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Buffalo Sabres at Detroit Red Wings

Feb 22, 2018 · Little Caesars Arena

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 3 30
Detroit Red Wings 2 37

Decided in overtime.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
03:39 BUF Rasmus Ristolainen (6) Nathan Beaulieu (6), Johan Larsson (8) 1 - 0
2nd Period
03:42 DET Jonathan Ericsson (3) Unassisted 1 - 1
13:09 BUF Evander Kane (20) PP Jason Pominville (12), Rasmus Ristolainen (23) 2 - 1
3rd Period
18:35 DET Justin Abdelkader (10) PP Frans Nielsen (13), Henrik Zetterberg (33) 2 - 2
Overtime
04:59 BUF Marco Scandella (3) Johan Larsson (9), Sam Reinhart (18) 3 - 2

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
08:05 DET Luke Glendening Tripping 2
2nd Period
00:40 BUF Casey Nelson Hooking 2
11:32 DET Niklas Kronwall Hooking 2
17:06 BUF Nick Baptiste Hooking 2
3rd Period
02:29 DET Dylan Larkin Tripping 2
17:04 BUF Johan Larsson Tripping 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 47 39 30 3 3.3 41.7
Detroit Red Wings 70 47 37 2 3.2 58.3

How the game went

10505101520Start2nd3rdOTDetroit Red Wings 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 Detroit Red Wings had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 3.3 expected, 3 scored · Detroit Red Wings: 3.2 expected, 2 scored

0123Start2nd3rdOTBUF goal, 3:39 of 1st, a 1% chanceBUF goal, 13:09 of 2nd, a 10% chanceBUF goal, 4:59 of overtime, a 11% chanceDET goal, 3:42 of 2nd, a 2% chanceDET goal, 18:35 of 3rd, a 38% chanceBUF 3.3DET 3.2

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
Detroit Red Wings

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
Ryan O'Reilly · Evander Kane · Sam Reinhart13:2343.877.70-0
Jason Pominville · Johan Larsson · Scott Wilson10:5241.215.11-0
Benoit Pouliot · Jacob Josefson · Nick Baptiste6:2727.311.20-0
Kyle Okposo · Zemgus Girgensons · Evan Rodrigues6:1512.56.70-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Marco Scandella · Casey Nelson16:4732.077.30-0
Nathan Beaulieu · Rasmus Ristolainen15:5448.343.11-0
Josh Gorges · Victor Antipin9:1337.568.90-1

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
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 1 1 2 1 0 3 3 28:00 0.13 19-19 0.37-0.50
22 Johan Larsson L 0 2 2 2 2 2 2 18:22 0.02 11-11 0.25-0.37
6 Marco Scandella D 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 28:28 0.13 10-21 0.73-0.45
91 Evander Kane L 1 0 1 0 0 3 2 20:06 0.41 16-18 1.22-0.26
13 Sam Reinhart C 0 1 1 1 0 4 0 20:56 0.69 16-18 0.96-0.26
28 Nathan Beaulieu D 0 1 1 1 0 3 2 17:22 0.04 14-16 0.18-0.24
29 Jason Pominville R 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 15:25 0.29 11-12 0.81-0.39
4 Josh Gorges D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 13:01 0.01 6-12 0.67-0.33
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 13:36 3-10 0.04-0.18
8 Casey Nelson D 0 0 0 0 2 2 3 19:44 0.12 13-17 1.09-0.18
10 Jacob Josefson C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11:09 3-11 0.02-0.21
13 Nick Baptiste R 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 08:15 5-9 0.06-0.18
17 Evan Rodrigues C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 15:27 0.05 4-9 0.44-0.17
20 Scott Wilson C 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 15:39 0.17 9-11 0.50-0.39
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 12:32 0.05 6-8 0.19-0.10
67 Benoit Pouliot L 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 13:50 0.31 5-12 0.33-0.27
90 Ryan O'Reilly C 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 22:21 0.87 15-18 0.93-0.26
93 Victor Antipin D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 15:42 9-13 0.98-0.33
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
90 Robin Lehner 37 35 2 64:34 3.23 +1.23

Detroit Red Wings

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Henrik Zetterberg · Gustav Nyquist · Anthony Mantha11:4875.090.50-0
Frans Nielsen · Justin Abdelkader · Darren Helm9:2159.110.60-0
Tomas Tatar · Andreas Athanasiou · Dylan Larkin7:3190.085.50-0
Frans Nielsen · Darren Helm · Luke Glendening3:1050.014.41-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Nick Jensen · Danny DeKeyser17:4974.268.30-0
Trevor Daley · Jonathan Ericsson12:4945.511.91-1
Niklas Kronwall · Xavier Ouellet12:3060.044.30-0

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
8 Justin Abdelkader L 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 15:54 0.77 14-14 0.13-1.29
52 Jonathan Ericsson D 1 0 1 0 0 5 2 17:10 0.28 12-12 0.14-0.76
40 Henrik Zetterberg C 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 21:50 0.22 16-7 0.41-0.14
81 Frans Nielsen C 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 18:57 0.28 19-13 0.25-1.44
3 Nick Jensen D 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 21:32 0.10 23-9 0.49-0.23
14 Gustav Nyquist R 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 20:17 0.26 15-6 0.41-0.11
17 David Booth L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 02:01 1-6 0.06-0.04
39 Anthony Mantha R 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 18:20 0.24 13-6 0.41-0.11
41 Luke Glendening C 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 09:57 5-12 0.05-0.42
43 Darren Helm C 0 0 0 1 0 3 1 18:14 0.20 18-14 0.25-1.47
55 Niklas Kronwall D 0 0 0 -1 2 2 0 20:38 0.07 13-14 0.39-0.87
59 Tyler Bertuzzi L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 11:35 0.16 7-13 0.22-0.33
61 Xavier Ouellet D 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 13:23 0.03 14-8 0.41-0.49
65 Danny DeKeyser D 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 24:19 0.06 25-9 0.50-0.23
71 Dylan Larkin C 0 0 0 -1 2 0 2 20:04 0.06 14-6 0.36-0.28
83 Trevor Daley D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 22:01 0.05 11-15 0.10-1.17
89 Andreas Athanasiou C 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 16:12 0.18 12-5 0.20-0.18
90 Tomas Tatar L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 18:04 0.22 13-6 0.30-0.24
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Jimmy Howard 30 27 3 63:55 3.35 +0.35