By the numbers: Game 42 vs. St. Louis

Scoring Chances

Team	Period	Time	Note	Home						Away						State
Home	1	17:16	Reaves from Lapierre, save	1	4	9	22	40	75	10	20	25	31	52	80	5v5
Home	1	12:31	Oshie from Steen, save	1	19	20	27	42	74	8	31	39	44	68	88	5v5
Home	1	12:16	Schwartz from Shattenkirk, miss	1	4	12	17	22	91	4	12	31	57	61	89	5v5
Away	1	9:31	Couture from Dillon, save (4v5 PK)	1	12	17	20	22	91	4	31	39	57	61		5v4
Home	1	9:23	Steen from Schwartz, goal (5v4 PP)	1	12	17	20	27	91	4	31	39	44	57		5v4
Away	1	5:39	Sheppard from Nieto, save	1	5	21	23	25	26	4	15	31	48	61	83	5v5
Home	1	1:46	Tarasenko from Lehtera, miss (5v4 PP)	1	12	17	19	27	91	4	31	39	57	61		5v4
Away	1	1:35	Couture, goal (4v5 PK)	1	12	17	19	27	91	4	31	39	57	61		5v4
Away	2	19:31	Karlsson from Couture rebound, goal	1	19	20	27	42	74	8	31	39	44	68	88	5v5
Home	2	19:21	Backes from Oshie, miss	1	19	20	27	42	74	8	31	39	44	68	88	5v5
Home	2	17:25	Reaves from Ott, miss	1	5	9	25	40	75	10	20	25	31	44	88	5v5
Home	2	16:57	Jaskin from Berglund, miss	1	4	21	22	23	26	10	25	31	44	83	88	5v5
Away	2	16:17	Wingels from Nieto, save	1	12	17	19	27	91	12	31	52	57	80	83	5v5
Home	2	14:36	Oshie from Backes, miss	1	4	20	22	42	74	15	31	48	61	80	89	5v5
Away	2	12:46	Irwin from Burns, save (5v4 PP)	1	19	20	27	42		8	12	31	39	52	88	4v5
Away	2	12:40	Pavelski from Couture, save (5v4 PP)	1	19	20	27	42		8	12	31	39	52	88	4v5
Home	2	11:10	Lehtera from Schwartz, goal	1	4	12	17	25	91	4	10	31	61	83	89	5v5
Home	2	8:26	Tarasenko from Lehtera, miss	1	4	9	12	25	75	15	25	31	48	80	88	5v5
Home	2	6:41	Oshie from Steen rebound, goal	1	19	20	27	42	74	10	20	25	31	44	88	5v5
Away	2	5:37	Hertl from Braun rebound, save	1	4	21	22	23	26	4	15	32	48	61	83	5v5
Home	2	4:42	Tarasenko from Shattenkirk, miss	1	4	17	22	26	91	4	32	39	57	61	68	5v5
Home	2	0:26	Oshie from Steen, miss	1	19	20	26	27	74	12	32	52	57	80	89	5v5
Home	3	19:46	Backes from Steen, miss	1	4	20	22	42	74	4	12	32	57	61	89	5v5
Away	3	14:40	Couture from Pavelski, save	1	4	21	23	26	27	32	39	52	68	80	89	5v5
Away	3	14:19	Hertl from Sheppard, save	1	4	21	23	26	27	15	32	48	52	80	89	5v5
Home	3	10:57	Berglund from Stastny, goal	1	19	21	23	26	27	32	39	48	52	88	89	5v5
Home	3	8:02	Backes from Schwartz, goal	1	17	19	27	42	91	32	39	44	68	88	89	5v5
Home	3	5:37	Stastny from Jaskin, save (5v4 PP)	1	19	21	23	26	27	4	32	57	61	68		5v4
Home	3	4:44	Ott from Shattenkirk, save (5v4 PP)	1	4	9	22	40	75	4	12	32	61	83		5v4
Away	3	4:10	McGinn, miss	1	5	20	25	42	74	10	20	25	32	44	88	5v5

San Jose

#	Player	EV			PP			SH
4	DILLON, BRENDEN	16:43	2	4	00:00	0	0	02:45	2	4
8	PAVELSKI, JOE	11:33	1	2	01:56	2	0	00:31	0	0
10	DESJARDINS, ANDREW	12:57	1	5	00:00	0	0	00:45	0	0
12	MARLEAU, PATRICK	14:14	1	3	02:05	2	0	03:06	0	1
15	SHEPPARD, JAMES	12:18	3	2	00:40	0	0	00:00	0	0
20	SCOTT, JOHN	11:35	1	3	00:00	0	0	00:00	0	0
25	MCGINN, TYE	13:18	1	5	00:00	0	0	00:00	0	0
31	NIEMI, ANTTI		3	10		2	0		2	2
32	STALOCK, ALEX		4	5		0	0		0	2
39	COUTURE, LOGAN	11:57	2	5	01:56	2	0	01:34	2	2
44	VLASIC, MARC-EDOUARD	16:31	2	6	00:40	0	0	02:57	0	1
48	HERTL, TOMAS	13:26	3	3	00:00	0	0	00:00	0	0
52	IRWIN, MATT	17:16	3	3	02:37	2	0	00:13	0	0
57	WINGELS, TOMMY	14:35	1	4	00:49	0	0	01:58	2	3
61	BRAUN, JUSTIN	17:48	2	5	00:00	0	0	02:39	2	3
68	KARLSSON, MELKER	11:53	2	4	00:49	0	0	00:24	0	1
80	TENNYSON, MATT	18:23	3	4	00:08	0	0	00:13	0	0
83	NIETO, MATT	12:14	3	2	00:00	0	0	02:41	0	1
88	BURNS, BRENT	16:11	2	8	02:05	2	0	02:51	0	0
89	GOODROW, BARCLAY	14:18	2	7	00:00	0	0	00:39	0	0

St. Louis

#	Player	EV			PP			SH
1	ELLIOTT, BRIAN		15	7		4	2		0	2
4	GUNNARSSON, CARL	17:58	8	3	00:45	1	0	00:45	0	0
5	JACKMAN, BARRET	16:55	1	2	00:00	0	0	01:30	0	0
9	OTT, STEVE	11:11	3	0	00:45	1	0	01:30	0	0
12	LEHTERA, JORI	10:12	3	1	02:10	2	2	00:00	0	0
17	SCHWARTZ, JADEN	12:13	4	1	02:10	2	2	00:00	0	0
19	BOUWMEESTER, JAY	15:08	6	2	00:49	2	1	01:15	0	2
20	STEEN, ALEXANDER	13:32	6	2	03:44	1	1	01:15	0	2
21	BERGLUND, PATRIK	13:44	2	4	00:37	1	0	00:00	0	0
22	SHATTENKIRK, KEVIN	18:21	6	1	04:12	1	1	00:45	0	0
23	JASKIN, DMITRIJ	14:26	2	4	00:37	1	0	00:00	0	0
25	BUTLER, CHRIS	17:44	3	2	00:00	0	0	00:00	0	0
26	STASTNY, PAUL	14:43	4	4	02:54	1	0	00:00	0	0
27	PIETRANGELO, ALEX	16:46	6	4	02:08	3	1	01:15	0	2
40	LAPIERRE, MAXIM	11:15	2	0	00:45	1	0	01:30	0	0
42	BACKES, DAVID	15:16	6	2	02:17	0	0	01:15	0	2
74	OSHIE, T.J.	16:25	6	2	02:04	0	0	00:00	0	0
75	REAVES, RYAN	10:01	3	0	00:45	1	0	00:00	0	0
91	TARASENKO, VLADIMIR	11:20	4	1	02:23	2	2	00:00	0	0

Period-by-Period Summary

Period	Totals		EV		PP		5v3 PP		SH		5v3 SH
1	3	5	1	3	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0
2	5	9	3	9	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	3	5	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0

SJ Even Strength Scoring Chance Save Percentage: 73.3%

STL Even Strength Scoring Chance Save Percentage: 85.7%

There’s really not much to say here for San Jose, aside from “all hail Matt Nieto and James Sheppard,” as they somehow managed to have positive scoring chance differentials in this game, despite San Jose getting outchanced at an almost 2-1 ratio. By these numbers, the third line was the Sharks’ best, as every member of that line had an even or better scoring chance differential, and the third D pairing was the Sharks best (again, by these numbers alone), though that has everything to do with the rest of the defensemen on the team finishing the game with disastrous scoring chance differentials, and almost nothing to do with that pairing’s actual play (it really seems like a miracle that that pairing was able to escape the night with only a -1 scoring chance differential at evens).

Every once in a while, the story is brought up about how Jamie Baker played in a 7-1 win for the Sharks once, and ended up a -1 on the night. I feel like that’s comparable to what happened with Barret Jackman, Dmitrij Jaskin, and Patrik Berglund last night. Somehow those three ended up with negative scoring chance differentials, when the next worst differentials were Stastny’s 0, and Lapierre’s +2. I guess if there’s one positive to be drawn from this game, it’s that SJ’s third line somehow managed to outchance St. Louis’, though I imagine score effects played some role in that.

Zone Entries

San Jose

Player	# of successful entries	Shots generated from player’s entries	Shots per entry	# of controlled entries	Shots generated from player’s controlled entries	Shots per controlled entry	% of entries with control	Failed entries
4	1	0	0.00	0	0	#DIV/0!	0%	0
8	1	0	0.00	0	0	#DIV/0!	0%	2
10	3	2	0.67	1	1	1.00	33%	1
12	0	0	#DIV/0!	0	0	#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!	0
15	3	4	1.33	1	1	1.00	33%	1
20	5	0	0.00	0	0	#DIV/0!	0%	0
25	2	0	0.00	1	0	0.00	50%	1
39	1	2	2.00	1	2	2.00	100%	0
44	1	1	1.00	1	1	1.00	100%	0
48	3	2	0.67	1	0	0.00	33%	0
52	3	1	0.33	2	1	0.50	67%	0
57	4	1	0.25	2	0	0.00	50%	0
61	2	2	1.00	0	0	#DIV/0!	0%	0
68	8	5	0.63	4	4	1.00	50%	0
80	2	1	0.50	0	0	#DIV/0!	0%	0
83	6	2	0.33	1	0	0.00	17%	0
88	1	0	0.00	0	0	#DIV/0!	0%	0
89	2	0	0.00	1	0	0.00	50%	1
Team	48	23	0.48	16	10	0.63	33%	6
Opp	76	36	0.47	35	18	0.51	46%	5

St. Louis

Player	# of successful entries	Shots generated from player’s entries	Shots per entry	# of controlled entries	Shots generated from player’s controlled entries	Shots per controlled entry	% of entries with control	Failed entries
STL4	5	8	1.60	2	3	1.50	40%	0
STL5	3	2	0.67	0	0	#DIV/0!	0%	0
STL9	4	2	0.50	1	1	1.00	25%	0
STL12	1	1	1.00	0	0	#DIV/0!	0%	0
STL17	8	5	0.63	6	4	0.67	75%	0
STL19	3	0	0.00	0	0	#DIV/0!	0%	0
STL20	7	4	0.57	7	4	0.57	100%	3
STL21	0	0	#DIV/0!	0	0	#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!	0
STL22	4	3	0.75	2	2	1.00	50%	0
STL23	3	2	0.67	1	0	0.00	33%	0
STL25	4	0	0.00	0	0	#DIV/0!	0%	0
STL26	4	1	0.25	3	1	0.33	75%	0
STL27	1	0	0.00	0	0	#DIV/0!	0%	0
STL40	3	0	0.00	2	0	0.00	67%	0
STL42	5	1	0.20	2	0	0.00	40%	0
STL74	10	3	0.30	3	1	0.33	30%	0
STL75	4	0	0.00	1	0	0.00	25%	1
STL91	7	4	0.57	5	2	0.40	71%	1
Team	76	36	0.47	35	18	0.51	46%	5

Well, Melker Karlsson had a good night through the neutral zone. That’s basically it, on the Shark side of things. Not only did the team as a whole not attempt many entries, but the amount of shots they generated on many of the players’ entries was abysmal, as a third of the team’s players ended the night with zero shot attempts off of their entries. The team did a good job of generating shot attempts off of Desi and Shep’s entries, but both those players only had 33% carry-in rates, numbers that we’d obviously like to see higher. What didn’t help matters at all was Marleau’s zero entries last night. I’m not one to ever blame Marleau for any of the team’s faults, but in a game where the team really struggled to do anything productive in the neutral zone, the Sharks really could’ve used Patty’s neutral zone prowess.

The only real bad thing you could say about St. Louis here is that they didn’t manage as many shot attempts per carry-in as you’d expect. Aside from that, they’re awesome. They attempted a ton of entries, they carried the puck in on almost half of those entries, and they had players like Tarasenko, Shattenkirk, Steen, and Schwartz absolutely killing it with their neutral zone performances. Sure, some players like Backes and Oshie didn’t have games that matched what we expect from them, but in a game where the rest of their team more than picked up the slack, you can’t complain too much.

Entry Targeting

San Jose

Player #	# of entry attempts against	Carry-ins against	Failed entries against	Carry % against	Break up %
4	4	3	0	75.00	0.00
5				#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
8				#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
10	4	1	0	25.00	0.00
12	1	0	0	0.00	0.00
13				#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
15	5	1	0	20.00	0.00
18				#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
19				#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
20	1	0	0	0.00	0.00
25	3	1	0	33.33	0.00
27				#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
37				#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
38				#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
39	2	1	0	50.00	0.00
41				#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
43				#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
44	14	7	0	50.00	0.00
48	4	2	0	50.00	0.00
50				#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
52	5	3	0	60.00	0.00
57	1	0	0	0.00	0.00
61	12	4	2	33.33	16.67
68	2	1	0	50.00	0.00
75				#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
76				#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
80	8	4	0	50.00	0.00
81				#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
83				#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
88	8	5	1	62.50	12.50
89	1	0	0	0.00	0.00
Team	75	33	3	44.00	4.00

St. Louis

Player #	# of entry attempts against	Carry-ins against	Failed entries against	Carry % against	Break up %
4	9	5	0	55.56	0.00
5	5	1	1	20.00	20.00
9				#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
10				#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
12	1	0	1	0.00	100.00
17				#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
19	3	0	1	0.00	33.33
20	2	0	0	0.00	0.00
21	2	0	0	0.00	0.00
22	4	1	0	25.00	0.00
23	1	1	0	100.00	0.00
25	10	3	0	30.00	0.00
26	1	0	0	0.00	0.00
27	5	3	1	60.00	20.00
28				#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
32				#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
33				#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
40				#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
42	1	0	0	0.00	0.00
48				#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
56				#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
74	2	0	1	0.00	50.00
75	1	0	0	0.00	0.00
91	1	0	0	0.00	0.00
Team	48	14	5	29.17	10.42

Should’ve figured it was coming, after two straight games of sub-50 numbers, but “we have gone [0] games with Burns having a sub-50 carry-in against percentage.” He and Vlasic finally had a below-average game defending against zone entries, as that pairing saw a carry-in against percentage above 50 for the first time in their young existence this season. The only player who did really well by these numbers was Braun, which is good I guess, as hopefully that makes up for a little bit of the flack he got for his performance last night.

I tend to be a Carl Gunnarsson supporter, as I feel he’s been unnecessarily ridiculed for his time in Toronto, under a bad head coach, and with a non-functioning hip, but I fail to understand how it is his carry-in against percentage was almost double that of his team’s overall numbers in this game. Same goes for Pietrangelo, though the fact that SJ only attempted five entries against him makes me think he should probably get a pass due to a smaller-than-usual sample size.

Zone Exits

San Jose

Player #	Touches	In-Zone Passes	Pass-Outs	Carry-Outs	Turnovers	Icings	Overall Success %	Exit Success %	Turnover %
4	10	6	0	1	3	0	10.00	25.00	30.00
5							#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
8	8	3	1	1	3	0	25.00	40.00	37.50
10	9	5	1	1	2	0	22.22	50.00	22.22
12	5	1	1	1	2	0	40.00	50.00	40.00
13							#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
15	5	1	0	2	2	0	40.00	50.00	40.00
18							#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
19							#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
20	8	2	0	3	3	0	37.50	50.00	37.50
25	10	1	2	1	6	0	30.00	33.33	60.00
27							#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
37							#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
38							#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
39	7	3	2	0	2	0	28.57	50.00	28.57
41							#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
43							#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
44	10	6	0	1	3	0	10.00	25.00	30.00
48	7	1	0	2	4	0	28.57	33.33	57.14
50							#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
52	20	10	0	1	8	1	5.00	10.00	40.00
57	4	1	0	0	3	0	0.00	0.00	75.00
61	15	9	3	1	1	1	26.67	66.67	6.67
68	7	0	1	3	3	0	57.14	57.14	42.86
75							#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
76							#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
80	17	6	1	1	9	0	11.76	18.18	52.94
81							#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
83	9	3	2	0	3	1	22.22	33.33	33.33
88	13	5	3	0	5	0	23.08	37.50	38.46
89	7	0	1	2	4	0	42.86	42.86	57.14
Totals:	171	63	18	21	66	3	22.81	36.11	38.60

St. Louis

Player #	Touches	In-Zone Passes	Pass-Outs	Carry-Outs	Turnovers	Icings	Overall Success %	Exit Success %	Turnover %
4	7	3	1	0	3	0	14.29	25.00	42.86
5	14	5	2	0	5	2	14.29	22.22	35.71
9	5	0	2	2	1	0	80.00	80.00	20.00
10							#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
12	2	1	1	0	0	0	50.00	100.00	0.00
17	7	3	0	3	1	0	42.86	75.00	14.29
19	4	3	0	0	1	0	0.00	0.00	25.00
20	6	0	2	1	3	0	50.00	50.00	50.00
21	4	1	1	1	1	0	50.00	66.67	25.00
22	12	6	2	2	2	0	33.33	66.67	16.67
23	2	2	0	0	0	0	0.00	#DIV/0!	0.00
25	14	9	0	2	3	0	14.29	40.00	21.43
26	6	2	0	2	1	1	33.33	50.00	16.67
27	12	10	2	0	0	0	16.67	100.00	0.00
28							#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
32							#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
33							#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
40	1	0	0	0	1	0	0.00	0.00	100.00
42	7	4	1	1	1	0	28.57	66.67	14.29
48							#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
56							#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
74	6	1	0	1	4	0	16.67	20.00	66.67
75	3	1	0	1	1	0	33.33	50.00	33.33
91	8	1	1	4	2	0	62.50	71.43	25.00
Team	120	52	15	20	30	3	29.17	51.47	25.00

Another game of all of the Sharks’ defensemen managing at least one successful breakout. Too bad that didn’t lead to much success for the team as a whole, as a few of the Sharks’ high turnover rates really brought down the team’s overall performance. I really want to like what Tennyson is doing with the big club, because I’m a huge fan of his story and his skillset, but he just isn’t getting it done in some very sheltered minutes. He turned it over so many times last night that I almost ran out of room on my paper to keep track of them, and he finished the night with over a 50% turnover rate. Goodrow, Karlsson, and Hertl also turned the puck over a lot, helping contribute to the team’s almost 40% turnover rate.

Whereas San Jose averaged a successful breakout only one out of three non in-zone pass touches, St. Louis averaged one out of two. Whereas San Jose averaged a turnover on two out of five touches, St. Louis averaged only one out of four. This was a game obviously dominated by St. Louis on all fronts, and it really carried over to the zone exit numbers. Although San Jose and St. Louis had similar overall success% numbers, I don’t think that’s enough to outweigh St. Louis’ dominance in every other category. Worth noting that San Jose had 39 successful breakouts on over 170 D-zone puck touches, while St. Louis had 35 successful breakouts on more than fifty less touches.

Notes:

-Sharks’ third line outplayed St. Louis’ third line, but rest of the team was decimated on scoring chances

-Karlsson had a good night on entries, but the rest of the team did not

-St. Louis had quite a few players (including Tarasenko and Steen) do very well on entries, as they managed over twenty more entries than the Sharks did

-Burns broke his streak of sub-50 carry-in against percentage games, with a 62.50 carry-in against % this game

-Gunnarson and Pietrangelo only Blues’ D-men with carry-in against percentages over 50

-Every Sharks’ D-man had at least one successful zone exit, but Tennyson turned the puck over on over half of his attempts, as did Karlsson, Goodrow, and Hertl

-St. Louis exited the zone more effectively than San Jose, and turned the puck over far less frequently