NHL games

BUF @ CHI

NHL United Center ·{'default': 'Chicago'} · SOG BUF 26 · 16 CHI
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Final

Statlab take

baseline_gbm
Based on last 10 (CHI) / 10 (BUF) games this season
BUF away
home CHI
72% 28%

baseline_gbm trained on ~5,000 NHL games (54.8% test accuracy). NHL is high-variance — even good models hover near 60%. Treat as a soft lean, not a lock.

Season comparison

H2H this season: 0-1
BUF
Away
Metric
CHI
Home
49-31
Record
28-52
61%
Win %
35%
3.5
GF/G
2.6
3.0
GA/G
3.4
WWWLL
L5
LLLWL

Team totals

BUF
CHI
26
Shots
16
20
Hits
8
10
Blocks
8
8
Takeaways
2
12
Giveaways
23
8
PIM
4

Box score

Forwards
PlayerGAPSOGHit+/-DK
T Thompson2026229.59
A Tuch1123019.71
R McLeod1011016.96
J Norris1012116.3
Z Benson0114026.73
J Zucker0112106.81
Defense
PlayerGA+/-BLKHitDK
O Power012106.42
B Byram002106.96
R Dahlin0220010.67
M Samuelsson002106.22
C Timmins000005.82
L Stanley011005.08
Goalie
PlayerSavesShotsSV%GA
C Ellis000
U Luukkonen15160.9381

Statlab projections

Pre-game projection from per-position MultiOutput regressor
# Player Pos Team G A SOG Hit DK
1 C Bedard forw CHI vs BUF 0.41 0.56 3.1 0.3 11.0
2 R Dahlin defe BUF vs CHI 0.21 0.62 3.1 10.7
3 A Tuch forw BUF vs CHI 0.37 0.48 2.8 0.9 9.7
4 T Thompson forw BUF vs CHI 0.35 0.52 2.7 0.8 9.6
5 A Frondell forw CHI vs BUF 0.35 0.47 2.7 0.9 9.4
6 J Quinn forw BUF vs CHI 0.33 0.38 3.1 0.9 9.3
7 S Knight goal CHI vs BUF 8.6
8 U Luukkonen goal BUF vs CHI 8.4
9 F Nazar forw CHI vs BUF 0.33 0.36 2.4 0.9 8.1
10 T Bertuzzi forw CHI vs BUF 0.30 0.42 2.0 1.0 7.7
11 R McLeod forw BUF vs CHI 0.24 0.49 1.7 0.2 7.0
12 B Byram defe BUF vs CHI 0.09 0.46 1.6 7.0
13 I Mikheyev forw CHI vs BUF 0.27 0.34 1.9 0.6 6.9
14 J Zucker forw BUF vs CHI 0.25 0.33 2.0 0.7 6.8
15 Z Benson forw BUF vs CHI 0.23 0.34 2.1 0.6 6.7
16 O Power defe BUF vs CHI 0.08 0.41 1.4 6.4
17 J Norris forw BUF vs CHI 0.22 0.31 1.9 1.3 6.3
18 M Samuelsson defe BUF vs CHI 0.09 0.30 1.4 6.2
19 L Crevier defe CHI vs BUF 0.07 0.27 1.3 5.8
20 C Timmins defe BUF vs CHI 0.07 0.25 1.3 5.8
21 A Vlasic defe CHI vs BUF 0.06 0.26 1.2 5.5
22 R Greene forw CHI vs BUF 0.19 0.27 1.6 0.8 5.3
23 W Kaiser defe CHI vs BUF 0.06 0.27 1.2 5.3
24 L Stanley defe BUF vs CHI 0.07 0.26 1.3 5.1
25 J Doan forw BUF vs CHI 0.18 0.23 1.6 1.2 5.1

Trained on ~126k player-game rows since 2021. NHL single-game variance is high — these are central-tendency point estimates, not floor/ceiling ranges.