Hockey Terminal
Be a GM

← All games

Buffalo Sabres at Montréal Canadiens

Mar 23, 2019 · Centre Bell

Team Goals Shots
Buffalo Sabres 4 27
Montréal Canadiens 7 44

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
12:26 BUF Sam Reinhart (19) Casey Mittelstadt (12), Brandon Montour (25) 1 - 0
2nd Period
05:09 MTL Artturi Lehkonen (9) Andrew Shaw (22), Max Domi (40) 1 - 1
09:12 MTL Brendan Gallagher (32) Phillip Danault (36) 1 - 2
14:23 MTL Andrew Shaw (18) Max Domi (41), Brett Kulak (8) 1 - 3
14:53 BUF Alex Nylander (2) PP Rasmus Dahlin (32), Jack Eichel (49) 2 - 3
16:08 BUF Marco Scandella (5) Johan Larsson (7) 3 - 3
18:03 MTL Paul Byron (14) Jordan Weal (10), Nate Thompson (7) 3 - 4
3rd Period
08:35 MTL Brendan Gallagher (33) Shea Weber (18), Tomas Tatar (30) 3 - 5
13:13 BUF Jack Eichel (26) Unassisted 4 - 5
15:30 MTL Max Domi (26) PP Jeff Petry (31), Tomas Tatar (31) 4 - 6
17:47 MTL Tomas Tatar (23) Brendan Gallagher (17), Phillip Danault (37) 4 - 7

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
12:42 BUF Kyle Okposo Slashing 2
16:09 MTL Artturi Lehkonen Holding 2
2nd Period
14:43 MTL Christian Folin Delaying game puck over glass 2
3rd Period
09:06 MTL Andrew Shaw Charging 2
09:06 MTL Andrew Shaw Roughing 2
14:26 BUF Zemgus Girgensons Holding 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Buffalo Sabres 48 39 27 4 1.7 40.4
Montréal Canadiens 63 52 44 7 4.3 59.6

How the game went

5051015Start2nd3rdMontréal 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: 1.7 expected, 4 scored · Montréal Canadiens: 4.3 expected, 7 scored

01234Start2nd3rdEndBUF goal, 12:26 of 1st, a 9% chanceBUF goal, 14:53 of 2nd, a 10% chanceBUF goal, 16:08 of 2nd, a 8% chanceBUF goal, 13:13 of 3rd, a 18% chanceMTL goal, 5:09 of 2nd, a 12% chanceMTL goal, 9:12 of 2nd, a 10% chanceMTL goal, 14:23 of 2nd, a 9% chanceMTL goal, 18:03 of 2nd, a 16% chanceMTL goal, 8:35 of 3rd, a 8% chanceMTL goal, 15:30 of 3rd, a 5% chanceMTL goal, 17:47 of 3rd, a 47% chanceMTL 4.3BUF 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

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
Conor Sheary · Jack Eichel · Alex Nylander11:0036.45.20-1
Kyle Okposo · Johan Larsson · Zemgus Girgensons10:5526.714.71-0
Jason Pominville · Jeff Skinner · Evan Rodrigues10:2553.853.90-0
Vladimir Sobotka · Sam Reinhart · Casey Mittelstadt9:3040.022.41-2
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Brandon Montour · Rasmus Dahlin15:0650.032.21-1
Marco Scandella · Casey Nelson14:0240.918.21-1
Zach Bogosian · Rasmus Ristolainen13:5229.410.30-2

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
9 Jack Eichel C 1 1 2 -3 0 3 0 19:19 0.26 11-18 0.35-1.48
6 Marco Scandella D 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 18:12 0.08 11-18 0.22-1.00
13 Sam Reinhart C 1 0 1 -2 0 2 1 16:31 0.21 10-12 0.49-0.94
92 Alex Nylander L 1 0 1 -1 0 1 0 14:34 0.10 10-14 0.34-1.13
11 Casey Mittelstadt C 0 1 1 -1 0 0 2 11:14 6-10 0.17-0.71
22 Johan Larsson L 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 14:30 7-15 0.20-0.97
26 Rasmus Dahlin D 0 1 1 -2 0 2 1 21:38 0.05 14-17 0.45-1.01
62 Brandon Montour D 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 18:40 0.03 16-13 0.71-0.83
8 Kyle Okposo R 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 16:00 0.11 6-14 0.28-0.89
8 Casey Nelson D 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 16:41 0.05 12-13 0.33-0.82
17 Vladimir Sobotka C 0 0 0 -3 0 1 3 13:39 0.03 8-16 0.31-0.97
17 Evan Rodrigues C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 16:39 0.02 16-16 0.56-0.47
24 Zach Bogosian D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 2 19:18 0.02 11-29 0.18-1.79
28 Zemgus Girgensons C 0 0 0 1 2 1 4 14:13 0.06 5-15 0.15-0.97
29 Jason Pominville R 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 12:04 0.05 15-16 0.44-0.51
43 Conor Sheary L 0 0 0 -3 0 0 0 16:01 0.03 9-17 0.07-1.29
53 Jeff Skinner L 0 0 0 1 0 5 0 16:05 0.39 19-14 0.77-0.56
55 Rasmus Ristolainen D 0 0 0 -3 0 3 0 21:43 0.21 14-28 0.40-1.80
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
40 Carter Hutton 43 37 6 59:55 3.76 -2.24

Montréal Canadiens

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Tomas Tatar · Brendan Gallagher · Phillip Danault12:5366.788.52-0
Nate Thompson · Paul Byron · Jordan Weal10:5654.267.01-0
Andrew Shaw · Artturi Lehkonen · Max Domi10:3766.780.12-1
Joel Armia · Jonathan Drouin · Jesperi Kotkaniemi8:5358.864.80-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jeff Petry · Brett Kulak15:4148.655.61-2
Shea Weber · Victor Mete13:1169.294.32-0
Jordie Benn · Christian Folin12:4368.484.11-0

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
7 Brendan Gallagher R 2 1 3 3 0 9 1 15:31 1.06 20-8 1.37-0.16
11 Max Domi C 1 2 3 1 0 4 0 14:34 0.38 19-9 1.36-0.35
90 Tomas Tatar L 1 2 3 3 0 1 4 15:02 19-8 1.29-0.16
65 Andrew Shaw R 1 1 2 0 4 4 2 12:27 0.67 18-10 1.36-0.60
24 Phillip Danault C 0 2 2 3 0 1 2 16:15 0.11 16-8 1.24-0.16
41 Paul Byron L 1 0 1 1 0 2 3 15:31 0.26 14-14 0.63-0.28
62 Artturi Lehkonen L 1 0 1 1 2 1 0 16:38 0.12 16-10 1.31-0.34
2 Jeff Petry D 0 1 1 0 0 3 3 21:21 0.12 26-19 1.13-0.55
6 Shea Weber D 0 1 1 2 0 5 1 22:45 0.11 19-13 1.49-0.47
27 Brett Kulak D 0 1 1 -1 0 3 1 18:30 0.10 19-20 0.81-0.64
43 Jordan Weal C 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 14:48 0.12 13-12 0.54-0.27
44 Nate Thompson C 0 1 1 0 0 2 3 16:53 0.27 14-15 0.63-0.55
18 Jordie Benn D 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 19:26 0.06 13-9 0.87-0.44
32 Christian Folin D 0 0 0 1 2 1 3 16:45 0.09 14-9 0.94-0.38
40 Joel Armia R 0 0 0 -2 0 0 2 14:44 10-10 0.41-0.52
82 Jesperi Kotkaniemi C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 2 12:29 0.22 10-8 0.41-0.22
92 Jonathan Drouin L 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 12:13 0.10 10-8 0.41-0.25
98 Victor Mete D 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 17:58 25-10 1.97-0.11
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
31 Carey Price 27 23 4 60:00 1.69 -2.31