BUFFALO SABRES
Away · Win
3
Final/Fri Dec 8, 2023/TD Garden, Boston/2023-24 regular season

01/Line score

Goals by period, from play-by-play
Team1st2nd3rdT
0213
0101

02/Scoring summary

4 goals

2nd

3 goals
TimeTeamGoalAssistsBUFBOS
01:18BUFJJ Peterka (11)Dylan Cozens10
16:57BUFTage Thompson (7)Connor Clifton20
17:35BOSBrad Marchand (12)Hampus Lindholm21

3rd

1 goal
TimeTeamGoalAssistsBUFBOS
11:16BUFVictor Olofsson (4)unassisted31

03/Team stats

Counted from the play-by-play
BUF
Away / Home
BOS
3
Goals
1
35
Shots on goal
32
7
Missed shots
15
20
Blocked shots
11
53
Shot attempts
68
33
Hits
34
25
Faceoffs won of 50
25
50.0%
Faceoff win %
50.0%
7
Giveaways
6
12
Takeaways
7
1
Penalties
3
2
Penalty minutes
6
3
Power plays
1

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 · 18 skaters, 1 goaltender
PlayerPosGAP+/-PIMSHBLKFOTOI
Connor CliftonD011131
Victor OlofssonL101311
Tage ThompsonC101250
Dylan CozensC0112317-8
JJ PeterkaR1016111-1
NHL 8473446000100
NHL 84734490002112-3
Jeff SkinnerL000500
Tyson JostC0001303-2
Casey MittelstadtC0000007-7
Henri JokiharjuD000121
Eric RobinsonL000022
Mattias SamuelssonD000279
Peyton KrebsC0001215-3
NHL 8481564000200
Owen PowerD000512
NHL 84827650000000-1
Zach BensonL000120
Skaters325353320

Goaltending

PlayerSASVGASV%TOI
NHL 848222132311.969

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.


05/Boston Bruins

Home · 17 skaters, 1 goaltender
PlayerPosGAP+/-PIMSHBLKFOTOI
Brad MarchandL101420
Hampus LindholmD011410
NHL 8474031000102
James van RiemsdykL000300
Charlie CoyleC00031010-6
Matt GrzelcykD000111
David PastrnakR000910
NHL 8478046000010
Pavel ZachaC0002208-5
Jake DeBruskL000220
Charlie McAvoyD000001
Trent FredericC0000610-1
NHL 8479546000051
Morgan GeekieC0003005-5
NHL 8480880000041
John BeecherC0000822-8
Mason LohreiD000001
Skaters112323410

Goaltending

PlayerSASVGASV%TOI
Linus Ullmark35323.914

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+/-
Brandon Carlo

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

4 called
PerTimeTeamPlayerInfractionMinDrawn by
1st10:37BOSBrad MarchandHooking2NHL 8473446
2nd10:22BOSToo many men on the ice2
2nd11:27BUFTage ThompsonSlashing2Pavel Zacha
3rd11:40BOSBrad MarchandTripping2Henri Jokiharju

08/Game

Date
Fri Dec 8, 2023
Venue
TD Garden, Boston
Season
2023-24
Type
Regular season
Decision
Final
NHL game id
2023020392

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 36 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. 2 goaltenders are missing from that list, and their lines are 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 them, because only the box score carries those. 9 players are not in the player index and appear by NHL id rather than under an invented name.