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Buffalo Sabres at Pittsburgh Penguins

Nov 1, 2014 · CONSOL Energy Center

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 0 18
Pittsburgh Penguins 5 34

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
04:26 PIT Chris Kunitz (6) Patric Hornqvist (8), Sidney Crosby (9) 0 - 1
2nd Period
11:54 PIT Blake Comeau (3) Evgeni Malkin (9), Pascal Dupuis (5) 0 - 2
16:09 PIT Patric Hornqvist (6) PP Chris Kunitz (6), Evgeni Malkin (10) 0 - 3
3rd Period
02:33 PIT Chris Kunitz (7) PP Kris Letang (6), Sidney Crosby (10) 0 - 4
13:11 PIT Evgeni Malkin (5) PP Sidney Crosby (11), Christian Ehrhoff (4) 0 - 5

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
12:40 PIT Olli Maatta Holding the stick 2
2nd Period
13:34 PIT Sidney Crosby Hooking 2
14:50 BUF Team Too many men on the ice 2
20:00 PIT Blake Comeau Roughing 2
3rd Period
02:00 BUF Mike Weber Roughing 2
03:35 BUF Nicolas Deslauriers Hooking 2
10:32 PIT Craig Adams Holding 2
12:22 BUF Tyler Ennis Interference 2
16:18 BUF Zemgus Girgensons Interference 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 38 23 18 0 1.5 38.0
Pittsburgh Penguins 66 47 34 5 2.6 62.0

How the game went

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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 Pittsburgh Penguins had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 1.5 expected, 0 scored · Pittsburgh Penguins: 2.6 expected, 5 scored

012Start2nd3rdEndPIT goal, 4:26 of 1st, a 20% chancePIT goal, 11:54 of 2nd, a 8% chancePIT goal, 16:09 of 2nd, a 17% chancePIT goal, 2:33 of 3rd, a 16% chancePIT goal, 13:11 of 3rd, a 3% chancePIT 2.6BUF 1.5

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
Pittsburgh Penguins

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
Chris Stewart · Cody Hodgson · Marcus Foligno10:5638.936.40-0
Brian Gionta · Torrey Mitchell · Zemgus Girgensons9:4436.852.30-1
Matt Moulson · Drew Stafford · Tyler Ennis9:1835.020.20-0
Cody McCormick · Nicolas Deslauriers · Brian Flynn9:0462.589.70-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Andre Benoit · Rasmus Ristolainen15:3642.334.70-1
Tyson Strachan · Mike Weber13:5443.853.80-0
Josh Gorges · Tyler Myers12:4732.131.00-1

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
4 Josh Gorges D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 21:58 10-20 0.28-0.65
6 Mike Weber D 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 17:11 0.02 9-9 0.54-0.23
8 Cody McCormick C 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 12:32 0.19 5-3 0.23-0.03
11 Cody Hodgson C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 15:23 0.09 8-12 0.27-0.54
12 Brian Gionta R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 16:50 0.08 9-18 0.54-0.55
17 Marcus Foligno L 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 13:44 0.16 7-13 0.26-0.45
18 Drew Stafford R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 14:40 0.01 7-16 0.10-0.51
26 Matt Moulson L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 14:36 0.08 9-15 0.16-0.51
28 Tyson Strachan D 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 14:42 7-9 0.27-0.23
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 -1 2 2 2 15:05 0.37 8-17 0.53-0.49
32 Brian Flynn C 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 11:02 5-3 0.23-0.03
44 Chris Stewart R 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 17:40 0.16 9-12 0.27-0.45
44 Nicolas Deslauriers L 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 12:42 0.04 6-6 0.25-0.07
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 20:08 0.05 12-16 0.33-0.65
57 Tyler Myers D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 2 22:54 0.17 9-24 0.28-0.66
61 Andre Benoit D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 23:07 0.03 13-20 0.61-0.66
63 Tyler Ennis R 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 14:52 0.01 9-17 0.11-0.49
71 Torrey Mitchell C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 14:19 8-15 0.48-0.51
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
31 Jhonas Enroth 34 29 5 60:00 2.58 -2.42

Pittsburgh Penguins

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Steve Downie · Brandon Sutter · Nick Spaling11:3252.970.20-0
Pascal Dupuis · Evgeni Malkin · Blake Comeau10:2868.851.61-0
Chris Kunitz · Sidney Crosby · Patric Hornqvist9:4477.890.51-0
Craig Adams · Marcel Goc · Zach Sill2:5925.031.40-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Rob Scuderi · Simon Despres16:3243.821.50-0
Paul Martin · Christian Ehrhoff14:2565.547.60-0
Kris Letang · Olli Maatta12:5380.886.22-0

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
14 Chris Kunitz L 2 1 3 1 0 3 1 14:27 0.38 21-6 0.64-0.07
71 Evgeni Malkin C 1 2 3 1 0 1 0 17:59 0.17 16-6 0.28-0.18
87 Sidney Crosby C 0 3 3 1 2 3 1 15:27 0.19 21-10 0.64-0.28
70 Patric Hornqvist R 1 1 2 1 0 4 0 14:57 0.34 21-10 0.64-0.28
15 Blake Comeau L 1 0 1 1 2 1 0 16:37 0.08 12-6 0.20-0.18
9 Pascal Dupuis R 0 1 1 1 0 4 2 17:25 0.19 11-10 0.19-0.41
55 Christian Ehrhoff D 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 19:29 0.04 19-11 0.35-0.40
58 Kris Letang D 0 1 1 2 0 7 0 21:37 0.38 21-10 0.99-0.43
3 Olli Maatta D 0 0 0 2 2 2 1 18:27 0.15 21-6 0.99-0.17
6 Simon Despres D 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 17:29 0.02 9-11 0.20-0.59
7 Rob Scuderi D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 19:52 0.03 7-9 0.09-0.32
7 Paul Martin D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20:02 0.01 21-13 0.46-0.39
16 Nick Spaling C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 16:30 0.04 9-8 0.40-0.17
17 Steve Downie R 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 15:29 0.36 11-9 0.51-0.18
20 Brandon Sutter C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 18:07 0.02 9-11 0.40-0.46
23 Zach Sill C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 08:07 0.03 7-5 0.30-0.50
27 Craig Adams R 0 0 0 0 2 1 3 08:51 0.02 5-5 0.18-0.50
57 Marcel Goc C 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 11:08 0.15 4-4 0.23-0.23
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
29 Marc-Andre Fleury 18 18 0 60:00 1.45 +1.45