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Calgary Flames at Buffalo Sabres

Mar 7, 2018 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Calgary Flames 5 41
Buffalo Sabres 1 26

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
05:35 CGY Sam Bennett (10) Mark Jankowski (8), Travis Hamonic (10) 1 - 0
08:35 CGY Mark Jankowski (12) Sam Bennett (15), TJ Brodie (27) 2 - 0
2nd Period
05:00 CGY Mark Giordano (12) Micheal Ferland (15), Sean Monahan (30) 3 - 0
06:01 CGY Sean Monahan (30) Johnny Gaudreau (55), TJ Brodie (28) 4 - 0
18:39 CGY Dougie Hamilton (15) PP Mark Giordano (23), Johnny Gaudreau (56) 5 - 0
3rd Period
19:42 BUF Casey Nelson (2) Jason Pominville (16), Scott Wilson (6) 5 - 1

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
2nd Period
02:21 CGY Dougie Hamilton High sticking 2
06:38 CGY Mikael Backlund Delaying game puck over glass 2
15:20 CGY Curtis Lazar Roughing 2
15:20 CGY Curtis Lazar Roughing 2
15:20 BUF Nick Baptiste Roughing 2
17:50 BUF Robin Lehner Roughing 2
3rd Period
09:04 BUF Jacob Josefson Slashing 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Calgary Flames 59 49 41 5 2.9 64.0
Buffalo Sabres 42 35 26 1 1.4 36.0

How the game went

20151050Start2nd3rdBuffalo Sabres aheadCalgary Flames 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 Calgary Flames had.

Expected goals

Calgary Flames: 2.9 expected, 5 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 1.4 expected, 1 scored

012Start2nd3rdEndCGY goal, 5:35 of 1st, a 8% chanceCGY goal, 8:35 of 1st, a 6% chanceCGY goal, 5:00 of 2nd, a 3% chanceCGY goal, 6:01 of 2nd, a 6% chanceCGY goal, 18:39 of 2nd, a 6% chanceBUF goal, 19:42 of 3rd, a 1% chanceCGY 2.9BUF 1.4

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

Calgary Flames
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.

Calgary Flames

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Michael Frolik · Mikael Backlund · Matthew Tkachuk11:4157.172.50-0
Micheal Ferland · Johnny Gaudreau · Sean Monahan9:5486.791.82-0
Matt Stajan · Troy Brouwer · Curtis Lazar8:2838.554.50-0
Mark Jankowski · Garnet Hathaway · Sam Bennett7:3170.692.92-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Travis Hamonic · TJ Brodie17:2864.989.42-0
Michael Stone · Brett Kulak16:0845.556.40-1
Mark Giordano · Dougie Hamilton15:1773.785.31-0

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
9 Sam Bennett C 1 1 2 1 0 3 3 13:53 0.20 17-9 1.31-0.19
23 Sean Monahan C 1 1 2 2 0 4 0 12:35 0.13 16-2 0.59-0.04
55 Mark Giordano D 1 1 2 1 0 3 2 21:26 0.07 14-5 0.73-0.13
77 Mark Jankowski L 1 1 2 1 0 4 0 12:20 0.29 13-5 1.07-0.08
13 Johnny Gaudreau L 0 2 2 2 0 1 0 15:06 0.14 17-5 0.76-0.12
78 TJ Brodie D 0 2 2 3 0 1 0 21:33 0.04 30-14 1.58-0.18
7 Dougie Hamilton D 1 0 1 2 2 3 0 17:45 0.15 17-5 0.80-0.13
52 Travis Hamonic D 0 1 1 2 0 1 3 22:38 0.03 24-13 1.38-0.16
79 Micheal Ferland L 0 1 1 2 0 1 0 12:19 0.20 15-5 0.71-0.12
11 Mikael Backlund C 0 0 0 0 2 4 0 18:01 0.10 15-11 0.47-0.18
18 Matt Stajan C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 14:13 0.12 10-11 0.30-0.15
19 Matthew Tkachuk L 0 0 0 0 0 6 2 16:19 0.31 15-11 0.63-0.22
20 Curtis Lazar C 0 0 0 0 4 0 4 12:59 6-9 0.16-0.16
21 Garnet Hathaway R 0 0 0 1 0 3 1 13:40 0.77 14-6 1.08-0.08
26 Michael Stone D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 3 19:40 0.05 15-13 0.47-0.26
27 Brett Kulak D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 17:13 0.09 11-12 0.33-0.25
36 Troy Brouwer R 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 16:18 0.01 8-9 0.18-0.14
67 Michael Frolik R 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 16:04 0.16 18-10 0.68-0.18
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
33 David Rittich 26 25 1 59:58 1.39 +0.39

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Ryan O'Reilly · Zemgus Girgensons · Sam Reinhart13:0852.443.50-1
Jason Pominville · Johan Larsson · Scott Wilson10:4940.022.31-1
Kyle Okposo · Jacob Josefson · Jordan Nolan9:2331.312.50-0
Benoit Pouliot · Seth Griffith · Nick Baptiste5:4125.012.40-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Nathan Beaulieu · Victor Antipin17:5926.915.90-0
Marco Scandella · Rasmus Ristolainen7:5935.36.40-1
Brendan Guhle · Casey Nelson7:5429.419.91-1

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
8 Casey Nelson D 1 0 1 -1 0 2 0 17:40 0.03 13-15 0.29-0.59
20 Scott Wilson C 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 15:13 0.01 8-13 0.18-0.77
29 Jason Pominville R 0 1 1 0 0 3 1 17:19 0.23 6-14 0.17-0.73
2 Brendan Guhle D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 17:43 10-20 0.17-0.82
6 Marco Scandella D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 19:33 0.03 14-14 0.23-0.94
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 15:28 0.20 7-14 0.10-0.62
10 Jacob Josefson C 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 13:13 0.01 8-12 0.11-0.46
13 Nick Baptiste R 0 0 0 -1 2 1 0 10:53 0.02 3-14 0.08-1.06
13 Sam Reinhart C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 19:28 0.17 13-11 0.18-0.24
22 Johan Larsson L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 2 18:25 0.09 9-18 0.20-1.00
23 Seth Griffith C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 09:26 0.01 4-10 0.09-0.64
28 Nathan Beaulieu D 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 18:08 0.03 7-19 0.15-0.80
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 -2 0 2 3 17:13 0.06 12-14 0.19-0.31
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 4 22:57 0.02 11-20 0.11-1.25
67 Benoit Pouliot L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 10:29 0.18 3-13 0.10-0.95
71 Jordan Nolan C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 3 13:36 0.03 8-21 0.09-0.93
90 Ryan O'Reilly C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 20:36 0.24 12-11 0.18-0.24
93 Victor Antipin D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 19:51 7-22 0.15-0.88
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
90 Robin Lehner 19 18 1 33:59 1.29 +0.29
1 Chad Johnson 22 18 4 26:01 1.63 -2.37