Game 25 Scoring Chances and Zone Entries: Jets 6 vs. Leafs 1

The Maple Leafs ended up with their worst result of the season against the Jets, but it looked like they might manage to escape after a couple of periods.

The Leafs were only down by one, and Garret Sparks had done a good job of keeping them in it. However, two early goals in the third broke Toronto’s back, and a successful Jets’ challenge on a Nick Spaling would-be goal spelled the end of the Leafs‘ hopes.

The possession numbers were actually relatively close, but the chance numbers were pretty one-sided. The Jets dominated the second period, and Toronto were badly out-chanced at even strength. Hockeystats.ca has the numbers more even, but I took a manual review of a number of their listed chances, and the shot locations don’t correlate that well with the actual video evidence. The Leafs were also beaten out in zone entries, with the Jets having a much better controlled entries number.

Team	Chances	1st	2nd	3rd	ES	ESClose	ESCh%	NZEnt%	ContEnt	OppContEnt
Tor	12	6	2	4	10	6	35.7%	48.6%	42.0%	49.3%
Wpg	24	6	10	8	18	11	64.3%	51.4%	-	-

The Leafs had a terrible stretch that lasted over 25 minutes, as they were out-chanced 17-2 over the middle portion of the game. It looked like they might be able to survive that until the two early goals in the third, and after falling behind by two they only managed to be even in chances.

Period	Time	ST	SO	Team	How	State	T1	T2	T3	T4	T5	T6	O1	O2	O3	O4	O5	O6
1	17:58	0	0	Tor	GOAL! Grabner from Winnik	ES	16	26	31	40	46	52	5	6	8	22	27	30
1	14:26	1	0	Tor	Holland from Boyes	ES	3	24	28	31	51	56	12	16	18	30	33	57
1	14:24	1	0	Tor	Froese wide from rebound	ES	3	24	28	31	51	56	12	16	18	30	33	57
1	14:00	1	0	Wpg	Schiefle from Perreault	ES	3	15	23	31	42	51	5	8	12	30	55	85
1	11:35	1	0	Wpg	GOAL! Stafford from Schiefle	ES	2	16	26	31	40	44	5	8	12	30	55	85
1	11:20	1	1	Tor	Matthias from Bozak	ES	15	23	31	42	46	52	7	12	30	33	55	85
1	08:13	1	1	Tor	Van Riemsdyk wide from Kadri	PP	21	31	43	47	51	56	6	26	30	33	57
1	06:55	1	1	Wpg	Schiefle from Stafford	ES	16	26	31	40	44	46	12	30	39	55	57	85
1	06:22	1	1	Tor	Matthias drives	SH	2	23	31	46	56		16	18	26	30	33	85
1	03:41	1	1	Wpg	Wheeler wide from Perreault	SH	2	16	31	40	46		16	18	26	30	33	85
1	03:02	1	1	Wpg	Wheeler from Byfuglien	SH	2	16	31	40	46		16	18	26	30	33	85
1	02:31	1	1	Wpg	Ehlers post from Stafford	SH	3	23	31	44	56		12	27	30	33	55	85
2	18:57	1	2	Wpg	Ladd from Little	ES	2	3	21	31	43	47	7	16	18	26	30	33
2	17:16	1	2	Wpg	Myers drives	ES	16	26	31	40	46	51	12	30	39	55	57	85
2	17:08	1	2	Wpg	Peluso deflects Trouba shot wide	ES	2	3	24	28	31	56	5	8	9	14	17	30
2	13:54	1	2	Wpg	Schiefle drives	SH	2	31	40	46	56		12	27	30	39	55	57
2	12:17	1	2	Wpg	Schiefle drives	SH	2	16	31	40	44		16	26	30	55	57	85
2	10:06	1	2	Wpg	Ehlers wide from Thorburn	ES	3	16	26	31	40	51	5	6	8	22	27	30
2	06:23	1	2	Wpg	Burmistrov drives wide	ES	2	15	16	31	40	51	5	6	8	27	30	85
2	05:39	1	2	Wpg	Schiefle from Perreault	ES	2	16	26	31	40	46	7	12	30	33	55	85
2	04:48	1	2	Wpg	Little from loose puck	ES	2	21	31	43	44	47	7	16	18	26	30	33
2	03:39	1	2	Tor	Froese from Holland	ES	24	28	31	46	51	56	7	9	14	17	30	57
2	00:58	1	2	Wpg	Ladd from Wheeler	ES	2	21	28	31	51	56	8	16	18	26	30	33
2	00:39	1	2	Tor	Boyes wide from loose puck	ES	2	24	28	31	44	56	8	16	18	26	30	33
3	19:17	1	2	Wpg	Wheeler deflects Enstrom shot	ES	2	15	23	31	42	44	16	18	26	30	39	57
3	18:36	1	2	Wpg	Perreault drives	ES	3	21	31	43	47	51	7	12	30	33	55	85
3	18:32	1	2	Wpg	GOAL! Schiefle from rebound	ES	24	28	31	46	52	56	5	6	8	22	27	30
3	17:17	1	3	Wpg	GOAL! Ladd from Myers	ES	3	15	23	31	42	51	16	18	26	30	39	57
3	16:44	1	4	Tor	Spaling from loose puck	ES	2	16	26	31	40	44	16	18	26	30	39	57
3	16:41	1	4	Tor	Spaling from rebound	ES	2	16	26	31	40	44	16	18	26	30	39	57
3	14:25	1	4	Wpg	Lowry drives	ES	2	24	28	31	44	56	5	8	9	14	17	30
3	10:53	1	4	Wpg	Schiefle from Enstrom	SH	31	40	46	52	56		12	27	30	39	55	57
3	09:07	1	4	Wpg	GOAL! Little from Wheeler	ES	3	23	31	44	46	56	5	16	18	26	30	33
3	04:39	1	5	Tor	Grabner wide from Bozak	ES	15	31	40	42	44	46	6	7	17	27	30	39
3	02:07	1	5	Wpg	GOAL! Peluso from Copp	ES	3	15	23	31	42	51	5	8	9	14	17	30
3	00:07	1	6	Tor	Holland from Winnik	ES	24	26	31	44	51	56	9	14	17	30	39	57

Leafs Player Data

Player	ESChF	ESChA	ESCh%	ESTOI	ZS%	NZ%	ContEnt	OppContEnt
Holland	5	3	62.5%	10:46	50.0%	54.1%	50.0%	58.8%
Boyes	4	4	50.0%	08:55	50.0%	57.6%	52.6%	57.1%
Froese	5	5	50.0%	09:33	50.0%	59.4%	57.9%	53.8%
Winnik	4	5	44.4%	10:03	50.0%	42.4%	14.3%	42.1%
Grabner	4	6	40.0%	10:45	50.0%	47.4%	27.8%	45.0%
Spaling	3	6	33.3%	10:18	50.0%	42.9%	20.0%	45.0%
Bozak	2	4	33.3%	11:15	90.0%	41.2%	42.9%	60.0%
Parenteau	2	5	28.6%	12:00	90.0%	44.1%	46.7%	63.2%
Matthias	1	5	16.7%	09:28	90.0%	40.0%	40.0%	60.0%
Van Riemsdyk	0	4	0.0%	13:24	60.0%	45.2%	47.4%	39.1%
Kadri	0	3	0.0%	13:49	60.0%	52.4%	45.5%	40.0%
Komarov	0	3	0.0%	13:06	60.0%	50.0%	45.0%	40.0%
Marincin	2	1	66.7%	13:35	100.0%	52.2%	37.5%	40.9%
Rielly	5	6	45.5%	16:30	66.7%	52.6%	46.7%	59.3%
Polak	4	5	44.4%	18:31	100.0%	49.2%	41.4%	40.0%
Gardiner	4	8	33.3%	14:46	62.5%	50.0%	40.0%	35.0%
Hunwick	3	9	25.0%	14:47	55.6%	51.0%	44.0%	62.5%
Phaneuf	2	8	20.0%	11:04	55.6%	35.3%	41.7%	54.5%

The top two lines both had bad nights, with Nazem Kadri, Leo Komarov and James Van Riemsdyk failing to generate a single chance, while Tyler Bozak and P.A. Parenteau were also out-chanced, although they were able to generate a couple. That second line did have the worst controlled entries numbers, with the Jets getting 60% controlled entries against them.

There was a bright spot from Peter Holland, who continued a solid recent run, and was the only Leaf forward to finish above even on the night, though his line did also struggle to prevent controlled entries. Daniel Winnik and Michael Grabner also had solid offensive nights, as the bottom six did most of the successful work in that end of the rink.

Martin Marincin was the only Leaf defenceman to finish above even in chances, as he had a very low-event 13 ES minutes. This was in sharp contrast to Dion Phaneuf, who played only 11 ES minutes but was on for eight Jets chances in that time. Matt Hunwick also finished with poor numbers, as he and Morgan Rielly have wilted a little under the difficult assignments they’ve had recently.