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Buffalo Sabres at Toronto Maple Leafs

Jan 17, 2017 · Air Canada Centre

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 3 27
Toronto Maple Leafs 4 32

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
10:16 BUF Kyle Okposo (13) Unassisted 1 - 0
19:27 BUF Evander Kane (12) Brian Gionta (11), Jake McCabe (9) 2 - 0
2nd Period
00:32 TOR Leo Komarov (8) Nazem Kadri (11), William Nylander (20) 2 - 1
08:29 TOR Matt Martin (3) Unassisted 2 - 2
09:45 TOR Auston Matthews (22) Zach Hyman (14), Connor Brown (10) 2 - 3
3rd Period
13:04 TOR James van Riemsdyk (16) PP Mitch Marner (26), Nikita Zaitsev (16) 2 - 4
17:37 BUF William Carrier (4) Zemgus Girgensons (6), Brian Gionta (12) 3 - 4

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
2nd Period
01:45 TOR Mitch Marner Tripping 2
3rd Period
12:48 BUF Zach Bogosian Holding 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 46 37 27 3 2.6 40.4
Toronto Maple Leafs 61 44 32 4 3.1 59.6

How the game went

051015Start2nd3rdToronto Maple Leafs 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 Toronto Maple Leafs had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 2.6 expected, 3 scored · Toronto Maple Leafs: 3.1 expected, 4 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 10:16 of 1st, a 9% chanceBUF goal, 19:27 of 1st, a 8% chanceBUF goal, 17:37 of 3rd, a 10% chanceTOR goal, 0:32 of 2nd, a 15% chanceTOR goal, 8:29 of 2nd, a 2% chanceTOR goal, 9:45 of 2nd, a 12% chanceTOR goal, 13:04 of 3rd, a 11% chanceTOR 3.1BUF 2.6

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
Toronto Maple Leafs

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
Marcus Foligno · Sam Reinhart · Jack Eichel14:0841.754.10-1
Brian Gionta · Evander Kane · Zemgus Girgensons11:0637.529.91-0
Kyle Okposo · Ryan O'Reilly · William Carrier7:5836.429.11-1
Matt Moulson · Cal O'Reilly · Nicolas Deslauriers4:2750.00.00-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jake McCabe · Rasmus Ristolainen19:5947.649.62-1
Cody Franson · Zach Bogosian19:1340.039.61-2
Justin Falk · Taylor Fedun11:3231.325.00-0

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
12 Brian Gionta R 0 2 2 2 0 2 1 16:01 0.09 11-17 0.54-0.83
8 Kyle Okposo R 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 19:04 0.18 14-23 0.60-1.28
28 William Carrier L 1 0 1 1 0 1 4 10:34 0.10 11-15 0.56-0.83
91 Evander Kane L 1 0 1 1 0 4 5 20:39 0.33 13-23 0.49-1.19
22 Jake McCabe D 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 22:33 20-24 0.96-1.14
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 1 1 2 0 0 3 14:17 10-16 0.45-0.88
4 Taylor Fedun D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 12:18 5-11 0.26-0.78
9 Jack Eichel C 0 0 0 -1 0 6 1 19:19 1.09 11-20 0.75-0.90
11 Cody Franson D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 3 21:11 0.09 14-23 0.57-1.04
13 Sam Reinhart C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 18:02 0.09 12-16 0.74-0.57
17 Marcus Foligno L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 8 17:52 11-14 0.74-0.55
18 Cal O'Reilly C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 08:06 0.09 3-3 0.11-0.09
24 Zach Bogosian D 0 0 0 -1 2 2 2 22:25 0.13 14-23 0.57-0.94
26 Matt Moulson L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 10:02 0.04 5-2 0.10-0.08
42 Justin Falk D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 13:04 0.01 6-12 0.36-0.85
44 Nicolas Deslauriers L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 4 07:33 3-5 0.02-0.30
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 26:05 0.06 21-25 1.06-1.12
90 Ryan O'Reilly C 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 22:08 0.29 16-23 0.59-1.31
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
90 Robin Lehner 16 13 3 29:45 1.81 -1.19
31 Anders Nilsson L 16 15 1 28:46 1.25 +0.25

Toronto Maple Leafs

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Zach Hyman · Connor Brown · Auston Matthews14:0558.356.81-1
James van Riemsdyk · Tyler Bozak · Mitch Marner13:2158.642.60-1
Leo Komarov · Nazem Kadri · William Nylander12:0857.765.31-1
Matt Martin · Frederik Gauthier · Nikita Soshnikov7:1571.493.51-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Roman Polak · Matt Hunwick13:0366.766.30-1
Jake Gardiner · Nikita Zaitsev10:3355.657.01-0
Jake Gardiner · Connor Carrick9:2841.767.61-1

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
17 Matt Martin L 1 0 1 1 0 2 5 09:10 0.03 10-2 0.71-0.04
21 James van Riemsdyk L 1 0 1 -1 0 3 0 15:14 0.36 17-13 0.43-0.68
34 Auston Matthews C 1 0 1 0 0 5 0 17:32 0.60 17-11 1.07-0.74
47 Leo Komarov R 1 0 1 0 0 2 4 16:54 0.18 17-14 0.83-0.44
16 Connor Brown R 0 1 1 0 0 2 2 16:21 0.17 14-10 0.91-0.69
18 Zach Hyman L 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 18:07 0.24 15-11 0.96-0.74
22 Nikita Zaitsev D 0 1 1 0 0 3 1 24:52 0.17 27-21 1.07-1.00
88 William Nylander R 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 14:35 0.06 21-11 0.97-0.39
91 Nazem Kadri C 0 1 1 0 0 4 1 16:44 0.50 19-14 0.90-0.44
93 Mitch Marner R 0 1 1 -1 2 0 1 15:51 17-12 0.43-0.58
21 Tyler Bozak C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 16:06 0.12 17-13 0.43-0.68
38 Frederik Gauthier C 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 09:18 0.47 6-3 0.53-0.09
41 Nikita Soshnikov R 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 12:08 0.05 7-6 0.63-0.18
44 Morgan Rielly D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 02:57 2-5 0.18-0.33
45 Roman Polak D 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 20:58 21-11 1.14-0.69
48 Matt Hunwick D 0 0 0 -2 0 3 1 27:32 0.06 28-15 1.63-0.80
51 Jake Gardiner D 0 0 0 2 0 2 1 29:24 0.08 30-20 1.53-0.76
58 Connor Carrick D 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 14:17 10-8 0.33-0.20
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
31 Frederik Andersen W 27 24 3 60:00 2.58 -0.42