Scoring Chances: Game 57 @ Detroit

It’s hard to fault the Sharks for hemorrhaging chances against for a stretch in the third period immediately after Marc-Edouard Vlasic and Joe Pavelski, arguably the team’s two best players this season, took pucks to the face and left the game (although Pavs would return). Nine consecutive scoring chances by the Red Wings with Vlasic and Pavelski out of commission allowed Detroit to even up the chance count after the Sharks were probably the better team in the second period, outchancing the Wings 10-5, and held their own in a relatively uneventful first.

The two biggest issues, at least from a scoring chance perspective, that prevented the Sharks from picking up their third win against Detroit this season were the Thornton line getting smoked in their matchup against Pavel Datsyuk (a problem that was exacerbated during Pavelski’s departure from the ice) and a relatively ineffective game from the majority of the bottom six.

Best EV Forward: Patrick Marleau (+3), Brad Winchester (+3)

Worst EV Forward: Joe Thornton (-4), Tommy Wingels (-4)

Best EV Defenseman: Marc-Edouard Vlasic (+1), Justin Braun (+1)

Worst EV Defenseman: Dan Boyle (-3)

Period	Totals		EV		PP		5v3 PP		SH		5v3 SH
1	3	4	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
2	10	5	5	3	5	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	5	9	5	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	18	18	13	15	5	2	0	0	0	1	0	0

Team	Period	Time	Note	SJS						Opponent
SJS	1	16:25	Clowe	12	29	31	39	60	61	23	26	31	40	51	55	5v5
DET	1	14:15	Datsyuk	8	19	31	44	57	88	5	13	18	31	44	93	5v5
DET	1	13:30	Goal – Zetterberg	5	12	22	29	31	39	23	26	31	40	51	52	5v5
SJS	1	8:51	McGinn	5	18	22	26	31	64	4	8	20	31	43	52	5v5
SJS	1	7:35	Couture	5	12	22	29	31	39	23	26	31	40	51	55	5v5
DET	1	5:14	Franzen	8	19	31	44	57	88	5	13	18	31	44	93	5v5
DET	1	4:51	Bertuzzi PP	5	22	31	39	69		26	31	44	51	55	96	4v5
SJS	2	19:25	Boyle PP	8	12	19	22	31	39	13	23	31	43	52		5v4
SJS	2	18:13	Burns PP	12	19	31	39	60	88	5	8	20	31	55		5v4
DET	2	15:13	Bertuzzi	8	19	31	44	57	88	5	13	18	31	44	93	5v5
SJS	2	14:01	Demers	10	17	31	60	61	69	4	31	39	48	52	96	5v5
DET	2	10:30	Helm SH	8	12	22	29	31	39	20	23	31	43	52		5v4
DET	2	9:22	Abdelkader	22	26	29	31	64	88	8	20	31	52	55	93	5v5
DET	2	9:20	Goal – Miller	8	19	22	31	64	88	8	20	31	52	55	93	5v5
DET	2	8:01	Helm SH	8	12	19	22	31	39	5	20	31	43	55		5v4
SJS	2	7:23	Thornton PP	12	19	29	31	60	88	5	8	20	31	55		5v4
SJS	2	7:22	Thornton PP	12	19	29	31	60	88	5	8	20	31	55		5v4
SJS	2	6:45	Burns PP	22	26	29	31	64	88	23	31	40	43	52		5v4
SJS	2	6:37	Handzus	22	26	29	31	64	88	23	31	40	43	52	93	5v5
SJS	2	6:22	Winchester	5	10	17	18	31	44	23	31	40	43	52	93	5v5
SJS	2	4:12	Marleau	12	29	31	39	60	61	23	26	31	40	51	55	5v5
SJS	2	2:41	Pavelski	8	19	31	44	57	88	5	13	18	31	39	96	5v5
SJS	3	19:30	Couture	12	29	31	39	44	88	8	23	26	31	51	55	5v5
SJS	3	19:20	Marleau	12	29	31	39	44	88	8	23	26	31	51	55	5v5
DET	3	14:48	Filppula	5	12	29	31	39	60	23	26	31	40	51	55	5v5
DET	3	14:07	Hudler	5	12	29	31	39	60	23	26	31	40	51	55	5v5
DET	3	13:18	Franzen	18	19	22	31	57	61	5	13	18	31	44	93	5v5
DET	3	13:16	Datsyuk	18	19	22	31	57	61	5	13	18	31	44	93	5v5
DET	3	12:59	Goal – Helm	17	22	26	31	64	88	4	8	20	31	43	52	5v5
DET	3	8:32	Franzen	18	22	31	39	57	88	23	26	31	40	55	93	5v5
DET	3	7:33	Helm	5	17	31	60	64	69	4	8	20	31	43	52	5v5
DET	3	6:59	Franzen	5	17	31	60	64	69	5	13	18	31	93	96	5v5
DET	3	6:41	Franzen	8	12	19	22	31	61	5	13	18	31	93	96	5v5
SJS	3	4:44	Goal – Marleau	8	12	19	22	31	88	5	13	18	31	44	93	5v5
SJS	3	3:33	Marleau	8	12	19	22	31	88	23	31	43	44	55	93	5v5
SJS	3	2:34	Wingels	10	31	39	57	60	61	5	18	26	31	40	51	5v5

#	Player	EV			PP			SH
5	C. WHITE	14:04	3	5	0:14	0	0	2:21	0	1
8	J. PAVELSKI	13:27	3	5	3:22	1	2	1:51	0	0
10	B. WINCHESTER	5:44	3	0	0:00	0	0	1:04	0	0
12	P. MARLEAU	16:10	7	4	4:37	4	2	2:04	0	0
17	T. MITCHELL	6:18	2	3	0:00	0	0	0:00	0	0
18	D. MOORE	14:21	2	3	0:00	0	0	0:00	0	0
19	J. THORNTON	15:29	3	7	4:18	4	1	1:37	0	0
22	D. BOYLE	16:53	5	8	4:18	2	2	2:40	0	1
26	M. HANDZUS	9:46	2	2	1:16	1	0	2:29	0	0
29	R. CLOWE	15:02	6	4	2:34	3	1	0:13	0	0
31	A. NIEMI	46:50	13	15	6:10	5	2	5:26	0	1
39	L. COUTURE	15:04	6	4	4:05	2	2	0:41	0	1
44	M. VLASIC	15:26	4	3	0:00	0	0	2:24	0	0
57	T. WINGELS	14:16	2	6	0:00	0	0	0:00	0	0
60	J. DEMERS	15:07	4	4	1:32	3	0	0:00	0	0
61	J. BRAUN	14:29	4	3	0:00	0	0	1:27	0	0
64	J. MCGINN	13:52	2	5	1:19	1	0	0:12	0	0
69	A. DESJARDINS	6:17	1	2	0:00	0	0	0:41	0	1
88	B. BURNS	21:14	6	7	3:15	4	0	2:00	0	0

Head-to-head scoring chances:

As I mentioned above, the top line didn’t have a great time against Datsyuk and company. Wingels was effective when deployed against lesser lights in Tampa and Carolina but I don’t think promoting him to the first line in a game where that unit was liable to draw Datsyuk was the greatest of ideas. Wingels ended up spending 9.5 of his 14 minutes of EV ice time against Datsyuk and was decidedly overmatched. Vlasic and Burns took it in the teeth against Datsyuk’s line as well as those three players for Detroit caught fire in the third period with Johan Franzen alone generating four scoring chances in about a six-minute span.

The Logan Couture line, meanwhile, was great both in possession and chances against Henrik Zetterberg.

More stats from the game: Corsi/Fenwick, Shift Charts, H2H Ice Time, Zonestarts, Play-By-Play, Box Score

Also, I was late on watching the game against the Hurricanes but I did get around to it and you can access the scoring chances here. No write-up but the numbers are all there.

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