Scoring chances: ECQF Game 6, Philadelphia Flyers at Buffalo Sabres

The first period was filled with penalties and bad plays by Michael Leighton. Unsurprisingly, the Sabres took advantage of their powerplays to score two goals on four chances. The Flyers didn’t manage a single chance on their powerplays, which included some 5v3 time. The chances for that period were 7-7, with all seven of the Flyers first period chances came at even-strength, including a goal to Danny Briere.

The second period started well for the Flyers, with James Van Riemsdyk finding a loose puck in the slot and shooting it past Ryan Miller to cut the deficit to one. Briere scored again, this time on the powerplay, to tie the game up. In the final ten minutes of the period, the Sabres generated nine more chances, while the Flyers only had one more through Danny Carcillo. In that time, the Sabres had five powerplay chances, including a Drew Stafford shot that hit the post. Nathan Gerbe scored past Brian Boucher‘s glove to regain the lead for Buffalo. Chances for the second period were 6-11 in favour of the Sabres.

The teams then traded chances in the third period until there was 15:00 remaining and Brad Boyes was stopped by Boucher. The Flyers then generated the next eight chances, including a goal to Scott Hartnell, and the Sabres didn’t get a chance until 3:26 remaining. Final chances for the third period were 9-3 to the Flyers.

There were three chances in overtime, two for the Flyers and one for the Sabres, but the only chance that really matters was Ville Leino’s game winner.

Final chances for the game were 24-22 to the Flyers. The Flyers were better at even strength with the chances 18-13, and generated six chances on the powerplay and allowing nine on the penalty kill.

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Scoring Chances for NHL Game Number 30126/ ECQF Game 6

Team	Period	Time	Note	PHI						Opponent
PHI	1	18:08	Coburn	5	21	28	44	49		3	19	26	30	34		4v4
EAS	1	17:48	Niedermeyer GOAL	18	21	25	41	49		20	30	34	57	63		4v4
PHI	1	17:32	Versteeg	10	18	25	41	49		3	17	20	30	63		4v4
PHI	1	16:53	Coburn	5	21	28	44	49		21	30	34	42	57		4v4
EAS	1	11:51	Stafford	5	11	36	44	49		17	19	21	26	30	57	4v5
EAS	1	11:20	Vanek GOAL	6	10	18	41	49		17	19	21	26	30	57	4v5
PHI	1	10:50	Zherdev	21	25	26	28	49	93	3	6	8	20	30	63	5v5
PHI	1	10:48	Zherdev rbd	21	25	26	28	49	93	3	6	8	20	30	63	5v5
EAS	1	5:36	Montador	19	22	41	44	48	49	4	6	20	21	30	63	5v5
EAS	1	5:32	Montador rbd	19	22	41	44	48	49	4	6	20	21	30	63	5v5
PHI	1	5:07	Briere GOAL	19	22	41	44	48	49	4	6	20	21	30	63	5v5
PHI	1	4:32	JVR	5	21	28	44	49	93	3	17	19	22	26	30	5v5
EAS	1	1:10	Stafford ms	5	11	44	49			17	21	26	30	57		3v4
EAS	1	0:34	Vanek GOAL	6	18	25	49			17	21	26	30	57		3v4
PHI	2	19:12	JVR GOAL	6	21	26	28	33	93	4	6	19	22	26	30	5v5
EAS	2	17:51	Gaustad	6	19	22	26	33	48	28	30	34	36	42	57	5v5
PHI	2	16:26	Richards	10	18	25	28	33	41	3	17	20	21	30	63	5v5
EAS	2	14:05	Vanek	21	25	28	33	41	93	3	17	19	22	26	30	5v5
PHI	2	11:59	JVR	20	21	28	33	41	48	19	21	30	34	57		5v4
PHI	2	11:18	Briere GOAL	20	21	28	33	41	48	19	21	30	34	57		5v4
PHI	2	10:50	Richards ms	5	10	13	18	25	33	4	6	20	21	30	63	5v5
EAS	2	10:05	Boyes ms	21	28	33	41	44	93	3	17	19	22	26	30	5v5
EAS	2	8:08	Ennis	10	18	21	25	33	41	3	17	20	21	30	63	5v5
EAS	2	7:56	Connolly	5	11	13	33	36	44	4	6	19	22	26	30	5v5
PHI	2	7:28	Carcillo	5	11	13	33	36	44	4	6	19	30	36	42	5v5
EAS	2	6:34	Vanek	5	11	33	36	44		17	19	21	26	30	57	4v5
EAS	2	6:07	Vanek	5	18	28	33	44		17	19	21	26	30	57	4v5
EAS	2	5:47	Stafford post?	5	11	33	44			17	21	26	30	57	63	3v5
EAS	2	5:20	Myers	5	11	33	44			17	21	26	30	57	63	3v5
EAS	2	4:46	Vanek ms	5	10	11	33	41		17	26	28	30	57	63	4v5
EAS	2	3:52	Gerbe GOAL	6	19	22	33	41	48	3	21	22	30	34	42	5v5
PHI	3	18:05	JVR?	21	25	26	28	33	93	4	6	22	26	30	37	5v5
EAS	3	16:41	Stafford post	6	19	22	33	41	48	3	17	20	21	30	63	5v5
EAS	3	15:00	Boyes	13	22	25	33	41	48	22	26	28	30	34	57	5v5
PHI	3	14:49	Briere	13	22	25	33	41	48	3	22	26	28	30	57	5v5
PHI	3	11:35	JVR	5	21	28	33	44	48	3	17	20	21	30	63	5v5
PHI	3	11:34	Briere rbd	5	21	28	33	44	48	3	17	20	21	30	63	5v5
PHI	3	11:15	JVR rbd	20	21	28	33	41	48	6	25	28	30	57		5v4
PHI	3	9:21	Zherdev	18	19	22	33	44	93	6	20	25	30	57		5v4
PHI	3	9:18	Hartnell GOAL	18	19	22	33	44	93	6	20	25	30	34	57	5v5
PHI	3	8:54	Powe	5	11	13	25	33	36	4	6	20	21	30	63	5v5
PHI	3	4:09	JVR	5	21	28	33	44	93	3	4	21	28	30	42	5v5
EAS	3	3:26	Kaleta	18	21	25	33	41	93	22	26	30	34	37	57	5v5
EAS	4	17:31	Gaustad	19	22	25	33	41	48	28	30	34	36	42	57	5v5
PHI	4	15:19	Versteeg	20	21	28	33	41	48	6	25	28	30	57		5v4
PHI	4	15:17	Leino OT GOAL	20	21	28	33	41	48	6	25	28	30	57		5v4

#	Player	EV			PP			SH
5	B. COBURN	21:49	9	1	0:06	0	0	3:23	0	5
6	S. O’DONNELL	8:12	1	3	0:00	0	0	0:48	0	2
10	K. VERSTEEG	14:51	3	1	1:06	0	0	1:07	0	2
11	B. BETTS	6:55	2	1	0:00	0	0	2:53	0	4
13	D. CARCILLO	11:40	4	2	0:00	0	0	0:00	0	0
18	M. RICHARDS	17:22	4	3	2:19	1	0	1:29	0	3
19	S. HARTNELL	14:11	2	6	3:11	1	0	0:00	0	0
20	C. PRONGER	0:00	0	0	4:09	5	0	0:00	0	0
21	J. VAN RIEMSDYK	18:51	10	5	3:52	5	0	0:00	0	0
22	V. LEINO	15:35	3	7	2:35	1	0	0:00	0	0
25	M. CARLE	25:21	8	6	0:06	0	0	0:42	0	1
26	D. SYVRET	5:57	4	1	0:00	0	0	0:11	0	0
28	C. GIROUX	17:30	11	2	3:56	5	0	0:53	0	1
33	B. BOUCHER	38:43	11	10	2:55	6	0	1:56	0	3
36	D. POWE	7:22	2	1	0:00	0	0	1:09	0	2
41	A. MESZAROS	25:16	4	11	4:04	5	0	1:19	0	2
44	K. TIMONEN	17:59	9	4	2:20	1	0	2:21	0	4
48	D. BRIERE	16:40	4	7	2:58	5	0	0:00	0	0
49	M. LEIGHTON	13:22	7	3	3:36	0	0	2:26	0	4
93	N. ZHERDEV	13:54	7	3	1:42	1	0	0:00	0	0

Giroux (+9), Coburn (+8), JVR (+5) and Timonen (+5) were very good. Zherdev with +4 was not bad either.
Despite all the praise Meszaros was getting in the game thread and recap, he was actually terrible by scoring chances, finishing with 11 against and a -7 differential. All of LBH also had negative differentials.
DSOD finished +3 in only five minutes of even strength time./

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