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Buffalo Sabres at Toronto Maple Leafs

Mar 12, 2011 · Air Canada Centre

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 3 42
Toronto Maple Leafs 4 29

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
02:55 BUF Mike Weber (1) Tim Connolly (1), Rob Niedermayer (1) 1 - 0
11:23 TOR Clarke MacArthur (1) Mikhail Grabovski (1), Nikolay Kulemin (1) 1 - 1
2nd Period
10:10 TOR Tyler Bozak (1) Phil Kessel (1), Joffrey Lupul (1) 1 - 2
11:04 BUF Jochen Hecht (1) Andrej Sekera (1), Thomas Vanek (1) 2 - 2
15:31 BUF Jordan Leopold (1) PP Tyler Ennis (1), Cody McCormick (1) 3 - 2
3rd Period
04:03 TOR Mikhail Grabovski (1) Carl Gunnarsson (1), Dion Phaneuf (1) 3 - 3
06:36 TOR Phil Kessel (1) Luke Schenn (1), James Reimer (1) 3 - 4

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
05:29 BUF Andrej Sekera Hooking 2
2nd Period
15:13 TOR Mikhail Grabovski High sticking 2
3rd Period
09:34 BUF Tyler Myers High sticking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 68 55 42 3 2.9 53.2
Toronto Maple Leafs 66 44 29 4 2.8 46.8

How the game went

10505Start2nd3rdToronto Maple Leafs 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 Toronto Maple Leafs had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 2.9 expected, 3 scored · Toronto Maple Leafs: 2.8 expected, 4 scored

012Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 2:55 of 1st, a 1% chanceBUF goal, 11:04 of 2nd, a 11% chanceBUF goal, 15:31 of 2nd, a 3% chanceTOR goal, 11:23 of 1st, a 2% chanceTOR goal, 10:10 of 2nd, a 37% chanceTOR goal, 4:03 of 3rd, a 3% chanceTOR goal, 6:36 of 3rd, a 2% chanceBUF 2.9TOR 2.8

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
Toronto Maple Leafs

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
Jochen Hecht · Jason Pominville · Thomas Vanek14:0667.780.81-0
Tim Connolly · Brad Boyes · Tyler Ennis6:5558.858.80-2
Mark Parrish · Brad Boyes · Tyler Ennis5:0854.545.30-1
Rob Niedermayer · Mike Grier · Mark Parrish4:1230.812.20-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Andrej Sekera · Tyler Myers20:1057.173.01-2
Jordan Leopold · Steve Montador15:4751.255.00-2
Shaone Morrisonn · Mike Weber11:2560.054.50-0

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

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
6 Mike Weber D 1 0 1 1 0 1 3 15:39 0.05 18-12 0.48-0.40
33 Jordan Leopold D 1 0 1 -2 0 6 5 21:02 0.11 22-22 1.08-0.86
55 Jochen Hecht C 1 0 1 1 0 6 1 19:50 0.33 23-13 1.09-0.36
5 Andrej Sekera D 0 1 1 0 2 1 1 22:36 0.12 27-19 1.26-0.46
8 Cody McCormick C 0 1 1 0 0 1 2 11:09 0.05 10-15 0.79-0.37
12 Tim Connolly C 0 1 1 -1 0 1 0 14:36 0.18 19-10 0.70-0.33
20 Rob Niedermayer C 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 11:05 0.10 8-14 0.15-0.68
26 Thomas Vanek L 0 1 1 1 0 6 1 18:05 0.33 27-12 1.24-0.27
63 Tyler Ennis R 0 1 1 -3 0 1 0 17:32 0.04 18-16 0.62-0.49
5 Steve Montador D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 1 21:18 0.02 23-26 1.09-1.04
10 Mark Parrish R 0 0 0 -2 0 0 2 12:58 14-15 0.28-0.67
24 Mark Mancari R 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 09:27 0.05 11-11 0.76-0.47
24 Nathan Gerbe C 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 11:27 0.57 15-17 0.87-0.54
25 Mike Grier R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12:11 7-18 0.13-0.67
27 Shaone Morrisonn D 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 15:07 0.18 16-17 0.45-0.58
28 Brad Boyes R 0 0 0 -3 0 5 0 18:49 0.34 22-16 0.77-0.50
29 Jason Pominville R 0 0 0 1 0 4 0 19:33 0.34 24-16 1.08-0.33
57 Tyler Myers D 0 0 0 -1 2 2 5 24:43 0.06 26-21 1.29-0.48
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
30 Ryan Miller 29 25 4 58:53 2.25 -1.75

Toronto Maple Leafs

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Clarke MacArthur · Mikhail Grabovski · Nikolay Kulemin16:0050.032.71-1
Joffrey Lupul · Phil Kessel · Tyler Bozak15:2846.547.02-0
Colby Armstrong · Joey Crabb · Darryl Boyce5:3328.67.90-0
Tim Brent · Jay Rosehill · Mike Brown3:3937.534.70-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Dion Phaneuf · Keith Aulie19:5951.555.71-0
Carl Gunnarsson · Luke Schenn19:0034.012.10-1
Mike Komisarek · Brett Lebda6:4962.555.11-1

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

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
8 Phil Kessel R 1 1 2 2 0 3 1 21:35 0.12 24-24 0.76-0.70
84 Mikhail Grabovski C 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 22:56 0.09 20-21 0.43-0.97
16 Clarke MacArthur L 1 0 1 1 0 3 2 20:42 0.25 22-18 0.45-0.85
21 Tyler Bozak C 1 0 1 2 0 2 4 20:07 0.49 23-24 0.84-0.70
2 Luke Schenn D 0 1 1 -1 0 2 5 24:00 0.08 19-39 0.29-1.81
3 Dion Phaneuf D 0 1 1 3 0 1 6 28:20 0.04 26-19 0.84-0.42
4 Carl Gunnarsson D 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 25:21 0.01 27-39 0.51-1.80
19 Joffrey Lupul L 0 1 1 2 0 3 5 21:04 0.32 23-24 0.80-0.72
86 Nikolay Kulemin L 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 20:01 0.07 17-18 0.41-0.88
5 Mike Komisarek D 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 09:11 0.07 16-8 0.90-0.60
10 Joey Crabb R 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 06:48 0.07 6-11 0.14-0.63
13 Mike Brown R 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 10:12 0.29 10-12 0.61-0.55
20 Colby Armstrong R 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 12:56 0.09 9-17 0.43-0.89
22 Keith Aulie D 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 22:45 0.02 18-20 0.58-0.45
23 Brett Lebda D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 08:50 0.05 10-7 0.69-0.56
37 Tim Brent C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 06:26 0.04 4-6 0.20-0.29
37 Jay Rosehill L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 06:24 0.05 5-8 0.20-0.43
43 Darryl Boyce C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 3 12:04 0.10 11-15 0.43-0.86
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
47 James Reimer 42 39 3 60:00 2.88 -0.12