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Montréal Canadiens at Buffalo Sabres

Oct 25, 2018 · KeyBank Center

Team Goals Shots
Montréal Canadiens 3 22
Buffalo Sabres 4 42

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
01:17 MTL Max Domi (3) Artturi Lehkonen (5) 1 - 0
2nd Period
11:22 BUF Jason Pominville (3) Jeff Skinner (3), Jake McCabe (3) 1 - 1
16:08 MTL Joel Armia (2) Jesperi Kotkaniemi (4), Xavier Ouellet (2) 2 - 1
17:42 BUF Jason Pominville (4) PP Jeff Skinner (4), Casey Mittelstadt (2) 2 - 2
3rd Period
06:34 MTL Max Domi (4) Jeff Petry (8), Antti Niemi (1) 3 - 2
13:07 BUF Sam Reinhart (1) Jake McCabe (4), Conor Sheary (2) 3 - 3
18:59 BUF Kyle Okposo (2) PP Rasmus Dahlin (3), Jeff Skinner (5) 3 - 4

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
03:27 BUF Rasmus Ristolainen Interference 2
2nd Period
01:08 MTL Jordie Benn High sticking 2
16:34 MTL Andrew Shaw Holding 2
19:01 BUF Kyle Okposo Slashing 2
3rd Period
09:05 MTL Team Too many men on the ice 2
18:41 MTL Joel Armia Tripping 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Montréal Canadiens 45 32 22 3 1.7 39.1
Buffalo Sabres 66 57 42 4 3.6 60.9

How the game went

50510152025Start2nd3rdBuffalo 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, 3 scored · Buffalo Sabres: 3.6 expected, 4 scored

0123Start2nd3rdEndMTL goal, 1:17 of 1st, a 7% chanceMTL goal, 16:08 of 2nd, a 3% chanceMTL goal, 6:34 of 3rd, a 6% chanceBUF goal, 11:22 of 2nd, a 17% chanceBUF goal, 17:42 of 2nd, a 11% chanceBUF goal, 13:07 of 3rd, a 13% chanceBUF goal, 18:59 of 3rd, a 5% chanceBUF 3.6MTL 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
Artturi Lehkonen · Jonathan Drouin · Max Domi13:1147.641.02-1
Tomas Tatar · Brendan Gallagher · Phillip Danault12:2357.950.70-0
Paul Byron · Joel Armia · Jesperi Kotkaniemi11:4133.313.21-0
Nicolas Deslauriers · Matthew Peca · Andrew Shaw7:0423.138.30-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Xavier Ouellet · Victor Mete15:0633.332.80-0
Mike Reilly · Noah Juulsen14:5227.814.31-1
Jeff Petry · Jordie Benn13:2852.261.92-0

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
11 Max Domi C 2 0 2 1 0 3 0 18:33 0.17 10-12 0.38-0.58
40 Joel Armia R 1 0 1 1 2 1 1 17:42 0.03 9-16 0.08-0.53
2 Jeff Petry D 0 1 1 2 0 0 2 23:37 0.11 14-13 0.61-0.42
61 Xavier Ouellet D 0 1 1 -1 0 1 2 19:20 0.03 12-28 0.40-1.22
62 Artturi Lehkonen L 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 16:41 11-12 0.38-0.56
82 Jesperi Kotkaniemi C 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 13:38 0.02 9-19 0.08-0.76
6 Mike Reilly D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 20:43 0.07 11-18 0.26-1.07
7 Brendan Gallagher R 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 17:57 0.19 11-13 0.45-0.72
18 Jordie Benn D 0 0 0 2 2 0 1 17:14 0.02 14-13 0.69-0.46
24 Phillip Danault C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 17:33 0.01 12-12 0.46-0.46
41 Paul Byron L 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 15:43 0.02 8-18 0.08-0.53
44 Nicolas Deslauriers L 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 08:59 4-12 0.30-0.46
47 Noah Juulsen D 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 18:16 6-14 0.11-0.67
53 Matthew Peca C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 07:52 0.00 3-10 0.29-0.46
65 Andrew Shaw R 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 08:42 0.29 5-10 0.30-0.46
90 Tomas Tatar L 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 18:34 0.45 11-11 0.45-0.69
92 Jonathan Drouin L 0 0 0 1 0 4 0 18:39 0.28 10-14 0.38-0.58
98 Victor Mete D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 15:45 0.01 10-20 0.34-0.69
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
37 Antti Niemi L 42 38 4 59:06 3.58 -0.42

Buffalo Sabres

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jason Pominville · Jeff Skinner · Jack Eichel12:4054.554.71-1
Vladimir Sobotka · Conor Sheary · Sam Reinhart12:1361.976.81-0
Patrik Berglund · Johan Larsson · Zemgus Girgensons11:1977.867.00-0
Kyle Okposo · Evan Rodrigues · Casey Mittelstadt9:1063.275.90-2
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jake McCabe · Rasmus Ristolainen19:0671.076.61-1
Zach Bogosian · Marco Scandella14:2933.332.90-2
Casey Nelson · Rasmus Dahlin10:5368.464.30-0

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
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 3 3 0 0 2 0 18:04 0.02 13-10 0.47-0.38
29 Jason Pominville R 2 0 2 0 0 5 0 16:32 1.10 13-10 0.47-0.38
22 Jake McCabe D 0 2 2 1 0 3 0 23:04 0.08 24-9 1.30-0.33
8 Kyle Okposo R 1 0 1 -2 2 4 1 11:51 0.31 13-8 0.48-0.26
13 Sam Reinhart C 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 15:04 0.36 13-8 0.63-0.19
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 1 1 -2 0 4 0 13:16 0.24 13-8 0.48-0.16
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 17:41 0.09 20-6 0.64-0.15
43 Conor Sheary L 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 14:14 0.30 13-8 0.63-0.19
6 Marco Scandella D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 16:56 0.02 9-17 0.33-0.67
8 Casey Nelson D 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 12:03 0.01 15-8 0.49-0.15
9 Jack Eichel C 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 18:43 0.22 12-11 0.45-0.49
10 Patrik Berglund C 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 13:03 0.35 15-5 0.70-0.35
17 Vladimir Sobotka C 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 14:50 0.04 14-9 0.65-0.19
17 Evan Rodrigues C 0 0 0 -2 0 2 0 12:26 0.05 12-11 0.47-0.29
22 Johan Larsson L 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 16:32 0.08 14-6 0.69-0.37
24 Zach Bogosian D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 2 18:59 0.07 10-17 0.48-0.73
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 16:37 0.24 14-7 0.69-0.38
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 0 2 1 3 26:05 0.03 28-12 1.30-0.39
# Goalie Decision Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
40 Carter Hutton W 22 19 3 60:00 1.68 -1.32