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Montréal Canadiens at Buffalo Sabres

Oct 5, 2017 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Montréal Canadiens 3 40
Buffalo Sabres 2 45

Decided in a shootout.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
08:30 BUF Jason Pominville (1) PP Seth Griffith (1) 0 - 1
17:56 MTL Max Pacioretty (1) Jonathan Drouin (1), Brendan Gallagher (1) 1 - 1
2nd Period
00:22 BUF Jason Pominville (2) Jack Eichel (1), Evander Kane (1) 1 - 2
3rd Period
08:01 MTL Phillip Danault (1) SH Shea Weber (1), Karl Alzner (1) 2 - 2
Shootout
MTL Jonathan Drouin Shootout winner 3 - 2

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
02:29 BUF Team Delaying game bench face off violation 2
04:48 MTL Ales Hemsky Delaying game puck over glass 2
06:48 MTL Tomas Plekanec Slashing 2
2nd Period
06:09 BUF Evander Kane Slashing 2
10:56 MTL Ales Hemsky Slashing 2
11:39 MTL Max Pacioretty Interference 2
16:56 BUF Jack Eichel Roughing 2
3rd Period
07:19 MTL Andrew Shaw Interference 2
14:20 BUF Seth Griffith Slashing 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Montréal Canadiens 63 48 40 2 2.5 48.8
Buffalo Sabres 69 61 45 2 3.8 51.2

How the game went

105051015Start2nd3rdOTBuffalo 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: 2.5 expected, 2 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 3.8 expected, 2 scored

0123Start2nd3rdOTMTL goal, 17:56 of 1st, a 5% chanceMTL goal, 8:01 of 3rd, a 6% chanceBUF goal, 8:30 of 1st, a 9% chanceBUF goal, 0:22 of 2nd, a 7% chanceBUF 3.8MTL 2.5

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

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
Andrew Shaw · Phillip Danault · Alex Galchenyuk10:4347.149.50-0
Max Pacioretty · Brendan Gallagher · Jonathan Drouin8:5757.151.81-0
Tomas Plekanec · Charles Hudon · Artturi Lehkonen7:5963.257.00-1
Ales Hemsky · Paul Byron · Jacob de la Rose6:3342.961.90-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jeff Petry · Karl Alzner12:2552.258.70-1
Shea Weber · Victor Mete11:2031.335.40-0
Mark Streit · Jordie Benn8:0742.957.90-0

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
24 Phillip Danault C 1 0 1 1 0 3 1 17:19 0.13 8-17 0.19-0.72
67 Max Pacioretty L 1 0 1 2 2 6 0 22:37 0.31 14-13 0.73-0.87
6 Shea Weber D 0 1 1 1 0 1 7 29:30 0.07 12-13 0.38-0.66
7 Brendan Gallagher R 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 17:48 0.29 12-13 0.63-0.82
27 Karl Alzner D 0 1 1 -1 0 2 1 21:28 0.02 15-14 0.61-0.82
92 Jonathan Drouin L 0 1 1 1 0 5 1 20:05 0.50 14-12 0.70-0.79
2 Jeff Petry D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 18:54 15-16 0.76-0.59
14 Tomas Plekanec C 0 0 0 -1 2 3 0 13:25 0.13 12-12 0.42-0.80
18 Jordie Benn D 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 17:27 0.01 14-14 0.40-0.72
32 Mark Streit D 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 12:39 0.07 11-9 0.35-0.27
41 Paul Byron L 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 13:35 0.09 4-10 0.23-0.54
47 Alex Galchenyuk C 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 18:09 0.14 8-10 0.19-0.21
54 Charles Hudon L 0 0 0 -1 0 4 0 13:52 0.26 14-7 0.46-0.32
61 Jacob de la Rose L 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 09:37 5-4 0.24-0.11
62 Artturi Lehkonen L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 2 14:00 0.23 14-8 0.46-0.33
65 Andrew Shaw R 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 15:15 0.19 9-15 0.23-0.37
83 Ales Hemsky R 0 0 0 0 4 2 0 10:37 0.08 3-4 0.17-0.11
98 Victor Mete D 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 18:43 0.01 11-14 0.59-0.71
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
31 Carey Price 45 43 2 65:00 3.84 +1.84

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jason Pominville · Evander Kane · Jack Eichel10:3051.940.91-0
Benoit Pouliot · Kyle Okposo · Ryan O'Reilly9:5250.052.50-1
Seth Griffith · Zemgus Girgensons · Sam Reinhart8:4680.083.40-0
Jacob Josefson · Jordan Nolan · Johan Larsson7:5611.119.10-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Marco Scandella · Matt Tennyson14:5051.951.10-1
Nathan Beaulieu · Rasmus Ristolainen13:3952.955.41-0
Jake McCabe · Victor Antipin9:3750.081.20-0

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
29 Jason Pominville R 2 0 2 1 0 3 0 16:21 0.31 15-15 0.43-0.72
9 Jack Eichel C 0 1 1 0 2 3 1 19:22 0.28 16-15 0.49-0.61
23 Seth Griffith C 0 1 1 0 2 2 0 13:51 0.21 12-4 0.92-0.19
91 Evander Kane L 0 1 1 1 2 11 2 18:42 0.85 15-14 0.43-0.66
6 Marco Scandella D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 4 21:11 0.37 16-15 0.76-0.89
7 Matt Tennyson D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 17:28 0.08 14-15 0.72-0.72
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 0 0 -2 0 2 0 19:58 0.22 13-12 0.56-0.44
10 Jacob Josefson C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 12:34 2-9 0.07-0.24
13 Sam Reinhart C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 15:46 0.24 12-3 0.92-0.18
22 Johan Larsson L 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 11:29 0.04 1-9 0.04-0.21
22 Jake McCabe D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 16:39 7-6 0.46-0.03
28 Nathan Beaulieu D 0 0 0 1 0 4 1 23:29 0.21 20-18 0.77-0.79
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 12:24 0.31 12-3 0.92-0.18
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 0 0 4 5 26:58 0.26 20-18 1.07-0.62
67 Benoit Pouliot L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 2 14:03 0.16 12-11 0.53-0.42
71 Jordan Nolan C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12:00 2-10 0.07-0.27
90 Ryan O'Reilly C 0 0 0 -2 0 3 0 20:27 0.14 11-12 0.47-0.51
93 Victor Antipin D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 14:29 0.07 5-6 0.12-0.04
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
90 Robin Lehner 40 38 2 64:49 2.57 +0.57