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Buffalo Sabres at New Jersey Devils

Jan 24, 2012 · Prudential Center

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 2 14
New Jersey Devils 1 28

Decided in a shootout.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
16:34 BUF Jordan Leopold (1) Nathan Gerbe (1), Matt Ellis (1) 1 - 0
2nd Period
10:22 NJD Patrik Elias (1) PP Zach Parise (1), Kurtis Foster (1) 1 - 1
Shootout
BUF Nathan Gerbe Shootout winner 3 - 1

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
01:47 NJD Alexei Ponikarovsky Tripping 2
2nd Period
06:37 BUF Derek Roy Tripping 2
09:07 BUF Derek Roy Boarding 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 27 21 14 1 1.1 34.4
New Jersey Devils 53 42 28 1 3.0 65.6

How the game went

0510152025Start2nd3rdOTNew Jersey Devils 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 New Jersey Devils had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 1.1 expected, 1 scored · New Jersey Devils: 3.0 expected, 1 scored

0123Start2nd3rdOTBUF goal, 16:34 of 1st, a 26% chanceNJD goal, 10:22 of 2nd, a 25% chanceNJD 3.0BUF 1.1

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
New Jersey Devils

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 · Drew Stafford · Ville Leino13:5945.033.10-0
Derek Roy · Jason Pominville · Thomas Vanek13:4628.645.80-0
Matt Ellis · Patrick Kaleta · Nathan Gerbe11:4844.427.00-0
Derek Roy · Drew Stafford · Ville Leino1:200.00.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Andrej Sekera · Tyler Myers16:4344.043.50-0
Jordan Leopold · Christian Ehrhoff16:2135.740.61-0
Robyn Regehr · Mike Weber13:0826.719.40-0

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
33 Jordan Leopold D 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 23:09 0.28 5-12 0.40-0.73
24 Nathan Gerbe C 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 16:37 0.07 7-6 0.43-0.37
37 Matt Ellis L 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 16:35 0.02 6-9 0.39-0.46
5 Andrej Sekera D 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 22:25 0.06 11-16 0.34-0.47
6 Mike Weber D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 17:53 0.02 5-12 0.20-0.67
8 Derek Roy C 0 0 0 0 4 0 2 23:30 7-18 0.32-0.90
8 Cody McCormick C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 04:55 0-6 0.00-0.29
18 Drew Stafford R 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 21:06 0.16 11-17 0.49-0.86
23 Ville Leino L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 19:33 0.10 10-15 0.23-0.81
25 Luke Adam C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 04:39 0-5 0.00-0.18
26 Thomas Vanek L 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 18:51 0.09 4-13 0.21-0.51
28 Brad Boyes R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16:11 9-12 0.23-0.50
29 Jason Pominville R 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 21:57 0.09 7-10 0.32-0.25
36 Patrick Kaleta R 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 17:38 0.06 4-9 0.13-0.61
38 Marc-Andre Gragnani D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 06:03 0.06 1-6 0.06-0.29
44 Robyn Regehr D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 18:10 6-14 0.20-0.81
55 Christian Ehrhoff D 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 24:27 5-13 0.40-0.78
57 Tyler Myers D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 23:06 0.10 12-17 0.34-0.56
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
30 Ryan Miller 28 27 1 65:00 2.99 +1.99

New Jersey Devils

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Dainius Zubrus · Ilya Kovalchuk · Zach Parise8:5060.070.10-0
Petr Sykora · Patrik Elias · Dainius Zubrus7:1540.019.00-0
Alexei Ponikarovsky · Ryan Carter · Adam Henrique6:5766.790.50-0
Petr Sykora · Patrik Elias · David Clarkson6:4083.387.10-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Bryce Salvador · Adam Larsson13:0360.062.70-0
Mark Fayne · Matt Taormina9:1960.075.20-0
Bryce Salvador · Mark Fayne8:1450.053.30-0

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
26 Patrik Elias C 1 0 1 0 0 3 1 22:25 0.38 8-5 0.21-0.15
3 Kurtis Foster D 0 1 1 -1 0 3 0 12:40 0.18 10-2 0.57-0.32
9 Zach Parise L 0 1 1 -1 0 3 0 25:03 0.26 15-10 0.64-0.57
5 Mark Fayne D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 19:39 0.03 11-8 0.40-0.21
6 Adam Larsson D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 26:15 0.02 17-9 0.73-0.34
9 Dainius Zubrus C 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 20:42 0.03 12-7 0.48-0.28
10 Peter Harrold D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 08:01 0.01 7-2 0.39-0.08
10 Jacob Josefson C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 08:07 0.13 7-3 0.24-0.09
12 Alexei Ponikarovsky L 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 14:37 0.19 10-7 0.67-0.25
15 Petr Sykora R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17:33 12-5 0.43-0.15
17 Ilya Kovalchuk L 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 29:15 0.53 20-10 0.90-0.48
18 Ryan Carter L 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 11:28 0.17 10-4 0.85-0.13
19 Adam Henrique C 0 0 0 -1 0 4 0 18:56 0.55 15-9 0.90-0.48
20 Anton Volchenkov D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 14:03 0.02 12-3 0.79-0.34
20 Matt Taormina D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 19:50 0.02 13-9 0.44-0.18
23 David Clarkson R 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 18:19 0.32 11-4 0.43-0.11
24 Bryce Salvador D 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 27:05 0.02 14-12 0.72-0.46
36 Eric Boulton L 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 04:18 0.14 6-1 0.27-0.06
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
30 Martin Brodeur 14 13 1 64:44 1.10 +0.10