Final/Wed Dec 31, 2014/First Niagara Center/2014-15 regular season

01/Line score

Goals by period, from play-by-play
Team1st2nd3rdT
1135
1001

02/Scoring summary

6 goals

1st

2 goals
TimeTeamGoalAssistsTBLBUF
07:48TBLNHL 8470640 (4)Ondrej Palat10
12:33BUFNHL 8474589 (9)Nikita Zadorov, NHL 847085211

2nd

1 goal
TimeTeamGoalAssistsTBLBUF
19:02TBLOndrej Palat (9)NHL 8474870, Nikita Kucherov21

3rd

3 goals
TimeTeamGoalAssistsTBLBUF
05:20TBLNHL 8475792 (7)NHL 8471873, Ondrej Palat31
08:40TBLNikita Kucherov (16)NHL 8474870, NHL 847187341
18:05TBLNikita Kucherov (17)Ondrej Palat, NHL 847487051

03/Team stats

Counted from the play-by-play
TBL
Away / Home
BUF
5
Goals
1
25
Shots on goal
11
8
Missed shots
9
11
Blocked shots
15
48
Shot attempts
31
12
Hits
24
23
Faceoffs won of 60
37
38.3%
Faceoff win %
61.7%
3
Giveaways
3
3
Takeaways
3
2
Penalties
3
4
Penalty minutes
6
3
Power plays
2

Shots on goal include goals, the way the league counts them. Shot attempts are shots on goal plus misses plus attempts that were blocked. A club's blocked shots are the blocks it made, credited to the blocker's club: a shot that deflects off one of the shooter's own teammates is credited to neither side, so this can run under the raw count of blocked shots in the game. Penalty minutes are the durations the feed publishes, plus the ten minute misconduct that automatically rides with a match penalty.

Power plays are opportunities, and they are derived rather than stored. The feed carries no strength on a goal and no end time on a penalty, so the penalty record is run forward to find the seconds a club really had a skater more than its opponent: coincidental penalties offset, a double minor counts twice, a misconduct costs no skater, and a call at the final horn counts for nothing. Power play time is not printed, it would rest on the same reconstruction with nothing published to check it against.


04/Tampa Bay Lightning

Away · 18 skaters, 1 goaltender
PlayerPosGAP+/-PIMSHBLKFOTOI
Ondrej PalatL134310
Nikita KucherovR213+4050014:51
NHL 847487003310010-8
NHL 8471873022300
NHL 8470640101203
NHL 8475792101310
Victor HedmanD000+1020221:42
Steven StamkosC000001002-1017:21
Alex KillornL0000400116:43
Jonathan DrouinL0000010014:08
NHL 8466160000000
NHL 84700470000003-12
NHL 84706190002103-4
NHL 84713390001513-0
NHL 8474717000100
NHL 8476300000000
NHL 84769750000312-3
NHL 8477205000013
Skaters5914251211

Goaltending

PlayerSASVGASV%TOI
Andrei Vasilevskiy11101.90960:00

05/Buffalo Sabres

Home · 18 skaters, 1 goaltender
PlayerPosGAP+/-PIMSHBLKFOTOI
Nikita ZadorovD011-2010120:42
NHL 8470852011110
NHL 84745891013100-1
Zemgus GirgensonsC000-3010010-418:27
Nicolas DeslauriersL000-1405011:01
NHL 84695910000217-3
NHL 8470324000045
NHL 8470729000003
NHL 84712260000001-2
NHL 8471236000130
NHL 8471388000110
NHL 8473426000023
NHL 8473485000040
NHL 8474570000200
NHL 8475728000000
NHL 8475796000000
NHL 84768080001018-8
NHL 847688800001111-5
Skaters123112415

Goaltending

PlayerSASVGASV%TOI
NHL 847352325205.800

06/Penalties

5 called
PerTimeTeamPlayerInfractionMinDrawn by
1st10:59TBLAlex KillornHooking2Zemgus Girgensons
1st13:22BUFNHL 8471388Interference2NHL 8476975
2nd05:03TBLAlex KillornTripping2NHL 8470852
2nd18:09BUFNicolas DeslauriersTripping2NHL 8477205
3rd03:11BUFNicolas DeslauriersHolding2NHL 8474717

07/Game

Date
Wed Dec 31, 2014
Venue
First Niagara Center
Season
2014-15
Type
Regular season
Decision
Final
NHL game id
2014020546

Goals, assists, shots, hits, blocks and faceoffs are counted from the play-by-play for this game. Shots on goal include goals, the way the league counts them, so a club's skater shot total is the shot total the opposing goaltender faced. The skater line does not include a goaltender's own assists. Time on ice, penalty minutes and plus-minus come from the box score. Save percentage is saves over shots faced and excludes any empty-net goal, which the feed does not credit to a goaltender. Time on ice, penalty minutes and plus-minus are on file for 9 of the 38 players on this page. The dressed list itself is short: the box score feed names 38 players for this game, where a club normally dresses twenty and a full game is forty. The names it leaves out cannot be recovered from it, and this page does not invent them. 28 players are not in the player index and appear by NHL id rather than under an invented name.