Final / OT/Wed Oct 18, 2017/T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas/2017-18 regular season

01/Line score

Goals by period, from play-by-play
Team1st2nd3rdOTT
10304
12115

02/Scoring summary

9 goals

1st

2 goals
TimeTeamGoalAssistsBUFVGK
06:24BUFRyan O'Reilly (1)NHL 8476470, Evander Kane10
14:15VGKNHL 8475715 (3)Reilly Smith, William Karlsson11

2nd

2 goals
TimeTeamGoalAssistsBUFVGK
06:40VGKAlex Tuch (2)NHL 8468674, NHL 847689412
18:37VGKReilly Smith (1)NHL 8476779, Colin Miller13

3rd

4 goals
TimeTeamGoalAssistsBUFVGK
03:50VGKDavid Perron (1)NHL 8471707, NHL 847523614
10:00BUFRyan O'Reilly (2)Evander Kane, Jack Eichel24
18:02BUFSam Reinhart (2)NHL 8477499, NHL 846950634
19:51BUFEvander Kane (5)Jack Eichel, NHL 846950644

OT

1 goal
TimeTeamGoalAssistsBUFVGK
03:52VGKDavid Perron (2)NHL 8474579, NHL 847170745

03/Team stats

Counted from the play-by-play
BUF
Away / Home
VGK
4
Goals
5
34
Shots on goal
31
19
Missed shots
12
18
Blocked shots
17
70
Shot attempts
61
16
Hits
15
33
Faceoffs won of 64
31
51.6%
Faceoff win %
48.4%
5
Giveaways
6
9
Takeaways
17
5
Penalties
5
10
Penalty minutes
10
5
Power plays
5

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/Buffalo Sabres

Away · 17 skaters, 1 goaltender
PlayerPosGAP+/-PIMSHBLKFOTOI
Evander KaneL1235101-4
NHL 8469506022202
Ryan O'ReillyC20251121-11
Jack EichelC0224124-8
NHL 8476470011012
NHL 8477499011032
Sam ReinhartC1012010-1
NHL 8470324000011
NHL 8470852000001
NHL 84716780001200-1
NHL 84734490003102-0
NHL 8474618000101
NHL 8475325000010
NHL 84757280002015-4
NHL 8476807000501
Jake McCabeD000110
NHL 84774730003310-1
Skaters4812341616

Goaltending

PlayerSASVGASV%TOI
NHL 847343431265.839

05/Vegas Golden Knights

Home · 18 skaters, 1 goaltender
PlayerPosGAP+/-PIMSHBLKFOTOI
NHL 84717070221010-1
David PerronL2023001-4
Reilly SmithR1123021-2
NHL 8468674011234
NHL 8474579011002
NHL 847523601123011-10
NHL 84757151011132-0
William KarlssonC0111007-5
Colin MillerD011010
NHL 8476779011202
NHL 84768940114101-0
Alex TuchR1014100-1
NHL 8475750000101
Nate SchmidtD0001010-1
William CarrierL000331
NHL 84779300001004-6
NHL 84779310000201-0
NHL 84796500002003-3
Skaters51015311517

Goaltending

PlayerSASVGASV%TOI
NHL 847687634304.882

One line here is not in the box score feed's dressed list for this game. Shots against, saves and goals against are counted off the play-by-play, which names the goaltender who faced every shot and every goal; time on ice is blank on those lines, because only the box score carries it.


06/Club not resolved

PlayerTOIPIM+/-
Zemgus Girgensons

These players dressed for this game but neither the play-by-play nor the box score feed attributes them to a club, so they are printed apart rather than guessed at.


07/Penalties

10 called
PerTimeTeamPlayerInfractionMinDrawn by
1st05:50VGKDavid PerronInterference2NHL 8469506
1st07:11BUFNHL 8471678Slashing2NHL 8468674
1st10:20VGKNHL 8475236Holding2NHL 8476807
2nd02:48BUFJack EichelHolding2NHL 8477931
2nd09:35BUFNHL 8477499Slashing2William Carrier
2nd13:56BUFDelay of game (bench face-off violation)2
2nd17:27BUFNHL 8474618Slashing2William Carrier
3rd08:28VGKAlex TuchSlashing2NHL 8477473
3rd09:51VGKNHL 8468674Slashing2Evander Kane
3rd16:15VGKReilly SmithHigh-sticking2NHL 8476470

08/Game

Date
Wed Oct 18, 2017
Venue
T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas
Season
2017-18
Type
Regular season
Decision
Final / OT
NHL game id
2017020090

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. No box score is on file for this game, so time on ice, penalty minutes and plus-minus are blank throughout. The counting columns are unaffected: they are read off the play-by-play. The dressed list itself is short: the box score feed names 37 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. One goaltender is missing from that list, and his line is built from the play-by-play instead: every shot and every goal names the goaltender who faced it, so shots against, saves and goals against are counted the same way the skater columns are. Time on ice, penalty minutes and plus-minus stay blank for him, because only the box score carries those. 25 players are not in the player index and appear by NHL id rather than under an invented name.