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Vegas Golden Knights at Montréal Canadiens

Jan 18, 2020 · Centre Bell

Team Goals Shots
Vegas Golden Knights 4 34
Montréal Canadiens 5 32

Decided in a shootout.

Scoring

Time Team Goal Assists Score
1st Period
05:51 MTL Nick Cousins (6) Dale Weise (2), Nate Thompson (8) 0 - 1
12:33 MTL Ilya Kovalchuk (7) Phillip Danault (24) 0 - 2
18:05 MTL Joel Armia (13) Brett Kulak (5), Max Domi (22) 0 - 3
2nd Period
09:08 VGK Jonathan Marchessault (16) Reilly Smith (19), Shea Theodore (23) 1 - 3
14:47 VGK Paul Stastny (14) Unassisted 2 - 3
3rd Period
09:40 MTL Nick Cousins (7) Dale Weise (3) 2 - 4
18:02 VGK Max Pacioretty (21) Shea Theodore (24) 3 - 4
19:52 VGK Reilly Smith (20) Paul Stastny (11), Shea Theodore (25) 4 - 4

Penalties

Time Team Player Penalty Min
1st Period
06:23 VGK William Carrier Hooking 2
15:14 MTL Jesperi Kotkaniemi Holding 2
3rd Period
12:15 MTL Shea Weber Delaying game puck over glass 2

Shot attempts

Team Attempts (Corsi) Unblocked (Fenwick) On goal Goals Expected goals 5-on-5 CF%
Vegas Golden Knights 66 46 34 4 2.5 56.7
Montréal Canadiens 50 41 32 4 4.5 43.3

How the game went

20151050Start2nd3rdOTMontréal Canadiens aheadVegas Golden Knights 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 Vegas Golden Knights had.

Expected goals

Vegas Golden Knights: 2.5 expected, 4 scored · Montréal Canadiens: 4.5 expected, 4 scored

01234Start2nd3rdOTVGK goal, 9:08 of 2nd, a 15% chanceVGK goal, 14:47 of 2nd, a 20% chanceVGK goal, 18:02 of 3rd, a 3% chanceVGK goal, 19:52 of 3rd, a 11% chanceMTL goal, 5:51 of 1st, a 18% chanceMTL goal, 12:33 of 1st, a 24% chanceMTL goal, 18:05 of 1st, a 19% chanceMTL goal, 9:40 of 3rd, a 13% chanceMTL 4.5VGK 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

Vegas Golden Knights
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.

Vegas Golden Knights

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Paul Stastny · Max Pacioretty · Mark Stone12:1953.131.81-2
Reilly Smith · Jonathan Marchessault · Chandler Stephenson11:0466.747.81-0
Cody Eakin · William Carrier · Alex Tuch7:5562.542.80-0
Ryan Reaves · Tomas Nosek · Nicolas Roy5:2940.015.10-1
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Brayden McNabb · Nate Schmidt16:4955.234.80-2
Nick Holden · Shea Theodore14:0645.230.91-1
Deryk Engelland · Nicolas Hague10:4384.658.31-1

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

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
27 Shea Theodore D 0 3 3 2 0 3 0 28:43 0.25 21-21 0.76-1.35
19 Reilly Smith R 1 1 2 2 0 2 1 15:21 0.32 10-5 0.54-0.59
26 Paul Stastny C 1 1 2 1 0 2 1 19:16 0.42 21-18 0.85-1.27
67 Max Pacioretty L 1 0 1 1 0 6 2 19:57 0.22 21-17 0.64-1.17
81 Jonathan Marchessault R 1 0 1 3 0 3 2 18:56 0.20 14-7 0.65-0.63
3 Brayden McNabb D 0 0 0 -2 0 2 3 17:33 0.04 17-13 0.64-1.17
5 Deryk Engelland D 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 13:19 0.02 11-4 0.52-0.51
5 Nick Holden D 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 18:54 0.06 17-20 0.54-1.33
9 Chandler Stephenson C 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 15:42 0.09 13-6 0.63-0.59
10 Nicolas Roy C 0 0 0 -2 0 2 3 10:12 0.06 4-5 0.14-0.71
20 Cody Eakin C 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 16:21 0.15 12-10 0.29-0.48
28 William Carrier L 0 0 0 -1 2 2 7 13:31 0.12 14-10 0.36-0.81
41 Nicolas Hague D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 16:49 0.09 14-4 0.59-0.41
61 Mark Stone R 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 20:45 0.07 22-18 0.85-1.27
75 Ryan Reaves R 0 0 0 -2 0 0 9 11:25 5-7 0.17-0.73
88 Nate Schmidt D 0 0 0 -2 0 2 0 26:41 0.04 22-16 0.80-1.34
89 Alex Tuch R 0 0 0 1 0 2 3 17:57 0.34 14-9 0.56-0.46
92 Tomas Nosek L 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 12:48 3-5 0.08-0.45
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
29 Marc-Andre Fleury 32 28 4 63:36 4.05 +0.05

Montréal Canadiens

Lines and pairings

Forward lineTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Joel Armia · Max Domi · Nick Suzuki13:0334.856.11-1
Ilya Kovalchuk · Tomas Tatar · Phillip Danault11:5254.270.51-0
Artturi Lehkonen · Ryan Poehling · Jesperi Kotkaniemi11:0057.176.50-0
Nate Thompson · Dale Weise · Nick Cousins7:1350.076.72-0
Defence pairTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jeff Petry · Marco Scandella16:1237.555.51-1
Shea Weber · Ben Chiarot16:0240.056.71-1
Brett Kulak · Victor Mete14:1552.469.92-0

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

# Skater Pos G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI xG CF-CA xGF-xGA
21 Nick Cousins C 2 0 2 1 0 2 0 11:16 0.31 5-12 0.50-0.58
22 Dale Weise R 0 2 2 2 0 1 4 09:10 0.19 4-7 0.50-0.25
17 Ilya Kovalchuk L 1 0 1 -1 0 3 2 19:09 0.62 17-13 1.23-0.46
40 Joel Armia R 1 0 1 -1 0 3 1 17:48 0.49 8-20 0.87-1.08
11 Max Domi C 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 17:45 0.36 8-15 0.87-0.68
24 Phillip Danault C 0 1 1 -1 0 6 1 20:10 0.74 18-11 1.32-0.39
27 Brett Kulak D 0 1 1 2 0 1 0 16:21 0.02 12-10 0.97-0.35
44 Nate Thompson C 0 1 1 1 0 0 3 13:11 5-11 0.50-0.27
2 Jeff Petry D 0 0 0 -2 0 2 3 26:54 0.12 15-22 1.26-0.92
6 Shea Weber D 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 20:09 0.03 13-19 0.85-0.64
6 Marco Scandella D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 1 21:02 12-21 1.14-0.92
8 Ben Chiarot D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 22:48 0.15 15-20 1.07-0.64
14 Nick Suzuki C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 2 16:32 0.38 8-20 0.87-1.08
25 Ryan Poehling C 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 12:38 0.14 9-8 0.37-0.18
62 Artturi Lehkonen L 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 20:49 0.15 11-15 0.65-0.30
82 Jesperi Kotkaniemi C 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 14:49 0.17 10-8 0.46-0.12
90 Tomas Tatar L 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 14:49 0.16 14-13 1.04-0.39
98 Victor Mete D 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 15:45 0.02 11-10 0.82-0.35
# Goalie Shots against Saves Goals against TOI xGA Saved above xG
31 Carey Price 34 30 4 65:00 2.51 -1.49