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Toronto Maple Leafs at Buffalo Sabres

Dec 21, 2023 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Toronto Maple Leafs 3 27
Buffalo Sabres 9 34

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
02:27 BUF Jordan Greenway (3) Connor Clifton (8), Zach Benson (8) 0 - 1
07:28 TOR Auston Matthews (26) Unassisted 1 - 1
12:39 TOR Max Domi (3) PP Morgan Rielly (19), Timothy Liljegren (2) 2 - 1
13:44 BUF Owen Power (2) Zach Benson (9), Casey Mittelstadt (20) 2 - 2
15:51 BUF Jeff Skinner (13) Alex Tuch (12) 2 - 3
2nd Period
04:44 BUF Rasmus Dahlin (9) PP Tage Thompson (9), Alex Tuch (13) 2 - 4
05:42 TOR Calle Jarnkrok (8) SH William Nylander (27), Timothy Liljegren (3) 3 - 4
08:22 BUF Tage Thompson (9) Alex Tuch (14), Jeff Skinner (11) 3 - 5
11:04 BUF Kyle Okposo (7) SH Unassisted 3 - 6
3rd Period
11:08 BUF Jack Quinn (1) JJ Peterka (12), Connor Clifton (9) 3 - 7
12:23 BUF Jeff Skinner (14) Alex Tuch (15), Tage Thompson (10) 3 - 8
15:02 BUF Kyle Okposo (8) Peyton Krebs (4), Ryan Johnson (2) 3 - 9

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
10:12 BUF Mattias Samuelsson Holding 2
11:51 BUF Jack Quinn High sticking 2
2nd Period
00:22 BUF Alex Tuch Hooking 2
03:42 TOR Simon Benoit Holding 2
04:34 TOR Noah Gregor Tripping 2
09:16 BUF Jack Quinn Tripping 2
15:56 TOR Jake McCabe Slashing 2
3rd Period
04:35 TOR John Tavares Hooking 2
18:55 TOR Max Domi Roughing 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Toronto Maple Leafs 61 40 27 3 2.5 41.9
Buffalo Sabres 66 49 34 9 4.0 58.1

How the game went

420246810Start2nd3rdBuffalo 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: 2.5 expected, 3 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 4.0 expected, 9 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndTOR goal, 7:28 of 1st, a 1% chanceTOR goal, 12:39 of 1st, a 6% chanceTOR goal, 5:42 of 2nd, a 16% chanceBUF goal, 2:27 of 1st, a 3% chanceBUF goal, 13:44 of 1st, a 11% chanceBUF goal, 15:51 of 1st, a 14% chanceBUF goal, 4:44 of 2nd, a 7% chanceBUF goal, 8:22 of 2nd, a 2% chanceBUF goal, 11:04 of 2nd, a 9% chanceBUF goal, 11:08 of 3rd, a 37% chanceBUF goal, 12:23 of 3rd, a 19% chanceBUF goal, 15:02 of 3rd, a 12% chanceBUF 4.0TOR 2.5

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.

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 · Tyler Bertuzzi · Mitch Marner10:2431.814.20-1
William Nylander · Auston Matthews · Matthew Knies9:2472.771.31-1
Noah Gregor · David Kampf · Bobby McMann8:3853.846.30-1
Calle Jarnkrok · Max Domi · Nick Robertson8:1630.83.40-2
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
TJ Brodie · Jake McCabe14:2246.229.20-2
Morgan Rielly · Timothy Liljegren13:0728.615.71-2
Conor Timmins · Simon Benoit6:5557.124.60-3

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
27 Timothy Liljegren D 0 2 2 -1 0 3 2 23:30 0.16 15-25 0.30-1.22
11 Max Domi C 1 0 1 -4 2 1 1 12:48 0.06 4-14 0.02-0.90
19 Calle Jarnkrok C 1 0 1 -2 0 1 1 15:24 0.16 4-12 0.02-0.68
34 Auston Matthews C 1 0 1 -1 0 1 0 18:19 0.11 17-14 0.89-0.94
44 Morgan Rielly D 0 1 1 -1 0 0 0 22:26 0.01 12-25 0.69-1.21
88 William Nylander R 0 1 1 0 0 6 0 17:18 0.80 20-12 0.86-0.67
14 Nick Robertson L 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 09:14 0.01 4-10 0.02-0.52
18 Noah Gregor L 0 0 0 -1 2 1 4 13:02 0.23 7-9 0.27-0.70
21 Conor Timmins D 0 0 0 -4 0 0 0 12:29 0.01 10-12 0.13-0.65
22 Jake McCabe D 0 0 0 -2 2 1 3 20:53 0.05 12-18 0.50-1.42
44 Simon Benoit D 0 0 0 -3 2 1 2 14:28 0.01 9-11 0.12-0.55
59 Tyler Bertuzzi L 0 0 0 -3 0 2 1 15:14 0.07 10-23 0.17-1.46
64 David Kampf C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 13:57 0.01 8-6 0.36-0.32
74 Bobby McMann C 0 0 0 -2 0 0 2 10:24 8-9 0.36-0.64
78 TJ Brodie D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 22:36 0.12 20-17 1.13-1.49
89 Matthew Knies L 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 12:26 0.11 17-10 0.89-0.48
91 John Tavares C 0 0 0 -1 2 4 3 17:47 0.54 10-22 0.17-1.24
93 Mitch Marner R 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 19:48 0.05 8-21 0.28-1.26
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
31 Martin Jones 15 11 4 31:38 2.32 -1.68
35 Ilya Samsonov L 19 14 5 28:12 1.69 -3.31

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jordan Greenway · Casey Mittelstadt · Zach Benson10:0658.888.71-0
Jeff Skinner · Alex Tuch · Tage Thompson9:4047.856.11-1
Dylan Cozens · Jack Quinn · JJ Peterka9:1062.582.41-0
Kyle Okposo · Victor Olofsson · Peyton Krebs7:0853.859.21-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Mattias Samuelsson · Rasmus Dahlin14:3453.673.40-1
Connor Clifton · Owen Power12:0364.367.53-0
Erik Johnson · Ryan Johnson7:1547.175.71-0

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
89 Alex Tuch R 0 4 4 2 2 1 0 16:14 0.03 15-15 0.66-0.89
53 Jeff Skinner L 2 1 3 0 0 5 0 14:26 0.53 14-15 0.63-0.89
72 Tage Thompson C 1 2 3 0 0 5 1 15:20 0.42 16-12 0.51-0.38
8 Kyle Okposo R 2 0 2 3 0 4 4 11:57 0.42 13-9 0.80-0.26
6 Zach Benson L 0 2 2 2 0 2 0 17:41 0.55 14-8 1.11-0.09
75 Connor Clifton D 0 2 2 5 0 2 6 19:44 0.04 22-14 1.53-0.92
12 Jordan Greenway L 1 0 1 1 0 2 2 16:29 0.13 16-11 0.99-0.10
22 Jack Quinn R 1 0 1 1 4 3 0 16:33 0.51 15-7 0.98-0.18
25 Owen Power D 1 0 1 5 0 2 1 23:29 0.21 26-13 1.74-0.73
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 1 0 1 0 0 2 1 22:45 0.26 19-13 1.05-0.33
10 JJ Peterka R 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 16:31 0.27 12-7 0.97-0.18
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 17:32 15-8 1.20-0.09
19 Peyton Krebs C 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 09:24 0.20 10-10 0.45-0.77
33 Ryan Johnson D 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 12:51 0.02 14-10 0.63-0.16
6 Erik Johnson D 0 0 0 2 0 0 4 14:42 9-13 0.41-0.37
23 Mattias Samuelsson D 0 0 0 -1 2 1 7 19:03 0.12 17-15 1.01-0.34
24 Dylan Cozens C 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 19:06 0.17 13-9 1.11-0.19
95 Victor Olofsson L 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 09:25 0.12 10-6 0.56-0.26
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
27 Devon Levi W 27 24 3 60:00 2.55 -0.45