 | 4 | 3 |
 Jack QuinnBUF | 21 | 15:09 | 0:43 | 1:23 | 2 | 2 |
 Oskar BäckDAL | 17 | 15:07 | 0:53 | 1:24 | 3 | 1 |
 Sam SteelDAL | 20 | 14:54 | 0:45 | 1:13 | 3 | 0 |
 Zach BensonBUF | 21 | 14:54 | 0:43 | 1:38 | 3 | 4 |
 Jiri KulichBUF | 22 | 14:50 | 0:40 | 1:02 | 3 | 4 |
 Connor CliftonBUF | 20 | 14:31 | 0:44 | 2:08 | 0 | 4 |
 Mavrik BourqueDAL | 15 | 13:29 | 0:54 | 1:20 | 2 | 1 |
 Evgenii DadonovDAL | 19 | 12:41 | 0:40 | 1:01 | 4 | 2 |
 Ryan McLeodBUF | 17 | 12:14 | 0:43 | 1:47 | 0 | 6 |
 Beck MalenstynBUF | 17 | 11:14 | 0:40 | 1:27 | 0 | 6 |
 Colin BlackwellDAL | 17 | 10:47 | 0:38 | 1:05 | 3 | 0 |
 Sam LaffertyBUF | 16 | 10:08 | 0:38 | 1:15 | 0 | 5 |
 Justin HryckowianDAL | 12 | 7:30 | 0:38 | 0:58 | 1 | 0 |