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San Jose Sharks at Buffalo Sabres

Feb 28, 2014 · First Niagara Center

Team Goals Shots
San Jose Sharks 2 38
Buffalo Sabres 4 20

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
10:59 BUF Cody Hodgson (1) PP Tyler Myers (1), Christian Ehrhoff (1) 0 - 1
2nd Period
09:38 SJS James Sheppard (1) Marc-Edouard Vlasic (1), Dan Boyle (1) 1 - 1
3rd Period
04:33 BUF Brian Flynn (1) Zemgus Girgensons (1) 1 - 2
07:39 BUF Matt Moulson (1) Tyler Myers (2), Mike Weber (1) 1 - 3
18:45 SJS Patrick Marleau (1) Joe Thornton (1), Dan Boyle (2) 2 - 3
19:39 BUF Tyler Myers (1) Matt D'Agostini (1) 2 - 4

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
09:20 SJS Tyler Kennedy Holding 2
15:36 BUF Marcus Foligno Tripping 2
2nd Period
15:39 BUF Alexander Sulzer Tripping 2
3rd Period
08:21 SJS Andrew Desjardins Kneeing 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
San Jose Sharks 72 54 38 2 2.7 63.0
Buffalo Sabres 44 33 20 4 2.0 37.0

How the game went

302520151050Start2nd3rdBuffalo Sabres aheadSan Jose Sharks 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 San Jose Sharks had.

Expected goals

San Jose Sharks: 2.7 expected, 2 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 2.0 expected, 4 scored

012Start2nd3rdEndSJS goal, 9:38 of 2nd, a 19% chanceSJS goal, 18:45 of 3rd, a 9% chanceBUF goal, 10:59 of 1st, a 6% chanceBUF goal, 4:33 of 3rd, a 2% chanceBUF goal, 7:39 of 3rd, a 8% chanceBUF goal, 19:39 of 3rd, a 39% chanceSJS 2.7BUF 2.0

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

San Jose Sharks
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.

San Jose Sharks

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Joe Thornton · Brent Burns · Joe Pavelski12:3853.363.60-0
Patrick Marleau · Martin Havlat · Logan Couture11:5160.958.00-0
Mike Brown · Andrew Desjardins · James Sheppard9:3982.498.10-0
Adam Burish · Tyler Kennedy · Tommy Wingels9:0352.269.90-2
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Scott Hannan · Jason Demers15:4861.375.10-0
Marc-Edouard Vlasic · Justin Braun12:2844.473.30-0
Dan Boyle · Matt Irwin12:2269.664.40-2

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

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
22 Dan Boyle D 0 2 2 -1 0 2 0 20:37 0.13 25-8 0.76-0.27
12 Patrick Marleau C 1 0 1 0 0 4 0 18:52 0.18 14-9 0.30-0.22
45 James Sheppard C 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 11:44 0.23 19-5 0.79-0.02
19 Joe Thornton C 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 19:32 0.05 9-8 0.48-0.26
44 Marc-Edouard Vlasic D 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 19:30 0.10 15-11 0.69-0.19
11 Andrew Desjardins L 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 12:04 0.05 15-3 0.47-0.01
13 Mike Brown R 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 10:35 0.29 15-4 0.53-0.01
16 Joe Pavelski C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 19:59 0.05 10-9 0.47-0.37
27 Scott Hannan D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 19:20 0.03 21-13 0.97-0.33
29 Martin Havlat R 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 16:34 0.16 14-9 0.30-0.22
37 Adam Burish R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 10:42 0.02 16-13 0.79-0.24
39 Logan Couture C 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 19:21 0.28 17-10 0.36-0.31
44 Jason Demers D 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 19:46 23-12 1.00-0.31
48 Tyler Kennedy C 0 0 0 -1 2 4 0 10:17 0.30 17-12 0.77-0.22
52 Matt Irwin D 0 0 0 -2 0 2 1 18:36 0.05 20-11 0.40-0.32
57 Tommy Wingels C 0 0 0 -2 0 3 3 14:29 0.25 16-11 0.57-0.20
61 Justin Braun D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18:33 0.06 12-13 0.41-0.22
84 Brent Burns D 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 17:43 0.44 12-9 0.52-0.37
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
37 Antti Niemi L 19 16 3 58:07 1.56 -1.44

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Marcus Foligno · Brian Flynn · Zemgus Girgensons13:1729.621.71-0
Matt Moulson · Drew Stafford · Ville Leino13:0256.536.81-1
Matt Ellis · Matt D'Agostini · Cody Hodgson7:4733.350.50-0
Cody McCormick · Matt D'Agostini · Cody Hodgson4:2650.025.70-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Christian Ehrhoff · Alexander Sulzer15:3729.214.00-1
Henrik Tallinder · Jamie McBain15:2725.723.00-0
Mike Weber · Tyler Myers14:0563.270.22-0

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
57 Tyler Myers D 1 2 3 3 0 2 0 20:37 0.11 16-7 0.44-0.14
11 Cody Hodgson C 1 0 1 1 0 4 1 18:56 0.17 9-19 0.21-0.54
26 Matt Moulson L 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 17:14 0.11 13-12 0.28-0.68
32 Brian Flynn C 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 16:03 0.02 9-20 0.30-0.85
6 Mike Weber D 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 17:24 0.02 12-10 0.33-0.42
27 Matt D'Agostini R 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 17:44 0.09 9-20 0.21-0.54
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 1 1 1 0 2 3 16:48 0.39 8-20 0.23-0.89
55 Christian Ehrhoff D 0 1 1 -2 0 0 0 23:19 0.03 9-22 0.14-0.93
8 Cody McCormick C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 3 11:57 0.01 7-11 0.05-0.30
17 Marcus Foligno L 0 0 0 1 2 2 2 16:17 0.09 11-21 0.40-0.86
18 Drew Stafford R 0 0 0 -1 0 4 0 20:16 0.36 13-11 0.28-0.54
20 Henrik Tallinder D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 17:21 0.01 9-26 0.23-0.77
21 Jamie McBain D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20:09 11-31 0.23-0.83
22 John Scott L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 05:53 3-11 0.04-0.35
23 Ville Leino L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 15:38 13-12 0.28-0.49
24 Zenon Konopka C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 07:16 3-9 0.01-0.23
37 Matt Ellis L 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 11:59 0.13 4-8 0.13-0.06
52 Alexander Sulzer D 0 0 0 -2 2 0 0 21:11 0.02 11-20 0.25-1.14
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
31 Jhonas Enroth W 38 36 2 59:58 2.67 +0.67