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Game Notes S.J vs EDM

Edmonton Oilers (Head Coach: Todd McLellan) at San Jose Sharks (Head Coach: Peter DeBoer)

NHL Game #740, SAP Center at San Jose, 2017-01-26 08:30:00PM (GMT -0700)

Oilers 4-1

Referees: Graham Skilliter, Trevor Hanson
Linesmen: Shane Heyer, Vaughan Rody

Three Stars: Andrej Sekera; Cam Talbot; Connor McDavid

Wait, what? The NHL picked Seksy as the first star? I mean yeah, he had a brilliant game, but without Talbot blasting it out of the park, the Oilers likely struggle to get even a point out of this one.

OK, heh heh – you know you don’t need my recap of this game. I’ll summarize it this way:

My three stars this game:
1. Cam Talbot
2. Cam Talbot
3. (tie) Andrej Sekera and Cam Talbot

Also of note is that McDavid empty net goal – he knew he was so far in the clear that he didn’t actually even shoot … he curled the damn thing into the net. So delightfully insolent!

Like the ANA game, the fancies are all in favour of San Jose, but check out the gameflow – it was actually pretty even after two. Enormous push by the Sharks in the third but Talbot stopped everything and the Oilers counterpunched two goals, and that’s all she wrote.

Although San Jose is my second favourite team (I have friends and family including two sisters there, and try and get in a game whenever I visit during hockey season), I’m going to spend the all-star break admiring McDavid and basking in this win and the standings!

As with the Anaheim post-game, I’ve included the stats from the San Jose point of view.

Game at a Glance

Leaderboard

Andrej Sekera led the way with 2 goals
Andrej Sekera, Matt Hendricks, Leon Draisaitl each put 3 shots on goal
Leon Draisaitl was most active on the team with 5 shot attempts
Matt Hendricks was the faceoff champ at 100.0% (2-0)
Connor McDavid led the team in on-ice 5v5 shot attempts at 48.5% (16-17)
Benoit Pouliot trailed the team in 5v5 on-ice shot attempts at 15.0% (3-17)
Adam Larsson was the big hitter with 4

Goal Overview

Team	Scorer	Period	Time	Strength	ShotType	ShotDist	Danger
S.J	Logan Couture	1	4:05	EV	Wrist	18.0	1.81
EDM	Andrej Sekera	1	19:54	EV	Slap	26.0	1.40
EDM	Andrej Sekera	2	17:09	PP	Slap	64.0	0.25 – this is an example of where the danger rating is based on distance and not on the screen and the own-D deflect
EDM	Drake Caggiula	3	11:31	EV	Snap	42.0	0.52
EDM	Connor Mcdavid	3	18:08	EN	“Wrist” – haha	34.0	0.66

Who Won the 5v5 Shot Battle?

Which Battle	Who Won	By How Much
Shots	S.J	26 to 17 (60.5%)
Average Shot Distance Against (ft)	EDM	38 to 30
Corsi	S.J	66 to 33 (66.7%)
Score & Venue Adjusted Corsi	S.J	64 to 34 (65.1%)
Fenwick	S.J	43 to 25 (63.2%)
Dangerous Fenwick	S.J	40 to 25 (61.5%)

Detailed Metrics

Shot Metrics

Strength	CF	CA	CF%	SACF	SACA	SACF%	FF	FA	FF%	DFF	DFA	DFF%
EV	33	66	33.3	34.1	63.6	34.9	25	43	36.8	25.2	40.3	38.5
All	41	81	33.6	42.8	77.5	35.5	32	53	37.6	30.7	49	38.5

Other Metrics

Team	PP	PPG	PIM	FO	Hits	Giveaways	Takeaways
Sharks	4	0	4	50.9	22	22	15
Oilers	2	1	8	49.1	17	23	9

How the Players Did (On Ice Shot Attempts)

Comparing raw Corsi with DangerousFenwick: look for big discrepancies one way or the other.

Danger Tables

Forwards are sorted by decreasing CF%. Defensemen and pairs sorted by increasing DFA60. Forward lines by decreasing DFF%. Positions are as listed by the NHL roster page, not necessarily where they played.

Centres

Centre	EVTOI	OZS%2	CF	CA	CF%	SACF%	FF%	DFF%
McDavid	14:57	25.0	16	17	48.5	50.8	48.1	59.6
Drai	16:02	25.0	16	20	44.4	46.7	44.8	47.7
D. Caggiula	09:19	20.0	7	10	41.2	43	36.4	39.3
Hendrix	10:18	37.5	8	15	34.8	35.8	53.3	52.4
Eberle	13:05	0.0	6	17	26.1	27.4	28.6	24.3
Letestube	11:08	23.1	7	20	25.9	28.2	38.9	37
Nuge	13:15	0.0	5	17	22.7	23.3	25	20.1

Wingers

Winger	EVTOI	OZS%2	CF	CA	CF%	SACF%	FF%	DFF%
Maroon	15:26	28.6	15	16	48.4	49.9	48	63.7
Slappy	11:04	25.0	6	16	27.3	28.8	21.4	27.2
Looch	10:28	16.7	5	15	25	26.9	14.3	11.9
Kassian	10:39	33.3	5	18	21.7	22.6	35.7	36.4
Poo	11:45	0.0	3	17	15	15.2	9.1	2.2

Defensemen

Defense	EVTOI	OZS%2	CF	CA	CF%	SACF%	FF%	DFF%	DFA60
Russell	19:06	14.3	10	16	38.5	39.9	42.9	56.6	16.65
Seksy	17:49	8.3	10	19	34.5	35.9	33.3	36.4	41.09
Davidson	09:38	33.3	6	15	28.6	29.4	35.7	21.4	52.32
M. Benning	09:39	50.0	5	15	25	25.8	28.6	18.8	55.34
Larsson	20:55	23.1	18	32	36	38	40.5	45.4	55.94
Klefbom	21:22	18.2	17	35	32.7	34.8	35.9	37.8	73.85

Defense Pairings

Pair	EVTOI	DFA60	AvgDistA	CF	CA	CF%	SACF%	FF%	DFF%
Seksy Russell	16:49	18.91	62.2	10	14	41.7	43.3	42.9	56.6
M. Benning Davidson	08:11	43.99	36.2	5	11	31.2	31.8	36.4	25.6
Larsson Klefbom	18:36	54.19	34.7	17	27	38.6	40.7	42.4	48.7

Forward Lines

Line	EVTOI	CF	CA	CF%	SACF%	FF%	DFF%
Maroon Drai McDavid	13:56	14	14	50	51.4	47.8	64.2
Hendrix Kassian Letestube	07:19	5	11	31.2	31.6	55.6	58.1
Eberle Poo Nuge	09:30	3	13	18.8	19	12.5	3.3
Looch D. Caggiula Slappy	07:26	3	10	23.1	23.6	0	0

Game Flows

Rink Maps

Defense Pairings – Shots Given Up

Forward Lines – Shots Taken

Head to Head

NHL Media Highlights

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Caggiula ‘s breakaway tally

Talbot’s tough pair of saves

Sekera’s second goal of the game

Talbot’s tough stop on Marleau

Jones’ swift pad stop on McDavid

Sekera banks goal off Vlasic

Talbot denies Carpenter on rush

Jones’ glove save on Kassian

Couture buries Boedker’s dish

Jones’ kick save on Eberle

Talbot snares Marleau’s slapper

Game Notes S.J vs EDM from San Jose POV