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Buffalo Sabres at Tampa Bay Lightning

Mar 19, 2012 · Tampa Bay Times Forum

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 7 38
Tampa Bay Lightning 3 27

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
11:31 BUF Drew Stafford (1) Christian Ehrhoff (1) 1 - 0
15:50 BUF Jason Pominville (1) PP Cody Hodgson (1), Thomas Vanek (1) 2 - 0
2nd Period
01:09 BUF Marcus Foligno (1) Tyler Ennis (1), Drew Stafford (1) 3 - 0
07:12 TBL Bruno Gervais (1) Teddy Purcell (1) 3 - 1
08:16 BUF Corey Tropp (1) Thomas Vanek (2), Cody Hodgson (2) 4 - 1
14:14 TBL Trevor Smith (1) Ryan Malone (1), Bruno Gervais (1) 4 - 2
16:22 BUF Marcus Foligno (2) PP Drew Stafford (2), Tyler Ennis (2) 5 - 2
17:00 BUF Brad Boyes (1) Cody McCormick (1), Alexander Sulzer (1) 6 - 2
3rd Period
00:17 BUF Jason Pominville (2) Unassisted 7 - 2
14:57 TBL Ryan Malone (1) Eric Brewer (1) 7 - 3

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
15:10 TBL Victor Hedman Holding 2
2nd Period
10:12 TBL Steven Stamkos High sticking 2
15:49 TBL Brett Connolly Tripping 2
17:11 BUF Robyn Regehr Hooking 2
3rd Period
04:22 TBL Brandon Segal High sticking 2
06:10 BUF Andrej Sekera Interference 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 73 52 38 7 3.7 60.6
Tampa Bay Lightning 45 35 27 3 2.2 39.4

How the game went

3020100Start2nd3rdTampa Bay Lightning 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 Tampa Bay Lightning had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 3.7 expected, 7 scored · Tampa Bay Lightning: 2.2 expected, 3 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 11:31 of 1st, a 9% chanceBUF goal, 15:50 of 1st, a 9% chanceBUF goal, 1:09 of 2nd, a 14% chanceBUF goal, 8:16 of 2nd, a 15% chanceBUF goal, 16:22 of 2nd, a 29% chanceBUF goal, 17:00 of 2nd, a 29% chanceBUF goal, 0:17 of 3rd, a 9% chanceTBL goal, 7:12 of 2nd, a 8% chanceTBL goal, 14:14 of 2nd, a 11% chanceTBL goal, 14:57 of 3rd, a 2% chanceBUF 3.7TBL 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

Buffalo Sabres
Tampa Bay Lightning

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
Drew Stafford · Tyler Ennis · Marcus Foligno12:5464.564.82-0
Derek Roy · Jason Pominville · Ville Leino12:0952.255.11-1
Thomas Vanek · Corey Tropp · Cody Hodgson11:0562.559.51-1
Brad Boyes · Cody McCormick · Patrick Kaleta8:0873.364.01-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Christian Ehrhoff · Alexander Sulzer13:3062.254.73-2
Jordan Leopold · Andrej Sekera9:0070.868.11-0
Robyn Regehr · Andrej Sekera8:3171.476.00-0

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
18 Drew Stafford R 1 2 3 1 0 5 1 17:30 0.38 21-13 0.87-0.61
17 Marcus Foligno L 2 0 2 1 0 2 1 17:07 0.45 21-14 0.87-0.63
29 Jason Pominville R 2 0 2 0 0 6 0 17:14 0.42 12-11 0.41-0.33
11 Cody Hodgson C 0 2 2 0 0 2 0 16:08 0.15 13-9 0.43-0.31
26 Thomas Vanek L 0 2 2 0 0 1 0 15:25 0.13 10-9 0.30-0.31
63 Tyler Ennis R 0 2 2 2 0 5 0 16:16 0.43 20-12 0.87-0.53
28 Brad Boyes R 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 10:57 0.34 11-4 0.52-0.29
41 Corey Tropp R 1 0 1 0 0 4 2 13:54 0.64 13-7 0.43-0.27
8 Cody McCormick C 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 09:58 0.24 11-5 0.52-0.31
52 Alexander Sulzer D 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 18:31 0.05 25-19 1.00-0.93
55 Christian Ehrhoff D 0 1 1 1 0 1 3 22:18 0.06 28-19 1.05-0.99
5 Andrej Sekera D 0 0 0 1 2 5 2 21:42 0.14 24-9 0.81-0.35
6 Mike Weber D 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 17:28 9-9 0.44-0.27
8 Derek Roy C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 17:31 0.14 13-12 0.41-0.41
23 Ville Leino L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15:19 12-11 0.41-0.33
33 Jordan Leopold D 0 0 0 1 0 3 3 20:27 0.10 20-13 0.87-0.42
36 Patrick Kaleta R 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 11:21 14-4 0.64-0.29
44 Robyn Regehr D 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 17:31 8-5 0.28-0.14
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
30 Ryan Miller W 27 24 3 59:23 2.16 -0.84

Tampa Bay Lightning

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Martin St. Louis · Ryan Malone · Trevor Smith10:1850.043.52-3
Teddy Purcell · Steven Stamkos · Brett Connolly7:1033.321.21-1
Martin St. Louis · Teddy Purcell · Steven Stamkos5:1937.568.00-0
Ryan Malone · Tom Pyatt · Brett Connolly4:5420.039.10-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Eric Brewer · Victor Hedman15:2746.458.01-1
Brett Clark · Brian Lee7:5350.043.30-1
Brian Lee · Keith Aulie4:0228.610.90-0

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
24 Ryan Malone L 1 1 2 -2 0 7 2 23:01 0.37 16-25 0.72-1.05
27 Bruno Gervais D 1 1 2 0 0 1 0 12:10 0.08 7-17 0.30-0.89
23 Trevor Smith C 1 0 1 -1 0 3 0 18:00 0.38 14-17 0.66-0.80
2 Eric Brewer D 0 1 1 1 0 1 5 23:06 0.04 18-19 0.62-0.50
9 Teddy Purcell L 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 18:55 0.25 9-13 0.27-0.46
5 Brett Clark D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 3 19:09 8-11 0.51-0.51
10 Tom Pyatt L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 16:57 0.10 6-20 0.21-0.63
15 Brian Lee D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 15:35 9-14 0.29-0.79
20 Brett Connolly R 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 16:48 0.02 13-18 0.61-0.55
22 Keith Aulie D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 3 13:43 7-19 0.33-0.71
26 Martin St. Louis R 0 0 0 -2 0 3 0 21:46 0.22 18-22 0.77-0.93
29 Brendan Mikkelson D 0 0 0 -2 0 2 0 11:00 0.03 9-17 0.48-0.67
29 Tim Wallace R 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 10:28 0.16 4-11 0.14-0.44
34 JT Wyman R 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 12:12 0.06 5-7 0.15-0.23
42 Brandon Segal R 0 0 0 0 2 1 4 09:20 0.07 9-9 0.44-0.34
76 Pierre-Cedric Labrie L 0 0 0 0 0 3 5 09:31 0.30 9-12 0.44-0.48
77 Victor Hedman D 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 21:53 0.03 16-17 0.57-0.38
91 Steven Stamkos C 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 21:13 0.09 8-17 0.26-0.75
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
30 Dwayne Roloson 23 20 3 31:44 2.21 -0.79
34 Dustin Tokarski L 15 11 4 28:16 1.43 -2.57