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Buffalo Sabres at Florida Panthers

Dec 6, 2014 · BB&T Center

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 2 28
Florida Panthers 3 37

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
13:05 FLA Brad Boyes (5) Jussi Jokinen (12), Aaron Ekblad (11) 0 - 1
2nd Period
11:02 BUF Drew Stafford (5) Cody Hodgson (2), Josh Gorges (3) 1 - 1
12:55 FLA Tomas Kopecky (1) Aaron Ekblad (12), Nick Bjugstad (6) 1 - 2
15:54 BUF Brian Gionta (3) Mike Weber (4), Torrey Mitchell (3) 2 - 2
19:43 FLA Nick Bjugstad (11) Aaron Ekblad (13), Tomas Fleischmann (4) 2 - 3

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
01:40 FLA Dmitry Kulikov Tripping 2
05:04 BUF Josh Gorges Holding 2
15:16 BUF Marcus Foligno Fighting 5
15:16 FLA Erik Gudbranson Fighting 5
3rd Period
15:46 FLA Shawn Thornton Boarding 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 44 36 28 2 1.8 39.4
Florida Panthers 63 50 37 3 2.8 60.6

How the game went

05101520Start2nd3rdFlorida Panthers 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 Florida Panthers had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 1.8 expected, 2 scored · Florida Panthers: 2.8 expected, 3 scored

012Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 11:02 of 2nd, a 2% chanceBUF goal, 15:54 of 2nd, a 10% chanceFLA goal, 13:05 of 1st, a 6% chanceFLA goal, 12:55 of 2nd, a 9% chanceFLA goal, 19:43 of 2nd, a 24% chanceFLA 2.8BUF 1.8

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
Florida Panthers

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
Matt Moulson · Tyler Ennis · Zemgus Girgensons13:1927.326.40-0
Brian Gionta · Torrey Mitchell · Brian Flynn11:3245.861.71-1
Drew Stafford · Cody Hodgson · Marcus Foligno9:2362.541.31-1
Cody McCormick · Chris Stewart · Nicolas Deslauriers7:1428.635.10-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Josh Gorges · Tyler Myers19:0834.453.40-0
Rasmus Ristolainen · Nikita Zadorov14:1042.431.30-2
Andre Benoit · Mike Weber12:4047.428.02-0

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
12 Brian Gionta R 1 0 1 -1 0 1 1 16:37 0.10 13-20 0.48-0.87
18 Drew Stafford R 1 0 1 0 0 1 2 15:44 0.18 12-11 0.38-0.74
4 Josh Gorges D 0 1 1 0 2 0 1 23:43 0.01 13-22 0.76-0.60
6 Mike Weber D 0 1 1 1 0 1 3 15:57 0.03 9-13 0.22-0.99
11 Cody Hodgson C 0 1 1 -1 0 1 3 15:05 0.06 12-13 0.42-1.13
71 Torrey Mitchell C 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 15:15 0.17 13-16 0.48-0.37
8 Cody McCormick C 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 10:05 8-10 0.30-0.39
17 Marcus Foligno L 0 0 0 -1 5 2 3 12:43 0.14 11-12 0.38-1.10
26 Matt Moulson L 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 21:04 0.60 12-19 0.43-0.82
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 19:46 6-21 0.25-0.84
32 Brian Flynn C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 14:53 0.07 11-17 0.45-0.41
44 Chris Stewart R 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 07:48 0.13 6-10 0.28-0.39
44 Nicolas Deslauriers L 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 10:10 0.09 4-12 0.21-0.39
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 -2 0 2 2 18:23 0.03 16-21 0.46-0.98
57 Tyler Myers D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 3 27:50 0.08 14-29 0.74-1.19
61 Andre Benoit D 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 14:25 10-11 0.29-0.60
63 Tyler Ennis R 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 19:52 0.09 9-19 0.33-0.73
91 Nikita Zadorov D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 2 19:36 0.07 16-24 0.44-1.09
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
30 Michal Neuvirth 37 34 3 59:04 2.75 -0.25

Florida Panthers

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Tomas Fleischmann · Nick Bjugstad · Jonathan Huberdeau13:1375.979.51-0
Shawn Thornton · Derek MacKenzie · Tomas Kopecky8:5450.029.30-0
Jussi Jokinen · Jimmy Hayes · Vincent Trocheck7:1766.771.80-1
Brad Boyes · Sean Bergenheim · Brandon Pirri6:4250.062.50-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Brian Campbell · Aaron Ekblad18:1250.060.33-0
Willie Mitchell · Dmitry Kulikov15:0875.870.50-2
Dylan Olsen · Erik Gudbranson12:4243.546.20-0

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
5 Aaron Ekblad D 0 3 3 3 0 3 1 21:39 0.17 22-17 1.44-0.62
72 Nick Bjugstad C 1 1 2 2 0 4 5 16:42 0.65 27-9 1.42-0.31
28 Brad Boyes R 1 0 1 0 0 2 1 13:28 0.13 16-11 0.98-0.41
82 Tomas Kopecky R 1 0 1 1 0 4 1 14:06 0.16 9-7 0.22-0.27
12 Tomas Fleischmann L 0 1 1 2 0 2 5 18:19 0.21 25-8 1.06-0.26
36 Jussi Jokinen L 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 15:44 0.01 13-6 0.53-0.29
4 Dylan Olsen D 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 18:27 0.06 11-14 0.45-0.51
7 Dmitry Kulikov D 0 0 0 -2 2 0 0 18:11 0.03 29-8 0.94-0.32
10 Jimmy Hayes R 0 0 0 -1 0 2 3 14:38 0.36 12-13 0.58-0.52
10 Jonathan Huberdeau L 0 0 0 1 0 3 3 15:56 0.30 24-8 1.30-0.26
16 Vincent Trocheck C 0 0 0 -1 0 4 3 14:59 0.19 12-14 0.58-0.54
17 Derek MacKenzie C 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 14:20 0.01 8-5 0.12-0.20
22 Shawn Thornton L 0 0 0 0 2 0 4 10:50 7-7 0.12-0.27
23 Sean Bergenheim L 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 13:40 0.05 16-12 0.65-0.41
33 Willie Mitchell D 0 0 0 -2 0 2 1 22:33 0.05 28-8 1.17-0.32
44 Erik Gudbranson D 0 0 0 0 5 2 4 16:13 0.07 13-13 0.50-0.51
51 Brian Campbell D 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 22:59 0.02 17-18 0.94-0.62
73 Brandon Pirri C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 13:16 0.31 11-17 0.63-0.64
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Roberto Luongo 28 26 2 60:00 1.83 -0.17