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Buffalo Sabres at Ottawa Senators

Dec 29, 2014 · Canadian Tire Centre

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 2 21
Ottawa Senators 5 35

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
18:24 OTT Bobby Ryan (8) Kyle Turris (17), Erik Karlsson (17) 0 - 1
2nd Period
01:53 BUF Mark Pysyk (1) Chris Stewart (5) 1 - 1
08:37 BUF Zemgus Girgensons (11) Matt Moulson (9), Nikita Zadorov (3) 2 - 1
18:41 OTT Bobby Ryan (9) Mike Hoffman (7), Jean-Gabriel Pageau (1) 2 - 2
3rd Period
03:02 OTT Bobby Ryan (10) Erik Karlsson (18) 2 - 3
11:54 OTT Clarke MacArthur (11) Chris Phillips (3), Mark Stone (9) 2 - 4
19:58 OTT Colin Greening (1) Mika Zibanejad (9), Erik Condra (3) 2 - 5

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
02:52 OTT Colin Greening Hooking 2
17:23 OTT Jared Cowen Fighting 5
17:23 BUF Patrick Kaleta Fighting 5
2nd Period
04:19 OTT Chris Phillips Hooking 2
10:09 OTT David Legwand Hooking 2
18:45 BUF Zemgus Girgensons Tripping 2
3rd Period
08:42 BUF Chris Stewart Hooking 2
13:00 OTT David Legwand Hooking 2
20:00 OTT Colin Greening Roughing 2
20:00 BUF Cody McCormick Cross checking 2
20:00 BUF Cody McCormick Roughing 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 35 28 21 2 1.6 27.3
Ottawa Senators 74 51 36 5 4.1 72.7

How the game went

010203040Start2nd3rdOttawa Senators 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 Ottawa Senators had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 1.6 expected, 2 scored · Ottawa Senators: 4.1 expected, 5 scored

01234Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 1:53 of 2nd, a 18% chanceBUF goal, 8:37 of 2nd, a 22% chanceOTT goal, 18:24 of 1st, a 44% chanceOTT goal, 18:41 of 2nd, a 15% chanceOTT goal, 3:02 of 3rd, a 10% chanceOTT goal, 11:54 of 3rd, a 10% chanceOTT goal, 19:58 of 3rd, a 53% chanceOTT 4.1BUF 1.6

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
Ottawa Senators

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 Girgensons10:3655.672.31-0
Chris Stewart · Cody Hodgson · Mikhail Grigorenko10:1620.051.71-0
Drew Stafford · Nicolas Deslauriers · Brian Flynn7:4115.07.20-2
Cody McCormick · Patrick Kaleta · Johan Larsson6:1741.755.70-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Josh Gorges · Andre Benoit13:1327.616.10-2
Mark Pysyk · Nikita Zadorov10:1755.664.02-0
Andrej Meszaros · Mike Weber9:5717.614.90-1

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
13 Mark Pysyk D 1 0 1 2 0 2 0 14:40 0.19 12-10 0.84-0.50
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 1 0 1 0 2 5 2 18:25 0.59 11-11 0.64-0.93
26 Matt Moulson L 0 1 1 -1 0 1 1 17:32 0.16 10-11 0.61-0.93
44 Chris Stewart R 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 19:14 5-23 0.32-1.01
91 Nikita Zadorov D 0 1 1 0 0 0 4 24:18 11-21 0.80-1.73
4 Josh Gorges D 0 0 0 -3 0 1 2 23:51 0.03 8-26 0.16-0.95
6 Mike Weber D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 3 15:41 0.01 4-17 0.18-0.54
8 Cody McCormick C 0 0 0 -1 4 1 8 12:09 0.12 6-12 0.16-0.43
11 Cody Hodgson C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 16:30 0.12 5-19 0.32-0.30
18 Drew Stafford R 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 16:16 0.05 3-23 0.08-1.40
22 Johan Larsson L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 10:27 0.02 6-12 0.16-0.45
25 Mikhail Grigorenko C 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 17:36 4-23 0.29-0.85
32 Brian Flynn C 0 0 0 -3 0 0 0 13:01 3-19 0.08-1.17
36 Patrick Kaleta R 0 0 0 0 5 2 0 08:23 0.02 5-9 0.15-0.32
41 Andrej Meszaros D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 4 19:30 0.03 4-26 0.16-1.04
44 Nicolas Deslauriers L 0 0 0 -3 0 0 3 13:39 4-22 0.09-1.64
61 Andre Benoit D 0 0 0 -3 0 1 3 17:39 0.07 9-28 0.18-1.68
63 Tyler Ennis R 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 20:06 0.19 10-8 0.61-0.23
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
31 Jhonas Enroth 35 31 4 57:03 3.57 -0.43

Ottawa Senators

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Clarke MacArthur · Kyle Turris · Mark Stone10:3960.071.81-0
Bobby Ryan · Mike Hoffman · Mika Zibanejad7:5168.439.80-1
Milan Michalek · Alex Chiasson · Jean-Gabriel Pageau6:5672.757.80-1
David Legwand · Colin Greening · Erik Condra4:0475.073.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Erik Karlsson · Patrick Wiercioch11:4580.086.63-0
Jared Cowen · Cody Ceci9:1875.078.10-0
Chris Phillips · Erik Karlsson8:2170.081.00-0

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
54 Bobby Ryan R 3 0 3 2 0 8 0 16:15 1.22 30-8 1.76-0.49
65 Erik Karlsson D 0 2 2 2 0 3 0 26:25 0.16 41-14 2.27-0.58
16 Clarke MacArthur L 1 0 1 2 0 3 2 15:28 0.42 18-8 1.65-0.22
38 Colin Greening C 1 0 1 1 4 2 3 08:23 0.16 12-3 0.28-0.03
4 Chris Phillips D 0 1 1 1 2 0 2 21:09 20-10 1.04-0.57
8 Kyle Turris C 0 1 1 2 0 1 0 18:13 0.33 20-8 1.71-0.22
27 Erik Condra R 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 12:57 0.10 12-2 0.26-0.02
44 Jean-Gabriel Pageau C 0 1 1 1 0 5 5 15:46 0.33 17-5 0.94-0.45
61 Mark Stone R 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 16:39 0.03 13-8 0.59-0.22
68 Mike Hoffman C 0 1 1 1 0 4 0 13:15 0.20 23-7 0.79-0.42
93 Mika Zibanejad C 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 12:40 0.06 21-6 0.65-0.39
2 Eric Gryba D 0 0 0 2 0 1 2 19:20 0.05 12-2 0.49-0.04
2 Jared Cowen D 0 0 0 0 5 2 5 15:50 0.04 13-5 0.41-0.12
5 Cody Ceci D 0 0 0 -2 0 2 2 16:24 0.11 13-10 0.46-0.72
17 David Legwand C 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 13:57 0.02 8-5 0.07-0.09
18 Milan Michalek L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 15:20 0.32 10-6 0.49-0.49
28 Patrick Wiercioch D 0 0 0 3 0 1 1 18:59 0.06 29-7 1.78-0.28
48 Alex Chiasson R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 3 15:00 8-6 0.47-0.42
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
41 Craig Anderson 21 19 2 60:00 1.59 -0.41