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Buffalo Sabres at Toronto Maple Leafs

Mar 31, 2012 · Air Canada Centre

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 3 32
Toronto Maple Leafs 4 29

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
09:32 TOR Joey Crabb (1) SH Unassisted 0 - 1
2nd Period
10:59 BUF Tyler Ennis (1) Drew Stafford (1), Jordan Leopold (1) 1 - 1
15:17 TOR Phil Kessel (1) PP Tyler Bozak (1), Jake Gardiner (1) 1 - 2
19:59 TOR John-Michael Liles (1) Clarke MacArthur (1), Joey Crabb (1) 1 - 3
3rd Period
06:48 BUF Ville Leino (1) Jason Pominville (1), Alexander Sulzer (1) 2 - 3
10:20 TOR Matt Frattin (1) Clarke MacArthur (2), John-Michael Liles (1) 2 - 4
17:15 BUF Drew Stafford (1) Marcus Foligno (1), Tyler Ennis (1) 3 - 4

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
09:14 TOR Carter Ashton Hooking 2
13:23 TOR Mike Brown Hooking 2
2nd Period
07:02 TOR Jay Rosehill Tripping 2
14:22 BUF Jordan Leopold Hooking 2
3rd Period
07:26 BUF Thomas Vanek Holding 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 76 55 32 3 3.4 56.5
Toronto Maple Leafs 57 42 29 4 3.3 43.5

How the game went

20151050Start2nd3rdToronto Maple Leafs 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 Toronto Maple Leafs had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 3.4 expected, 3 scored · Toronto Maple Leafs: 3.3 expected, 4 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 10:59 of 2nd, a 5% chanceBUF goal, 6:48 of 3rd, a 8% chanceBUF goal, 17:15 of 3rd, a 24% chanceTOR goal, 9:32 of 1st, a 11% chanceTOR goal, 15:17 of 2nd, a 12% chanceTOR goal, 19:59 of 2nd, a 46% chanceTOR goal, 10:20 of 3rd, a 10% chanceBUF 3.4TOR 3.3

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
Toronto Maple Leafs

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 Foligno13:0763.959.82-1
Derek Roy · Jason Pominville · Ville Leino12:1160.968.21-0
Thomas Vanek · Corey Tropp · Cody Hodgson9:5955.021.20-1
Brad Boyes · Cody McCormick · Patrick Kaleta4:1085.781.90-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Alexander Sulzer · Andrej Sekera15:2850.034.10-0
Robyn Regehr · Jordan Leopold11:0255.657.41-0
Jordan Leopold · Brayden McNabb6:1963.625.20-1

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
18 Drew Stafford R 1 1 2 1 0 2 0 20:23 0.31 24-16 0.93-0.79
63 Tyler Ennis R 1 1 2 1 0 5 2 18:23 0.23 23-13 0.93-0.63
23 Ville Leino L 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 14:12 0.24 14-12 0.50-0.43
17 Marcus Foligno L 0 1 1 1 0 1 3 17:37 0.17 24-16 0.93-0.88
29 Jason Pominville R 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 20:23 0.17 17-11 0.60-0.31
33 Jordan Leopold D 0 1 1 1 2 3 4 25:16 0.10 28-20 1.00-1.15
52 Alexander Sulzer D 0 1 1 0 0 4 1 22:40 0.37 19-16 0.55-0.83
3 Brayden McNabb D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 4 14:32 0.03 19-10 0.67-0.76
5 Andrej Sekera D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 23:28 0.03 14-17 0.37-0.97
8 Derek Roy C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 21:49 0.27 18-14 0.64-0.49
8 Cody McCormick C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 04:49 0.01 6-1 0.09-0.02
11 Cody Hodgson C 0 0 0 -2 0 5 0 19:52 0.83 14-18 0.37-1.41
26 Thomas Vanek L 0 0 0 -2 2 0 0 16:44 0.14 14-16 0.41-1.39
28 Brad Boyes R 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 11:06 0.14 11-8 0.26-0.29
29 TJ Brennan D 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 11:56 0.22 21-13 0.82-0.83
36 Patrick Kaleta R 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 05:12 0.07 6-1 0.09-0.02
41 Corey Tropp R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 12:29 0.05 12-15 0.33-1.34
44 Robyn Regehr D 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 17:15 0.02 21-18 0.63-0.78
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
30 Ryan Miller L 29 25 4 58:59 3.26 -0.74

Toronto Maple Leafs

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Phil Kessel · Matt Frattin · Tyler Bozak12:1033.339.70-0
Joey Crabb · Clarke MacArthur · Mikhail Grabovski11:2661.574.71-0
Tim Connolly · Mike Brown · Carter Ashton8:4732.029.00-3
Matthew Lombardi · Colby Armstrong · Jay Rosehill3:1542.913.30-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Dion Phaneuf · Carl Gunnarsson17:0755.971.00-1
John-Michael Liles · Mike Komisarek15:3340.065.42-0
Luke Schenn · Jake Gardiner12:3228.023.20-2

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
10 Joey Crabb R 1 1 2 2 0 2 1 19:42 0.21 22-15 1.41-0.43
26 John-Michael Liles D 1 1 2 2 0 3 0 18:58 0.56 19-25 1.26-0.59
16 Clarke MacArthur L 0 2 2 2 0 6 0 20:01 0.62 24-17 1.61-0.51
8 Phil Kessel R 1 0 1 0 0 3 0 19:56 0.29 10-21 0.46-0.62
39 Matt Frattin R 1 0 1 1 0 2 2 15:48 0.19 10-20 0.53-0.56
21 Tyler Bozak C 0 1 1 1 0 1 9 19:59 0.10 12-20 0.59-0.63
51 Jake Gardiner D 0 1 1 -2 0 2 1 18:06 0.04 9-18 0.40-0.93
2 Luke Schenn D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 4 15:14 0.01 7-18 0.28-0.93
3 Dion Phaneuf D 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 26:11 0.18 21-22 1.12-0.53
4 Carl Gunnarsson D 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 23:20 22-15 1.18-0.45
5 Mike Komisarek D 0 0 0 2 0 1 4 18:11 0.03 16-24 1.08-0.61
12 Tim Connolly C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 1 15:52 0.19 12-20 0.68-0.85
13 Mike Brown R 0 0 0 -3 2 1 3 12:53 0.41 10-18 0.58-0.80
19 Matthew Lombardi C 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 12:49 0.27 9-7 0.66-0.17
20 Colby Armstrong R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 04:27 3-4 0.02-0.12
37 Jay Rosehill L 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 04:50 3-4 0.02-0.12
37 Carter Ashton R 0 0 0 -3 2 2 2 12:02 0.10 10-21 0.42-0.85
84 Mikhail Grabovski C 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 15:41 0.10 16-16 1.03-0.43
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
40 Ben Scrivens W 32 29 3 60:00 3.38 +0.38