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October 10, 2013

First Niagara Center | Buffalo

CBJ 41 BUF

FINAL

Head-to-Head vs CBJ all-time
1ST2ND3RDT
CBJ3104
BUF1001
Shots on goal CBJ 33, BUF 27W S. BobrovskyL R. Miller
Summary

Shot attempts were even in all situations; Buffalo lost 1-4.

IN NET
Buffalo R. Miller .879
CBJ S. Bobrovsky .963
POWER PLAY
Buffalo 0 of 1
CBJ 0 of 4
TURNING POINT
N. Foligno goal (P1 16:35), Sabres win chance drops from 51% to 30%
WIN DNA
0 of 4 winning traits
SHIFTS
Buffalo scored while Columbus was pinned
Game Leaders
T. Vanek
1 (1G)
POINTS
T. Vanek
1.6
GAME SCORE
C. Hodgson
23:21
TOI (F)
C. Ehrhoff
26:02
TOI (D)
R. Miller
.879 (29/33)
SAVE %

Stats by Period

All situations, by period.

BUFCBJ

Shots on goal are counted from the play-by-play, which on a few games sits one shot off the box score line in the header and Team Stats.

Additional per-period stats
Each cell is BUF-CBJ.
 1ST2ND3RDTotal
Faceoffs Won7-57-148-922-28
Hits12-94-59-425-18
Takeaways5-23-12-110-4
Giveaways2-32-11-25-6
PDO (5v5): BUF 0.885CBJ 1.115. Shooting % plus save %. About 1.000 is neutral.

Game Flow

Running shot attempts for and against, all situations. Shading shows who led.

Tied for only 10 minutes, too few for a score-tied view.

P3 20:00
+13+70-7-13shot attemptsBUFCBJ

Dots are goals, navy for Buffalo.

How this is measured

Score-adjusted weights each attempt by how often teams take one in that score state, home or away, at that point of the game, league-wide (2016-17 to 2025-26): the share as if the game were tied at a neutral site. Score-tied counts only attempts while tied, and needs 15 tied minutes and 30 attempts.

Win Probability

Buffalo's chance of winning, from the score, the time left and the strength state.

Opened at 51%.

P3 20:00
100%75%50%25%0%Buffalo win chanceBUFCBJ
BIGGEST SWINGS
  1. P1 16:35N. Foligno (1) 51% to 30%-21
  2. P1 08:50T. Vanek (1) 32% to 51%+19
  3. P1 01:51C. Atkinson (1) 51% to 33%-18
  4. P1 18:48M. Gaborik (1) 29% to 14%-15

Dots are goals, diamonds penalties, squares a goalie pull; navy for Buffalo.

How this is measured

Each team is expected to score at the league rate for the season, tilted for home ice and scaled for the strength state. The chance Buffalo ends regulation ahead follows from the score and the time left, with a tie going to 3-on-3 overtime and a shootout. The opening value comes from both teams' goals for and against to that date, regressed toward the league average early in a season, plus home ice.

Shot Map

Every shot attempt, to scale.

Replay
P3 19:52
Shot on goal (size = xG)GoalMissed shot×Blocked shot

Win DNA

0 of 4 winning traits showed up tonight. Win rates are over the full 2013–14 regular season (82 games).

Wins (21)Losses (61, 10 in overtime or a shootout)This game
3+ scorersD combined 3+ ptsScored firstDepth goal50%100%
No
3+ different scorers
Sabres win 60% when yes, 15% when no
No
Defensemen combined for 3+ points
too few games to split
No
Scored first
Sabres win 29% when yes, 24% when no
No
Depth forward scored
Sabres win 35% when yes, 21% when no

Shift Rhythm

Buffalo scored while Columbus was pinned.

BUFCBJTypical game, 2025–26
Pinned time (5v5)0:310:280:53
Shot attempts against while pinned141
Short-rest shifts30622

When Buffalo was pinned

PeriodClockPinnedSkaters (unbroken play)Attempts againstGA
P14:10 to 4:130:03
S. Ott 1:03
00
P15:13 to 5:170:0400
P112:06 to 12:110:0500
P114:53 to 14:580:05
S. Ott 1:05
10
P118:13 to 18:150:0200

When Columbus was pinned

PeriodClockPinnedSkaters (unbroken play)Attempts againstGA
P15:04 to 5:090:0510
P16:53 to 6:560:0300
P18:47 to 8:500:0311
P25:23 to 5:380:1520
P310:49 to 10:510:0200
How this is measured

Pinned. A team is pinned when 3 or more of its skaters on the ice are past a minute of unbroken play, at 5v5. A hemmed-in shift is an even-strength shift in which the unit was on for more than 1:00 without a whistle to change on, and stayed at even strength for most of it. A stoppage inside a shift starts the clock over, however it began: what counts is the run of play they could not get off the ice for. Only the time past the minute counts: the first minute of those shifts plays like any other stretch of the game, while past it the play tilts hard toward the end the pinned team is defending (in 2025–26, a pinned team took 24% of the shot attempts; pinned time was 1.9% of all 5v5 play). Pinned time is seconds on the clock, not each skater's seconds added up.

Short rest. An even-strength shift a skater started after less than 45 seconds on the bench, same period only (an intermission is a full rest).

Typical game. The middle value across Buffalo games in the 2025–26 regular season, counting both teams (164 team totals), so it stands in for a league-average game. This season has no measured row yet, so 2025–26 stands in. A sentence at the top only appears when a number is among the highest fifth of those, or when a goal went in while a team was pinned.

Shots at an empty net are left out of every row. None of this says why a goal went in: a unit that cannot change is pinned and tiring at the same time, so these rows describe when the danger came, not what caused it.

Shift by shift

Shift length, in order, for one Buffalo skater this game.

28 shifts, averaging 0:56. 5 hemmed-in, 5 after a short rest, 0:14 pinned.

Replay
Shift 28
Hemmed-in shiftShort rest before itGoal forGoal againstPenalty takenPower playPenalty killPeriod average and middle half of shifts (even strength)
P1avg 0:47P2avg 1:26P3avg 0:520:000:301:001:302:00151015202528Shift Number

Period averages are even strength only. Typical in 2025–26: 0:45, 0:50 (the long change), 0:47.

Line Combinations

Lines and pairs at 5v5, and how they did together.

What do TOI, CF, xG% etc. mean?
GP
Games in which this exact line/pair shared the ice together at 5v5.
TOI
Time on ice together at 5v5, meaning the whole line/pair on the ice at once, not any one player's own total. Only the seconds that exact pair or trio was the unit count, which is why a pair's TOI and xG% here differ slightly from the WOWY table, where together counts every 5v5 second the two share, whoever else is on the ice.
xGF / xGA
Expected goals for/against while this combo was on the ice, from this site's own xG model.
xG%
Share of on-ice expected goals this combo earned: xGF / (xGF + xGA). The single best read on who controlled play.
GF / GA
Actual goals for/against while this combo was on the ice together.
CF / CA (Corsi For / Against, Shot Attempts)
"Corsi" is just the hockey-analytics name for total shot attempts: shots on goal, missed shots, and blocked shots combined, a volume proxy for who had the puck more. CF is this combo's own attempts, CA is the opponent's.
CF%
Share of on-ice shot attempts (Corsi) this combo earned: CF / (CF + CA).
CF% Rel
This combo's CF% minus the team's own CF% in the minutes this exact combo was NOT on the ice. Positive means the combo lifted the team's play; negative means it dragged it down.
xGF% Rel
This combo's xG% minus the team's own xG% in the minutes this exact combo was NOT on the ice. Positive means the combo lifted the team's expected-goals share; negative means it dragged it down.
FF / FA
Unblocked shot attempts (also called Fenwick): shots on goal plus misses, excluding blocks. One layer closer to real scoring chances than CF/CA.
SF / SA
Shots on goal for/against while this combo was on the ice together.
Minimum Ice Time
Drag the slider on each table down to see combos with less shared ice time. Their percentages get noisier the lower you go, since a combo that barely played together can swing to 100% or 0% off a single shot.
STRENGTH
Forward Lines
LineGPTOIGFGACFCACF%CF% RelFFFASFSA
Ott–Vanek–Hodgson114:1311161551.6%-3.1%13111110
Stafford–Ennis–Foligno110:040110662.5%9.3%7565
Larsson–Flynn–Girgensons17:17016650.0%-4.4%3532
McCormick–Porter–Kaleta15:47001420.0%-35.2%0403
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Defense Pairs
LineGPTOIGFGACFCACF%CF% RelFFFASFSA
Ehrhoff–Pysyk111:5800161061.5%8.7%10767
McBain–Myers18:18006460.0%6.2%4433
Weber–Myers16:570371138.9%-17.0%6956
Weber–Ristolainen15:58014544.4%-10.3%2423
McBain–Ristolainen15:46005455.6%1.6%4443
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Three Stars

1M. GaborikCBJ | RW1G 2A 3P
2C. AtkinsonCBJ | RW1G 1A 2P
3S. BobrovskyCBJ | G1.00 GAA, .963 SV%

Box Score

ON-ICE RATES
Player
G
A
P
+/-
PIM
SOG
iGAx
On-Ice
Game Score
TOI
On-Ice TOIxGF%xGF% RelCF%CF% RelFF%GF%PDOxGSGS
#9 S. Ott (C)
0
1
1
0
0
2
16:1352.8%-2.3%53.6%50.0%1.000
0.9
21:29
#19 C. Hodgson (C)
0
1
1
0
0
2
17:4356.4%+4.2%56.7%50.0%0.981
1.0
23:21
#26 T. Vanek (LW)
1
0
1
0
0
6
17:5859.0%+9.0%61.3%50.0%0.972
1.6
20:40
#8 C. McCormick (C)
0
0
0
0
5
0
6:3828.6%-27.8%16.7%
-0.1
7:00
#12 K. Porter (C)
0
0
0
-1
0
0
8:2825.0%-32.1%14.3%0.0%
-0.4
11:16
#21 D. Stafford (RW)
0
0
0
-1
0
6
14:3863.0%+13.0%59.1%0.0%0.857
0.7
16:55
#22 J. Larsson (LW)
0
0
0
-1
0
1
9:3350.0%-5.1%36.4%0.0%0.750
0.1
9:33
#28 Z. Girgensons (C)
0
0
0
-2
0
1
9:3250.0%-5.1%36.4%0.0%0.333
-0.2
12:12
#36 P. Kaleta (RW)
0
0
0
0
5
0
6:3520.0%-36.2%0.0%
-0.2
7:20
#63 T. Ennis (RW)
0
0
0
-1
0
2
12:4163.6%+12.8%61.1%0.0%0.833
0.4
13:55
#65 B. Flynn (C)
0
0
0
-2
0
1
10:4147.4%-8.7%35.7%0.0%0.667
-0.3
13:21
#82 M. Foligno (LW)
0
0
0
-1
4
1
13:2661.9%+10.3%56.3%0.0%0.857
-0.1
14:56
#3 M. Pysyk (D)
0
0
0
0
0
2
14:4160.7%+9.8%57.9%1.000
0.5
18:43
#4 J. McBain (D)
0
0
0
0
0
0
15:4657.1%+4.0%50.0%1.000
0.2
20:30
#6 M. Weber (D)
0
0
0
-4
7
0
15:2339.3%-22.1%36.4%0.0%0.556
-1.0
16:57
#10 C. Ehrhoff (D)
0
0
0
+1
0
1
18:2062.2%+14.2%59.3%100.0%1.091
0.8
26:02
#55 R. Ristolainen (D)
0
0
0
0
0
1
15:0859.3%+7.5%54.5%50.0%0.966
0.3
19:20
#57 T. Myers (D)
0
0
0
-3
2
1
16:4644.8%-14.1%41.7%0.0%0.700
-0.6
18:28
Total
1
2
3
23
27
3.4

On-ice rates are 5-on-5. Rel compares to the team with that skater off the ice.

GoalieSAGAxGASV%GSAxGSTOIDec
#30 R. Miller334.879-0.160:00L

Team Stats

CBJBUF
33Shots on Goal27
15.4%Shooting % (5v5)3.8%
.962Save % (5v5).846
1.115PDO (5v5)0.885
28 (56%)Faceoffs Won22 (44%)
4Power Play Chances1
0%PP%0%
100%PK%100%
0PPG0
17Penalty Minutes23
18Hits25
14Blocked Shots7
6Giveaways5
4Takeaways10

Full Game Log

1ST
00:00Period start
01:51GOAL (CBJ): Cam Atkinson (1), assists: Marian Gaborik, James Wisniewski
08:50GOAL (BUF): Thomas Vanek (1), assists: Steve Ott, Cody Hodgson
16:35GOAL (CBJ): Nick Foligno (1), assists: Ryan Johansen, R.J. Umberger
18:48GOAL (CBJ): Marian Gaborik (1), assists: Cam Atkinson, Ryan Murray
20:00Period end
2ND
00:00Period start
02:11GOAL (CBJ): Brandon Dubinsky (1), assists: David Savard, Marian Gaborik
20:00Period end
3RD
00:00Period start
20:00Period end
20:00Game end
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