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Pittsburgh Penguins at Buffalo Sabres

Apr 11, 2015 · First Niagara Center

Team Goals Shots
Pittsburgh Penguins 2 38
Buffalo Sabres 0 28

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
2nd Period
14:23 PIT Brandon Sutter (20) Blake Comeau (15), Nick Spaling (18) 1 - 0
3rd Period
08:26 PIT Brandon Sutter (21) Daniel Winnik (25), Patric Hornqvist (26) 2 - 0

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
13:22 BUF Anders Lindback Roughing 2
13:22 PIT Sidney Crosby Roughing 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Pittsburgh Penguins 67 53 38 2 2.7 65.0
Buffalo Sabres 44 33 28 0 1.2 35.0

How the game went

302520151050Start2nd3rdBuffalo Sabres aheadPittsburgh Penguins 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 Buffalo Sabres had taken more, and below it and blue while Pittsburgh Penguins had.

Expected goals

Pittsburgh Penguins: 2.7 expected, 2 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 1.2 expected, 0 scored

012Start2nd3rdEndPIT goal, 14:23 of 2nd, a 10% chancePIT goal, 8:26 of 3rd, a 16% chancePIT 2.7BUF 1.2

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

Pittsburgh Penguins
Buffalo Sabres

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.

Pittsburgh Penguins

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Chris Kunitz · Evgeni Malkin · David Perron14:1571.073.40-0
Daniel Winnik · Sidney Crosby · Patric Hornqvist11:0154.575.50-0
Maxim Lapierre · Blake Comeau · Nick Spaling8:3180.087.20-0
Steve Downie · Brandon Sutter · Beau Bennett6:3950.055.10-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Rob Scuderi · Ian Cole13:2369.275.71-0
Paul Martin · Ben Lovejoy10:3480.095.80-0
Paul Martin · Ian Cole5:4588.9100.00-0

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
20 Brandon Sutter C 2 0 2 2 0 4 0 13:11 0.29 9-6 0.31-0.11
15 Blake Comeau L 0 1 1 1 0 2 3 12:42 0.11 16-5 0.45-0.06
16 Nick Spaling C 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 16:30 0.03 16-5 0.34-0.05
26 Daniel Winnik L 0 1 1 1 0 1 2 16:07 0.03 14-14 0.80-0.33
70 Patric Hornqvist R 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 17:18 0.29 14-14 0.73-0.33
7 Rob Scuderi D 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 26:28 29-17 1.35-0.54
7 Paul Martin D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 25:50 27-8 0.69-0.03
14 Chris Kunitz L 0 0 0 0 0 5 1 16:18 0.29 23-11 0.83-0.40
17 Steve Downie R 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 12:12 0.14 11-6 0.18-0.03
21 Ben Lovejoy D 0 0 0 1 0 4 3 24:47 0.10 27-15 0.68-0.31
27 Craig Adams R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00:00
28 Ian Cole D 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 27:20 31-19 1.39-0.55
40 Maxim Lapierre C 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 11:13 0.20 15-5 0.42-0.05
44 Taylor Chorney D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 15:35 0.01 16-11 0.39-0.19
57 David Perron L 0 0 0 0 0 4 3 16:04 0.27 24-10 0.88-0.38
71 Evgeni Malkin C 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 18:43 0.30 27-14 0.93-0.46
78 Beau Bennett R 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 10:12 11-5 0.27-0.03
87 Sidney Crosby C 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 17:30 0.22 15-10 0.59-0.18
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
29 Marc-Andre Fleury W, SO 28 28 0 60:00 1.19 +1.19

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Matt Moulson · Tyler Ennis · Johan Larsson15:5422.74.10-0
Brian Gionta · Marcus Foligno · Mikhail Grigorenko13:0632.323.50-1
Zac Dalpe · Nicolas Deslauriers · Phil Varone9:2538.921.40-1
Matt Ellis · Patrick Kaleta · Cody Hodgson6:3037.518.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Andrej Meszaros · Rasmus Ristolainen21:2131.822.40-1
Tyson Strachan · Zach Bogosian18:0836.419.10-1
Chad Ruhwedel · Nikita Zadorov12:4335.339.20-0

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
5 Chad Ruhwedel D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 12:49 6-11 0.18-0.28
11 Cody Hodgson C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 08:41 4-9 0.03-0.22
12 Brian Gionta R 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 19:58 0.08 11-25 0.33-1.11
17 Marcus Foligno L 0 0 0 -1 0 4 6 20:08 0.40 15-22 0.56-1.00
22 Zac Dalpe C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 11:54 0.11 10-12 0.20-0.34
22 Johan Larsson L 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 19:54 0.03 10-18 0.19-0.59
24 Zach Bogosian D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 6 23:41 0.06 13-23 0.20-0.88
25 Mikhail Grigorenko C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 15:24 10-24 0.31-1.11
26 Matt Moulson L 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 19:49 0.10 5-18 0.02-0.59
28 Tyson Strachan D 0 0 0 -1 0 4 2 20:02 0.06 14-22 0.33-0.94
36 Patrick Kaleta R 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 08:20 6-8 0.11-0.15
37 Matt Ellis L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 09:52 5-11 0.11-0.24
41 Andrej Meszaros D 0 0 0 -1 0 4 1 23:51 0.14 14-30 0.29-1.01
44 Nicolas Deslauriers L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 2 11:51 0.04 10-16 0.18-0.43
44 Phil Varone C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 12:30 10-12 0.20-0.30
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 25:00 16-32 0.42-1.10
63 Tyler Ennis R 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 22:30 0.15 9-20 0.19-0.65
91 Nikita Zadorov D 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 14:37 0.02 7-12 0.18-0.28
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
39 Anders Lindback L 38 36 2 57:09 2.26 +0.26