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Buffalo Sabres at Toronto Maple Leafs

Mar 26, 2018 · Air Canada Centre

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 3 27
Toronto Maple Leafs 2 41

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
03:23 BUF Jack Eichel (23) Zemgus Girgensons (6) 1 - 0
2nd Period
17:31 TOR Nazem Kadri (30) Mitch Marner (45), Patrick Marleau (19) 1 - 1
18:42 TOR Patrick Marleau (24) PP Auston Matthews (24), Jake Gardiner (40) 1 - 2
3rd Period
07:56 BUF Casey Nelson (3) Kyle Okposo (29), Johan Larsson (12) 2 - 2
09:37 BUF Jack Eichel (24) Jason Pominville (17), Zemgus Girgensons (7) 3 - 2

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
2nd Period
17:36 BUF Jason Pominville High sticking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 41 33 27 3 2.2 35.7
Toronto Maple Leafs 86 67 41 2 4.8 64.3

How the game went

010203040Start2nd3rdToronto 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: 2.2 expected, 3 scored · Toronto Maple Leafs: 4.8 expected, 2 scored

01234Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 3:23 of 1st, a 12% chanceBUF goal, 7:56 of 3rd, a 3% chanceBUF goal, 9:37 of 3rd, a 4% chanceTOR goal, 17:31 of 2nd, a 13% chanceTOR goal, 18:42 of 2nd, a 29% chanceTOR 4.8BUF 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

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
Jason Pominville · Zemgus Girgensons · Jack Eichel14:3137.538.22-1
Benoit Pouliot · Nick Baptiste · Evan Rodrigues8:0960.071.70-0
Kyle Okposo · Johan Larsson · Scott Wilson7:0354.546.31-0
Kyle Okposo · Ryan O'Reilly · Scott Wilson5:0323.122.30-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Marco Scandella · Casey Nelson19:3328.127.41-1
Rasmus Ristolainen · Brendan Guhle19:1233.333.00-0
Justin Falk · Nathan Beaulieu11:1345.852.60-0

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 Jack Eichel C 2 0 2 1 0 4 2 21:08 0.25 18-28 1.23-1.80
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 2 2 1 0 2 0 18:38 0.20 14-27 0.67-1.69
8 Casey Nelson D 1 0 1 2 0 2 0 22:12 0.07 14-26 0.56-1.05
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 15:00 10-21 0.33-1.15
22 Johan Larsson L 0 1 1 1 0 1 3 17:15 0.08 10-19 0.45-0.74
29 Jason Pominville R 0 1 1 1 2 2 1 18:22 0.41 15-24 1.12-1.23
2 Brendan Guhle D 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 21:02 0.19 14-27 0.91-1.71
6 Marco Scandella D 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 22:45 9-24 0.32-0.91
13 Nick Baptiste R 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 10:07 0.21 12-7 0.55-0.23
13 Sam Reinhart C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13:53 3-21 0.15-1.00
17 Evan Rodrigues C 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 11:35 0.21 11-8 0.39-0.25
20 Scott Wilson C 0 0 0 1 0 3 3 15:35 0.21 13-20 0.56-0.74
28 Nathan Beaulieu D 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 12:50 0.02 14-15 0.73-0.62
42 Justin Falk D 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 14:42 0.08 12-20 0.66-0.81
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 1 0 1 4 26:29 0.07 19-36 1.13-2.18
67 Benoit Pouliot L 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 11:05 10-7 0.38-0.23
71 Jordan Nolan C 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 11:22 0.10 4-19 0.54-0.98
90 Ryan O'Reilly C 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 14:54 0.06 3-21 0.10-0.87
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
1 Chad Johnson W 41 39 2 60:00 4.90 +2.90

Toronto Maple Leafs

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Patrick Marleau · Nazem Kadri · Mitch Marner13:5676.283.41-0
Zach Hyman · William Nylander · Auston Matthews13:0862.260.60-1
James van Riemsdyk · Tyler Bozak · Connor Brown11:5566.752.60-0
Tomas Plekanec · Andreas Johnsson · Kasperi Kapanen10:0152.462.10-2
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jake Gardiner · Nikita Zaitsev18:0063.668.60-2
Ron Hainsey · Morgan Rielly15:1457.664.81-0
Roman Polak · Travis Dermott14:2768.652.90-1

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

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
12 Patrick Marleau C 1 1 2 1 0 3 3 16:02 0.45 16-7 0.65-0.24
91 Nazem Kadri C 1 0 1 1 0 4 0 17:23 0.77 19-5 0.77-0.13
34 Auston Matthews C 0 1 1 -1 0 4 0 17:45 0.44 24-15 1.26-0.78
51 Jake Gardiner D 0 1 1 -2 0 2 2 25:08 0.12 28-14 1.39-0.62
93 Mitch Marner R 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 19:17 0.32 16-7 0.65-0.24
14 Tomas Plekanec C 0 0 0 -2 0 3 0 11:38 0.22 11-10 0.72-0.44
16 Connor Brown R 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 13:06 20-10 0.85-0.70
18 Zach Hyman L 0 0 0 -1 0 4 1 15:45 0.85 25-14 1.34-0.78
18 Andreas Johnsson L 0 0 0 -2 0 2 0 12:15 0.20 12-10 0.74-0.44
21 James van Riemsdyk L 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 16:33 0.38 22-9 0.99-0.67
21 Tyler Bozak C 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 15:53 0.16 21-11 0.94-0.81
22 Nikita Zaitsev D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 3 19:17 22-12 1.12-0.51
42 Kasperi Kapanen R 0 0 0 -2 0 2 1 11:22 0.29 12-10 0.74-0.44
44 Morgan Rielly D 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 21:46 0.01 24-15 1.45-0.73
44 Travis Dermott D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 17:41 0.19 28-11 0.90-0.80
45 Roman Polak D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 5 17:04 0.12 25-13 0.95-0.80
81 Ron Hainsey D 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 17:58 0.05 21-17 1.47-0.84
88 William Nylander R 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 16:23 0.24 24-15 1.26-0.81
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
31 Frederik Andersen L 27 24 3 57:44 2.20 -0.80