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Montréal Canadiens at Buffalo Sabres

Mar 23, 2018 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Montréal Canadiens 3 24
Buffalo Sabres 0 35

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
2nd Period
04:56 MTL Artturi Lehkonen (10) Jacob de la Rose (7), Alex Galchenyuk (29) 1 - 0
3rd Period
18:45 MTL Paul Byron (18) Jonathan Drouin (27), Charles Hudon (20) 2 - 0
19:16 MTL Brendan Gallagher (27) Logan Shaw (7) 3 - 0

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
15:55 BUF Kyle Okposo Slashing 2
2nd Period
12:00 BUF Johan Larsson Slashing 2
3rd Period
05:58 MTL Nikita Scherbak Tripping 2
06:53 MTL Artturi Lehkonen Tripping 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Montréal Canadiens 40 34 24 3 3.5 40.0
Buffalo Sabres 56 48 35 0 2.6 60.0

How the game went

051015Start2nd3rdBuffalo 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: 3.5 expected, 3 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 2.6 expected, 0 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndMTL goal, 4:56 of 2nd, a 32% chanceMTL goal, 18:45 of 3rd, a 79% chanceMTL goal, 19:16 of 3rd, a 56% chanceMTL 3.5BUF 2.6

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
Paul Byron · Brendan Gallagher · Jonathan Drouin12:3554.255.50-0
Alex Galchenyuk · Jacob de la Rose · Artturi Lehkonen12:1829.434.81-0
Logan Shaw · Charles Hudon · Nikita Scherbak10:0246.747.60-0
Nicolas Deslauriers · Byron Froese · Daniel Carr8:1121.414.50-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jeff Petry · Mike Reilly15:2046.434.30-0
Karl Alzner · Noah Juulsen15:2026.940.51-0
Jordie Benn · Brett Lernout13:1043.830.70-0

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

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
7 Brendan Gallagher R 1 0 1 1 0 3 1 17:05 0.23 14-11 0.72-0.55
41 Paul Byron L 1 0 1 1 0 4 2 17:02 0.36 13-11 0.69-0.55
62 Artturi Lehkonen L 1 0 1 1 2 2 3 16:35 0.41 7-13 0.59-0.86
20 Logan Shaw R 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 13:56 0.07 7-8 0.14-0.16
47 Alex Galchenyuk C 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 17:37 0.05 7-14 0.50-0.88
54 Charles Hudon L 0 1 1 1 0 2 2 15:27 0.13 8-13 0.15-0.26
61 Jacob de la Rose L 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 15:46 0.20 8-14 0.54-0.88
92 Jonathan Drouin L 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 18:21 0.03 13-14 0.69-0.63
2 Jeff Petry D 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 24:56 0.02 14-20 0.48-1.04
6 Mike Reilly D 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 19:23 0.06 16-15 0.78-0.91
18 Jordie Benn D 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 17:15 0.02 7-12 0.13-0.41
21 Nikita Scherbak R 0 0 0 1 2 2 0 16:43 0.04 8-12 0.23-0.24
27 Karl Alzner D 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 21:09 9-21 0.63-0.83
28 Daniel Carr L 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 11:09 0.05 4-11 0.17-0.48
36 Brett Lernout D 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 14:26 0.02 10-9 0.42-0.29
44 Nicolas Deslauriers L 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 09:48 4-11 0.13-0.48
47 Noah Juulsen D 0 0 0 2 0 1 2 18:53 0.01 8-19 0.64-0.82
51 Byron Froese C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 10:29 0.04 3-12 0.08-0.48
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
37 Antti Niemi 35 35 0 60:00 2.61 +2.61

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Ryan O'Reilly · Scott Wilson · Sam Reinhart13:2163.047.50-1
Jason Pominville · Zemgus Girgensons · Jack Eichel11:4466.777.30-0
Jordan Nolan · Nick Baptiste · Evan Rodrigues6:1150.064.10-0
Benoit Pouliot · Kyle Okposo · Johan Larsson4:5140.028.60-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Brendan Guhle · Casey Nelson16:3568.274.60-0
Marco Scandella · Rasmus Ristolainen16:3246.740.00-1
Josh Gorges · Victor Antipin9:3569.272.30-0

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
2 Brendan Guhle D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 20:03 0.09 20-9 0.82-0.33
4 Josh Gorges D 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 13:32 0.01 10-6 0.34-0.35
6 Marco Scandella D 0 0 0 -2 0 2 2 21:42 0.08 19-17 1.18-1.07
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 13:40 0.16 8-9 0.31-0.14
8 Casey Nelson D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 21:59 0.05 17-9 0.41-0.12
9 Jack Eichel C 0 0 0 -2 0 5 0 20:46 0.32 10-5 0.40-0.08
13 Nick Baptiste R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11:48 8-7 0.32-0.24
13 Sam Reinhart C 0 0 0 -2 0 5 0 18:52 0.47 23-10 1.23-0.86
17 Evan Rodrigues C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11:06 10-6 0.57-0.32
20 Scott Wilson C 0 0 0 -2 0 3 7 16:20 0.43 19-11 1.14-0.95
22 Johan Larsson L 0 0 0 -1 2 0 1 12:53 0.08 9-10 0.33-0.23
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 5 17:36 0.21 11-7 0.51-0.13
29 Jason Pominville R 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 15:01 0.02 9-6 0.29-0.31
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 3 26:36 0.07 18-16 1.00-1.05
67 Benoit Pouliot L 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 10:08 0.02 9-3 0.14-0.07
71 Jordan Nolan C 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 11:44 0.19 9-11 0.36-0.40
90 Ryan O'Reilly C 0 0 0 -2 0 2 0 20:15 0.34 19-11 0.85-0.91
93 Victor Antipin D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 13:10 0.02 12-7 0.54-0.17
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
35 Linus Ullmark 22 21 1 58:49 1.77 +0.77