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Pittsburgh Penguins at Buffalo Sabres

Feb 19, 2012 · First Niagara Center

Team Goals Shots
Pittsburgh Penguins 2 26
Buffalo Sabres 6 24

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
00:52 BUF Jason Pominville (1) Tyler Myers (1), Derek Roy (1) 0 - 1
04:16 BUF Derek Roy (1) Jason Pominville (1), Christian Ehrhoff (1) 0 - 2
2nd Period
02:52 BUF Paul Gaustad (1) Nathan Gerbe (1), Jordan Leopold (1) 0 - 3
03:39 PIT Deryk Engelland (1) Evgeni Malkin (1) 1 - 3
3rd Period
05:05 PIT Jordan Staal (1) PP James Neal (1), Steve Sullivan (1) 2 - 3
06:10 BUF Drew Stafford (1) Christian Ehrhoff (2), Thomas Vanek (1) 2 - 4
08:32 BUF Derek Roy (2) SH Jason Pominville (2), Christian Ehrhoff (3) 2 - 5
16:43 BUF Tyler Ennis (1) Zack Kassian (1), Ville Leino (1) 2 - 6

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
06:09 PIT Matt Niskanen High sticking 2
12:52 BUF Ville Leino High sticking 2
17:39 BUF Derek Roy Tripping 2
2nd Period
00:38 PIT Pascal Dupuis High sticking 2
11:46 PIT Matt Cooke Tripping 2
17:36 PIT Chris Kunitz Broken stick 2
3rd Period
03:33 BUF Robyn Regehr Cross checking 2
03:33 PIT Chris Kunitz Roughing 2
03:33 BUF Nathan Gerbe Roughing 2
06:39 BUF Jordan Leopold Holding 2
14:35 PIT James Neal Charging 2
16:03 PIT Matt Cooke Roughing 2
16:03 BUF Drew Stafford Roughing 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Pittsburgh Penguins 43 38 26 2 2.2 38.5
Buffalo Sabres 57 39 24 6 2.3 61.5

How the game went

051015Start2nd3rdBuffalo Sabres aheadPittsburgh Penguins 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 Pittsburgh Penguins had.

Expected goals

Pittsburgh Penguins: 2.2 expected, 2 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 2.3 expected, 6 scored

00.511.52Start2nd3rdEndPIT goal, 3:39 of 2nd, a 2% chancePIT goal, 5:05 of 3rd, a 9% chanceBUF goal, 0:52 of 1st, a 21% chanceBUF goal, 4:16 of 1st, a 5% chanceBUF goal, 2:52 of 2nd, a 25% chanceBUF goal, 6:10 of 3rd, a 6% chanceBUF goal, 8:32 of 3rd, a 14% chanceBUF goal, 16:43 of 3rd, a 10% chanceBUF 2.3PIT 2.2

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

Pittsburgh Penguins
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.

Pittsburgh Penguins

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Chris Kunitz · Evgeni Malkin · James Neal10:0125.032.91-0
Arron Asham · Matt Cooke · Dustin Jeffrey5:0533.310.70-1
Steve Sullivan · Pascal Dupuis · Jordan Staal4:2910.019.40-1
Richard Park · Craig Adams · Joe Vitale3:5325.071.50-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Paul Martin · Deryk Engelland14:2745.549.30-1
Brooks Orpik · Kris Letang7:2522.220.50-1
Zbynek Michalek · Matt Niskanen6:3527.349.00-0

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
5 Deryk Engelland D 1 0 1 0 0 1 3 17:52 0.03 14-16 0.65-0.65
11 Jordan Staal C 1 0 1 -2 0 4 2 17:52 0.39 9-13 0.42-0.48
15 Steve Sullivan L 0 1 1 -1 0 2 0 16:12 0.04 6-15 0.19-0.37
71 Evgeni Malkin C 0 1 1 0 0 5 1 20:24 0.41 6-10 0.23-0.40
81 James Neal L 0 1 1 0 2 3 5 20:10 0.26 7-13 0.23-0.55
4 Zbynek Michalek D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 19:09 5-11 0.31-0.23
7 Paul Martin D 0 0 0 -4 0 1 0 24:22 0.06 13-18 0.54-1.02
9 Pascal Dupuis R 0 0 0 -3 2 1 0 15:07 0.40 11-17 0.60-0.73
12 Richard Park R 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 08:37 0.03 6-4 0.46-0.05
14 Chris Kunitz L 0 0 0 -1 4 0 4 16:52 6-13 0.25-0.67
14 Joe Vitale C 0 0 0 -2 0 2 1 11:26 0.22 6-12 0.35-0.43
15 Matt Niskanen D 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 14:09 10-10 0.39-0.23
24 Matt Cooke L 0 0 0 -1 4 1 0 13:55 0.07 3-5 0.07-0.43
27 Craig Adams R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 11:49 3-5 0.12-0.16
37 Dustin Jeffrey L 0 0 0 -3 0 2 1 12:24 0.15 4-7 0.16-0.63
44 Brooks Orpik D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 1 20:02 5-14 0.24-0.57
45 Arron Asham R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 10:46 0.07 7-6 0.33-0.46
58 Kris Letang D 0 0 0 -4 0 2 0 18:52 0.06 4-11 0.19-0.89
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
29 Marc-Andre Fleury 12 9 3 37:08 1.26 -1.74
1 Brent Johnson L 12 9 3 22:52 1.05 -1.95

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Paul Gaustad · Patrick Kaleta · Nathan Gerbe13:3262.576.01-1
Drew Stafford · Ville Leino · Tyler Ennis8:1714.318.20-0
Derek Roy · Jason Pominville · Thomas Vanek8:1184.278.22-0
Brad Boyes · Matt Ellis · Zack Kassian7:3966.739.20-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Robyn Regehr · Andrej Sekera13:4455.652.20-1
Christian Ehrhoff · Mike Weber13:0660.037.31-0
Jordan Leopold · Tyler Myers12:4456.554.21-0

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
8 Derek Roy C 2 1 3 4 2 4 0 17:16 0.31 19-3 0.77-0.16
29 Jason Pominville R 1 2 3 3 0 4 0 18:57 0.52 17-4 0.61-0.16
55 Christian Ehrhoff D 0 3 3 3 0 1 1 19:47 0.06 13-7 0.48-0.29
18 Drew Stafford R 1 0 1 1 2 3 2 13:48 0.24 4-10 0.24-0.47
28 Paul Gaustad C 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 18:14 0.31 10-6 0.69-0.22
63 Tyler Ennis R 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 14:03 0.13 2-9 0.18-0.47
23 Ville Leino L 0 1 1 1 2 0 1 10:54 0.03 3-7 0.18-0.34
24 Nathan Gerbe C 0 1 1 0 2 2 0 15:14 0.27 11-6 0.72-0.22
26 Thomas Vanek L 0 1 1 3 0 1 0 14:54 0.15 18-5 0.73-0.21
33 Jordan Leopold D 0 1 1 2 2 0 0 22:41 15-10 0.93-0.53
44 Zack Kassian R 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 11:35 0.07 9-6 0.26-0.31
57 Tyler Myers D 0 1 1 4 0 0 1 22:34 17-11 0.90-0.55
5 Andrej Sekera D 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 15:21 0.01 14-8 0.73-0.33
6 Mike Weber D 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 16:42 0.02 10-6 0.17-0.27
28 Brad Boyes R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15:15 9-7 0.15-0.29
36 Patrick Kaleta R 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 18:47 0.13 10-6 0.69-0.22
37 Matt Ellis L 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 09:17 0.07 8-6 0.15-0.35
44 Robyn Regehr D 0 0 0 -1 2 0 3 17:16 11-8 0.37-0.33
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
30 Ryan Miller W 26 24 2 59:53 2.18 +0.18