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Buffalo Sabres at Detroit Red Wings

Dec 23, 2014 · Joe Louis Arena

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 3 16
Detroit Red Wings 6 39

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
02:36 BUF Nicolas Deslauriers (3) Drew Stafford (12), Brian Flynn (5) 1 - 0
10:50 DET Stephen Weiss (5) PP Jakub Kindl (6), Gustav Nyquist (6) 1 - 1
13:35 BUF Chris Stewart (4) Cody Hodgson (4), Mikhail Grigorenko (1) 2 - 1
2nd Period
09:00 BUF Andre Benoit (1) SH Brian Flynn (6) 3 - 1
17:54 DET Danny DeKeyser (2) Tomas Jurco (10), Luke Glendening (2) 3 - 2
3rd Period
04:19 DET Henrik Zetterberg (7) Pavel Datsyuk (12), Justin Abdelkader (9) 3 - 3
11:40 DET Tomas Tatar (13) PP Danny DeKeyser (11), Gustav Nyquist (7) 3 - 4
14:06 DET Johan Franzen (7) PP Henrik Zetterberg (23), Jakub Kindl (7) 3 - 5
17:48 DET Tomas Tatar (14) PP Brendan Smith (5), Gustav Nyquist (8) 3 - 6

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
09:23 BUF Zemgus Girgensons Hooking 2
2nd Period
04:46 DET Pavel Datsyuk Tripping 2
07:55 BUF Nikita Zadorov Holding 2
14:48 BUF Nicolas Deslauriers Roughing 2
3rd Period
09:53 BUF Brian Flynn Delaying game puck over glass 2
12:46 BUF Johan Larsson Slashing 2
17:14 BUF Andrej Meszaros Holding 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 22 18 16 3 1.5 27.4
Detroit Red Wings 76 53 39 6 4.2 72.6

How the game went

01020304050Start2nd3rdDetroit Red Wings 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 Detroit Red Wings had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 1.5 expected, 3 scored · Detroit Red Wings: 4.2 expected, 6 scored

01234Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 2:36 of 1st, a 12% chanceBUF goal, 13:35 of 1st, a 15% chanceBUF goal, 9:00 of 2nd, a 19% chanceDET goal, 10:50 of 1st, a 10% chanceDET goal, 17:54 of 2nd, a 4% chanceDET goal, 4:19 of 3rd, a 7% chanceDET goal, 11:40 of 3rd, a 7% chanceDET goal, 14:06 of 3rd, a 22% chanceDET goal, 17:48 of 3rd, a 42% chanceDET 4.2BUF 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
Detroit Red Wings

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 · Mikhail Grigorenko13:4730.041.01-1
Tyler Ennis · Joel Armia · Zemgus Girgensons13:0123.126.30-0
Drew Stafford · Nicolas Deslauriers · Brian Flynn8:0630.059.70-1
Patrick Kaleta · Johan Larsson · Tim Schaller5:3650.021.40-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Josh Gorges · Rasmus Ristolainen17:3710.320.10-1
Mark Pysyk · Nikita Zadorov16:5537.541.60-1
Andre Benoit · Andrej Meszaros9:0645.571.12-0

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
32 Brian Flynn C 0 2 2 0 2 0 1 15:22 6-21 0.56-0.74
44 Chris Stewart R 1 0 1 0 0 2 1 15:17 0.16 6-17 0.18-0.35
44 Nicolas Deslauriers L 1 0 1 0 2 2 2 12:37 0.40 7-18 0.68-0.59
61 Andre Benoit D 1 0 1 3 0 1 0 11:33 0.19 5-7 0.33-0.15
11 Cody Hodgson C 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 16:18 6-16 0.18-0.31
18 Drew Stafford R 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 12:31 0.20 7-17 0.68-0.44
25 Mikhail Grigorenko C 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 17:18 0.06 7-17 0.22-0.43
4 Josh Gorges D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 4 26:49 6-27 0.58-1.43
13 Mark Pysyk D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 20:35 9-16 0.34-0.50
22 Johan Larsson L 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 08:09 3-7 0.06-0.39
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 0 2 2 3 19:31 0.07 3-13 0.29-0.93
36 Patrick Kaleta R 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 11:00 0.02 3-6 0.06-0.44
40 Joel Armia R 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 14:47 4-11 0.33-0.91
41 Andrej Meszaros D 0 0 0 2 2 1 2 12:34 0.03 8-7 0.56-0.19
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 27:53 3-30 0.34-1.53
59 Tim Schaller L 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 10:29 0.02 4-3 0.18-0.21
63 Tyler Ennis R 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 18:01 0.27 4-13 0.33-0.94
91 Nikita Zadorov D 0 0 0 -1 2 1 4 20:08 0.06 9-19 0.34-0.65
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
30 Michal Neuvirth 39 33 6 60:00 3.81 -2.19

Detroit Red Wings

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Pavel Datsyuk · Henrik Zetterberg · Justin Abdelkader13:2191.393.41-0
Johan Franzen · Darren Helm · Gustav Nyquist10:3157.130.50-2
Tomas Tatar · Riley Sheahan · Tomas Jurco7:3862.560.10-0
Stephen Weiss · Drew Miller · Luke Glendening3:4371.450.10-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Kyle Quincey · Danny DeKeyser12:3586.795.41-0
Niklas Kronwall · Jonathan Ericsson6:2466.7100.00-0
Jakub Kindl · Brendan Smith5:3752.928.50-2

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
14 Gustav Nyquist R 0 3 3 -2 0 2 1 17:07 0.19 18-10 0.74-0.82
90 Tomas Tatar L 2 0 2 0 0 5 1 15:14 0.32 7-4 0.15-0.06
40 Henrik Zetterberg C 1 1 2 0 0 4 3 19:41 0.27 22-2 1.16-0.08
65 Danny DeKeyser D 1 1 2 1 0 2 0 24:12 0.13 24-3 1.26-0.02
46 Jakub Kindl D 0 2 2 -2 0 2 1 12:23 0.05 14-9 0.40-0.77
90 Stephen Weiss C 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 08:55 0.26 7-4 0.34-0.23
93 Johan Franzen R 1 0 1 -3 0 3 1 17:15 0.59 14-9 0.44-0.82
7 Brendan Smith D 0 1 1 -2 0 1 0 19:41 0.04 19-13 0.82-1.15
8 Justin Abdelkader L 0 1 1 0 0 3 4 19:05 0.30 21-2 1.10-0.08
13 Pavel Datsyuk C 0 1 1 0 2 4 1 20:21 0.96 23-2 1.16-0.08
13 Tomas Jurco R 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 12:55 8-4 0.13-0.07
41 Luke Glendening C 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 12:05 0.09 9-4 0.35-0.29
8 Riley Sheahan C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 16:45 0.08 9-4 0.35-0.06
20 Drew Miller L 0 0 0 1 0 1 6 11:45 0.14 8-4 0.28-0.29
27 Kyle Quincey D 0 0 0 2 0 4 1 21:49 0.12 25-5 0.63-0.09
43 Darren Helm C 0 0 0 -2 0 3 1 15:35 0.21 13-11 0.48-0.87
52 Jonathan Ericsson D 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 21:45 17-7 0.98-0.18
55 Niklas Kronwall D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11:27 7-3 0.36-0.29
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
34 Petr Mrazek 16 13 3 60:00 1.48 -1.52