EDMONTON OILERS VS BUFFALO SABRES LIVE | OILERS FAN REACTION & COMMENTARY
The struggling Buffalo Sabres take on Leon Draisaitl and the Edmonton Oilers today for a matinee matchup at Rogers Place. With a win the Oilers have a chance to leapfrog the Vegas Golden Knights for first place in the Pacific Division.
The Oilers didn’t hold back offensively against the Canucks on Thursday, beating them 6-2, but they showed restraint when they needed to after the game started to get chippy in the final frame.
Leon Draisaitl had a goal and two assists in the victory, increasing his NHL goalscoring lead to 35 goals this season and pulling to within one of Nathan MacKinnon for the NHL lead for points.
Zach Hyman scored twice and added a helper in his first game without wearing the bubble since Dec. 16 against the Florida Panthers, helping the Oilers shoot out to a 3-0 lead after 20 minutes. #oilers #nhl #edmontonoilers
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Game 49. Long post follows with base game statistics including some for the Buffalo Sabres. Read, don't read, up to you. These are BASE stats not detailed ones. My comments and observations at the end.
Statistics for Buffalo Sabres at Edmonton Oilers January 25th, 2025
Edmonton Oilers:
J Skinner 1 Goal
Nuge 2 Goals
Emberson 1 Primary Assist
Kapanen 1 Primary Assist
Ekholm 1 Secondary Assist
Nurse 1 Primary Assist
Bouchard 1 Secondary Assist
S Skinner 39 Saves on 41 Shots = .952 Save %age
Buffalo Sabres:
Tuch 1 Goal
Kulich 1 Goal
Zucker 1 Primary Assist
Bryson 1 Secondary Assist
Power 1 Primary Assist
Cozens 1 Secondary Assist
Reimer 31 Saves on 34 Shots = .912 Save %atge
Sabres Oilers
Shots on Goal 42 34
Hits 29 15
Faceoffs Won 32 33
PP 0/3 0/1
Penalty Mins 2 6
Giveaways 16 15 (12 per NST)
Takeaways 7 (4 per NST) 5 (4 per NST)
Blocked Shots 7 (8 per NST) 16 (12 per NST)
3 Stars: 3-Kulich (1G), 2-Nuge (2G), 1-S Skinner (.952 Save %age)
Player TOI PP TOI PK TOI SOG +/- PIM Hits Blocks Giveaways Takeaways
Bouchard 24:22 1:45 0:43 3 0 0 2 3 1 1
Nurse 23:41 0:15 2:40 3 1 0 2 0 1 0
Ekholm 23:00 0:07 2:51 3 2 0 1 2 1 0
Kulak 20:14 0:00 2:25 3 -1 0 0 3 0 0
Emberson 14:56 0:00 3:19 1 0 0 1 1 1 0
Stecher 12:06 0:00 0:00 0 0 2 0 1 2 0
Draisaitl 22:36 1:43 0:00 3 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hyman 18:44 1:31 0:00 1 -1 2 0 0 1 0
Henrique 16:39 0:16 1:58 0 0 0 2 2 0 0
Nuge 15:51 1:52 2:36 4 2 0 0 1 1 0
Arvidsson 15:37 0:28 0:00 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
C Brown 15:03 0:00 2:19 5 1 0 0 0 0 1
Janmark 14:51 0:00 2:40 1 1 0 0 1 0 0
Perry 14:09 0:42 0:00 3 1 0 0 0 2 2
Podkolzin 14:05 0:00 0:37 0 -1 0 3 0 0 0
J Skinner 10:44 1:18 0:00 2 1 0 2 2 0 0
Kapanen 10:33 0:00 1:10 1 0 2 2 0 0 0
Philp 6:49 0:00 0:36 1 -1 0 0 0 0 0
Oilers Faceoff Breakdown:
Won Lost Percent
Draisaitl 13 13 50.0
Henrique 10 3 76.9
Nuge 4 10 28.6
Philp 3 3 50.0
Perry 1 0 100.0
Janmark 1 1 50.0
C Brown 1 1 50.0
J Skinner 0 1 0.00
Sabres's Faceoff Breakdown:
Won Lost Percent
McLeod 9 10 47.4
Cozens 9 3 75.0
Kulich 7 8 46.7
Thompson 3 2 60.0
Krebs 2 5 28.6
Zucker 1 3 25.0
Lafferty 1 1 50.0
Tuch 0 1 0.00
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Special Thanks to Austin Hockey for doing play by play for this game. It's appreciated.
Few things that I got from this. #1: You're MESSING UP Noah Philp. He played a GRAND TOTAL of 6:49 today (and was 50% in the faceoff circle). How can he progress with squat for time. #2: You REALLY REALLY REALLY need to do drills on how to hit an empty net because Leon couldn't do it and it was wide open. It's like we're cursed or something and it's embarrassing. #3: Stu was phenomenal and anyone who says otherwise is blinder than I am (and I have maybe 20% in one eye currently, maybe). #4: NUGE IS HUGE!!!!!!!!!
This was actually not a great game especially compared to the Canucks game but hey, it's a win. The Oilers are now first in the Pacific Division one point up on VGK who face I think it's the Panthers next while we face Seattle and don't count LA out. They're 8 points back but have 4 games in hand, they win them all and it's another tie at the top. They face Detroit next.
Take care all
W