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Toronto Maple Leafs at Buffalo Sabres

Mar 5, 2018 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Toronto Maple Leafs 3 41
Buffalo Sabres 5 24

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
01:53 BUF Sam Reinhart (16) PP Rasmus Ristolainen (26), Kyle Okposo (27) 0 - 1
03:43 BUF Jason Pominville (11) Rasmus Ristolainen (27), Johan Larsson (10) 0 - 2
19:52 TOR Leo Komarov (6) PP William Nylander (36), Patrick Marleau (16) 1 - 2
2nd Period
10:48 TOR Leo Komarov (7) Matt Martin (9), Nikita Zaitsev (8) 2 - 2
13:30 BUF Zemgus Girgensons (7) Sam Reinhart (20), Ryan O'Reilly (30) 2 - 3
15:35 BUF Ryan O'Reilly (19) Unassisted 2 - 4
3rd Period
09:55 BUF Johan Larsson (4) Jason Pominville (15), Jordan Nolan (4) 2 - 5
17:57 TOR Mitch Marner (18) PP Connor Carrick (5), Morgan Rielly (32) 3 - 5

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
01:23 TOR Connor Carrick High sticking 2
18:39 BUF Zemgus Girgensons High sticking 2
2nd Period
01:39 BUF Rasmus Ristolainen Fighting 5
01:39 TOR Nazem Kadri Fighting 5
01:39 TOR Nazem Kadri Cross checking 2
3rd Period
16:14 BUF Sam Reinhart Interference goalkeeper 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Toronto Maple Leafs 65 52 41 3 2.9 58.6
Buffalo Sabres 40 35 24 5 2.2 41.4

How the game went

2520151050Start2nd3rdBuffalo Sabres aheadToronto Maple Leafs 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 Toronto Maple Leafs had.

Expected goals

Toronto Maple Leafs: 2.9 expected, 3 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 2.2 expected, 5 scored

012Start2nd3rdEndTOR goal, 19:52 of 1st, a 19% chanceTOR goal, 10:48 of 2nd, a 14% chanceTOR goal, 17:57 of 3rd, a 4% chanceBUF goal, 1:53 of 1st, a 13% chanceBUF goal, 3:43 of 1st, a 9% chanceBUF goal, 13:30 of 2nd, a 11% chanceBUF goal, 15:35 of 2nd, a 6% chanceBUF goal, 9:55 of 3rd, a 30% chanceTOR 2.9BUF 2.2

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

Toronto Maple Leafs
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.

Toronto Maple Leafs

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Zach Hyman · Connor Brown · William Nylander12:0955.053.30-0
James van Riemsdyk · Tyler Bozak · Kasperi Kapanen11:3857.957.70-0
Patrick Marleau · Nazem Kadri · Mitch Marner11:1561.967.40-2
Tomas Plekanec · Leo Komarov · Matt Martin8:5652.941.51-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jake Gardiner · Nikita Zaitsev14:3970.473.71-0
Connor Carrick · Travis Dermott14:3558.859.00-0
Ron Hainsey · Morgan Rielly12:5930.434.50-3

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
47 Leo Komarov R 2 0 2 -1 0 5 5 15:10 0.57 11-10 0.40-0.75
93 Mitch Marner R 1 0 1 -2 0 5 1 18:20 0.37 16-8 0.76-0.28
12 Patrick Marleau C 0 1 1 -3 0 3 0 15:15 0.19 16-9 0.76-0.38
17 Matt Martin L 0 1 1 0 0 1 5 09:50 0.14 9-8 0.36-0.51
22 Nikita Zaitsev D 0 1 1 1 0 1 2 19:31 0.01 23-9 0.91-0.27
44 Morgan Rielly D 0 1 1 -3 0 1 0 20:57 0.01 13-16 0.50-0.60
58 Connor Carrick D 0 1 1 0 2 3 0 19:30 0.09 14-9 0.59-0.45
88 William Nylander R 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 18:17 0.18 15-9 0.60-0.37
14 Tomas Plekanec C 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 11:17 0.09 10-10 0.44-0.67
16 Connor Brown R 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 15:18 0.02 11-9 0.42-0.37
18 Zach Hyman L 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 15:47 0.29 11-9 0.42-0.37
21 James van Riemsdyk L 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 16:42 0.32 15-8 0.50-0.27
21 Tyler Bozak C 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 16:47 0.05 14-9 0.49-0.28
42 Kasperi Kapanen R 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 15:04 0.03 12-10 0.38-0.43
44 Travis Dermott D 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 17:30 0.01 12-7 0.53-0.33
51 Jake Gardiner D 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 22:47 0.09 28-12 1.04-0.75
81 Ron Hainsey D 0 0 0 -4 0 0 1 17:00 0.05 12-19 0.51-0.97
91 Nazem Kadri C 0 0 0 -3 7 4 0 14:56 0.40 13-9 0.59-0.38
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
31 Frederik Andersen L 24 19 5 57:32 2.21 -2.79

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Ryan O'Reilly · Zemgus Girgensons · Sam Reinhart13:4252.240.91-0
Kyle Okposo · Jacob Josefson · Jordan Nolan12:4223.543.00-0
Jason Pominville · Johan Larsson · Scott Wilson11:0050.055.81-0
Benoit Pouliot · Nick Baptiste · Kyle Criscuolo3:1250.0100.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Marco Scandella · Rasmus Ristolainen18:0640.039.52-0
Brendan Guhle · Casey Nelson12:4241.712.20-1
Nathan Beaulieu · Victor Antipin11:5045.553.70-0

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
13 Sam Reinhart C 1 1 2 1 2 3 0 17:51 0.22 13-11 0.39-0.48
22 Johan Larsson L 1 1 2 2 0 2 1 20:30 0.30 15-17 0.83-0.56
29 Jason Pominville R 1 1 2 3 0 5 0 16:20 0.32 15-14 0.89-0.55
90 Ryan O'Reilly C 1 1 2 1 0 2 0 20:41 0.29 14-16 0.45-0.83
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 2 2 3 5 1 4 25:52 0.07 17-24 0.98-0.97
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 1 0 1 2 2 2 7 18:02 0.13 14-14 0.41-0.63
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 17:56 0.14 4-18 0.38-0.65
71 Jordan Nolan C 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 15:54 0.11 8-16 0.80-0.63
2 Brendan Guhle D 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 14:50 0.03 7-7 0.21-0.33
6 Marco Scandella D 0 0 0 2 0 2 1 25:47 0.09 14-23 0.56-0.96
8 Casey Nelson D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 19:51 0.03 9-13 0.43-0.55
10 Jacob Josefson C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 16:48 0.15 5-17 0.39-0.61
13 Nick Baptiste R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 06:47 4-5 0.02-0.27
20 Scott Wilson C 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 17:22 0.05 11-18 0.46-0.65
28 Nathan Beaulieu D 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 16:04 0.23 15-16 0.71-0.61
41 Kyle Criscuolo C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 04:29 2-4 0.01-0.11
67 Benoit Pouliot L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 06:24 3-3 0.02-0.15
93 Victor Antipin D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15:36 10-19 0.47-0.64
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Chad Johnson W 41 38 3 60:00 2.99 -0.01