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Buffalo Sabres at Boston Bruins

Mar 17, 2015 · TD Garden

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 2 24
Boston Bruins 1 45

Decided in a shootout.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
09:55 BOS Loui Eriksson (18) Adam McQuaid (4), Carl Soderberg (26) 0 - 1
3rd Period
01:23 BUF Rasmus Ristolainen (5) PP Brian Gionta (14), Johan Larsson (5) 1 - 1
Shootout
BUF Tyler Ennis Shootout winner 2 - 1

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
02:16 BUF Cody Hodgson Tripping 2
2nd Period
06:05 BUF Phil Varone Hooking 2
19:57 BOS Carl Soderberg Holding 2
3rd Period
07:06 BOS Patrice Bergeron Hooking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 47 37 24 1 2.1 30.9
Boston Bruins 95 67 45 1 4.0 69.1

How the game went

010203040Start2nd3rdOTBoston Bruins 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 Boston Bruins had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 2.1 expected, 1 scored · Boston Bruins: 4.0 expected, 1 scored

0123Start2nd3rdOTBUF goal, 1:23 of 3rd, a 3% chanceBOS goal, 9:55 of 1st, a 25% chanceBOS 4.0BUF 2.1

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
Boston Bruins

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
Brian Gionta · Marcus Foligno · Phil Varone14:0824.212.60-0
Matt Moulson · Tyler Ennis · Johan Larsson13:4444.841.00-0
Cody Hodgson · Nicolas Deslauriers · Tim Schaller10:1333.328.90-1
Matt Ellis · Zac Dalpe · Jerry D'Amigo3:0550.066.10-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mike Weber · Rasmus Ristolainen18:4918.211.10-0
Andre Benoit · Tyson Strachan15:3624.418.20-1
Chad Ruhwedel · Nikita Zadorov11:2260.970.90-0

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
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 1 0 1 0 0 3 1 28:23 0.14 6-29 0.12-0.95
12 Brian Gionta R 0 1 1 0 0 4 1 23:16 0.36 9-31 0.17-1.20
22 Johan Larsson L 0 1 1 0 0 0 6 21:43 0.02 15-18 0.47-0.66
5 Chad Ruhwedel D 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 12:19 0.05 14-10 0.33-0.17
6 Mike Weber D 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 28:18 0.58 10-30 0.33-0.99
11 Cody Hodgson C 0 0 0 -1 2 0 1 12:38 7-17 0.20-0.59
17 Marcus Foligno L 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 19:28 0.01 8-28 0.15-1.13
22 Zac Dalpe C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 05:02 3-6 0.12-0.09
26 Matt Moulson L 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 20:05 0.30 14-17 0.47-0.64
28 Tyson Strachan D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 3 23:01 0.19 14-37 0.52-1.51
37 Matt Ellis L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 05:20 3-5 0.12-0.13
44 Nicolas Deslauriers L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 3 16:03 0.18 9-28 0.21-0.79
44 Phil Varone C 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 19:41 0.07 9-29 0.17-1.12
49 Jerry D'Amigo R 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 08:02 0.09 4-5 0.16-0.15
59 Tim Schaller L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 3 15:21 0.01 7-26 0.20-0.72
61 Andre Benoit D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 2 20:52 0.09 10-34 0.30-1.40
63 Tyler Ennis R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 23:46 14-18 0.44-0.66
91 Nikita Zadorov D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 13:28 14-12 0.33-0.23
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
39 Anders Lindback W 45 44 1 64:14 3.93 +2.93

Boston Bruins

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Patrice Bergeron · Brad Marchand · Reilly Smith12:0472.080.70-0
Chris Kelly · Loui Eriksson · Carl Soderberg11:4271.081.71-0
Milan Lucic · Ryan Spooner · David Pastrnak10:0375.063.00-0
Gregory Campbell · Max Talbot · Daniel Paille9:3662.570.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Dennis Seidenberg · Matt Bartkowski15:2662.166.30-0
Zdeno Chara · Dougie Hamilton15:0060.665.10-0
Adam McQuaid · Torey Krug14:2979.392.91-0

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
21 Loui Eriksson L 1 0 1 1 0 5 1 21:35 0.79 26-11 1.06-0.34
34 Carl Soderberg C 0 1 1 1 2 4 0 19:56 0.50 30-11 1.09-0.29
54 Adam McQuaid D 0 1 1 1 0 3 1 17:30 0.06 24-7 0.72-0.06
4 Dennis Seidenberg D 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 20:41 0.03 23-13 0.76-0.37
7 Dougie Hamilton D 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 20:39 0.11 22-13 1.04-0.50
9 Gregory Campbell C 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 11:22 0.06 10-8 0.28-0.16
12 Daniel Paille L 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 12:04 0.19 12-8 0.35-0.20
15 Ryan Spooner C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 15:16 0.01 17-8 0.39-0.32
17 Milan Lucic L 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 14:19 0.14 19-6 0.32-0.18
19 Reilly Smith R 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 16:13 0.20 20-8 0.85-0.20
22 Chris Kelly C 0 0 0 1 0 5 1 17:48 0.54 22-11 0.92-0.35
25 Max Talbot C 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 11:27 0.01 11-9 0.28-0.17
33 Zdeno Chara D 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 23:50 0.22 29-14 1.09-0.50
37 Patrice Bergeron C 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 19:26 0.45 19-7 0.87-0.20
44 Matt Bartkowski D 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 18:30 0.03 20-12 0.58-0.33
47 Torey Krug D 0 0 0 1 0 3 1 23:00 0.22 33-9 1.06-0.17
63 Brad Marchand L 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 17:47 0.33 23-9 1.03-0.23
88 David Pastrnak R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15:33 0.09 20-6 0.43-0.26
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Niklas Svedberg OTL 24 23 1 64:38 2.09 +1.09