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Toronto Maple Leafs at Buffalo Sabres

Dec 4, 2018 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Toronto Maple Leafs 4 30
Buffalo Sabres 3 41

Decided in overtime.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
2nd Period
08:33 TOR Auston Matthews (14) Ron Hainsey (9) 1 - 0
14:01 BUF Sam Reinhart (8) Nathan Beaulieu (3), Rasmus Ristolainen (13) 1 - 1
19:50 TOR Jake Gardiner (2) John Tavares (14), Mitch Marner (33) 2 - 1
3rd Period
02:39 BUF Jack Eichel (6) Rasmus Ristolainen (14), Jeff Skinner (9) 2 - 2
12:57 BUF Jack Eichel (7) Sam Reinhart (16) 2 - 3
14:47 TOR Patrick Marleau (7) Morgan Rielly (21), Auston Matthews (8) 3 - 3
Overtime
04:57 TOR Auston Matthews (15) Kasperi Kapanen (9), Jake Gardiner (11) 4 - 3

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
2nd Period
11:19 TOR Connor Brown Interference 2
11:39 BUF Tage Thompson Hooking 2
3rd Period
07:16 BUF Tage Thompson Hooking 2
08:44 TOR Patrick Marleau Interference 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Toronto Maple Leafs 63 41 30 4 3.3 52.3
Buffalo Sabres 60 49 41 3 2.7 47.7

How the game went

50510Start2nd3rdOTBuffalo 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: 3.3 expected, 4 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 2.7 expected, 3 scored

0123Start2nd3rdOTTOR goal, 8:33 of 2nd, a 6% chanceTOR goal, 19:50 of 2nd, a 18% chanceTOR goal, 14:47 of 3rd, a 9% chanceTOR goal, 4:57 of overtime, a 8% chanceBUF goal, 14:01 of 2nd, a 8% chanceBUF goal, 2:39 of 3rd, a 5% chanceBUF goal, 12:57 of 3rd, a 12% chanceTOR 3.3BUF 2.7

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
John Tavares · Zach Hyman · Mitch Marner15:0664.371.91-0
Patrick Marleau · Kasperi Kapanen · Auston Matthews14:3045.536.92-0
Nazem Kadri · Connor Brown · Andreas Johnsson10:4056.352.90-1
Tyler Ennis · Frederik Gauthier · Par Lindholm4:4830.063.40-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jake Gardiner · Nikita Zaitsev16:4438.550.50-2
Ron Hainsey · Morgan Rielly16:1364.751.91-0
Travis Dermott · Igor Ozhiganov13:2229.250.50-0

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
34 Auston Matthews C 2 1 3 3 0 5 0 23:22 0.53 24-20 0.71-0.74
51 Jake Gardiner D 1 1 2 1 0 1 0 24:48 0.18 24-18 1.64-0.93
12 Patrick Marleau C 1 0 1 2 2 2 1 20:20 0.18 21-19 0.61-0.63
42 Kasperi Kapanen R 0 1 1 3 0 1 1 19:07 0.14 19-19 0.49-0.74
44 Morgan Rielly D 0 1 1 3 0 2 2 25:50 0.11 31-15 1.00-0.57
81 Ron Hainsey D 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 20:31 0.02 28-15 0.87-0.67
91 John Tavares C 0 1 1 1 0 5 1 22:00 0.71 21-14 1.06-0.46
93 Mitch Marner R 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 22:20 0.16 19-14 0.91-0.45
16 Connor Brown R 0 0 0 -1 2 2 0 14:11 0.22 10-9 0.42-0.37
18 Zach Hyman L 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 18:23 20-14 0.92-0.56
18 Andreas Johnsson L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 12:38 0.20 10-9 0.42-0.48
22 Nikita Zaitsev D 0 0 0 -3 0 1 1 20:22 0.02 11-18 0.93-0.95
26 Par Lindholm C 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 06:52 3-10 0.68-0.53
38 Frederik Gauthier C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 05:23 0.30 3-8 0.68-0.45
44 Travis Dermott D 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 18:10 0.09 10-19 0.57-0.59
63 Tyler Ennis R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 05:49 0.39 3-8 0.68-0.48
91 Nazem Kadri C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 16:57 0.02 15-9 0.67-0.37
92 Igor Ozhiganov D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 13:48 0.02 8-17 0.49-0.46
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
31 Frederik Andersen W 41 38 3 64:57 2.70 -0.30

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jeff Skinner · Sam Reinhart · Jack Eichel14:0250.039.03-0
Vladimir Sobotka · Evan Rodrigues · Tage Thompson11:2452.645.60-0
Kyle Okposo · Conor Sheary · Casey Mittelstadt9:5859.170.10-1
Patrik Berglund · Johan Larsson · Zemgus Girgensons9:0057.952.70-2
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Zach Bogosian · Rasmus Dahlin14:0245.540.20-0
Rasmus Ristolainen · Lawrence Pilut11:3864.748.90-0
Rasmus Ristolainen · Rasmus Dahlin7:1530.867.21-0

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
9 Jack Eichel C 2 0 2 3 0 8 0 21:49 0.60 15-15 0.71-0.93
13 Sam Reinhart C 1 1 2 3 0 2 1 21:35 0.08 14-17 0.60-1.08
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 2 2 1 0 3 3 27:00 0.27 21-18 0.77-0.63
28 Nathan Beaulieu D 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 15:14 16-17 0.73-1.12
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 1 1 3 0 4 0 18:32 0.15 14-15 0.71-1.08
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 12:07 0.20 14-14 0.74-0.81
8 Casey Nelson D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 02:39 2-1 0.09-0.02
10 Patrik Berglund C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 10:27 0.09 11-11 0.38-0.56
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 12:28 0.14 13-17 0.62-0.84
17 Vladimir Sobotka C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 16:55 0.19 11-13 0.35-0.43
17 Evan Rodrigues C 0 0 0 -1 0 5 0 16:57 0.25 10-15 0.34-0.60
20 Lawrence Pilut D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 22:49 0.02 22-14 0.86-0.61
22 Johan Larsson L 0 0 0 -2 0 2 0 12:20 0.12 13-10 0.41-0.38
24 Zach Bogosian D 0 0 0 -2 0 3 3 26:34 0.09 20-28 0.78-1.37
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 29:15 0.18 21-34 0.93-1.75
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 -2 0 0 3 13:27 0.07 13-13 0.41-0.43
43 Conor Sheary L 0 0 0 -1 0 4 0 15:33 0.26 13-15 0.62-0.34
72 Tage Thompson C 0 0 0 0 4 1 1 15:10 0.02 12-13 0.35-0.77
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Linus Ullmark OTL 30 26 4 64:57 3.27 -0.73