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Buffalo Sabres at Minnesota Wild

Mar 6, 2011 · Xcel Energy Center

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 3 33
Minnesota Wild 2 26

Decided in overtime.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
01:23 BUF Jason Pominville (1) Steve Montador (1), Thomas Vanek (1) 1 - 0
2nd Period
02:04 BUF Rob Niedermayer (1) Andrej Sekera (1), Cody McCormick (1) 2 - 0
14:13 MIN Warren Peters (1) Brad Staubitz (1), Brent Burns (1) 2 - 1
17:33 MIN Marek Zidlicky (1) PP Pierre-Marc Bouchard (1), Martin Havlat (1) 2 - 2
Overtime
00:46 BUF Drew Stafford (1) Andrej Sekera (2) 3 - 2

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
13:50 MIN Marek Zidlicky Hooking 2
19:17 MIN Chuck Kobasew Tripping 2
2nd Period
08:05 BUF Jordan Leopold Hooking 2
16:01 BUF Tyler Myers Hooking 2
3rd Period
09:00 BUF Cody McCormick Fighting 5
09:00 MIN Clayton Stoner Fighting 5

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 55 43 33 3 2.0 51.1
Minnesota Wild 49 38 26 2 1.4 48.9

How the game went

10505Start2nd3rdOTMinnesota Wild aheadBuffalo Sabres ahead

The gap in shot attempts as the game went on: how many more one team had taken than the other. The line is above the middle and red while Minnesota Wild had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 2.0 expected, 3 scored · Minnesota Wild: 1.4 expected, 2 scored

00.511.5Start2nd3rdOTBUF goal, 1:23 of 1st, a 7% chanceBUF goal, 2:04 of 2nd, a 45% chanceBUF goal, 0:46 of overtime, a 21% chanceMIN goal, 14:13 of 2nd, a 14% chanceMIN goal, 17:33 of 2nd, a 4% chanceBUF 2.0MIN 1.4

Each line climbs with every chance a team had: a small step for a shot from far out, a big one for a dangerous chance. A dot is a goal. Expected goals adds up how likely each shot was to go in, judged by where it was taken from, what kind of shot it was and whether it was a rebound. Blocked shots and the shootout are not counted. Before 2023-24 the NHL timed events less exactly, and differently from rink to rink, so expected goals for this season are rougher than for recent ones.

Where the attempts came from

Buffalo Sabres
Minnesota Wild

There is a dot for each attempt, bigger for a better chance. "Show as heat map" shades the ice by where the attempts came from.

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Brad Boyes · Jason Pominville · Thomas Vanek12:5851.555.01-0
Tim Connolly · Drew Stafford · Tyler Ennis12:2344.453.00-0
Rob Niedermayer · Cody McCormick · Mark Mancari8:2770.675.51-0
Paul Gaustad · Patrick Kaleta · Nathan Gerbe6:1528.629.10-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Steve Montador · Andrej Sekera15:3753.174.22-0
Chris Butler · Tyler Myers13:4460.060.00-0
Jordan Leopold · Shaone Morrisonn13:2340.022.10-1

The forwards and the defencemen who were on the ice together most at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out.

Players

xG is the expected goals of a skater's own shots. CF-CA and xGF-xGA are the shot attempts and the expected goals for and against while he was on the ice at five-on-five. For a goalie, xGA is what the shots he faced were expected to produce, and the last column is how many of those he saved. What these numbers mean

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
5 Andrej Sekera D 0 2 2 2 0 3 1 21:13 0.09 21-19 1.08-0.50
18 Drew Stafford R 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 17:54 0.33 9-10 0.27-0.23
20 Rob Niedermayer C 1 0 1 0 0 4 1 11:31 0.53 13-7 0.73-0.38
29 Jason Pominville R 1 0 1 2 0 4 0 17:34 0.17 19-16 0.46-0.35
5 Steve Montador D 0 1 1 3 0 2 0 19:17 0.04 18-16 0.96-0.34
8 Cody McCormick C 0 1 1 1 5 3 0 10:31 0.11 12-6 0.71-0.25
26 Thomas Vanek L 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 18:54 0.18 20-18 0.49-0.45
12 Tim Connolly C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18:20 0.04 9-10 0.26-0.23
24 Mark Mancari R 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 13:30 14-9 0.79-0.46
24 Nathan Gerbe C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10:55 0.07 3-8 0.10-0.19
25 Chris Butler D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 21:12 0.02 16-9 0.35-0.21
27 Shaone Morrisonn D 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 17:21 9-16 0.16-0.54
28 Brad Boyes R 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 18:07 19-18 0.46-0.45
28 Paul Gaustad C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 15:14 6-10 0.16-0.33
33 Jordan Leopold D 0 0 0 -1 2 5 0 21:35 0.11 14-15 0.26-0.63
36 Patrick Kaleta R 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 10:18 0.07 4-8 0.07-0.19
57 Tyler Myers D 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 20:22 0.10 14-14 0.37-0.31
63 Tyler Ennis R 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 16:02 0.09 10-11 0.27-0.23
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
31 Jhonas Enroth W 26 24 2 60:28 1.42 -0.58

Minnesota Wild

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Martin Havlat · Pierre-Marc Bouchard · Kyle Brodziak11:5865.046.80-1
Matt Cullen · John Madden · Chuck Kobasew8:5042.949.20-0
Andrew Brunette · Antti Miettinen · Warren Peters5:0125.044.90-0
Andrew Brunette · Antti Miettinen · Casey Wellman4:4871.457.50-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Greg Zanon · Marek Zidlicky15:5442.950.90-0
Nick Schultz · Brent Burns15:5044.818.30-2
Clayton Stoner · Jared Spurgeon11:4147.651.90-0

The forwards and the defencemen who were on the ice together most at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out.

Players

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
28 Marek Zidlicky D 1 0 1 0 2 1 1 20:13 0.08 14-16 0.29-0.25
43 Warren Peters C 1 0 1 0 0 4 5 12:23 0.36 11-13 0.49-0.74
25 Brad Staubitz R 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 06:19 3-5 0.15-0.12
29 Martin Havlat R 0 1 1 -3 0 0 0 19:01 0.03 20-14 0.41-0.80
84 Brent Burns D 0 1 1 -2 0 4 0 23:45 0.06 17-17 0.44-0.97
96 Pierre-Marc Bouchard C 0 1 1 -2 0 1 1 17:36 0.05 18-7 0.40-0.22
3 Clayton Stoner D 0 0 0 1 5 0 2 15:04 13-12 0.57-0.34
4 Greg Zanon D 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 22:58 0.04 13-17 0.26-0.27
7 Matt Cullen C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 17:35 0.10 8-14 0.24-0.30
10 John Madden C 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 17:59 0.20 11-13 0.41-0.35
12 Chuck Kobasew R 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 14:42 0.12 10-12 0.40-0.32
15 Andrew Brunette L 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 18:02 0.18 13-17 0.31-0.38
20 Antti Miettinen R 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 17:19 0.02 10-12 0.23-0.26
24 Eric Nystrom L 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 10:50 0.05 6-6 0.31-0.18
28 Kyle Brodziak C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 18:28 0.08 15-18 0.22-0.87
46 Jared Spurgeon D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 17:17 0.01 14-13 0.54-0.37
48 Casey Wellman C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 09:03 7-7 0.20-0.22
55 Nick Schultz D 0 0 0 -3 0 1 1 20:47 0.02 17-17 0.42-0.98
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
60 Jose Theodore OTL 33 30 3 60:23 1.95 -1.05