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Colorado Avalanche at Buffalo Sabres

Mar 14, 2012 · First Niagara Center

Team Goals Shots
Colorado Avalanche 5 42
Buffalo Sabres 4 24

Decided in a shootout.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
01:39 BUF Marcus Foligno (1) Tyler Ennis (1), Drew Stafford (1) 0 - 1
08:55 COL Jamie McGinn (1) Paul Stastny (1) 1 - 1
14:42 BUF Drew Stafford (1) SH Unassisted 1 - 2
19:08 COL David Jones (1) Shane O'Brien (1), Ryan Wilson (1) 2 - 2
2nd Period
05:35 COL Gabriel Landeskog (1) PP Peter Mueller (1), Paul Stastny (2) 3 - 2
11:01 BUF Marcus Foligno (2) Drew Stafford (2), Tyler Ennis (2) 3 - 3
3rd Period
01:55 BUF Alexander Sulzer (1) Brad Boyes (1), Tyler Ennis (3) 3 - 4
19:58 COL Jamie McGinn (2) Ryan O'Reilly (1), Gabriel Landeskog (1) 4 - 4
Shootout
COL Peter Mueller Shootout winner 6 - 4

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
13:50 BUF Alexander Sulzer Tripping 2
2nd Period
03:45 BUF Cody Hodgson Tripping 2
06:49 COL Shane O'Brien Kneeing 2
15:36 BUF Patrick Kaleta Roughing 2
19:18 BUF Robyn Regehr Roughing 2
19:18 COL Steve Downie Roughing 2
19:18 COL Gabriel Landeskog Roughing 2
3rd Period
14:50 BUF Patrick Kaleta Tripping 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Colorado Avalanche 67 51 42 4 2.5 49.5
Buffalo Sabres 60 40 24 4 2.4 50.5

How the game went

10505Start2nd3rdOTBuffalo Sabres aheadColorado Avalanche 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 Colorado Avalanche had.

Expected goals

Colorado Avalanche: 2.5 expected, 4 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 2.4 expected, 4 scored

012Start2nd3rdOTCOL goal, 8:55 of 1st, a 3% chanceCOL goal, 19:08 of 1st, a 22% chanceCOL goal, 5:35 of 2nd, a 21% chanceCOL goal, 19:58 of 3rd, a 30% chanceBUF goal, 1:39 of 1st, a 12% chanceBUF goal, 14:42 of 1st, a 11% chanceBUF goal, 11:01 of 2nd, a 7% chanceBUF goal, 1:55 of 3rd, a 3% chanceCOL 2.5BUF 2.4

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

Colorado Avalanche
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.

Colorado Avalanche

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Steve Downie · Ryan O'Reilly · Gabriel Landeskog12:4154.254.80-0
David Jones · Paul Stastny · Jamie McGinn9:4256.063.92-2
Milan Hejduk · Peter Mueller · Mark Olver8:0450.017.30-0
Jay McClement · Kevin Porter · Cody McLeod7:3836.416.50-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Shane O'Brien · Ryan Wilson15:1274.364.11-1
Ryan O'Byrne · Jan Hejda13:4345.548.70-0
Matt Hunwick · Erik Johnson11:1739.327.31-1

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
88 Jamie McGinn L 2 0 2 1 0 2 2 18:05 0.40 16-13 0.53-0.30
92 Gabriel Landeskog L 1 1 2 -1 2 5 8 21:19 0.51 13-16 0.80-0.86
26 Paul Stastny C 0 2 2 0 0 1 0 20:01 0.11 17-14 0.54-0.37
12 David Jones R 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 18:24 0.26 14-12 0.45-0.27
44 Ryan Wilson D 0 1 1 0 0 4 1 21:28 0.07 26-11 1.03-0.59
74 Shane O'Brien D 0 1 1 -1 2 4 1 19:17 0.06 27-12 1.05-0.65
88 Peter Mueller C 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 14:57 0.08 11-12 0.12-0.70
90 Ryan O'Reilly C 0 1 1 0 0 5 1 25:13 0.33 17-16 0.85-0.85
6 Erik Johnson D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 4 19:05 0.07 11-18 0.15-0.52
8 Jan Hejda D 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 19:39 0.06 11-16 0.36-0.85
11 Kevin Porter C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 09:36 0.01 6-8 0.04-0.18
17 Steve Downie R 0 0 0 0 2 5 2 21:34 0.37 16-12 0.89-0.69
18 Jay McClement C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 12:26 0.01 5-11 0.04-0.20
23 Milan Hejduk R 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 14:50 0.13 11-12 0.12-0.61
23 Ryan O'Byrne D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 19:34 10-15 0.34-0.37
40 Mark Olver C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 10:31 0.04 12-14 0.15-0.62
48 Matt Hunwick D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 22:04 11-26 0.15-0.89
55 Cody McLeod L 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 09:30 6-7 0.08-0.16
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
40 Semyon Varlamov 24 20 4 63:27 2.35 -1.65

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Derek Roy · Jason Pominville · Thomas Vanek12:1043.551.40-0
Drew Stafford · Tyler Ennis · Marcus Foligno10:1042.945.02-0
Patrick Kaleta · Ville Leino · Cody Hodgson10:0968.452.40-1
Brad Boyes · Cody McCormick · Corey Tropp5:4257.170.80-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Robyn Regehr · Jordan Leopold15:5246.234.71-0
Christian Ehrhoff · Alexander Sulzer14:2066.775.70-1
Mike Weber · Brayden McNabb11:4436.442.21-1

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
18 Drew Stafford R 1 2 3 3 0 1 0 19:13 0.11 10-15 0.40-0.37
63 Tyler Ennis R 0 3 3 3 0 0 0 15:05 0.05 11-12 0.37-0.36
17 Marcus Foligno L 2 0 2 3 0 3 3 14:41 0.20 12-13 0.39-0.36
52 Alexander Sulzer D 1 0 1 0 2 4 1 18:12 0.11 26-15 1.27-0.58
28 Brad Boyes R 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 10:32 0.06 15-14 0.75-0.41
3 Brayden McNabb D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13:17 8-14 0.33-0.46
6 Mike Weber D 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 19:01 0.03 9-17 0.33-0.52
8 Derek Roy C 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 23:39 0.31 13-15 0.71-0.63
8 Cody McCormick C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 06:51 0.11 12-10 0.66-0.29
11 Cody Hodgson C 0 0 0 -2 2 1 0 16:32 0.03 13-10 0.20-0.25
23 Ville Leino L 0 0 0 -2 0 1 1 15:46 0.12 13-9 0.20-0.22
26 Thomas Vanek L 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 17:25 0.50 11-14 0.68-0.59
29 Jason Pominville R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 23:03 0.11 11-14 0.59-0.54
33 Jordan Leopold D 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 25:58 0.01 16-16 0.41-0.44
36 Patrick Kaleta R 0 0 0 0 4 0 4 15:04 0.02 14-7 0.21-0.23
41 Corey Tropp R 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 07:24 0.52 12-11 0.66-0.37
44 Robyn Regehr D 0 0 0 1 2 1 4 22:52 0.01 12-18 0.23-0.64
55 Christian Ehrhoff D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 27:35 0.05 27-16 1.29-0.44
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
30 Ryan Miller 42 38 4 65:00 2.50 -1.50