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Buffalo Sabres at Montréal Canadiens

Feb 15, 2011 · Centre Bell

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 3 32
Montréal Canadiens 2 34

Decided in a shootout.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
04:54 MTL Max Pacioretty (1) PP Tomas Plekanec (1), Roman Hamrlik (1) 0 - 1
2nd Period
06:28 MTL Benoit Pouliot (1) David Desharnais (1), James Wisniewski (1) 0 - 2
17:48 BUF Drew Stafford (1) PP Thomas Vanek (1), Tim Connolly (1) 1 - 2
3rd Period
06:08 BUF Jason Pominville (1) Jochen Hecht (1), Nathan Gerbe (1) 2 - 2
Shootout
BUF Jochen Hecht Shootout winner 4 - 2

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
03:46 BUF Tyler Myers Cross checking 2
11:47 BUF Jason Pominville Holding 2
19:37 MTL Benoit Pouliot Tripping 2
2nd Period
03:52 BUF Jochen Hecht Holding 2
15:58 MTL Yannick Weber Interference 2
3rd Period
01:49 BUF Jochen Hecht High sticking 2
18:35 BUF Mike Weber Tripping 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 62 42 32 2 3.0 51.1
Montréal Canadiens 65 47 34 2 2.9 48.9

How the game went

05101520Start2nd3rdOTMontréal Canadiens aheadBuffalo Sabres ahead

The gap in shot attempts as the game went on: how many more one team had taken than the other. The line is above the middle and red while Montréal Canadiens had taken more, and below it and blue while Buffalo Sabres had.

Expected goals

Buffalo Sabres: 3.0 expected, 2 scored · Montréal Canadiens: 2.9 expected, 2 scored

0123Start2nd3rdOTBUF goal, 17:48 of 2nd, a 20% chanceBUF goal, 6:08 of 3rd, a 15% chanceMTL goal, 4:54 of 1st, a 41% chanceMTL goal, 6:28 of 2nd, a 16% chanceBUF 3.0MTL 2.9

Each line climbs with every chance a team had: a small step for a shot from far out, a big one for a dangerous chance. A dot is a goal. Expected goals adds up how likely each shot was to go in, judged by where it was taken from, what kind of shot it was and whether it was a rebound. Blocked shots and the shootout are not counted. Before 2023-24 the NHL timed events less exactly, and differently from rink to rink, so expected goals for this season are rougher than for recent ones.

Where the attempts came from

Buffalo Sabres
Montréal Canadiens

There is a dot for each attempt, bigger for a better chance. "Show as heat map" shades the ice by where the attempts came from.

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Tim Connolly · Drew Stafford · Tyler Ennis9:2520.029.90-0
Rob Niedermayer · Mike Grier · Paul Gaustad8:1146.731.20-0
Jochen Hecht · Jason Pominville · Nathan Gerbe7:0287.584.41-0
Cody McCormick · Thomas Vanek · Paul Byron4:3375.056.30-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Andrej Sekera · Tyler Myers16:0953.358.81-1
Jordan Leopold · Chris Butler14:4560.654.20-0
Shaone Morrisonn · Mike Weber12:3047.437.00-0

The forwards and the defencemen who were on the ice together most at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out.

Players

xG is the expected goals of a skater's own shots. CF-CA and xGF-xGA are the shot attempts and the expected goals for and against while he was on the ice at five-on-five. For a goalie, xGA is what the shots he faced were expected to produce, and the last column is how many of those he saved. What these numbers mean

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
18 Drew Stafford R 1 0 1 -1 0 3 2 18:16 0.44 11-18 0.43-0.76
29 Jason Pominville R 1 0 1 1 2 6 0 17:19 0.64 17-6 0.62-0.29
12 Tim Connolly C 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 18:59 4-10 0.19-0.46
24 Nathan Gerbe C 0 1 1 1 0 4 2 15:07 0.31 19-11 0.63-0.33
26 Thomas Vanek L 0 1 1 0 0 2 2 15:48 0.43 9-8 0.19-0.38
55 Jochen Hecht C 0 1 1 1 4 4 1 19:10 0.20 22-7 0.81-0.42
5 Andrej Sekera D 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 22:28 0.02 16-19 0.67-0.58
6 Mike Weber D 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 18:47 9-12 0.26-0.45
8 Cody McCormick C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 11:03 0.06 7-9 0.26-0.30
20 Rob Niedermayer C 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 10:59 9-11 0.06-0.21
25 Mike Grier R 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 15:16 0.01 10-9 0.11-0.11
25 Chris Butler D 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 16:42 0.13 20-13 0.49-0.42
27 Shaone Morrisonn D 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 20:37 9-11 0.26-0.51
28 Paul Gaustad C 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 15:03 0.02 10-11 0.11-0.14
33 Jordan Leopold D 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 24:58 0.44 20-16 0.49-0.51
41 Paul Byron L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 10:53 0.17 10-14 0.41-0.42
57 Tyler Myers D 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 23:44 0.02 16-15 0.67-0.55
63 Tyler Ennis R 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 16:22 0.13 7-15 0.45-0.72
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
31 Jhonas Enroth 34 32 2 64:29 2.92 +0.92

Montréal Canadiens

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Benoit Pouliot · David Desharnais · Ryan White12:1759.193.61-0
Brian Gionta · Tomas Plekanec · Max Pacioretty9:0850.042.70-0
Scott Gomez · Travis Moen · Andrei Kostitsyn8:1434.836.30-1
Jeff Halpern · Mathieu Darche · Tom Pyatt6:3571.4100.00-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Alexandre Picard · P.K. Subban15:3860.069.20-0
Roman Hamrlik · James Wisniewski12:4434.628.30-1
Yannick Weber · Brendon Nash10:1455.091.50-0

The forwards and the defencemen who were on the ice together most at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out.

Players

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
67 Benoit Pouliot L 1 0 1 1 2 2 1 16:05 0.22 15-10 0.52-0.03
67 Max Pacioretty L 1 0 1 0 0 2 1 19:01 0.72 12-12 0.25-0.43
14 Tomas Plekanec C 0 1 1 0 0 5 0 21:43 0.21 10-7 0.25-0.28
21 James Wisniewski D 0 1 1 0 0 1 2 23:16 0.04 11-21 0.47-1.06
40 Roman Hamrlik D 0 1 1 -1 0 0 0 23:32 0.01 12-18 0.41-0.80
51 David Desharnais C 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 18:55 0.01 15-10 0.44-0.04
3 Yannick Weber D 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 19:00 0.04 14-13 0.37-0.11
10 Tom Pyatt L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 09:19 6-4 0.33-0.09
12 Brian Gionta R 0 0 0 0 0 4 3 20:21 0.29 9-11 0.24-0.40
14 Jeff Halpern C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 09:52 0.08 6-4 0.33-0.09
21 Ryan White C 0 0 0 1 0 1 4 14:49 0.11 16-14 0.47-0.23
23 Scott Gomez C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 18:53 0.25 12-24 0.50-1.02
27 Travis Moen L 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 13:45 0.20 12-16 0.48-0.71
46 Andrei Kostitsyn L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 3 16:04 0.10 10-21 0.41-0.96
47 Brendon Nash D 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 11:53 0.04 12-10 0.30-0.02
52 Mathieu Darche L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 08:06 0.15 6-2 0.33-0.00
54 Alexandre Picard D 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 22:14 0.01 16-13 0.62-0.33
76 P.K. Subban D 0 0 0 1 0 6 2 29:22 0.46 21-15 0.85-0.52
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
31 Carey Price 32 30 2 65:00 3.02 +1.02