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Buffalo Sabres at Ottawa Senators

Mar 6, 2015 · Canadian Tire Centre

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 2 26
Ottawa Senators 3 37

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
07:22 BUF Phil Varone (3) Matt Moulson (21), Andre Benoit (6) 1 - 0
16:32 BUF Tyler Ennis (16) Phil Varone (1), Zach Bogosian (13) 2 - 0
2nd Period
00:26 OTT Erik Karlsson (16) Milan Michalek (16), Mark Stone (26) 2 - 1
3rd Period
01:34 OTT Mika Zibanejad (17) Bobby Ryan (32), Mike Hoffman (18) 2 - 2
03:08 OTT Mark Stone (16) Marc Methot (6), Milan Michalek (17) 2 - 3

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
03:45 BUF Rasmus Ristolainen Cross checking 2
2nd Period
10:17 BUF Zach Bogosian Delaying game puck over glass 2
3rd Period
10:08 BUF Phil Varone Holding 2
12:30 OTT Erik Condra Cross checking 2
12:30 BUF Nikita Zadorov Slashing 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 49 33 26 2 1.0 36.8
Ottawa Senators 75 50 37 3 2.8 63.2

How the game went

051015202530Start2nd3rdOttawa 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: 1.0 expected, 2 scored · Ottawa Senators: 2.8 expected, 3 scored

012Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 7:22 of 1st, a 11% chanceBUF goal, 16:32 of 1st, a 5% chanceOTT goal, 0:26 of 2nd, a 1% chanceOTT goal, 1:34 of 3rd, a 15% chanceOTT goal, 3:08 of 3rd, a 43% chanceOTT 2.8BUF 1.0

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
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 · Phil Varone12:1845.526.31-2
Cody Hodgson · Nicolas Deslauriers · Johan Larsson12:0031.815.90-0
Brian Gionta · Marcus Foligno · Mikhail Grigorenko10:2427.316.70-1
Matt Ellis · Jerry D'Amigo · Tim Schaller5:1733.339.30-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Andre Benoit · Zach Bogosian15:4144.938.32-2
Mike Weber · Rasmus Ristolainen14:2720.77.60-1
Andrej Meszaros · Nikita Zadorov12:2833.317.10-0

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
44 Phil Varone C 1 1 2 0 2 1 2 14:25 0.11 17-20 0.38-0.86
63 Tyler Ennis R 1 0 1 0 0 2 4 15:38 0.15 18-19 0.38-0.86
24 Zach Bogosian D 0 1 1 0 2 3 2 25:16 0.05 26-31 0.64-1.01
26 Matt Moulson L 0 1 1 -1 0 3 0 16:21 0.08 17-19 0.32-0.86
61 Andre Benoit D 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 20:32 0.11 23-28 0.62-0.99
6 Mike Weber D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 6 21:44 0.02 8-26 0.10-0.91
11 Cody Hodgson C 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 14:19 0.03 10-16 0.09-0.42
12 Brian Gionta R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 21:39 0.05 9-26 0.19-1.05
17 Marcus Foligno L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 6 18:34 7-22 0.18-1.05
22 Johan Larsson L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 14:21 0.03 9-18 0.08-0.42
25 Mikhail Grigorenko C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 3 13:42 0.06 10-20 0.21-0.95
37 Matt Ellis L 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 08:33 0.16 5-10 0.23-0.39
41 Andrej Meszaros D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 16:28 0.02 11-16 0.17-0.75
44 Nicolas Deslauriers L 0 0 0 0 0 3 8 14:36 0.03 11-19 0.11-0.37
49 Jerry D'Amigo R 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 08:45 7-12 0.28-0.44
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 -1 2 1 1 21:17 0.02 7-27 0.08-1.00
59 Tim Schaller L 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 12:10 6-14 0.21-0.49
91 Nikita Zadorov D 0 0 0 0 2 1 2 14:53 0.05 9-17 0.16-0.80
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
39 Anders Lindback L 37 34 3 58:47 2.77 -0.23

Ottawa Senators

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Milan Michalek · Kyle Turris · Mark Stone13:0175.888.32-1
Bobby Ryan · Mike Hoffman · Mika Zibanejad12:2768.679.71-1
Erik Condra · Jean-Gabriel Pageau · Curtis Lazar10:3157.965.60-0
David Legwand · Alex Chiasson · Matt Puempel7:1550.054.60-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Marc Methot · Erik Karlsson19:4264.479.92-1
Patrick Wiercioch · Cody Ceci13:3866.779.71-0
Eric Gryba · Mark Borowiecki12:3261.967.70-1

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

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
61 Mark Stone R 1 1 2 1 0 2 1 16:27 0.45 25-9 1.07-0.18
18 Milan Michalek L 0 2 2 1 0 4 1 18:09 0.31 26-10 1.08-0.17
65 Erik Karlsson D 1 0 1 1 0 6 2 28:06 0.26 41-23 1.90-0.47
93 Mika Zibanejad C 1 0 1 0 0 2 1 17:48 0.33 25-11 1.02-0.25
33 Marc Methot D 0 1 1 1 0 3 3 21:37 0.08 38-21 1.83-0.46
54 Bobby Ryan R 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 19:42 0.09 25-14 1.02-0.27
68 Mike Hoffman C 0 1 1 0 0 5 0 19:04 0.46 24-12 0.99-0.26
2 Eric Gryba D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 3 14:47 0.03 13-8 0.27-0.13
5 Cody Ceci D 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 16:58 18-11 0.57-0.29
8 Kyle Turris C 0 0 0 1 0 3 1 19:19 0.21 26-12 1.08-0.17
17 David Legwand C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 11:51 0.05 10-10 0.40-0.33
20 Curtis Lazar C 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 13:54 13-12 0.23-0.25
27 Erik Condra R 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 14:01 0.08 15-12 0.44-0.23
28 Patrick Wiercioch D 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 19:24 0.03 21-11 0.63-0.15
44 Jean-Gabriel Pageau C 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 12:21 0.11 11-9 0.22-0.14
48 Alex Chiasson R 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 10:38 0.01 8-7 0.26-0.19
54 Matt Puempel L 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 08:40 0.24 8-8 0.36-0.23
90 Mark Borowiecki D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 15:14 0.06 13-10 0.27-0.27
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Andrew Hammond W 26 24 2 60:00 0.98 -1.02