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Detroit Red Wings at Buffalo Sabres

Dec 2, 2011 · First Niagara Center

Team Goals Shots
Detroit Red Wings 4 36
Buffalo Sabres 1 28

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
08:50 DET Jakub Kindl (1) Tomas Holmstrom (1), Justin Abdelkader (1) 1 - 0
13:38 DET Johan Franzen (1) PP Nicklas Lidstrom (1), Pavel Datsyuk (1) 2 - 0
14:41 DET Valtteri Filppula (1) Henrik Zetterberg (1) 3 - 0
3rd Period
13:47 BUF Jochen Hecht (1) Jason Pominville (1), Ville Leino (1) 3 - 1
18:43 DET Pavel Datsyuk (1) Unassisted 4 - 1

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
09:13 BUF Derek Roy Hooking 2
13:12 BUF Jason Pominville High sticking 2
18:10 BUF Thomas Vanek Holding 2
2nd Period
03:12 DET Justin Abdelkader Tripping 2
07:16 DET Niklas Kronwall Tripping 2
11:49 DET Valtteri Filppula Hooking 2
15:41 BUF Derek Roy Tripping 2
3rd Period
02:58 DET Jakub Kindl High sticking 2
09:17 BUF Marc-Andre Gragnani Hooking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Detroit Red Wings 62 48 36 4 3.5 50.6
Buffalo Sabres 58 37 28 1 2.7 49.4

How the game went

151050Start2nd3rdBuffalo Sabres aheadDetroit Red Wings 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 Buffalo Sabres had taken more, and below it and blue while Detroit Red Wings had.

Expected goals

Detroit Red Wings: 3.5 expected, 4 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 2.7 expected, 1 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndDET goal, 8:50 of 1st, a 1% chanceDET goal, 13:38 of 1st, a 11% chanceDET goal, 14:41 of 1st, a 8% chanceDET goal, 18:43 of 3rd, a 50% chanceBUF goal, 13:47 of 3rd, a 10% chanceDET 3.5BUF 2.7

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

Detroit Red Wings
Buffalo Sabres

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.

Detroit Red Wings

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Daniel Cleary · Darren Helm · Chris Conner10:1634.828.30-0
Todd Bertuzzi · Pavel Datsyuk · Johan Franzen10:1152.238.60-0
Henrik Zetterberg · Valtteri Filppula · Jiri Hudler8:4166.763.61-1
Tomas Holmstrom · Drew Miller · Justin Abdelkader5:2466.791.31-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Nicklas Lidstrom · Ian White13:1752.251.51-1
Niklas Kronwall · Jonathan Ericsson10:5443.532.30-0
Brad Stuart · Jakub Kindl9:5566.768.41-0

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
13 Pavel Datsyuk C 1 1 2 1 0 3 0 18:00 0.05 13-13 0.41-0.89
46 Jakub Kindl D 1 0 1 1 2 1 1 14:23 0.01 13-13 0.45-0.67
51 Valtteri Filppula C 1 0 1 0 2 3 0 18:15 0.40 11-8 0.61-0.37
93 Johan Franzen R 1 0 1 0 0 5 0 16:08 0.46 13-13 0.41-0.95
5 Nicklas Lidstrom D 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 23:29 0.03 14-13 0.60-0.50
8 Justin Abdelkader L 0 1 1 1 2 1 0 07:05 0.07 9-5 0.44-0.21
40 Henrik Zetterberg C 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 19:40 0.37 12-7 0.59-0.38
96 Tomas Holmstrom L 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 11:02 0.56 8-3 0.30-0.03
11 Daniel Cleary R 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 15:05 0.08 8-17 0.22-0.72
17 Brad Stuart D 0 0 0 2 0 1 2 19:02 0.02 16-10 0.48-0.55
18 Ian White D 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 20:17 0.19 15-13 0.73-0.61
20 Drew Miller L 0 0 0 1 0 3 1 11:31 0.11 10-6 0.34-0.16
22 Jiri Hudler R 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 13:57 0.09 10-5 0.36-0.24
23 Chris Conner R 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 13:39 0.13 9-16 0.25-0.56
43 Darren Helm C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15:17 0.05 9-18 0.27-0.74
44 Todd Bertuzzi R 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 15:42 0.12 13-11 0.49-0.63
52 Jonathan Ericsson D 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 19:03 0.06 15-18 0.56-0.85
55 Niklas Kronwall D 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 20:28 0.19 12-16 0.39-1.14
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Jimmy Howard W 28 27 1 60:00 2.71 +1.71

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Ville Leino · Luke Adam · Zack Kassian7:5530.853.20-1
Jochen Hecht · Jason Pominville · Thomas Vanek7:4450.039.40-1
Derek Roy · Drew Stafford · Tyler Ennis6:2154.567.70-0
Paul Gaustad · Patrick Kaleta · Nathan Gerbe5:0850.050.50-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Christian Ehrhoff · Marc-Andre Gragnani15:1450.059.51-1
Robyn Regehr · Andrej Sekera8:4350.062.10-0
Joe Finley · Brayden McNabb5:3137.511.30-0

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
55 Jochen Hecht C 1 0 1 -1 0 1 0 15:06 0.10 14-13 0.59-0.42
23 Ville Leino L 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 15:49 13-12 0.89-0.42
29 Jason Pominville R 0 1 1 -1 2 3 1 19:14 0.30 12-11 0.48-0.44
3 Brayden McNabb D 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 18:10 0.01 14-17 0.43-0.67
5 Andrej Sekera D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 21:39 0.06 15-17 0.75-0.61
8 Derek Roy C 0 0 0 0 4 2 0 14:39 0.43 9-11 0.51-0.45
18 Drew Stafford R 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 17:43 0.33 11-14 0.44-0.50
24 Nathan Gerbe C 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 09:32 0.18 7-6 0.40-0.33
25 Luke Adam C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 13:10 0.46 10-12 0.65-0.42
26 Thomas Vanek L 0 0 0 -2 2 4 0 19:59 0.32 17-17 0.60-0.65
28 Paul Gaustad C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 16:16 0.18 9-7 0.38-0.32
36 Patrick Kaleta R 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 07:38 4-5 0.23-0.25
38 Marc-Andre Gragnani D 0 0 0 -1 2 0 0 21:26 0.04 12-11 0.75-0.44
44 Robyn Regehr D 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 18:40 0.03 16-16 1.05-0.54
44 Zack Kassian R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 13:20 0.04 9-11 0.53-0.33
52 Joe Finley D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 07:51 0.01 6-6 0.12-0.11
55 Christian Ehrhoff D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 28:39 0.08 19-16 0.99-0.75
63 Tyler Ennis R 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 13:03 0.16 8-8 0.41-0.25
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
31 Jhonas Enroth L 35 32 3 59:40 2.97 -0.03