Devils Scoring Chance Summary for Game 5 vs the San Jose Sharks

by C.J. Richey on Oct 22, 2011 10:03 AM EDT in Devils Scoring Chances

The Devils struggled to create scoring chances against the Sharks, only managing 4 total at even strength. They didn't get their first ES chance until Palmieri put one off the post early in the second period. The Devils also had trouble preventing scoring chances allowing the Sharks to get 11 at ES and 18 total.

The only bright spot on the Devils was David Clarkson. He only finished the game at a +1 but he had 4 total chances and put 3 of them on net. Larsson, Greene, and Zubrus also managed to be +1.

Patrik Elias and Zach Parise had another rough night against a team's top line. They each got a -5 at ES. They did do well on special teams though. Elias put home a scoring chance on the the PP and Parise managed to earn a penalty shot while short handed.

The Volchenkov/Salvador pairing was the main victim of San Jose's wrath. Volchenkov was not only on the ice for 7 ES chances but also 6 of 7 short handed chances. That means he was on the ice for 13 of the Sharks 18 total chances.

Continue after the jump for all the tables and graphs.

Scoring Chances for NHL Game Number 20091

Team	Period	Time	Note	NJD						Opponent
SJS	1	16:39	McGinn	1	5	6	12	16	17	3	10	22	28	31	64	5v5
NJD	1	14:43	Clarkson	1	5	9	17	23	26	3	8	22	26	31		5v4
SJS	1	13:33	Clowe	1	15	21	23	24	28	5	9	29	31	39	60	5v5
NJD	1	6:09	Elias from Kovalchuk, Goal	1	5	9	17	23	26	5	22	26	28	31		5v4
NJD	1	3:43	Parise from Elias	1	5	9	17	23	26	8	9	31	44	88		5v4
NJD	1	2:44	Palmieri from Sykora	1	8	12	15	17	29	3	12	22	31	64		5v4
SJS	1	0:16	Pavelski from Burns	1	9	24	26	28		8	12	19	22	31	88	4v5
NJD	2	19:24	Parise, Penalty Shot Goal	1	9	24	26	28		8	12	19	22	31	88	4v5
SJS	2	17:55	Ferriero off Vlasic rebound	1	5	6	11	21	28	5	10	26	31	44	78	5v5
SJS	2	17:17	Boyle from Thornton	1	7	9	15	26	29	3	8	12	19	22	31	5v5
NJD	2	16:51	Palmieri from Kovalchuk, Post	1	5	6	8	12	17	9	29	31	39	44	88	5v5
SJS	2	12:34	Clowe from Havlat	1	6	9	26	28		9	22	29	31	39	60	4v5
SJS	2	12:33	Couture off Clowe rebound	1	6	9	26	28		9	22	29	31	39	60	4v5
SJS	2	11:59	Clowe	1	7	11	21	28		9	22	29	31	39	60	4v5
SJS	2	11:26	Boyle from Thornton	1	7	8	21	29		8	12	19	22	31	88	4v5
SJS	2	9:47	Marleau from Burns	1	9	24	26	28		8	12	19	22	31	88	4v5
SJS	2	8:03	Marleau	1	9	12	24	26	28	8	12	19	22	31	88	5v5
SJS	2	5:47	Marleau	1	9	15	24	26	28	12	19	28	31	44	88	5v5
SJS	2	3:47	Couture	1	9	15	24	26	28	9	29	31	39	44	88	5v5
SJS	2	3:39	Clowe from Havlat, Goal	1	9	15	24	26	28	9	29	31	39	44	88	5v5
NJD	2	1:18	Clarkson from Sykora, Miss	1	5	9	15	17	23	5	8	19	31	88		5v4
SJS	3	17:15	Thornton from Boyle	1	7	10	17	22	29	3	8	12	19	22	31	5v5
NJD	3	15:27	Clarkson from Zubrus	1	5	6	8	17	23	3	8	12	19	31	60	5v5
SJS	3	11:45	Burns from Thornton	1	8	17	24	28		8	12	19	22	31	88	4v5
NJD	3	6:42	Clarkson from Tedenby, Goal	1	5	6	11	21	23	5	9	29	31	39	60	5v5
NJD	3	3:18	Sykora off Elias rebound	1	7	15	17	26	29	8	22	29	31	39	60	5v5
SJS	3	0:33	Pavelski from Thornton, Goal	1	12	17	24	26	28	8	19	29	39	44	88	5v5
SJS	3	0:03	Murray from Thornton	1	7	8	12	17	29	3	8	12	19	22	31	5v5

#	Player	EV			PP			SH
1	J. HEDBERG	47:49	4	11	7:04	5	0	10:07	1	7
5	A. LARSSON	18:47	3	2	4:43	4	0	0:04	0	0
6	A. GREENE	15:38	3	2	0:02	0	0	3:21	0	2
7	H. TALLINDER	16:06	1	3	0:00	0	0	5:11	0	2
8	D. ZUBRUS	14:34	2	1	2:14	1	0	3:43	0	2
9	Z. PARISE	15:15	0	5	4:25	4	0	3:51	1	4
10	R. PELLEY	6:03	0	1	0:00	0	0	0:11	0	0
11	B. MILLS	10:51	1	1	0:11	0	0	1:54	0	1
12	N. PALMIERI	10:06	1	4	2:10	1	0	0:00	0	0
15	P. SYKORA	11:50	1	5	3:03	2	0	0:00	0	0
16	J. JOSEFSON	2:12	0	1	0:25	0	0	1:16	0	0
17	I. KOVALCHUK	21:15	3	4	7:02	5	0	4:08	0	1
21	M. TEDENBY	11:02	1	2	0:00	0	0	1:25	0	2
22	E. BOULTON	5:18	0	1	0:00	0	0	0:00	0	0
23	D. CLARKSON	13:57	2	1	4:43	4	0	0:00	0	0
24	B. SALVADOR	13:25	0	6	0:00	0	0	4:53	1	3
26	P. ELIAS	15:36	1	6	4:01	3	0	3:46	1	4
28	A. VOLCHENKOV	15:18	0	7	0:00	0	0	5:28	1	6
29	M. FAYNE	16:52	1	3	2:21	1	0	1:17	0	1

Period	Totals		EV		PP		5v3 PP		SH		5v3 SH
1	4	3	0	2	4	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
2	3	11	1	6	1	0	0	0	1	5	0	0
3	3	4	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	10	18	4	11	5	0	0	0	1	7	0	0

#	Player	Chances	Chance On Goal	Chance Assist
5	Larsson	0	0	0
6	Greene	0	0	0
7	Tallinder	0	0	0
8	Zubrus	0	0	1
9	Parise	2	2	0
10	Pelley	0	0	0
11	Mills	0	0	0
12	Palmieri	2	1	0
15	Sykora	1	1	2
16	Josefson	0	0	0
17	Kovalchuk	0	0	2
21	Tedenby	0	0	1
22	Boulton	0	0	0
23	Clarkson	4	3	0
24	Salvador	0	0	0
26	Elias	1	1	2
28	Volchenkov	0	0	0
29	Fayne	0	0	0

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I think the chances speak to how strong the Sharks are on the power play. 7 chances out of 12 PP shots on net is pretty good. It also speaks to how important Hedberg was in stopping those shots in particular.

I was surprised to see Volchenkov; but perhaps I shouldn’t be given that he played over half of the Sharks’ PP time? Then again, so did Tallinder and he didn’t get roughed up so badly.

In addition to Parise and Elias (and slightly in their defense, the Marleau-Thornton-Pavelski line is really, really, really good) suffering, Sykora had a rough go of it in terms of chances. Once Josefson was out of the game, he was one of the forwards who was moved about in the lineup. He wasn’t doing all that well to begin with, and his struggles continued.

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by John Fischer on Oct 22, 2011 10:35 AM EDT reply actions

I said this in another post, but I felt the play was roughly even with the score tied. And the scoring chances were indeed even in the first and third period. The Sharks ran up a lot of their big numbers in the second period. The poor play in the second brought back some bad memories of last season, but the team bounced back well enough in the third to even briefly re-take the lead. Another encouraging sign that this team is more like the second-half Devils than the first-half farce.

Volchenkov and Salvador did struggle – they were on the ice for Clowe and Pavelski’s goals and had a tough time getting the puck out of the zone. I thought it would have been better to match another D pair against the Sharks’ top line and I think that would have helped Parise and Elias a lot to get closer to positive possession territory.

by dr(d)evil on Oct 22, 2011 11:35 AM EDT up reply actions