Buffalo Sabres v. Dallas Stars - By the Numbers

by David Oleksy on Feb 11, 2012 9:01 AM EST in Crunching Numbers

The Buffalo Sabres played a great game and they were rewarded with a 3-2 shootout win against the Dallas Stars. It was one of those games when you felt like they were going to come out on the short end despite playing a really good hockey game.

Buffalo trailed 2-0 in the third period against a team that doesn't give up the lead very often. Thomas Vanek deflected a beautiful pass from Jason Pominville to get Buffalo on the board on a rare power play opportunity. Dallas looked like they were going to run out the clock, but Derek Roy punched in a rebound after a nice faceoff win by Paul Gaustad with under a minute left in regulation.

Buffalo looked like they were going to win in overtime but Kari Lehtonen made a miraculous save with one second left. After the near miss in overtime there was a feeling it wasn't meant to be for the Sabres but they eventually came through in the shootout to finish off a big win.

The Stats

Shift Charts

Head-to-Head Ice Time

Corsi/Fenwick Numbers

Scoring Chances - after the jump

Team	Period	Time	Note	BUF						Opponent
DAL	1	17:02	Vincour	3	9	23	24	29	30	3	11	14	32	33	81	5v5
BUF	1	15:17	Vanek	3	8	24	26	30	37	11	16	23	28	32	36	5v5
DAL	1	11:35	Dvorak	3	8	10	22	26	30	2	6	20	24	32	38	5v5
DAL	1	10:06	Benn	9	10	23	29	30	57	3	14	29	32	33	81	5v5
BUF	1	7:09	Ennis	3	10	21	30	42	63	3	14	29	32	33	81	5v5
BUF	1	5:02	Myers	9	10	23	29	30	57	3	21	32	33	63	73	5v5
DAL	1	2:07	Ryder Goal	3	24	28	29	30		3	21	32	33	63	73	4v5
BUF	1	0:39	Pominvillle	6	9	23	29	30	44	14	28	29	32	36	81	5v5
BUF	2	17:35	Stafford	3	9	21	22	23	30	2	6	21	29	32		5v4
BUF	2	17:30	Stafford	3	9	21	22	23	30	2	6	21	29	32		5v4
BUF	2	14:42	Stafford	6	10	21	30	42	63	3	11	16	23	32	33	5v5
DAL	2	13:06	Vincour	3	22	24	26	30	36	3	6	14	29	32	81	5v5
DAL	2	12:29	Daley	6	21	30	42	44	63	2	6	20	24	32	38	5v5
BUF	2	11:08	Leopold	3	9	23	24	29	30	11	16	23	28	32	36	5v5
DAL	2	9:10		6	24	28	30	36		6	14	23	29	32	36	4v5
BUF	2	4:48	Ehrhoff	3	9	10	23	29	30	14	28	29	32	36	81	5v5
DAL	2	3:28	Robidas	10	22	28	30	36	57	3	21	32	33	63	73	5v5
BUF	3	16:26	Gaustad	10	28	30	36	42	57	2	6	21	32	63	73	5v5
DAL	3	15:43	Vincour Goal	6	10	21	26	30	63	14	28	29	32	36	81	5v5
BUF	3	15:09	Vanek	10	26	29	30	57	63	3	16	24	28	32		5v4
BUF	3	14:53	Vanek Goal	10	26	29	30	57	63	3	16	24	28	32		5v4
BUF	3	0:39	Roy Goal	9	21	26	28	29	57	3	14	21	29	32	33	5v5
BUF	4	0:01	Vanek	9	10	26	30	57		3	14	29	32	33		4v4

#	Player	EV			PP			SH
3	J. LEOPOLD	18:24	4	3	0:44	2	0	3:22	0	1
6	M. WEBER	17:08	2	2	0:10	0	0	1:08	0	1
8	C. MCCORMICK	4:15	1	1	0:00	0	0	0:00	0	0
9	D. ROY	18:52	6	2	0:59	2	0	2:02	0	0
10	C. EHRHOFF	22:25	6	4	1:29	2	0	2:08	0	0
21	D. STAFFORD	14:59	3	2	1:09	2	0	0:02	0	0
22	B. BOYES	8:33	0	3	1:09	2	0	0:00	0	0
23	V. LEINO	16:56	4	2	1:09	2	0	0:00	0	0
24	R. REGEHR	15:15	2	2	0:00	0	0	3:57	0	2
26	T. VANEK	14:21	3	3	1:14	2	0	0:26	0	0
28	P. GAUSTAD	14:03	2	1	0:00	0	0	4:07	0	2
29	J. POMINVILLE	17:55	5	2	1:14	2	0	1:56	0	1
30	R. MILLER	55:28	9	7	2:23	4	0	6:38	0	2
36	P. KALETA	13:28	1	2	0:00	0	0	4:08	0	1
37	M. ELLIS	7:45	1	0	0:00	0	0	0:33	0	0
42	N. GERBE	15:44	3	1	0:00	0	0	0:00	0	0
44	A. SEKERA	18:14	1	1	0:10	0	0	0:33	0	0
57	T. MYERS	20:50	4	2	1:14	2	0	2:08	0	0
63	T. ENNIS	16:19	2	2	1:14	2	0	0:02	0	0