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Buffalo Sabres at Montréal Canadiens

Nov 29, 2014 · Centre Bell

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 4 26
Montréal Canadiens 3 44

Decided in a shootout.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
14:03 BUF Zemgus Girgensons (7) Tyler Ennis (9), Nicolas Deslauriers (4) 1 - 0
2nd Period
07:51 MTL Brendan Gallagher (6) Alex Galchenyuk (10), Bryan Allen (2) 1 - 1
3rd Period
05:57 BUF Chris Stewart (3) Marcus Foligno (3) 2 - 1
07:31 MTL Lars Eller (7) Brandon Prust (5), Alexei Emelin (7) 2 - 2
13:15 MTL Max Pacioretty (11) Dale Weise (6), P.K. Subban (9) 2 - 3
14:04 BUF Brian Flynn (3) Brian Gionta (6), Torrey Mitchell (2) 3 - 3
Shootout
BUF Brian Flynn Shootout winner 4 - 3

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
09:42 BUF Team Too many men on the ice 2
2nd Period
10:14 MTL Sergei Gonchar Tripping 2
3rd Period
09:06 BUF Torrey Mitchell Boarding 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 42 30 26 3 1.5 29.0
Montréal Canadiens 90 60 44 3 3.9 71.0

How the game went

010203040Start2nd3rdOTMontréal 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: 1.5 expected, 3 scored · Montréal Canadiens: 3.9 expected, 3 scored

0123Start2nd3rdOTBUF goal, 14:03 of 1st, a 26% chanceBUF goal, 5:57 of 3rd, a 10% chanceBUF goal, 14:04 of 3rd, a 9% chanceMTL goal, 7:51 of 2nd, a 11% chanceMTL goal, 7:31 of 3rd, a 7% chanceMTL goal, 13:15 of 3rd, a 29% chanceMTL 3.9BUF 1.5

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
Chris Stewart · Cody Hodgson · Marcus Foligno13:1327.310.11-0
Brian Gionta · Torrey Mitchell · Brian Flynn12:5852.985.81-0
Matt Moulson · Tyler Ennis · Zemgus Girgensons10:3914.38.60-2
Patrick Kaleta · Nicolas Deslauriers · Tim Schaller7:4417.615.70-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Tyson Strachan · Tyler Myers23:2428.236.20-0
Rasmus Ristolainen · Nikita Zadorov15:1131.415.02-3
Andre Benoit · Mike Weber9:4126.37.60-0

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
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 1 0 1 -1 0 1 3 20:26 0.26 6-25 0.59-1.74
32 Brian Flynn C 1 0 1 1 0 3 1 17:44 0.13 10-9 0.38-0.16
44 Chris Stewart R 1 0 1 1 0 4 3 17:10 0.15 10-27 0.16-1.36
12 Brian Gionta R 0 1 1 1 0 2 2 16:59 0.04 13-9 0.50-0.06
17 Marcus Foligno L 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 16:17 9-27 0.15-1.42
44 Nicolas Deslauriers L 0 1 1 0 0 0 3 12:13 6-16 0.43-0.37
63 Tyler Ennis R 0 1 1 -1 0 5 0 17:33 0.22 7-25 0.52-1.72
71 Torrey Mitchell C 0 1 1 1 2 3 1 16:57 0.25 9-8 0.36-0.06
6 Mike Weber D 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 16:59 0.01 9-23 0.43-0.87
11 Cody Hodgson C 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 15:08 0.01 10-24 0.16-1.31
26 Matt Moulson L 0 0 0 -2 0 2 0 15:07 0.24 6-21 0.26-1.49
28 Tyson Strachan D 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 30:39 0.15 11-28 0.49-0.86
36 Patrick Kaleta R 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 08:34 0.01 3-16 0.06-0.36
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 4 22:54 0.01 12-31 0.32-1.71
57 Tyler Myers D 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 31:34 14-31 0.85-1.18
59 Tim Schaller L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 3 11:52 0.05 4-21 0.07-0.45
61 Andre Benoit D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 11:38 5-14 0.05-0.60
91 Nikita Zadorov D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 16:16 11-25 0.30-1.77
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
31 Jhonas Enroth W 44 41 3 65:00 3.91 +0.91

Montréal Canadiens

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Tomas Plekanec · Brendan Gallagher · Alex Galchenyuk13:0582.481.51-1
Brandon Prust · Lars Eller · Jiri Sekac12:1071.482.71-0
PA Parenteau · David Desharnais · Max Pacioretty10:1266.753.90-1
Manny Malhotra · Eric Tangradi · Dale Weise5:4054.555.30-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Andrei Markov · P.K. Subban18:2772.788.21-0
Sergei Gonchar · Alexei Emelin17:1274.159.31-1
Bryan Allen · Mike Weaver12:0282.686.11-1

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
7 Brendan Gallagher R 1 0 1 -1 0 4 0 17:37 0.36 32-7 1.60-0.34
20 Lars Eller C 1 0 1 0 0 7 1 18:35 0.25 18-12 1.02-0.44
67 Max Pacioretty L 1 0 1 0 0 2 3 17:02 0.50 19-6 1.16-0.37
6 Bryan Allen D 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 13:13 22-6 0.84-0.15
9 Brandon Prust L 0 1 1 1 0 3 2 15:13 0.68 17-8 1.01-0.24
22 Dale Weise R 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 11:23 0.03 14-7 0.40-0.10
25 Alexei Emelin D 0 1 1 -1 0 0 5 22:52 20-10 0.52-0.73
47 Alex Galchenyuk C 0 1 1 -1 0 6 2 18:21 0.58 29-7 1.18-0.34
76 P.K. Subban D 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 26:38 0.11 32-12 1.92-0.26
11 PA Parenteau R 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 17:44 0.14 16-10 0.53-0.56
14 Tomas Plekanec C 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 18:27 0.28 28-6 1.09-0.25
20 Manny Malhotra C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 09:13 0.02 7-5 0.13-0.04
34 Eric Tangradi L 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 08:27 0.05 10-6 0.16-0.09
36 Jiri Sekac L 0 0 0 1 0 1 4 18:47 0.07 15-10 0.98-0.38
43 Mike Weaver D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16:39 0.02 21-8 1.01-0.22
51 David Desharnais C 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 19:11 0.53 23-8 1.26-0.49
55 Sergei Gonchar D 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 22:20 0.04 24-8 0.80-0.37
79 Andrei Markov D 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 26:41 0.30 33-19 1.92-0.72
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
34 Dustin Tokarski OTL 26 23 3 64:37 1.50 -1.50