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Buffalo Sabres at Detroit Red Wings

Jan 18, 2015 · Joe Louis Arena

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 4 15
Detroit Red Wings 6 26

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
01:46 BUF Drew Stafford (7) Cody Hodgson (5), Andrej Meszaros (5) 1 - 0
10:21 BUF Tyler Ennis (11) Nikita Zadorov (5), Andre Benoit (5) 2 - 0
13:37 BUF Chris Stewart (6) PP Tyler Ennis (16), Nikita Zadorov (6) 3 - 0
2nd Period
01:00 DET Gustav Nyquist (18) PP Henrik Zetterberg (27), Niklas Kronwall (21) 3 - 1
04:07 DET Drew Miller (2) Joakim Andersson (4), Danny DeKeyser (16) 3 - 2
10:08 DET Tomas Tatar (21) Unassisted 3 - 3
3rd Period
01:59 DET Henrik Zetterberg (12) Pavel Datsyuk (20), Tomas Tatar (13) 3 - 4
05:05 DET Henrik Zetterberg (13) PP Gustav Nyquist (16), Justin Abdelkader (14) 3 - 5
08:31 BUF Tyler Ennis (12) Matt Moulson (13) 4 - 5
11:59 DET Henrik Zetterberg (14) Kyle Quincey (9), Danny DeKeyser (17) 4 - 6

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
13:25 DET Kyle Quincey Tripping 2
2nd Period
00:49 BUF Tyler Myers Roughing 2
17:33 DET Jonathan Ericsson Hooking 2
3rd Period
03:26 BUF Josh Gorges Tripping 2
10:57 BUF Andrej Meszaros Slashing 2
11:09 DET Stephen Weiss Holding 2
15:00 BUF Team Too many men on the ice 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 32 28 15 4 2.0 38.8
Detroit Red Wings 55 33 26 6 2.3 61.2

How the game went

05101520Start2nd3rdDetroit 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: 2.0 expected, 4 scored · Detroit Red Wings: 2.3 expected, 6 scored

00.511.52Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 1:46 of 1st, a 9% chanceBUF goal, 10:21 of 1st, a 2% chanceBUF goal, 13:37 of 1st, a 8% chanceBUF goal, 8:31 of 3rd, a 20% chanceDET goal, 1:00 of 2nd, a 28% chanceDET goal, 4:07 of 2nd, a 18% chanceDET goal, 10:08 of 2nd, a 11% chanceDET goal, 1:59 of 3rd, a 25% chanceDET goal, 5:05 of 3rd, a 18% chanceDET goal, 11:59 of 3rd, a 5% chanceDET 2.3BUF 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

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 · Brian Flynn · Zemgus Girgensons14:4030.025.70-1
Matt Moulson · Torrey Mitchell · Tyler Ennis13:2040.068.52-0
Drew Stafford · Cody Hodgson · Phil Varone7:2142.973.71-0
Drew Stafford · Nicolas Deslauriers · Phil Varone4:1666.788.20-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Josh Gorges · Tyler Myers20:4729.651.20-1
Andrej Meszaros · Nikita Zadorov13:5541.255.22-1
Andre Benoit · Tyson Strachan8:4453.365.00-0

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

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
63 Tyler Ennis R 2 1 3 1 0 3 2 18:11 0.40 9-15 0.80-0.47
91 Nikita Zadorov D 0 2 2 0 0 0 4 20:16 0.04 7-12 0.55-0.48
18 Drew Stafford R 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 15:43 0.12 8-8 0.37-0.08
44 Chris Stewart R 1 0 1 -2 0 1 2 20:17 0.20 8-16 0.38-0.53
11 Cody Hodgson C 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 07:54 4-4 0.29-0.04
26 Matt Moulson L 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 16:54 0.21 8-14 0.75-0.48
41 Andrej Meszaros D 0 1 1 2 2 2 2 19:39 0.04 10-11 0.68-0.57
61 Andre Benoit D 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 13:45 0.02 11-8 0.52-0.34
4 Josh Gorges D 0 0 0 -2 2 1 2 25:27 0.17 8-21 0.50-0.49
28 Tyson Strachan D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 11:52 0.03 8-10 0.40-0.26
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 -2 0 0 2 21:07 0.10 7-15 0.33-0.49
32 Brian Flynn C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 18:43 0.11 6-15 0.16-0.49
36 Patrick Kaleta R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 06:41 2-4 0.07-0.25
37 Matt Ellis L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 06:48 2-4 0.07-0.25
44 Nicolas Deslauriers L 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 12:13 0.37 7-6 0.32-0.28
44 Phil Varone C 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 13:20 0.01 7-8 0.32-0.08
57 Tyler Myers D 0 0 0 -2 2 1 0 29:07 0.02 8-20 0.50-0.48
71 Torrey Mitchell C 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 16:13 0.16 10-14 0.86-0.49
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
31 Jhonas Enroth 26 20 6 60:00 2.25 -3.75

Detroit Red Wings

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Pavel Datsyuk · Darren Helm · Tomas Tatar8:4563.645.71-0
Henrik Zetterberg · Justin Abdelkader · Teemu Pulkkinen7:3570.064.00-0
Drew Miller · Joakim Andersson · Luke Glendening6:5850.051.61-1
Stephen Weiss · Gustav Nyquist · Riley Sheahan5:2040.05.20-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Kyle Quincey · Danny DeKeyser16:1979.268.21-0
Niklas Kronwall · Brendan Smith12:5852.943.70-0
Jonathan Ericsson · Xavier Ouellet7:4366.794.41-0

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
40 Henrik Zetterberg C 3 1 4 2 0 5 2 19:19 0.58 13-5 0.35-0.30
14 Gustav Nyquist R 1 1 2 0 0 2 0 16:22 0.40 9-7 0.27-0.45
90 Tomas Tatar L 1 1 2 2 0 2 0 18:10 0.21 12-8 0.48-0.55
65 Danny DeKeyser D 0 2 2 1 0 0 1 20:17 0.02 19-5 0.54-0.25
20 Drew Miller L 1 0 1 0 0 3 1 11:04 0.27 8-7 0.32-0.25
8 Justin Abdelkader L 0 1 1 0 0 1 5 18:42 0.01 16-4 0.38-0.30
13 Pavel Datsyuk C 0 1 1 2 0 4 1 20:58 0.31 17-5 0.51-0.57
18 Joakim Andersson C 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 08:13 0.01 6-6 0.26-0.25
27 Kyle Quincey D 0 1 1 0 2 1 1 21:37 0.03 22-8 0.59-0.67
55 Niklas Kronwall D 0 1 1 2 0 2 0 23:43 0.15 15-12 0.61-0.81
7 Brendan Smith D 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 23:31 0.08 12-14 0.41-0.81
8 Riley Sheahan C 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 15:17 0.06 8-9 0.31-0.56
12 Teemu Pulkkinen L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 12:30 9-7 0.24-0.31
41 Luke Glendening C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 10:21 0.01 7-7 0.30-0.25
43 Darren Helm C 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 16:48 0.05 14-6 0.51-0.46
52 Jonathan Ericsson D 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 15:00 0.06 8-6 0.32-0.16
61 Xavier Ouellet D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 13:54 6-7 0.17-0.45
90 Stephen Weiss C 0 0 0 -2 2 0 1 10:31 4-7 0.02-0.48
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
38 Tom McCollum 8 7 1 45:54 1.28 +0.28
34 Petr Mrazek 7 4 3 13:37 0.69 -2.31