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Montréal Canadiens at Buffalo Sabres

Mar 12, 2012 · First Niagara Center

Team Goals Shots
Montréal Canadiens 2 28
Buffalo Sabres 3 36

Decided in overtime.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
04:32 MTL Erik Cole (1) David Desharnais (1) 1 - 0
2nd Period
11:08 BUF Tyler Ennis (1) Drew Stafford (1), Marcus Foligno (1) 1 - 1
3rd Period
01:50 BUF Tyler Ennis (2) Drew Stafford (2), Alexander Sulzer (1) 1 - 2
19:55 MTL David Desharnais (1) Erik Cole (1), Max Pacioretty (1) 2 - 2
Overtime
02:01 BUF Tyler Myers (1) Derek Roy (1), Jason Pominville (1) 2 - 3

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
2nd Period
00:31 MTL David Desharnais Hooking 2
04:11 BUF Derek Roy High sticking 2
3rd Period
13:12 BUF Tyler Myers Boarding 2
13:27 MTL Max Pacioretty Hooking 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Montréal Canadiens 47 34 28 2 1.7 36.8
Buffalo Sabres 62 50 36 3 2.4 63.2

How the game went

0510152025Start2nd3rdOTBuffalo Sabres aheadMontréal Canadiens 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 Buffalo Sabres had taken more, and below it and blue while Montréal Canadiens had.

Expected goals

Montréal Canadiens: 1.7 expected, 2 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 2.4 expected, 3 scored

00.511.52Start2nd3rdOTMTL goal, 4:32 of 1st, a 5% chanceMTL goal, 19:55 of 3rd, a 37% chanceBUF goal, 11:08 of 2nd, a 15% chanceBUF goal, 1:50 of 3rd, a 9% chanceBUF goal, 2:01 of overtime, a 6% chanceBUF 2.4MTL 1.7

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

Montréal Canadiens
Buffalo Sabres

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.

Montréal Canadiens

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Tomas Plekanec · Rene Bourque · Ryan White14:5922.28.50-0
Scott Gomez · Lars Eller · Louis Leblanc11:2338.916.10-1
Erik Cole · David Desharnais · Max Pacioretty11:2040.047.61-0
Erik Cole · Brad Staubitz · Blake Geoffrion1:5333.39.20-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Josh Gorges · P.K. Subban15:5555.254.31-0
Tomas Kaberle · Chris Campoli10:0015.47.60-0
Andrei Markov · Alexei Emelin9:0540.019.50-2

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
51 David Desharnais C 1 1 2 1 2 2 0 20:26 0.48 12-19 0.41-0.65
72 Erik Cole L 1 1 2 1 0 4 1 22:33 0.28 13-18 0.41-0.68
67 Max Pacioretty L 0 1 1 2 2 5 3 15:39 0.19 10-16 0.42-0.47
3 Yannick Weber D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 14:05 0.05 5-15 0.06-0.49
4 Josh Gorges D 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 19:22 0.03 16-14 0.37-0.34
14 Tomas Plekanec C 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 23:13 0.17 7-17 0.12-0.47
17 Chris Campoli D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 20:16 0.02 5-19 0.05-0.50
17 Rene Bourque R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 17:28 4-14 0.04-0.45
20 Lars Eller C 0 0 0 -3 0 2 0 19:59 0.28 10-17 0.11-0.82
21 Ryan White C 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 17:37 6-17 0.10-0.53
22 Tomas Kaberle D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 16:02 0.02 4-19 0.04-0.51
23 Scott Gomez C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 16:15 13-15 0.17-0.66
25 Alexei Emelin D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 4 15:49 8-17 0.21-1.00
25 Brad Staubitz R 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 05:07 0.04 4-7 0.06-0.40
57 Blake Geoffrion C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 07:39 0.01 6-9 0.03-0.25
71 Louis Leblanc C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 3 13:44 0.02 11-13 0.16-0.49
76 P.K. Subban D 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 23:18 0.04 16-13 0.37-0.31
79 Andrei Markov D 0 0 0 -2 0 2 0 16:53 0.05 10-16 0.26-0.92
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
31 Peter Budaj OTL 36 33 3 60:40 2.36 -0.64

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Derek Roy · Jason Pominville · Thomas Vanek8:0553.885.10-0
Drew Stafford · Tyler Ennis · Marcus Foligno7:4275.093.12-0
Patrick Kaleta · Nathan Gerbe · Ville Leino6:4870.079.10-0
Derek Roy · Drew Stafford · Nathan Gerbe6:1992.983.40-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Christian Ehrhoff · Alexander Sulzer20:2467.474.60-1
Jordan Leopold · Tyler Myers15:0573.788.60-0
Robyn Regehr · Mike Weber12:2650.040.70-0

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
63 Tyler Ennis R 2 0 2 2 0 2 1 16:12 0.30 17-7 0.62-0.09
18 Drew Stafford R 0 2 2 2 0 5 3 19:13 0.45 25-6 1.05-0.17
57 Tyler Myers D 1 0 1 1 2 3 2 21:05 0.17 15-7 0.55-0.10
8 Derek Roy C 0 1 1 0 2 4 1 19:41 0.26 20-12 0.74-0.25
17 Marcus Foligno L 0 1 1 1 0 0 3 13:52 0.16 15-8 0.60-0.09
29 Jason Pominville R 0 1 1 -1 0 3 2 17:48 0.13 10-11 0.31-0.26
52 Alexander Sulzer D 0 1 1 -1 0 1 0 23:59 0.03 31-14 1.15-0.35
6 Mike Weber D 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 15:40 9-11 0.29-0.22
11 Cody Hodgson C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 11:07 5-8 0.14-0.25
23 Ville Leino L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 14:15 0.10 12-8 0.39-0.25
24 Nathan Gerbe C 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 16:49 0.09 21-7 0.78-0.24
26 Thomas Vanek L 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 16:02 0.23 14-10 0.34-0.08
28 Brad Boyes R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11:20 0.09 7-7 0.26-0.13
33 Jordan Leopold D 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 21:38 0.04 16-5 0.71-0.07
36 Patrick Kaleta R 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 15:15 0.19 13-7 0.49-0.12
41 Corey Tropp R 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 09:15 0.11 6-5 0.26-0.10
44 Robyn Regehr D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15:23 9-8 0.23-0.21
55 Christian Ehrhoff D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 25:30 0.03 30-19 1.05-0.40
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
30 Ryan Miller W 28 26 2 62:01 1.69 -0.31