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Buffalo Sabres at Ottawa Senators

Feb 15, 2018 · Canadian Tire Centre

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 2 25
Ottawa Senators 3 36

Decided in overtime.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
06:31 BUF Scott Wilson (5) Johan Larsson (7), Nathan Beaulieu (5) 1 - 0
3rd Period
05:15 OTT Marian Gaborik (8) Erik Karlsson (33), Matt Duchene (19) 1 - 1
15:31 BUF Evan Rodrigues (4) Kyle Okposo (26), Casey Nelson (4) 2 - 1
19:29 OTT Derick Brassard (16) Marian Gaborik (8), Matt Duchene (20) 2 - 2
Overtime
01:13 OTT Mike Hoffman (16) Erik Karlsson (34), Matt Duchene (21) 2 - 3

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
07:46 BUF Sam Reinhart Hooking 2
13:42 OTT Mark Borowiecki Roughing 2
13:42 BUF Zemgus Girgensons Roughing 2
14:31 BUF Sam Reinhart Hooking 2
2nd Period
06:40 OTT Cody Ceci Holding 2
14:50 BUF Evan Rodrigues Slashing 2
18:31 BUF Benoit Pouliot Holding the stick 2
3rd Period
11:18 OTT Colin White Slashing 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 44 34 25 2 1.2 39.1
Ottawa Senators 75 53 36 3 3.0 60.9

How the game went

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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: 1.2 expected, 2 scored · Ottawa Senators: 3.0 expected, 3 scored

012Start2nd3rdOTBUF goal, 6:31 of 1st, a 4% chanceBUF goal, 15:31 of 3rd, a 4% chanceOTT goal, 5:15 of 3rd, a 8% chanceOTT goal, 19:29 of 3rd, a 9% chanceOTT goal, 1:13 of overtime, a 6% chanceOTT 3.0BUF 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

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
Benoit Pouliot · Ryan O'Reilly · Sam Reinhart12:2652.638.50-0
Kyle Okposo · Evander Kane · Evan Rodrigues9:2338.113.31-1
Jason Pominville · Johan Larsson · Scott Wilson8:5532.114.91-0
Jacob Josefson · Zemgus Girgensons · Nick Baptiste6:5130.012.30-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Marco Scandella · Casey Nelson15:0224.29.41-0
Nathan Beaulieu · Rasmus Ristolainen13:2737.514.60-0
Josh Gorges · Victor Antipin11:0752.639.30-1

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

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
17 Evan Rodrigues C 1 0 1 0 2 1 1 15:56 0.14 10-14 0.29-0.78
20 Scott Wilson C 1 0 1 1 0 2 2 13:42 0.04 9-22 0.09-0.59
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 13:22 0.14 11-13 0.40-0.73
8 Casey Nelson D 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 19:02 0.03 9-26 0.13-1.04
22 Johan Larsson L 0 1 1 0 0 2 3 17:12 0.04 9-22 0.09-0.58
28 Nathan Beaulieu D 0 1 1 1 0 1 2 16:25 0.02 11-16 0.16-0.49
4 Josh Gorges D 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 15:21 12-11 0.25-0.39
6 Marco Scandella D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 3 26:01 0.04 10-26 0.16-1.10
10 Jacob Josefson C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 10:15 3-8 0.05-0.43
13 Nick Baptiste R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 08:53 0.02 3-9 0.05-0.38
13 Sam Reinhart C 0 0 0 -2 4 2 2 18:34 0.12 12-10 0.13-0.19
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 13:53 0.18 5-8 0.25-0.37
29 Jason Pominville R 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 11:13 0.01 9-19 0.09-0.52
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 4 28:18 0.03 13-18 0.27-0.52
67 Benoit Pouliot L 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 16:44 10-10 0.12-0.19
90 Ryan O'Reilly C 0 0 0 -2 0 3 0 22:07 0.23 13-9 0.24-0.19
91 Evander Kane L 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 14:58 0.18 9-15 0.22-0.84
93 Victor Antipin D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 11:43 0.02 12-9 0.40-0.31
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
90 Robin Lehner OTL 36 33 3 61:13 3.02 +0.02

Ottawa Senators

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Marian Gaborik · Mike Hoffman · Matt Duchene10:5871.487.61-1
Derick Brassard · Zack Smith · Mark Stone10:1869.284.70-0
Tom Pyatt · Magnus Paajarvi · Jean-Gabriel Pageau8:3172.786.00-0
Ryan Dzingel · Nicholas Shore · Colin White7:0850.042.40-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Johnny Oduya · Erik Karlsson10:4676.584.71-0
Cody Ceci · Thomas Chabot5:2571.470.50-0
Mark Borowiecki · Cody Ceci5:1975.095.40-0

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
95 Matt Duchene C 0 3 3 2 0 4 1 21:02 0.54 17-12 0.52-0.10
12 Marian Gaborik R 1 1 2 1 0 2 1 18:12 0.20 16-9 0.48-0.15
65 Erik Karlsson D 0 2 2 2 0 6 1 29:36 0.25 23-13 0.75-0.27
61 Derick Brassard C 1 0 1 0 0 3 0 18:58 0.77 20-11 1.07-0.26
68 Mike Hoffman C 1 0 1 2 0 3 1 20:44 0.26 17-7 0.52-0.07
5 Cody Ceci D 0 0 0 0 2 3 2 22:37 0.10 19-13 0.71-0.12
5 Ben Harpur D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 13:46 0.01 18-14 1.15-0.46
10 Tom Pyatt L 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 13:33 0.02 9-8 0.17-0.03
14 Ryan Dzingel C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 12:17 0.09 8-9 0.25-0.33
15 Zack Smith C 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 15:28 0.17 20-10 1.03-0.20
16 Colin White C 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 08:46 0.01 8-7 0.20-0.26
21 Nicholas Shore C 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 08:45 8-6 0.20-0.26
29 Johnny Oduya D 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 19:59 16-10 0.56-0.13
44 Jean-Gabriel Pageau C 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 12:47 8-5 0.14-0.07
56 Magnus Paajarvi L 0 0 0 0 0 4 5 11:40 0.12 8-7 0.14-0.08
61 Mark Stone R 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 20:39 0.08 20-11 1.08-0.24
72 Thomas Chabot D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 16:27 0.01 12-6 0.17-0.11
90 Mark Borowiecki D 0 0 0 -1 2 3 5 13:40 0.31 18-12 0.53-0.27
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
41 Craig Anderson W 25 23 2 59:56 1.27 -0.73